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Marble Blast

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Re: Marble Blast

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Post by vanilagy »

LanceH wrote: post #27

Cool. I have have a least one of my custom maps on there. It was my son's favorite game when he was 3-5, so I started making maps that couldn't be failed, working my way up to some tricky things. At one point I made a birthday cake map and my wife decorated a cake to look like it. Ring pops for the gems, and an upside down reese's peanut butter cups decorated with icing for the start/finish pads. Of note, putting ici…

Yo, that's awesome and incredibly sweet. There's actually a centralized repository nowadays with all custom levels for the game, here: https://marbleland.vaniverse.io/

Pretty sure you can find your levels on here.

Re: Marble Blast

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Post by LanceH »

vanilagy wrote: post #31
LanceH wrote: post #27

Cool. I have have a least one of my custom maps on there. It was my son's favorite game when he was 3-5, so I started making maps that couldn't be failed, working my way up to some tricky things. At one point I made a birthday cake map and my wife decorated a cake to look like it. Ring pops for the gems, and an upside down reese's peanut butter cups decorated with icing for the start/finish pads. Of note, putting ici…

Yo, that's awesome and incredibly sweet. There's actually a centralized repository nowadays with all custom levels for the game, here: https://marbleland.vaniverse.io/ Pretty sure you can find your levels on here.

I still have the levels, though I shudder at the thought of opening quark to edit them :)

Incidentally the cake only existed for about 2 minutes while we got a photo of it, then it was cut up and devoured by ravenous 4 year olds.

It was a fun little community making maps for the game.

Re: Marble Blast

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Post by n8cpdx »

darthcircuit wrote: post #4

If you want a more dedicated game that can be downloaded, check out https://marbleblastultra.com/ I believe this is a reverse engineered port based on the Xbox 360 version. I play it on my steamdeck once in a while. I like having native controller support now that I’m getting older.

This is fantastic. I fell in love with Marble Blast Ultra on Xbox 360 and sunk many hours into it.

Fun fact: if you still have a physical Xbox 360 and previously purchased the game, you can still download it and play it.

Of course I might not have gone through the trouble if I knew about these ports, but at least I got a new hobby out of it.

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