Author Topic: Marble Blast Megathread - Platinum 1.51 is released! + Marble Blast Ultra PC!  (Read 5280 times)


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Marble Blast Platinum is a modified free version of Marble Blast Gold, a 3D platforming game involving the player to overcome a series of obstacles and levels in the game, ranging from Beginner to Expert, the levels involve different puzzles, and powerups as you roll around in the enviroment.
There are several powerups that the player can use to either range from blasting their marble away to speeding around like a bullet,
Powerups
Marble Recoil - a powerup to bounce the marble high into the air upon impact

Jump Boost - Boosting the marble high into the air to reach high obstacles

Speed Booster - increasing the speed of the marble to gain momentum

Gravity Defier - changing gravity of the marble to get across different obstacles

Anti - Recoil - the opposite of Marble Recoil, preventing the marble from bouncing at all upon immediate impact with the ground

Helicopter - giving a short period of time to where the marble can fly like a helicopter!

Time Modifier - Stopping time to get better scores!

Mega Marble (Multiplayer) - Increasing the marbles size but this is in multiplayer only

Blast (Multiplayer) - Boosting the marble by pressing a certain button


Marble Blast Ultra
Quote from: Wikipedia
Marble Blast Ultra is a 3D puzzle/action game involving a marble developed by GarageGames. It was released on January 25, 2006 for the Xbox 360 via Xbox Live Arcade. It is the sequel to Marble Blast Gold. It features 60 levels, enhanced graphics, 2 new power-ups and a multiplayer mode. A PC port of the game under the title Marble Blast Online was playable exclusively at InstantAction until the website was shut down. As of year-end 2010, Marble Blast Ultra has sold over 756,000 copies. In February 2011, the game was delisted from XBLA
Quote from: Wikipedia
Multiplayer contains 20 levels and supports up to 8 simultaneous players. There is only 1 mode which consists of collecting gems within a certain time limit (three to six minutes), which depends on the level. After a group of 2-6 gems are collected entirely, another set of gems appear elsewhere on the board. Players race to these gems and use power-ups to navigate across the level quicker and interfere with other players.

There are three types of gems: red, yellow, and blue. Red gems are worth one point, while yellows are worth two and blues are worth five. Most likely, blue and yellow gems will be much harder to get than the red gems. The player at the end of the time limit with the most points wins. Players can change their marble's appearance by choosing from a variety of patterns and pictures in the main menu, such as a globe marble or a tiger marble as well as adding several different effects to use online. Ranked matches and player matches are supported along with an overall multiplayer leaderboard for ranked and player matches. Users can create a game or join one and filter parameters such as level, players, and gamer zone. Private games are also supported.
http://marbleblastultra.tk/ PC Port

Multiplayer Modes
In Marble Blast Platinum there are several multiplayer modes that you can access in the Online mode, you can either be a guest or register yourself as a user, but these modes include fighting for a certain amount of gems, in which the player with the most gems at the end of a certain period of time wins the match! And there is a mode such as Collection where you have to loot and find certain type of gem, and the first player to reach the required amount wins.

Community

The community is a small community but active with around 1600+ people, their forums are here: http://marbleblast.com/index.php/forum/index
This is a game that shaped the world of my childhood and hopefully you'll enjoy it too, Marble Blast Gold (Released September 2002) is the oldest version of this game and not played much anymore, and Marble Blast Platinum 1.50 (Released August 2014) is a modified version of MBG with new multiplayer modes and amazing levels.

Videos
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1tL1ei0XrW0 - demonstrating some things in multiplayer
https://www.youtube.com/user/IsraeliRedDragon/featured - a user who helped create MBP, with a lot of content on his channel
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fL5x5Iy9FIw - developers playing multiplayer back in December, when they were doing a special winter mode
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VZh7-09I69U - developers playing multiplayer

I hope you enjoy this game as much as I do and check it out sometime! The community is a friendly and great community alongside an amazing game.

Players
Emgiell - Wyvern
« Last Edit: April 04, 2015, 06:02:09 PM by Maxxi »


isn't marble blast also based on torque, or am i mistaken?



i played the stuff out of marble blast when i was younger

why does it control like stuff
i can't move left or right while i move forward
i can barely move left and right at all

If you're keeping a list of player names can you add "Wyvern"?


It's a good game.

why does it control like stuff
i can't move left or right while i move forward
i can barely move left and right at all
Weird, I can move in all directions just fine.

I remember playing Marble Blast Gold a lot back in elementary school. I'd go to the tech classroom just to play this during the entirety of morning recess. I've yet to complete all the levels though.

I remember playing Marble Blast Gold a lot back in elementary school. I'd go to the tech classroom just to play this during the entirety of morning recess. I've yet to complete all the levels though.
If you download MBP, it comes with the Gold levels, and even most of the community custom levels.

that sound when you finish a level

i love it

aw man i love rolling games

No love for Ultra (especially the PC port)?

:(

thx op


I started a match, a guest joined, and I ended up losing to them.
Apparently I suck.
« Last Edit: April 04, 2015, 10:10:31 PM by dargereldren »