Pinball Map website screenshot showing new sort by number of machines button.

Added a "sort by # of machines" button to results.

Added RSS support for arrays of machine_ids, arrays of location_ids, as well as lat and lon in order to limit results to a radius (default 30 miles) around. Use max_distance= for a different radius.

For example, the three pokemon machines near Los Angeles: pinballmap.com/location_mac...

Chart showing how many copies of newly released machines were added to pinball map in 1st 6 months of release.

Here is the same list of machines, but over 6 months after release. Obviously Pokemon hasn't been out for 6 months.

Me too. It’s also useful to look at longer time spans, since sometimes rollouts or slower or they don’t release the Pro model first.

We added a manual light/dark theme toggle to the website.

On mobile it's in the menu.

Somewhat tricky to implement because it involves reloading map styles.

Bar chart showing number of machines added to pinball map in first month of release, by machine title.

How has the release of Pokémon stacked up against other recent pinball machines?

Here's how many machines were added to the map for the first month after release.

That’s what we had in Scott’s basement. Great games.

Blues Skies Above Us #1 zine cover

Blues Skies Above Us #1 zine comic about pinball

Found a comic zine Ryan made in 2008 while we were first working on pinball map.

Yukon Yeti Pinball | Gameplay Preview YouTube video by Turner Pinball

New Pinball Machine from Turner just announced: Yukon Yeti.

Gameplay vid: www.youtube.com/watch?v=oxm1...

Looks really fun!

I had shared the link with someone outside of bsky. When writing that post, I forgot it was in my clipboard and I pasted it into the post (thinking the img was in clipboard). I then backspaced it out. But for some reason the post magically became a quote repost. Never clicked an actual repost button

Bar chart showing Pokémon pinball machines added per day.

Sorry, reposting because the last one was an unintentional quote repost.

Here’s a quick chart showing how many Pokémon pinball machines were added to locations each day. Axis labels? No!

Maybe I shouldn't have shared a screenshot from development with a bunch of fake numbers :D

But I did warn that it's fake data!

Although, I forgot that the "nearby activity" one did not have a filter. (there are three activity feeds, and I forgot)

Pinball map website screenshot showing scores on profile page.

Also, when you’ve added more than one score on a machine, your profile page will show highest, all scores, score count, and average score.

Fake example in screenshot.

We also added an endpoint that returns highest score per machine, for any user: pinballmap.com/api/v1/machi...

And it can be filtered by user and/or machine.

😝

At least they were filterable. But yeah, required manual work. People don’t really care about other people’s scores!

We have a few more things to do with scores. And will also add this functionality to the app.

Pinball Map website screenshot showing a high score.

Some website score tracking changes:

- Activity feed will only show your own scores pinballmap.com/activity

- Your user profile page will show your highest score per machine

- Machines at locations will only show your own scores, and includes your highest on any copy

WFMU is running their fundraiser. DJ Michele with One "L" really likes pinball and talks about it on air a lot.

If you want to credit a pledge to her show: www.wfmu.org/profile/7536...

pledge.wfmu.org/donate

(we don't know her - just thought we'd share)

Please join the nonprofit PPM in celebrating International Women's Day! 🙌🏻🤩 We're proud to have created the FIRST exhibit dedicated to Women's contributions to pinball art, design and programming - learn more about these pinball pioneers in our "Beyond the Backglass" exhibit. See you soon! 🙏🏻☺️⚪️

Meanwhile, Beetlejuice has been out for a couple weeks pinballmap.com/map?by_machi...

Pokemon pinball just now landing. Track it here pinballmap.com/map?by_machi...

Stemage once (now more than once) donated to Pinball Map, and we couldn’t believe it. We‘ve been listening to Metroid Metal for 20 years

Not sure what Hi Zev means.

But for the sake of searchability of this article: there are plans for a Dungeon Crawler Carl pinball machine.

Picture of the pinball map zine

picture of a stack of the pinball map zine

We made a Pinball Map zine containing the location of the week articles we wrote.

We've put it at a few spots in Portland, OR. Like at Sit Tite, Star Tropics, and Wedgehead so far. Usually found on the change machine.

There’s a big place opening pretty soon.

The TWIPY Awards show this year is pretty fun! www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q3Uo...

Pinball map app screenshot showing a machine list search.

The diacritics handling was triggered by the diacritic in Pokémon. So this would work

New app update is out. 5.3.42.

- Show icons next to usernames for: site administrator | contributor_rank | operator of that location.
- Include "New location added" in Activity feeds.
- Better handling of diacritics and punctuation in search/lists.
- Fix bug with machine selection list.

Stern Pinball Inc. has teamed up with The Pokémon Company to create the first Pokémon-themed pinball machine ever!

Check it out: https://bit.ly/46Rntvt