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Marble Blast clones

by Adrian Tysoe · in General Discussion · 03/17/2006 (12:01 am) · 6 replies

I was looking at IGF today and saw a game a lot like Marble blast but with fancy graphics and some physics based gameplay elements. THought I'd check it out since it looked pretty good and is finalist for Technical excellence this year.

Went to their website and found the sequel!!! called Switchball. What fun and beautiful looking games. Wonder how much they were inspired by Garage Games Marble Blast.


Crazy Ball


img.gamespot.com/gamespot/images/2006/044/932032_20060214_screen004.jpg

Switch Ball (yes that is an actual screenshot!!!)


www.atomicelbow.com/images/screen_switchball_top.jpg
playable demo's are avaliable for both games at www.atomicelbow.com/
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Torque 3D Owner Peter Simard
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#1
03/17/2006 (12:11 am)
Wow, very impressive graphics! Do you know what engine its running?

Torque Owner Adrian Tysoe
#2
03/17/2006 (12:15 am)
No idea, the newer game uses the ageia physics library, and has a lot of nice materials in like cloth and what have you. You need a pretty good PC for it though (pushes my 6600GT pretty hard). Probably the most impressive looking indie game I have seen to date.

The Developers teamed up after leaving some school called powerhouse for game programmers in sweden. So I think its a proprietary engine. Says they develop for PC and Xbox.

Torque Owner Stefan Lundmark
#3
03/17/2006 (1:28 am)
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The Developers teamed up after leaving some school called powerhouse for game programmers in sweden. So I think its a proprietary engine. Says they develop for PC and Xbox.

Yup it's a homebrewn engine, but I'm not sure they left PowerHouse yet.. think it's the final class.

Anyway, looks really nice.

Torque Owner Anders Norén
#4
03/17/2006 (5:12 am)
They should aim for Xbox360 instead - those graphics are fantastic!

Torque Owner Adrian Tysoe
#5
03/17/2006 (6:34 am)
Well the controls leave something to be desired, at least with mouse, they are asking for feecback on the indie gamer forums and the switch ball game is early alpha. Plenty of time to sort the controls out. Seems very promising to me :)

Torque Owner Paul /*Wedge*/ DElia
#6
03/17/2006 (8:57 am)
Yeah I found the game fairly unplayable with the wonky mouse based controls... it simply doesn't work unless you have a trackball (I played Hamster Ball with that once). All these games need analogue gamepad support anyways *coughPCversionofMBUltracough*.