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I would argue that with photography, only the tooling changed but the craft remained, while with AI the craft completely transforms in something else, in which I'm just not interes…

> Does it matter? Like how does it matter? Yes, it matters to me because art is something deeply human, and I don't want to consume art made by a machine. It doesn't matter if it's…

Hey, I'm building a next gen virtual pinball simulator!

I'll post an update to VPU in a few weeks!

If you're in for a deep dive into this "underground" community, I've co-authored an article about it last year. https://www.thisweekinpinball.com/a-peek-into-the-digital-cr...

Yes, I also have a Tilt Five kit, which is awesome. We're still doing lots of work on the core parts though, so these things will come later.

Yes, Volley was a nice project because one of the dev team has one at home, so we got ultra detailed assets. It was also a great use case to test Visual Scripting. But before we di…

Yes. But at the end of the day, this is a hobby, and Unity is an awesome engine to work with. I'm following Godot more closely than ever, but too much effort to still be able to ca…

Absolutely, that's the main goal. I've built my cabinet over 10 years ago, so testing is assured. ;)

We're working on something like that using Unity[1]. It's nice, because contrarily to the commercial platforms, we don't need to support low-end devices like the switch. And yes, t…

Aw, thanks :) TBH I just started looking into it, together with a few other developers from the community. I'll post something at the usual place as soon as we know more.

Yes, we're targeting all the desktop platforms, i.e. Windows, Linux and macOS. But thanks to recent efforts, VPX also runs on Linux now! It's on the standalone branch[1], under act…

Oh, and if you don't know where to start, check this out: http://mjrnet.org/pinscape/BuildGuideV2/BuildGuide.php

It depends on the effort you want to put in, and the tables you want to play. VPX has the largest table collection, and the good ones play very well. But there is also Pinball FX w…

If there are any pinhead game devs out there, we're still working on the next generation of Visual Pinball, called VPE[1]. However, given the current drama around Unity, we're curr…

If you're interested in how XPBD works, I can highly recommend the YouTube series of one of the authors who wrote the paper, Matthias Müller: https://www.youtube.com/c/TenMinutePhy…

Thanks! :) I still want to bring vpx-js to a level where people can actually play a WPC table in the browser. That'd be really awesome and hasn't been done yet, at least not that I…

Hey, I didn't know somebody was actually using vpx-js. That's awesome!

Matthias' work was also featured in Two Minute Papers here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F0QwAhUnpr4

Yes, definitely. I did some tests with my headset, and while a few usability and performance issues need to be resolved, it looks incredible, specially the reflections.

Thanks! :) What we're doing is adding adjustable randomness to the collision resolvers, which results in more or less control over where the ball goes. You can also adjust many par…

Yes! Our CI builds for Windows, Linux and MacOS.

Shameless plug, we're working on a next-gen pinball simulator called Visual Pinball Engine[1]. It's free and open source, using Unity, and will eventually support importing FP's ta…

I think what you're missing is that this discussion is not about the legal consequences of these individuals, but about ethical decisions that will have a negative impact on the ec…