What is Scorbit? Official Thread

scorbit · April 15, 2021, 6:47pm

Scorbit v1.0.25 and ScorbitVision Update

You can’t keep pinball down, can you? We’re so happy to see so many of our favorite locations around the world open back up as safe environments to play pinball in. From Free Gold Watch in San Francisco to Jackbar in Brooklyn, we’re excited to see more location pinball played and we hope Scorbit becomes a part of your pinball experience.

To keep up with re-opening of location pinball as well as the increasing number of home pinball players on Scorbit, our team at Scorbit HQ has been hard at work lately, looking at how players interact with the Scorbit mobile app. The results of this work can be seen in the latest app version, v1.0.25, and rolling out a major revision to ScorbitVision! We’re super excited to share all the details with you and hope this makes playing pinball with Scorbit even better!

ScorbitVision: New Leaderboards and Introducing…Comboboards

Today’s release of ScorbitVision is our first major update since launching and has some important changes! ScorbitVision is a set of web-based tools that allow you to create leaderboard views, live scoreboard views, and streaming views. These website leaderboards and scoreboards are designed with large screens in mind, like in game rooms and arcades. The streaming tools, called Streamboards, are designed for integration into OBS or streaming software to make your Twitch streams look even better.

With this new update to ScorbitVision, we’ve rolled out new filters, new ways to combine your machine with others, event-oriented boards, and many new options. We’re also sharing for the first time - Comboboards! Comboboards are a more flexible way to combine leaderboards and scoreboards on the same screen, which in turn can be added to Slideshows to put all your machines’ scores and results up in big lights!

The Scorbit mobile app includes various leaderboards as part of the app by default. If you visit a specific machine, you’ll see those leaderboards in a carousel, such as “Global Top Scores”, “My Top Scores”, or “Last Month” Scores. However, if you create leaderboards for specific machines that are public (such as a local game league’s rankings for a particular game), those leaderboards will also show up in the app. That way, when someone goes to play, they can browse those leaderboards without accessing a web page.

In the future, we’ll add more web friendly views for various other applications, as well as expose our API for others to do the same.

Leaderboard Enhancements

In addition to some massive speed and performance enhancements, we received a ton of feedback from users about clever and fun use cases for leaderboards, so we went to work and created some new and powerful options! Whether you’re a home user, arcade owner, league organizer, or just want to provide some useful inspiration to play at your best, now you can…

Here’s a rundown of the new feature details:

“All Scores” or “One Score Per Player"

one_score_per_player

Have a player in your league that saves hundreds of scores a day and paints your leaderboards with the same name? Select “One Score Per Player” and only the highest score from that player will appear on that list. Note that this is specific to a single machine, so if that hotshot does it on two of the same title in different places, they could show up more than once!

Variable Number of Machines and User Filters

machine_user_filters

Want to have a single leaderboard that mixes scores from machines you choose from more than one location? A global list of every machine on Earth from a single title? Maybe just an infinite leaderboard from a single machine? How about filtering for just your league players? All this is now possible from the leaderboard generator.

Single: In a single machine mode, the leaderboard represents scores posted to a single machine only.
Global: In global mode, the leaderboard represents scores for that title from all over the world.
Merged Machines: In list mode, a leaderboard can represent any merged combinations of machines. You can search for someone's machine on the Scorbit platform, and now the leaderboards are shown as a single high score list.
User Filter: If you want to limit a board to just a subset of users, you can create this as a filter. Add all the players of your league and display them separately.

Time Options

time_options

One of the most exciting new options we’re announcing is the new leaderboard “Time Options.” You can now choose between a number of different time modes for a specific board:

All Time: This mode is perfect for a list of all scores ever recorded for a machine from the day it was connected to Scorbit. This list can exist even if the game is transferred to another account, and never lies.
Boxed: This is a limited date range that you specify. This might be useful to create a leaderboard for an event or expo, the begins and ends when you say it does.
Last Calendar: Want to have a leaderboard representing the last calendar year? Last month or last week? Maybe yesterday or the last hour? With the Last Calendar option, it knows to reset the leaderboard at the end of that period.
Rolling: Rolling allows you to specify a number of days that "roll" forward, so you can have leaderboards for things like last 7 days, last 30 days, last 100 days, etc.

Machine Groups

All leaderboards (and Scorbit overall) now respect “Machine Groups.” You may not be aware of this, but all of our pinball machine data comes straight from the OPDB (Open Pinball Database) and we recognize sometimes machines have the same title, but different playfields, upper playfields, or game physics depending on the edition. When the physics are the same, we group them, and when they are truly different games they stand on their own. This way you can share scores on a leaderboard with your billionaire cousin who has that collector’s edition.

Scorbit Mobile App v1.0.25 Release

ScorbitVision isn’t all we’ve been working on. The Scorbit Mobile App team has been hard at work and with today’s release we’re excited to share a number of important and highly requested new features around Viewing Preferences.

