HOW TO MAKE A PINBALL MACHINE: Playfield Design

HOW TO MAKE A PINBALL MACHINE: Playfield Design
This video covers the basics of pinball playfield design from ideation to sketching to prototyping a white wood.

Often a pinball playfield design will center around a core interactive element, like a bash toy or unique/theme related shots. Some designers focus on tight theme integration, others focus more on shot geometry. By the end of this video, you'll understand how to design a playfield and the common constraints you'll need to work within to design a functional pinball playfield.

Table of Contents:
0:00 Intro
3:40 Fan layouts; pros & cons
7:03 Widebody vs standard dimensions
8:38 Italian bottoms and the “lower 3rd”
11:23 The other playfield “3rds”
13:27 A pinball is 1 inch in diameter, so?
16:06 Led Zeppelin motorized “Stairway”

Links to Resources mentioned in the video:

* Visual Pinball: https://sourceforge.net/projects/vpin...