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[blue emu]

I'm planning to build a Goblin Pinball Machine.

You drop a Goblin in the slot, pull the "Start" lever, and he is deposited into a large room filled with tiers of raising drawbridges, which are controlled by fluid-logic repeaters and set to flip the Goblin around the room.

Eventually, he will either be crushed under a drawbridge on the bottom tier, or killed by an impact, or he will drop into one of several holes in the floor. You score points depending on the length of time that the Goblin is in-play, and on which hole he drops into.

One possible enhancement is to have an automatic fluid-logic counter to keep track of the score, and a series of BCD-to-Seven-Segment converters to display your score, using magma channels as seven-segment LEDs... although that would take quite a lot of design work.

Does the forum at large have any suggestions for the project?

[stabbymcstabstab]

SOme one needs to build this stat.

[SuicideJunkie]

Add some wooden traps to act as bumpers; if the goblin hits them, he'll dodge many tiles in a random direction really fast.
Also, you could have some pressure plate drop targets; land the goblin on one, and it drains a tank of fluid to boost your score.  Hook up multiple targets with logic gates for a full-set bonus.

Have a pet chained at the bottom, to provide some gravity and draw the goblin towards your flippers.
If you flip the gobbo into a ramp/tunnel, you could have pressure plates in the tunnel open and close pet doors in sequence to make the goblin follow the path.

Load the game with a stack of spare goblins (three normal gobs, plus a few bonus ones) rather than just one.  If you flip the goblin into a special trap, it can hold it while releasing a bonus goblin.  If you hit a full set of targets with the bonus goblin?  Unlock the original for MULTIGOB!

[Geen]

YES. I approve, only instead of gobbos, elves.

[SirAaronIII]

YES. I approve, only instead of gobbos, elves.

Both at the same time, for maximum entertainment.

There will be magma, I trust?

[blue emu]

YES. I approve, only instead of gobbos, elves.

Unfortunately, it's for an on-going Forum game (on the Paradox forum) and the Elves are already extinct in this world.

... so far in the game, we've already built a Stellerator 1000-Kitten-power Hydrodynamic Power Plant, a Pressurized Magma Volcanic Eruption Inducer (fairly successful, the plume of erupting Magma goes eight levels straight up), a fluid-logic-controlled Corridor of Spikey Death, and an EWACS (Early Warning Animal Controlled Surveillance) system.

Now it's Goblin Pinball.

[ThatAussieGuy]

Use pressure plates with upright spike traps for the bouncers, they should dodge right off it.

Also, I'd like to suggest a Goblin Pachinko Machine with flowing water used to keep the "ball" in play on it's way down to your merry band of crazy Paradox goons.

[MarcAFK]

Holy sweet Armok.
Rather than using a chained pet for gravity you could use a passage to the outside world, several in fact in different places so depending on where the gob goes he'll be drawn to different ones, pressure plates could be used to raise the score and you gotta put some of those pop up bumpers somewhere, what about ramps? would your bridge flippers work to push the 'ball' up a hill??
Science is needed.  .... oh and a bouncey castle would be nice. I can't find the thread but it should be easy to work out what kind of bridge is needed to maked one that won't crush the occupents....

[Blade Master Model 42]

Load the game with a stack of spare goblins (three normal gobs, plus a few bonus ones) rather than just one.  If you flip the goblin into a special trap, it can hold it while releasing a bonus goblin.  If you hit a full set of targets with the bonus goblin?  Unlock the original for MULTIGOB!

It must be done. IT MUST.