Automatic Saving to Leaderboard

Previously on Scorbit, when you finished a game, you would have to press the “Save to Leaderboard” for your scores to be posted. There has been an auto-submit score preference, but it required the app to be open to the game in order for that to happen. Now, if you have this preference selected (via Account Menu > Settings > Playing Preferences) and a player slot is claimed (chages from “Player 1” to “You”), it will save the score to the leaderboard regardless of the state of the app at the time the game is complete.

It is important to note that you still must claim a player slot, as otherwise we don’t know who is playing. Users have found that it’s a good practice to either claim the slots using the QR codes (or printed QR codes) at the start of games, or to use the auto-claim feature (which still will always require the app to be open at the start of a game as a identity validation feature).

Default Opening in a Venue

Now if you’re within 500 ft. of a venue, the default is to open the app inside that venue and list the machines. This is great for home users who aren’t hopping from venue to venue and want to just see their machines right away. If you don’t want this, it can be overridden by new preferences below.

View Preference: Home Venue

If you select this preference in Account Menu > Settings > Viewing Preferences, it will prompt you for a Home Venue. Once selected, the app will ALWAYS open inside that venue, regardless of where you are, and list the machines first. You can still navigate to other venues, but this is useful for folks who primarily play at one place and want to force it regardless of the phone’s location.

View Preference: Always List Venues

This is basically the opposite of the Home Venue selection. This allows you to force the app to always open to a list of nearby venues, based on the radius defined in the radius preference below. This option is useful for players who often play on location and move throughout a city to find the best location for pinball.

Viewing Distance Radius

This allows you to force-set the distance from your phone to include in any venue list displayed on the app. The default is 10 miles, so depending on where you live and how many locations are around you, you can adjust the app to make it more convenient for you.

Favorites!

Have a favorite place to play pinball? Now you can mark your favorites! There’s now a star next to any venue name when you view the venue machine list. If you tap that star, it will turn red, and that venue is now on your favorites list. If the venue is within the distance radius, it will appear on top of your venue list, with any number of venues you want to favorite.

And that’s a wrap on the latest releases from Scorbit! In addition to these great new features, we fixed a lot of bugs in this release and are happy to report that the app and platform are working better than ever. Now that location pinball is happening again, now is the best time to get on Scorbit and play some connected pinball! Don’t have the Scorbit app yet? Download it today from the Apple Appstore or the Google Play Store.

Thanks and have fun out there and put some good scores!

-The Scorbit Team

diehardpinball · April 15, 2021, 8:07pm

Some awesome additions, just have to be allowed to get the arcade open and try all these new features out well done!!

scorbit · April 28, 2021, 7:47pm

Hello Scorbit Fans!

We’ve created a how-to video around how to use ScorbitVision. This explains how to use all the various features of Scoreboards, Leaderboards, Comboboards, Slideshows, and Streamboards.

What are those things? You can watch the video, but we’ve also broken into chapters to make it easy:

ScorbitVision Overview:

Scoreboards:

Leaderboards:

Comboboards:

Slideshows:

Streamboards:

Hopefully you find these videos useful! We can’t wait to see what you all create.

Rhombus · May 8, 2021, 10:58pm

Since my GnR LE arrived I decided to put Scorebit through its paces. I have to say I am enjoying it quite a lot, good job. Integration with new machines is an awesome idea and I hope you get to do more of it. Unfortunately I’ll never be able to afford to put it on all of my 21 games, but maybe a couple. Oh, and by the way, is there any way to delete a score? I added a score to the wrong machine and now I’m global champion and quite embarrassed.

scorbit · May 8, 2021, 11:14pm

Hey thanks! Yes, I’ll reach out to you directly.

scorbit · July 2, 2021, 3:10pm

Scorbit v1.1.0 Release

We’re excited to share the latest, action-packed version of the Scorbit app ! This version is the convergence of a number of new features both within the app and in the Scorbit service that have been requested by many of the great pinball players in the Scorbit community. With the addition of thousands of new users we also have been focused on ensuring our infrastructure is scaling well. This is just the beginning, there are many more features coming soon!

Scorbit is designed to be your pinball playing companion. With a number of the new automated scoring features, push notifications and alerts, sharing your victories, game reports and leaderboard improvements, we hope to continue to enhance your love of pinball and get more people into playing!

Activity Feed

Now, any notifications you receive can be viewed in the Account Menu > Activity feed
Any notifications you may have missed, or ones you want to check again, can now be reviewed in a single place
Activity notifications link to scores or challenge screens.
Within a notification, you can click on the scores or players referenced in the Activity items
Items can be marked read/unread or deleted

New Sharing Options

If you have claimed a score, finish a game, and choose to save to leaderboard, there is now a new sharing screen
This sharing launchpad allows you to let others know about your amazing game!
Add a victory photo: Now any game can have a photo attached to either prove your score or share the moment of celebration! Share score: Had a great score? You now can share your score and photo outside of the app, to social media, or save to your phone.
Challenge: Tag any Scorbit user you want and they will get an invite to beat your score.

