Insomniac loves pinball, but canceled game

Insomniac's infatuation with pinball machines almost became a game back in 2007.

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It's not too often you hear about aborted game projects five years after the fact, but Insomniac Games decided to offer a little bit of history when it updated it's Facebook timeline to include a project it started work on in January 2007.

Entitled 1080Pinball, it was supposed to be a downloadable game that ran at 1080p and 60fps. Insomniac wanted the most realistic pinball physics to date, taking such things into account as the weight of the ball and the friction of the table. For quite awhile, the company had a number of pinball machines in the office, and even created a (Pin)Ballz music video just for fun (see below).

The game was to feature original table designs, and even "a 'Gran Turismo' level of progression, deeper than any other Pinball game at the time." Unfortunately, Insomniac stopped developing the game in mid-2007 and said it has no plans to revisit it.

The developers will talk about the game on a future podcast, but in the meantime, enjoy the artwork they had created.

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    March 30, 2012 12:55 PM

    John Keefer posted a new article, Insomniac loves pinball, but canceled game.

    Insomniac's infatuation with pinball machines almost became a game back in 2007.

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      March 30, 2012 6:10 PM

      This sounds like it would have been pretty neat. Does anyone even -make- pinball computer games anymore these days? I miss Epic Pinball.

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      March 30, 2012 9:54 PM

      Try Zen Pinball on PSN, and PInball FX2, on XBLA. Both made by Zen Studios. Both top notch pinball games, featuring all original tables, from some huge licenses.

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        March 30, 2012 11:29 PM

        Ironically enough I just spent the last hour playing Zen Pinball on ios. Goddamn addicting. If the PSN version has different tables I may have to pick it up.

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        March 30, 2012 11:43 PM

        Interesting price incongruency - iOS zen = one table free, two more for a buck each, three more for two bucks each.

        PSN zen - 10 bucks for ??? Tables, then 7 addon tables at 2.50 each.

        Maybe I should just wait and see if they bring all the tables over to iOS.

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          March 31, 2012 9:12 AM

          I can't remember how many tables on Pinball FX2, but it is a ton! Was cool as well, when they released FX2, if you had FX1, you could import all your tables into FX2 for free.

          I don't remember ever playing Epic Pinball....Digital Pinball on the Saturn was all time favorite pinball game, until Zen put these games out.

          If you get the PSN ones, hit me up, love playing the Multiplayer on them

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