Astral Atlas backglass artwork with a brass astronomical condition table
Authored Astral Atlas backglass artwork; live condition lamps render separately in the cabinet.
Machine design

Astral Atlas separates physical coverage from its condition table

Published by EFANCY LLC. Dates mark the documented release or the publication of the engineering note.

The observatory cabinet asks players to read two related but different displays across one sixteen-ball session.

Astral Atlas begins by revealing one or two numbered landing-slot lamps and one separate First Light target. Every ball still uses the shared manual plunger. As the sixteen balls land, the physical landing-slot row records which lanes have been covered; a repeat remains a real landing but does not create a new covered slot.

The 4×4 panel on the backglass is intentionally not a map of those lanes. It is a condition table evaluated after the session, while First Light can be completed only by the first ball. Keeping physical evidence, condition progress, and the one-ball target visually distinct was the central information-design problem for this cabinet.

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