The Making of Peggle

[Tami]

Like most PopCap games, Peggle started with a simple thought. The team wanted to make a game that would resemble Pachinko — a colorful, chaotic slot-machine-type game that's a big hit in Japan. In Pachinko, you control the flow of balls that continuously fall from the top of a machine. Then, you just hope the balls can survive a variety of pins and obstacles to fall into a jackpot-type bucket at the bottom. Balls that don't land in the jackpot drop into a tray for which pays out more balls and a chance to win prizes.

At PopCap, we begin creating a game using a bare-bones template — just a basic game functioning without any art or sound to see if an idea will fly. To get things started on Peggle, Brian Rothstein (aka Ace) programmed a computerized world that would simulate gravity and make balls fall and bounce realistically through a field of pegs on screen.

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[Jim]

meh, I'm not signed up on their site...however, could we get this for the arcade maybe <img src=\'http://www.killanet.net/forum3/public/s ... iggrin.gif\' class=\'bbc_emoticon\' alt=\':D\' />

[Tami]

I don't think they have a version for the arcade <img src=\'http://www.killanet.net/forum3/public/s ... igwink.gif\' class=\'bbc_emoticon\' alt=\';)\' />

Sorry, didn't realize you need to be a member to see the article - I get their press releases <img src=\'http://www.killanet.net/forum3/public/s ... >/blum.gif\' class=\'bbc_emoticon\' alt=\':P\' />