If they accept, the next time they play that title it will count against the challenge.
No need to play it now! If you accept, Scorbit will remember and will keep track of which challenges you’ve accepted or rejected, first accepted, first played.
All your challenges, accepted, rejected, or completed will now show up in Account Menu > Challenges
Any completed challenges will show up in your community feed and your profile.
Challenges will soon generate notifications in an upcoming release, but you can already set if you wish to receive those notifications in your notification preferences

Score Details and Game Visualizations

Clicking on any score in the community feed, on a profile, or in your activity feed and it will take you to a score detail screen
The screen includes a “score card” at the top with various information including, who, what, when, and other info
Beneath the score card is a new beta feature, a game visualization!
The game visualization is a quick visual of the game over time, including indications of stacked modes, events and other interesting infographics that bring a whole new way to analyze and remember your games.

Flips and Ranking

All scores now have a flip button that allows you to show your appreciation of another player’s awesome effort. Pressing the flip button once will be seen by everyone, and pressing it again removes your flip.
Scores now include a ranking level based on all the scores world-wide for that game title. These are designed to be playful and silly, but they are permanent based on the time the score was completed!

Push Notifications

Users will now receive push notification if a person they follow achieves:

A top score on a specific pinball machine
A top score on a game title.

You may opt out of any notification type in the Account Menu > Settings > Notifications
You may receive notifications on any number of devices you wish.
If you share a device, it will use the most recent logged in user.

Other Important Changes

The Save to Leaderboard screen will now appear again if you return to that machine but didn’t cancel or trash the score! Handy if you left the area to do a victory lap (or go get another drink) and forgot to save.
The Waiting to Start screens now include:

Global Top Players (one score per player)
Global Top Scores (all top scores),
Any public leaderboard associated with that machine in ScorbitVision!

Game sessions now have better, more stable handling and faster response time
Many bug fixes!

Don’t have the Scorbit app yet? Download it today from the Apple Appstore or the Google Play Store.

We can’t wait to see what the Scorbit community thinks of this release! We hope you like it and it makes playing, and sharing, pinball a little bit easier and more fun.

-The Scorbit Team

P.S… Read our blog post on our website here.

scorbit · July 24, 2021, 7:30pm

Scorbit v1.1.2 Release Notes

• Clicking on any score in any leaderboard now takes you to that score details screen
• Adds sharing button to score details screen to share score card or score card with photo
• Waiting to Start leaderboard carousel increased to 10 seconds per board
• Updated tab bar with increased size of Scorbit button (Play tab)
• Machine lists are now alphabetized everywhere
• Increased maximum viewing distance to 200 miles for our Norwegian friends
• Camera screen now uses correct aspect ratio mask to ensure WYSIWYG
• Photos added now combine with shared scores resulting in a square aspect ratio for social platforms
• Increases stability and reliability of flip (+1) buttons throughout app
• Autocorrect is now disabled in all search entries (machines, venue and people)
• Adjusted some screen resolutions to fit more scores on the screen
• Corrects some challenges not displaying victory card in community feed
• Fixes problem where venues were not showing on score details screen
• Fixes user preferences infinite switching back and forth
• Fixes glitch on new installations causing welcome message to hang app
• Fixes unclaimed game sessions from saving incorrectly to leaderboard
• Fixes countdown timer to not start incorrectly on unclaimed game
• Reduced area on score cards in feeds so it is easier to click on score details
• Fixes occasional issue where push notifications would click through to the wrong score details screen
• Fixes issue where auto-claim preference doesn’t stick after setting to ON.
• Fixes issue where photo, when removed from sharing screen, would get added anyway
• Fixes “Load More” being below screen for adding people lists

scorbit · August 2, 2021, 1:28am

Scorbit v1.1.3 Release Notes:

• Performance uplift, Community and Challenges now render faster
• Verification emails are now working again
• Fixes Challenges menu to render winning challenges of all followed players
• Fixes behavior of Challenges menu when there are no inbound challenges
• Corrects sharing of challenges outside the app after game is over
• Expired challenges are no longer displayed or presented with “accept” buttons

TaylorVA · August 15, 2021, 6:48pm

@scorbit

I just installed WiFi on my WOZ and am trying to set up Scorbit, but when it ask for a location and I fill out the info for my house I’ll choosing “private.”
When I then go to locations to set my game there it doesn’t show up.

scorbit · August 15, 2021, 7:49pm

Ok, there are a few things going on at the same time we can help you with.

When you create your venue (and you can edit the venue in the My Venues tab on the account menu), be sure to put at least a city/state/country so it knows the actual location. You can set it to private, no problem.

Then go to My Machines, and ensure (hit the edit pencil) that the WOZ is set to that location.

