Love of Wisdom - anything to do with the why of our design.
I spent almost half a year designing different playfield construction types. Why not just wood? Well the call of innovation I suppose, plus a distaste for woodwork, and a desire to create sturdy, precisely located playfield components. After significant agonising over the pros and cons I produced a list of methods: Option 4 was looking good The Featured Image shows…
The control systems use by people building commercial machines has changed. Haggis(RIP) moved away from MPF according to Aron (Pinside), using Unity for their last machine before entering liquidation. Homepin have released an open source approach using RetroPinUpgrade. Mission Pinball Framework has moved to Godot
The first decisions were about the playfield, the mechanisms, cabinet and computers.
There have to be as many philosophies on designing pinball machines, as there are pinball machine designs.