Another fix for my fan-made Angry Birds pinball tables
At this point, my fan-made Angry Birds pinball tables are still looking well-made, but turns out after some thinking, I still need to make another round of changes to make them better:
The Angry Birds Movie
- After thinking things through, I've decided to turn on the ball saver permanently for the Horrible Hatchday mission. It probably isn't fair to play this mission with an irregular egg-shaped ball, and its physics might frustrate players. So maybe it would help to turn the ball saver on for that mission.
- The third mission, "Welcome Celebration", as it stands, is too short with just an objective at the mini-playfield. So I extended it with additional steps to take back at the main playfield to reflect the demonstration of the slingshot and…
Just a few more fixes to the Angry Birds Pinball tables
I sure hope that the Angry Birds pinball tables have had enough tinkering with, and I want to feel satisfied with the way I made them, but there are a couple more changes that I had to do with each table this spring, as shown below:
The Angry Birds Movie Pinball
- After learning that the term "super jets" is the proper term for boosted bumpers that award more points, I have renamed the "bumper boost" feature (activated with a 5-way Rage Combo) to "Rage Super Jets". The Rage Super Jets will still function as originally intended, awarding more points and providing a chance to earn a multiplier hold within a limited time.
- Looking back at some of the Zen Pinball tables, I have discovered that there are several of them that allow the player to make mu…
An alternate version of the Angry Birds Stella Pinball table with a more proper magna-saver
After playing some Zen Pinball tables that use magna-saves and observing that they all have a 4 return lane layout (Solo: A Star Wars Story, Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, Marvel: Fear Itself, Jurassic Park and more), and then realizing that the 6 return lane layout of the Angry Birds Stella pinball table I designed may not really work with a magna-save after all, I decided that I'm going to have to write a kit for an alternate version of the Stella table that uses the 4 return lane layout so that the magna-save would work more properly. The following article will describe a new, alternate magna-save enhancement kit that I have designed for the table and how it will alter its existing, original layout:
Changes to the Table Appearance
The magna-save en…
A few more tweaks to the Angry Birds pinball tables
The Angry Birds Pinball Pack is already being a wonderful collection of pinball tables, but they need a few more tweaks to make them even better:
All tables
- There are now no more than 5 unique methods for earning extra balls on each table, for added fairness.
The Angry Birds Movie Pinball
- The details of Stella's mini-playfield have eventually been finalized, making it play more like the hacking minigame in Zen Pinball's Alien Isolation table, except with standard flippers instead of a brick breaker paddle.
- In the mandatory mission "Welcome Celebration", the player takes the ball to the mini-playfield and hits a certain sequence of 8 lit targets there to help Stella and her friends dance to please the Pigs. The player is allowed 3 tries at this mo…
Reworks of the Angry Birds pinball tables
After creating the three pinball tables based on Angry Birds animated media and looking over them, I decided that they all needed a few tweaks and reworks to make them more faithful to the source material and/or refine the gameplay mechanics.
Here are each of the major changes I have made to each table below:
The Angry Birds Movie Pinball
- After some thinking, Bomb's crossramp has been changed into a vertical upkicker that rolls the ball down Mighty Eagle's right wing habitrail, as well as change the hurry up mode to better reflect one developing moment in the film where he finds himself. In this new mode, instead of finding and hitting TNT crates, the player races against time to unleash Bomb's explosive powers, which he finally begins to mas…