Finally, go to you account menu > viewing preferences, and make sure that if you just want to list your own machines, set “always default to home venue” and set that venue as your home. This way it won’t prompt you to choose a location when you hit the big S to play.

Let me know if this helps! Also, feel free to jump on our Discord channel:

neilmcrae · August 31, 2021, 4:35pm

Thanks to Brian & Jay of Scorbit and Karl D of DTM there was a competition here in the UK using Scorbit on 7 out of 10 machines with Scorbit pre-entering the scores into DTM - it made scorekeeping significantly simpler and meant there were less scorekeepers required and the process was amazing. Very much like INDISC 2020.

Cheers,
Neil.

WWJ · September 1, 2021, 9:09am

I’ll echo Neil’s comments. I was running that comp and Scorbit was amazing.
For the 7 machines with it installed I was able to stay seated and still enter people’s scores. At first they were dubious, but by the end everyone understood that I didn’t have to physically see the score at the machine and type it in. Queues moved so fast.

There was just 1 issue on I500 when the player scored 491mil, but Scorbit read it as 1.491 BIL, so visual checking is still recommended.

Wizcat · September 1, 2021, 1:13pm

I noticed that too at one point, but I put it down to our slow internet connection. Once I remapped everything onto a different WiFi I didn’t notice it reoccurring.

Scorbits were great.

scorbit · September 23, 2021, 2:11pm

Scorbit v1.1.4 - Announcing the Scorbit Open Achievement Platform

Today Scorbit launches Achievements! This is a free, open platform that works across hundreds of pinball titles from the 1970’s to modern games. It is compatible with any manufacturer, from any location, across 50 years of pinball. No, really, that’s what we said! Let’s start with a video!

*** Achievement FAQ: ***

** What’s all this about achievements? **

I know, we talk a lot about achievements, and have for many years. Let’s start by explaining what we mean:

Achievements are easter eggs. They are magical little bonuses or badges that you receive for doing fun things that you discover. Sometimes, achievements are simple, other times, impossibly hard. They can be fun to collect or share with others. Sometimes they can motivate a certain type of play, even with a game that you’ve grown tired of twenty years ago.

To cook up an achievement, you have to decide what triggers it, and how complex it is. Is it something you an unlock while playing a single game, or does it require many games to achieve it? Does it require playing different titles, from different eras? Do you have to be in a specific location? Are scores involved, or specific people? Is time a factor?

Scorbit spent years thinking about these things, considering how to make something like this really open. Today, we’re launching our achievement platform. We say “platform” because that what it is, it’s a foundation on which game designers, developers, operators, venue owners, players and others can create and express ideas that transcend what is possible from plunge to drain.

Why an open platform?

For the scope of this to work, the platform has to be open to anyone who wants access to it, and that is what we have built. We needed great game designer minds to come up with the first ones, so it’s not a surprise we’re launching this with Jersey Jack. To do so, we gave them access to our API (application programming interface) to play with and figure out how they wanted to start using it. What one game designer dreamed up was different from others, and will likely change and evolve over time. Other manufacturers are already coding against it with plans to launch achievements on Scorbit.

After Jersey Jack, the team at Scorbit will release achievements for game titles going as far back as there are electronic machines. The more sophisticated the game, the more opportunities for fun achievements.

Remember, the Scorbit Achievement Platform works across hundreds of titles. It isn’t limited to JJP, it works with solid states from the 70s and 80s, DMDs from the 90s, and even LCD games currently manufactured. It works on any manufacturer’s games.

On day one, Jersey Jack did the work over the past year and came up with some fun ones on their entire catalog of games, and will roll each one out successively starting with Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory. You’ll soon see them on all JJP’s titles.

In the future, we will expose the Achievement creator to not only manufacturers, but also venue owners, operators, and other users who can craft unique achievements associated with the games they have on location. Achievement unlocked, free beer at the bar! When we said open, we meant fully open! First we will get the mechanics well tested, then release it publicly.

What kind of achievements can you tell us about?

At the highest level, achievements can be real-time, or be calculated post-game, depending on the ingredients. Ingredients are what we mentioned previously, scores, targets, modes, time, titles, locations, speed, tournament participation…

Achievements can be permanent, meaning once you earn them you have them forever, or trophy, meaning you can lost them to someone else.

Some require completing tasks within a single game, others across multiple games. All are stored in your Scorbit profile, so it travels with you.

How can this work on a game that was made 30 years ago?

When Scorbit is installed in any vintage game, we have real-time data. For example, in a DMD game, we can optionally change the display, so in some cases we are able to display these achievements and other messages right on the DMD. We know the game state, the modes, and scores, all in real-time. That being said, there are hundreds of game titles out there. Our challenge is to create these achievements over time, in a respectful way working with as much original design talent as we can.

You mentioned tournaments above, how does this relate?

