I really missed games like Marble Madness and made a homage to it which people seem to like!

[Destined]

I am James a solo developer who made a homage to classics like Marble Madness, Gyroscope, Hamsterball and Ballance called Marble's Marbles. It is designed to honor them while having a slighty more modern feel. Some people on reddit recommended I post here!

It has 1000s of players and 60 positive reviews so it is doing some things right! Here is the steam page https://store.steampowered.com/app/4137920/Marbles_Marbles/

Here is a review from retronews https://www.retronews.com/marbles-marbles-impressions/

I would love to hear what you think and happy to answer questions.

PS Trackball support is in the works!

 

[Ikagura]

I also like Ballance and other "3D" Marble games.

 

[Destined]

I also like Ballance and other "3D" Marble games.

Ballance has actually been rerealed on steam and works great. I played it on steamdeck before making this and the influence is pretty obvious in some levels!

 

[Kremiso]

i very like this kind of games

i prefer when the camera follow the ball, something like Kula World on PS1;
that was imo a bit ruined from the time limit, otherwise great

i have played to death also another one on PC atm i cannot remember the name, not Marble Blast but same genre

Marble Madness i have played the Amiga port back then

Spindizzy on C64 was fabulous too :)

 

[Destined]

spindizzy was so clever and underappreciated!

 

[Kamako]

Congratulations on successfully publishing your game, James! May I ask what programming language, graphics software and engine you used to build it?
I find games like yours very inspiring.

 

[Destined]

Congratulations on successfully publishing your game, James! May I ask what programming language, graphics software and engine you used to build it?
I find games like yours very inspiring.

I use Unity as the engine (with c#), I make all the models with blender3d and I use photogimp for the textures.

Thank you for the nice comment :D

here is a behind the scenes video

 

[Badseed Badseed]

congrats on getting your game on Steam. The "ball" games just aren't my thing but
it looks great nonetheless. Can you get a trackball for modern PCs?

 

[Destined]

congrats on getting your game on Steam. The "ball" games just aren't my thing but
it looks great nonetheless. Can you get a trackball for modern PCs?

Fair enough, obviously for a certain kind of gamer.

Yeah there are heaps of them, they are mainly sold an accessible device now.

 

[dropsmegamega]

Looks like an isometric Ballance. I like a lot the artstyle! Some of the darker environments remind me of an obscure marble game called Spin Off. Wishlisted it.