Marble World
I'm supporting War Child UK’ Armistice Sale!
Between 7th-12th November 2024, I'll donate a portion of every sale of Marble World and it's DLC to War Child UK. Make sure to grab your own discounted copy, gift one to a friend or let your community know about the sale to help children affected by war across the world.
Armistice is War Child UK’s annual campaign to celebrate peaceful play and raise vital funds to support their work. War Child work in the hardest to reach places to support those who are hardest hit, to protect, educate and stand up for the rights of children, when they need it most.
By purchasing a game during the sale you can help War Child raise thousands to fund vital projects in 14 countries across Africa, Asia, the Middle East, and Latin America, including Gaza, Ukraine, Democratic Republic of Congo and Yemen.
War Child UK is driven by a single goal – ensuring a safe future for every child affected by war.
Because no child should be part of war. Ever.
https://store.steampowered.com/sale/armistice2024
Find out more about War Child here -
https://www.warchild.org.uk/our-work
Marble World Sale
Marble World and the Winter DLC are both 60% off for a whole week. The highest discount it has seen so far!
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1491340/Marble_World/
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2223290/Marble_World_Winter_Pack/
Patch 1.1.5 (The Dungeon Update)
Today brings a major update with lots of new content for you all to play with. Introducing a new dungeon set, static camera positions, shapes, paints, effects and more!
Static Camera Positions
Highly requested, you can now set up camera positions and automatically or manually move to or between them! You can do so manually by holding your alternative key (usually control) and pressing 0 to 9 on either the top row of numbers on your keyboard or numpad. You can also click on the list manually.
Even better, there's a new logic block that accepts a pulse, and will move the camera to a given position when done so!
The Dungeon Set
No need for lots of words, it's all about creating your own spooky dungeons. Contains various new props, spinners, a marble deleter, various physics doors and swinging axes, and to top it off some new effects!
Patch 1.1.5
- Added a new hanger type of physics object
- Added a new 4 pronged spinner
- Added a halfpipe shape shape
- Added a quarter pipe shape
- Added a half sphere bowl shape
- Added a circle shape
- Added half of a circle shape
- Added a logic block that emits a pulse when the finishline is crossed for the first time. (By the winner)
- Added a logic block that when given a pulse, moves the camera to a predefined position.
- Added a new animated sand paint
- Added a new colour picker paint
- Added 7 new normal paints
- Added a small burning fire effect
- Added a bubbling magma effect
- Added a rock spewing effect
- Added a molten rock spewing effect
- Added a new Bomber type, the Magma Bomber
- Added 30+ new sounds to the note block
- Added 80+ new dungeon items. (Some spinners, some with physics doors, go check them out!)
- Added the ability to set up various camera positions and automatically move the view to those points.
- Added a toggle to show invisible triggers. (such as those on boosters, portals etc.)
- Added a lock feature to Grouping, any objects in a locked group cannot be selected.
- Added the Discord integration
- Fixed a crash regarding deleting portals whilst they were teleporting marbles.
- Fixed an issue where the game wouldn't load more than 50 subscribed worlds.
- Drag select now selects all objects after releasing the mouse button.
- The properties panel now has position, rotation and scale colour coded.
- Working with tracks now shows the height of those tracks on various points.
As always: thank you all for your continuous support!
- Rinke
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1491340/Marble_World/
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2223290/Marble_World_Winter_Pack/
War Child UK Armistice Sale
Marble World and the Winter Pack DLC will be taking part in the War Child UK Armistice Sale!
Between 8-15th November, I'll donate a portion of every sale of Marble World and the Winter Pack DLC to War Child UK. Make sure to grab your discounted copy, gift one to a friend or let them know about the sale.
This year’s Armistice Sale is celebrating peaceful play and highlighting the importance of protecting, educating, and standing up for the rights of children living in war zones. War Child work in the hardest to reach places to support those who are hardest hit, to protect, educate and stand up for the rights of children, when they need them most.
By purchasing a game or DLC during the sale we can help to fund their projects in Ukraine, Afghanistan, Democratic Republic of Congo, Central African Republic, Iraq, and Yemen.
War Child will never give up on children affected by conflict.
Find out more about War Child here -
https://www.warchild.org.uk/our-work
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1491340/Marble_World/
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2223290/Marble_World_Winter_Pack/
Patch 1.1.4
Today brings a new patch, introducing signs, bugfixes and more miniblocks!
More Miniblocks!
As requested, 9 new blocks are added to spice up your favorite miniblock contraptions! Leaning in on the double lane variants and a special converter piece which can be used to go from a single wide track to the miniblock. (or the other way around)
Signs
Also a highly requested item. Now you have access to 3 sign objects (in Decorations -> Props) where you can type text, change it's color and size. Scaling the object scales the text with it, so you can make gigantic signs and tiny post-it notes! Useful for needing to remind yourself what to do. You can also turn them into prefabs of course and paint the signs themselves.
Patch 1.1.4
- Added 9 new miniblocks with double lane functionality.
- Added a special miniblock for transitioning to single wide tracks.
- Added 3 signs, you can type whatever you want on them and set the text size & color.
- Added a toggle for the camera following the newly build freeform track. (in Gameplay Settings)
- Placing a prefab now automatically adds a new group of the placed prefab.
- Subscribed workshop worlds now display the workshop title in the 'Load World' panel, this is to prevent confusion with the workshop item title being different to the actual world name.
- Fixed an issue where the camera wouldn't move to the newly build freeform track when the game was paused.
- Fixed an issue where I forgot to add spawn buttons to the miniblock spawner.
- Fixed an issue where 2 miniblocks had their images swapped.