Match Play and DTM have taken advantage of the Scorbit open platform and have released integrations with Scorbit that are fairly extensive. They rely on the platforms being open and span across machines of any manufacturer to work. The people behind both of those software platforms plan much further integrations as we continue our strong partnerships with them. The more these systems use our API, the more we can do to use them as triggers.

You can learn more about Match Play here:

Also the next generation of Match Play integrations here:

Drain Tournament Manager information can be found here:

https://www.neverdrains.com/dtm/

How do I unlock achievements?

To access achievements, all you need to do is download the free Scorbit app, log in, start a game and claim a player slot by tapping the player number. A fully integrated game will respond, especially in the case of JJP. Once the game and cloud knows that you’re playing, your actions begin to count towards earning that achievement.

Not all achievements are awarded for game play! Scorbit also is aware of venues, people, time, blood alcohol level, and shoe size.

Where do I view achievements?

When you unlock an achievement, it may be displayed on the game, or sometimes just in the app. You receive push notifications (which can be muted) for achievements you receive. For major achievements, your followers on Scorbit will also be notified.

You can see what other players are scoring or achieving via their profile. Clicking on the “stats” button for any player allows you to see all their vital information, including a machine-by-machine listing of achievements and scores they have earned.

Anyway, there’s a lot to unpack here, so we’ll leave some to mystery. Release notes and press release below.

Thanks,

-Jay, Ron & Brian

Scorbit v1.1.4 Release Notes:

Achievements

• You can unlock achievements based on real-time game activity or other combinations of factors
• Some achievements are displayed, some more mysterious
• Trophy achievements can only be held by a single player at any time
• Achievements can now be viewed in your user profile or other user’s profile as they are achieved
• Achievements details screen describes the achievement and how it’s been achieved
• You receive a notification when you achieve something, and it appears in your profile and activity feed
• You receive a notification when someone you follow achieves a major or trophy achievement
• You can mute notifications from individual players on their profile with the mute button
• You can turn off all achievement notifications in the Account Menu > Settings > Notifications
User Profile

• User profile now has Scores / Achievements / Challenges tab
• Mute button added to stop notifications from a single user
• Initials and full name added to profile
• IFPA Player Number added to Profile Edit screen
• Stats view added with player Statistics and Scores/Achievements tab
• Statistics tab includes various fields about a player’s performance, including IFPA Rank
• Scores/Achievements tab allows you to see all saved scores or achievements for a specific game title

• Challenges now can be accepted on score details screen
• Challenges now will notify you and appear in your Activity feed
• Save to Leaderboard screen now correctly locates score ranking on machine leaderboard
• Improvements to manual score submission flow and photo upload
• Improvements to Community tab performance
• Fixes incorrect aspect ratio on some manual score photo library or camera images
• Fixes tool tip text for notifications regarding top scores

Scorbit official blog post:

Press Release:

Scorbit Announces Global Achievement Platform for Pinball
Jersey Jack Pinball Releases Integrated Support for Entire Catalog of Games

SAN FRANCISCO - Sep. 23, 2021

Scorbit, the leader in connected pinball, is excited to announce Achievements, the latest in a series of features compatible with hundreds of games across thousands of connected pinball machines around the world. Jersey Jack Pinball continues their long history of pinball innovation with full support of Scorbit achievements, launching first on Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, followed by the rest of the Jersey Jack Pinball game library. Achievements on Scorbit for more games from other manufacturers will follow shortly thereafter.

Since launching in 2020, Scorbit’s open platform has welcomed thousands of pinball players who have posted hundreds of thousands of scores to the Scorbit app. Arcade owners and pinball operators have embraced the platform, allowing players at locations to connect to Scorbit easily and utilize the advanced tools provided by Scorbit. With an established platform, the latest addition of the Scorbit Achievement Platform API is fully open to all game manufacturers and connects with Scorbit’s already existing global network. Achievements work with the Scorbit app, ScorbitVision and other software integrations already available. The platform bridges all of these features from games manufactured over fifty years of pinball, right up to modern machines today.

Jersey Jack Pinball is also excited to launch full support of the achievement platform as the next step in their partnership with Scorbit. With deeply integrated achievements designed and implemented by the creators of each game, Jersey Jack Pinball games will be even more competitive for players. Achievements appear in real-time on the game displays as well as within the Scorbit app, and are visible on Scorbit user profiles.

Achievements are new goals for games that can be set up by the developers of a game, a venue owner, or an operator. There are a variety of goals that can be used, including real-time achievements that appear on the game displays, meta achievements that can transcend between games, locations, or titles, and trophy achievements that are only held by one person in the world at a time. Achievements can be based on game play, time, location, people and other users, or a number of other ingredients at the discretion of the game designers. Using Scorbit, games from the past have an entirely new twist when achievements are added to the platform.

As you play, supporting games will tell you if you have unlocked achievements on their own display, including vintage games and DMDs from the 1990s and 2000s. In addition to this real-time display, players are notified of their achievements by the Scorbit mobile app and visible on player’s feeds and profiles.This is all side-by-side with Scorbit’s already existing automated leaderboards, challenges, and real-time scoring.

