Pinball Ingame Excercise

1) What is "good gameplay" when it comes to pinball game design?
For me, good gameplay when it comes to pinball game design is realism. One of the more frustrating things about the online version of pinball were the whacked out physics. Maybe it was just because I was playing various different versions of online pinball, but the ball physics were different in all of them which made it hard to time the paddles correctly. Originality and creativity was also nice to have though, with different pinball machines having different layouts for the ball to go through.

2) How do pinball playfield designers create exciting experiences?
Variety and originality. Humans are drawn to exciting noises (think casinos or arcades) and pinball machines take full advantage of that. For example, many of the versions of pinball that I played had various things that lit up or made noise when you hit them. Something that was even more exciting were when certain portions of the layout would move or have some some kind of action which changed the way you played the game.