- Fixed an issue where the race timer text and lapcount would be invisible if it became too large.
- Fixed an issue where marbles who spawned inside a portal would teleport to the wrong location.
- Fixed an issue on the garden map where the greenhouse door had an inaccurate hitbox.
Other news
As you might have seen I'm mostly working on the new game. However this does not mean Marble World will never get updates again. Marble World still responsible for my income, so there's no way I'll be dropping it anytime soon.
Thank you all for your continuous support!
- Rinke
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1491340/Marble_World/
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2223290/Marble_World_Winter_Pack/
Ravenous Horde Steam Page Launch
So today I launched the Steam page for a new game I have been working on for the past months. Now I'm going to be real, there's not that much overlap between Marble World and the new game, however if you find it interesting you would do me a great favour if you wishlisted the game :)
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2179490/Ravenous_Horde/
I've been wanting to make this game for a really long time, and thanks to you I can work on this. Without you I wouldn't be able to do this fulltime and most likely never have started on this gigantic project.
Thank you, for all your support in any form you have given.
Back to Marble World news: I have been working on an update with bugfixes and some new content! Coming soon :)
SimFest Discount!
In case you haven't seen it yet, Marble World amongst other great sim games are on discount during SimFest! Marble World (base game and the DLC) will be on a 30% discount till the end on July 24th!
https://store.steampowered.com/sale/simfest
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1491340/Marble_World/
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2223290/Marble_World_Winter_Pack/
Patch 1.1.3 (Miniblocks!)
It's been a while, I've been busy with a new game and there have been some positive things happening in life that also needed some attention. (A new house and a dog!)
Nevertheless I have been working on some new Marble World things, and today I'd like to introduce the first part of what I call: Miniblocks. In addition a piston has been added and there are various bugfixes and general improvements!
Patch Notes
- Added various miniblocks that allow for complex & intricate builds.
- Added more attachpoints to existing tubes.
- Added a piston that is controllable with logic.
- Added the last played world name in the continue button on the main menu .
- Added a toggle to always show small objects on screen, even when far away. (this is off by default for performance.)
- Updated the attachpoint snapping code.
- The DLC grace period check is now 30 days.
- The camera now moves when building with freeform, always keeping the newest build track in sight.
- Updated the maximum amount of marble effects from 500 to 1000.
- Darkened the move tool arrows to contrast better against the cube.
- Optimized a check for the 2 booster achievements, not having both achievements unlocked would result in lag when a lot of marbles passed a booster at the same time.
- Fixed an issue where the total amount of marbles logic block would cut off numbers if the number was too big.
- Fixed an issue where moving multiple objects at the same time would not respect the distance between those objects.
Roadmap
Last time I said I'd talk about the 2023 roadmap... well, life got in the way a bit, and the new game as well. I personally didn't feel like talking about it as the new game was dominating my worktime and I wasn't sure how much time I would end up freeing for Marble World. This meant I couldn't promise features to be done within X time so I ended up not mentioning anything to avoid promises I couldn't keep.
So, to compromise: here's the list of features I'd like to add, but I can't tell you when they'll arrive.
- A logic pulse extender
- Showing heights on every freeform point to easily see if tracks are aiming downwards
- Miniblocks update 2 (out of 2)
- Controller support
- Saved camera positions that activate through keypress or logic
And here's the roadmap I try to keep up to date which tells which items are going to be in the next patch:
https://trello.com/b/LU9G4CGR/roadmap
Thank you all for your continuous support!
- Rinke
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1491340/Marble_World/
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2223290/Marble_World_Winter_Pack/
Patch 1.1.2
Small patch today consisting of some changes to the scaling system and introducing some new logic pieces! In addition, a grace period has been added to the game regarding owning the DLC when playing in offline mode.
Patch Notes
- Increased the maximum distance of the mover object
- Added a grace period for the DLC check. Normally the game checks if you legitimately own the DLC by asking the Steam servers. However when not having internet or if you are offline it can't check it and would normally result in the game thinking you don't own the DLC. I've added a 7 day grace period from the last time the game could check if the DLC ownership was valid.
- Added a lap count logic block. This block emits the current lap number when a race is active.
- Added a math's logic block. It can add, subtract, divide or multiply the 2 given numbers.
- Added a total lap number logic block. This block emits the total amount of laps needed to finish when a race is active.
- Added a logic block that emits the current amount of marbles as a number.
- Added a logic block that emits 1 pulse on race end.
- Updated the scaling tool to support better scaling when having multiple objects selected. They now also change position wise as you'd expect it to happen.
- Updated the bomber to have additional settings for explosion radius, explosion force and if the affected marbles should be destroyed.
Next week
In the next week I'll be posting the roadmap for 2023, which will contain all features that will be added to the game (and also the ones that won't make it). Along with reasoning of why and a small bit of looking back to 2022!
Thank you all for your continuous support!
- Rinke
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1491340/Marble_World/
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2223290/Marble_World_Winter_Pack/
Patch 1.1.1 (Christmas Update)
Small update just before Christmas starts (here at least). Fixing 2 important bugs and adding some small Christmas decorations since I had some extra time left.
Patch Notes
- Fixed a bug where loading the game with the DLC purchased could remove all DLC skins/effects from custom marbles
- Fixed a bug where I forgot to add the ability to switch environments in worlds to the Winterland environment
- Added 5 Christmas stockings
- Added 4 Christmas candles
- Added 3 mistletoe ornaments
Thank you all for your continuous support! Enjoy the holidays and stay safe :)
- Rinke
(p.s. starting January, both the base game and DLC will start to go into discounts simultaneously)
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1491340/Marble_World/
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2223290/Marble_World_Winter_Pack/