“Scorbit’s open platform API makes it easy for companies like Jersey Jack Pinball to integrate their games,” said Jay Adelson, Chairman and Co-Founder of Scorbit. “They are being joined by most of the pinball manufacturers, designers, and creative community to enhance game play everywhere.”

“We chose to work with Scorbit to launch achievements because we believe in open, accessible platforms,” said Jack Guarnieri, Founder of Jersey Jack Pinball. “Players like being able to put both their old games and their JJP games on the same system, and since our launch of online support, Scorbit has proven they are the platform to do this.”

Combined with Scorbit’s in-app Challenges, Leaderboards, and exciting visuals from ScorbitVision, pinball is way more fun with Scorbit.

ABOUT SCORBIT

Scorbit (Spinner Systems, Inc.) is a first-of-its-kind, wireless and real-time platform that connects solid-state, DMD and LCD pinball machines to the Internet. With the Scorbit Mobile App and the Scorbitron device for pinball machines, Scorbit has been connecting machines and tournaments since 2015. The implications are nothing short of a pinball revolution, bringing pinball machines and players into the digital age – while increasing plays and revenue for operators and fun for collectors.

ABOUT JERSEY JACK PINBALL

Jersey Jack Pinball (JJP) is the industry leader in quality and technical innovation, creating groundbreaking pinball machines for seasoned players, collectors, and newcomers to the game. Designed and manufactured in the United States, JJP’s state-of-the-art games are conceived on a foundation of pinball’s rich history and engineered with an unflinching eye toward its future. Easy to play – difficult to master, their award-winning games feature several industry firsts, including the use of LCD screens, RGB LED lighting, Bluetooth and Wi-fi connectivity, interactive camera, rich audio, and innovative industry leading technology. JJP brings Pinball machines into the 21st century, designed to provide an enhanced player experience, engage hardcore players and draw new players to the game.

scorbit · October 14, 2021, 7:31pm

Hey all! JJP GnR and Dialed In! are now live with Scorbit and the Scorbit Achievement Platform!

S C O R B I T is an online connected gaming platform. (Note, no “e” in Scorbit.)

Just a few high level FAQs. Scorbit has never been just about scores and leaderboards, though all of that is available to you as well as the visualizations on ScorbitVision for you game rooms and large displays.

You can also always find more info at our website at https://scorbit.io and our support site at https://support.scorbit.io.

** Q: How much does Scorbit on JJP cost?

Nothing for JJP owners. For operators we have a Pro license, but you won’t need it for the feature set.

** Q: How do I connect Dialed In to WiFi?

Step 1: Get a USB WiFI dongle

You will need a USB WiFi dongle, if you don’t have that already. JJP recommends this one:

amazon.com link »

Step 2: Get the Code

You MUST load the latest version of Dialed In! code from JJP. You can get that here:

Step 3: Configure your WiFi on the game

You must connect the machine to WiFi in from the game’s utility > network menu.

NOTE: YOU MUST SET THE TIME ZONE TO YOUR TIME ZONE IN THE NETWORK CONFIGURATION!

Step 4: Get the App

Once WiFi is set up, download the Scorbit app here:

https://scorbit.link

Register your account, which will require that you click the validation email sent to you from Scorbit.

Step 5: Pair the Machine

When we say “Pair,” what we mean is associate your physical machine with the virtual one on Scorbit for keeping all the scores and achievements. If the machine is already on Pinball Map or you already use Scorbit, it will already be there and the app wizard will detect it.

You can follow these instructions to get your game connected to the platform:

https://support.scorbit.io/hc/en-us…-Jack-Pinball-Machine-on-the-Scorbit-Platform

** Q: Why can’t my friends and family see my machine and play?

When you first create your venue, it includes a name, an address, and if it should be public or private. Scorbit uses location to list out venues, closest first, so you can discover places to play pinball. However, if it’s private, only selected users can see it on their menus and submit scores to your game.

To make your service visible to other users, go to the Account Menu (your profile pic in the upper right of the app) > My Venues > [Your Venue Name]. You’ll see two tabs, MACHINES and PLAYERS. Machines on the left are any machines you want, and they don’t need Scorbit to be added! On the PLAYERS tab, add the other users you want to be able to see your venue.

Also, in the Account Menu > Settings > Viewing Preferences, you can set a HOME VENUE that always loads when you start the app, saving you time if you’re mostly just playing at home!

** Q: Where can I see the achievements I’ve earned?

First I should start by saying, when I say “Account Menu,” I mean the menu with your player profile picture in the upper right hand corner of the app.

The way you can “go back” to the last screen is with a swipe from the left edge of the screen to the right.

If you go to your Account Menu > Profile, you’ll see a feed of all the scores, achievements and challenges you have received, sorted most recent on top. If you click on an achievement here, you do see a detailed view of that achievement.

