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Getting equipment for new sports (lemmy.world)
submitted 2 months ago by IndigoGollum@lemmy.world to c/gamedev@programming.dev
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First, i know this place is mostly for video game design. But i don't see many other places for game design beyond video games, and i have no idea where else to go for guidance with designing a sport.

I had an idea today for a new variety of bowling that i think would be best played with duckpin balls and pins. Problem is, those are apparently really expensive. A quick look online has a single ball going for $60-$80 US, and candlepin balls aren't better.

Less recently i wrote rules for another sport that would require mostly original equipment, and i don't even know where to start with getting totally custom equipment made. I guess talk to a smith or welder?

If anyone here has experience with this sort of thing, how do you get equipment for experimental games/sports without spending hundreds or thousands of dollars on it? Is this why apparently nobody makes new sports?

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[–] supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

So I don't know shit about bowling, but I do know that it is the kind of sport you would come up with if you had a lathe for wood and you were bored.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lathe