However, if you want a more detailed view, you can press the “Stats” button next to your name in the profile screen. From there, you have two tabs: Stats and Scores/Achievements.

The stats button does what I’m sure you would think it does.

The scores/achievements lets you first search for a game title (such as Guns N’ Roses), and then toggle (using the small icon on the upper right of the box) between your scores for that game and achievements for that game. You can always click on a score or an achievement for a detail of either one.

** Q: Where can I see progress towards an achievement?

You can see this on the Achievement Details screen, which you can click on wherever you see an Achievement:

** Q: Where can I see the master list of achievements?

Yes, we know completionists want all the list! We do this to some degree in different forms already. You see some, but not all, depending on the behaviors/goals the game designers want to motivate.

If you visit the Profile > Stats > Machine > Achievements, you will see achievements that you’ve achieved ** plus any additional achievements ** that are part of the same “achievement group” that you have not achieved. For example, if there is an achievement to hit multiball 10 times, and you’ve hit multiball 10 times, you may see the achievements for 50, 100, or 1000 times by viewing that achievement and paging through the others in the GROUP box. This is intentionally not a complete list, and it does require that you’ve at least hit the lowest level number of the achievement. This is because that “master list” concept may have different forms within different achievement groups.

Think of this like you’re unlocking new lists of achievements to hit.

A feature we are finishing that you will see soon is called the Browse tab. This is the pinball machine in the lower left corner of the app. This is not ready yet, but when you tap that tab, you will get to choose any machine and see various things about it, including achievements (locked or unlocked). It will be release very soon, so stay tuned here. You’ll find that some won’t be seen or some will be in an obscured state (like mystery), but it will not require that you specifically have hit all those achievements.

Very important: Some achievements associated with the game are not specific to something that happens in the game! Therefore, it’s not exactly right to show you those in the context of the machine all the time, and may be invisible to you until you achieve them or someone you follow achieves them.

** Q: When do I receive notifications about Achievements?

Achievements will send to YOU when you achieve them via a push notification. You can turn these off in your preferences. Clicking on your Activity feed will take you directly to that achievement, or they are visible in the other ways described above.

** Q: What’s all this about Challenges?

When you finish a game, after you save to leaderboard, you’re presented with a screen like this:

When you see the options, you’ll see a little person with a “+” on it. You can tag other users to beat the score you just submitted. You can choose more than one at a time as well. Add anyone you like, click outside the user selection box, then you’ll see the profile pics of the players you tagged. Click on SEND CHALLENGE and they all get notified that you’ve tagged them to beat your score.

Then what comes next if you’re the person who received it is a little bit beta! We record all the challenges you’ve received for a specific game title. So if you get three challenges for Wonka, one from Bill, one from Bob, and one from Barry, you play each one out, one at a time.

The next time you play Wonka, we count the game against the first one on the list (Bill), and then Bob, and the Barry, successively. Your next game you save to leaderboard for that game counts! You’ll see screens like this:

In this example, the user has won the challenge against his challenger. Then in the various feeds, community tab, Challenges menu, and on the user profiles, you see the results of challenges.

You can ping-pong back and forth on challenges, and also access them all in the menu.

Challenges expire in 7 days! So hurry up and play.

We know there are a TON of things in challenges that are being added in future releases, like the name of the challenger you’re playing, and also the Challenge Match, which allows you to pick and choose players, and when everyone is in, and the challenge begins, you get one new game to count against it. Stay tuned for those challenges in a future release.

Anyway, that’s just a start. Hopefully that helps! Hit me up with questions.

-Jay

scorbit · November 3, 2021, 4:51pm

Hey Scorbit fans!

Coming off an incredibly successful and fun Pinball Expo, I want to share two, heavily detailed, recorded Scorbit updates for all of you.

The first is an 90 minute interview with Pinball News with Scorbit! Jonathan Joosten and Martin Ayub published an unedited, full interview with myself and one of my co-founders, @ronxo , going over a lot of inside information of how Scorbit works and our future plans.

I want to point out that Jonathan and Martin provide such a service to us all. We’re big fans and appreciate that there are rare folks out there like these guys that are willing to get into the details with us.

You can listen to it on Spotify or Anchor.fm.

Anchor link (go to 2:04:52 for the interview):

Spotify link (already advanced to 2:04:52):

The second is the Pinball Expo Scorbit talk, available on Twitch, where myself and my other co-founder, @Brian go into a lot of detail (with some lab videos as well), and field questions from the audience on Scorbit’s future, how we work with various game types, and more:

https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1190177331?t=00h43m31s

Hopefully this shed some light on everything. Enjoy!

PinballNews · November 3, 2021, 11:41pm

A huge thanks to Ron and Jay for their great interview.

I’ll be honest and say when I suggested the interview there was some doubt we’d have much to talk about and it might be a bit geeky, but really the Scorbit system is so extensive with so many cool possibilities, we talked about what it is, how it works now, and what’s coming up in the future, and before we knew it we’d been talking for an hour-and-a-half.

Great work guys, and thanks for your time.

Martin.

scorbit · December 29, 2021, 12:59am

Scorbit v1.1.9 Release

Hope everyone had a great holidays! Here at Scorbit HQ. we’re excited to share another packed Scorbit app update. This is just a taste of what we’ve got being developed for the app and we wanted to get this out before the end of the year, we think you’ll like some of these enhancements with v1.1.9.

Achievement Summary, Filters

When you navigate/scan to a machine, the Scorbit attract mode (“Waiting to Start”) now includes your achievements count when there are achievements for that game machine title. If you tap on that achievement count, or swipe across the leaderboards, the final panel now includes a full list of achievements available for that game.

Anywhere on the app, on any list of achievements, you now can change the filter to view completed, highest completed, or all achievements for a game. On Scorbit, achievements are sometimes grouped, and if so each group is listed in order. If you tap on any achievement, you visit the achievement detail screen with more information, and can also view other achievements in that group.

Adopting Machines and Venues

Thanks to the great guys at Pinball Map, we import live data from Pinball Map to help users find machines. It’s also to help with the creation and management, but of course the data isn’t always correct. As a result, sometimes you get doubles for machines, or if you’re an operator, you find machines you want to take away, or install Scorbitrons into.

Now, if you try to create a machine that already exists, and it was a previously existing machine, the app will give you the option to adopt it instead (and optionally all other machines and the venue) if it’s unowned. If you own the machines, go ahead and adopt them all and the venue with it! The machines will show up on your Account Menu > My Venues and you can manage them going forward. If you adopt by accident, or someone else took control, no fear, just email us at support@scorbit.io and we’ll fix it all up for you. Just like Pinball Map, we love the help of the community to ensure data is accurate.

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Machine Tab

Ever wonder what that pinball machine button was in the lower left hand corner? The wait is over, it’s now been activated! By tapping on the machine icon, you can browse machines by title. Once you’ve chosen one, you can browse the global leaderboards and achievements for that machine. Basically search by game, not venue and we’re pretty excited for it.

When viewing achievements for a given title, you have access to the same filters as on Waiting to Start. Remember, all scores are clickable, so click on any score you see for a detailed view of the score. We’ll be releasing the ability to list out nearby machines of that title soon, stay tuned for that.

Saving to Leaderboard

We spoke to large cross section of users and it was nearly unanimous that most users want to auto-save scores. We’ve always had this feature, in the Account Menu > Settings > Playing Preferences. Unfortunately, most of you didn’t know that was available. Therefore, we’re changing it to the default, and changing the language. “Auto-save” has been replaced with “ask to save to leaderboard.” In other words, for new users, auto-save is now default, and you have to opt-in to being prompted!

If you find your Save to Leaderboard screen disappears, and want it back, go to this preference in your settings and turn it back on. When this preference is turned off, if the app is open, you’ll get the sharing screen. If the app is closed, it will just save it automatically.

Just to clarify: Auto-claim only works if the app is open and navigated to the screen. A future feature will allow home users to stay in a mode that auto-claims and auto-saves, but in multi-player environments, we have found auto-claim to be troublesome, so it will be removed in a future release (scanning QR codes will still auto-claim, and the new feature will auto-claim).

There are also lots of enhancements behind the scenes: Differentiation between machines of the same title and different manufacturer, the ability to add custom text, new tools at https://tools.scorbit.io for operators or owners, and a myriad of performance improvements.

Owners of Stern Spike 2 games with Scorbitrons will notice we’ve updated the install flow to work with all the latest Stern code updates since they launched Stern Insider Connected. This is to ensure maximum compatibility for people who like to use both systems! We love Stern games and love the work they did on their new platform, and can’t wait to see more!

Anyway, that’s just a snapshot of v1.1.9! Stay tuned for more to come in 2022. Thanks to everyone using Scorbit and all your support. Have a very Happy New Year!

-Jay, Brian and Ron

scorbit · January 6, 2022, 4:47pm

Scorbit has been nominated for two TWIPYs!

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scorbit · February 4, 2022, 9:05pm

Scorbit is live at INDISC 2022!

If you’re interested in watching any of this live, check out our blog post with links to the ScobitVision boards, along with INDISC current standings.

https://www.neverdrains.com/2022/playerIndex.php

Hey all! JJP GnR and Dialed In! are now live with Scorbit and the Scorbit Achievement Platform!​

** Q: How much does Scorbit on JJP cost?​

** Q: How do I connect Dialed In to WiFi?​

** Q: Why can’t my friends and family see my machine and play?​

** Q: Where can I see the achievements I’ve earned?​

** Q: Where can I see progress towards an achievement?​

** Q: Where can I see the master list of achievements?​

** Q: When do I receive notifications about Achievements?​

** Q: What’s all this about Challenges?​