I,Marble a finished game for mobile devices

iichiversii

Hey everyone, sorry for my absence over the past few months, i taught i would share what i have being working on for quite some time. As most of ye already know i wanted to use sketchup to develop a game for mobile devices, over time iv learnt how to optimise and make assets created in SU for game development, using Unitys game engine we have finally released a game and its free on windows phones for now, not available on IOS or Android devices yet but we are working on it, infact we have working demos, i created a facebook page showing off the development of the design process and yes all assets were created in SU. heres a link to the Facebook page

https://www.facebook.com/OctagongamesIMarble?ref_type=bookmark

So what is the game all about?
I,Marble captures the game-play experiences of retro games like marble madness from the 80s but bringing in a new graphical style. Navigate your lost marble trough hidden worlds using portals, navigate your marble through 18 challenging levels in three different worlds.

We are Octagon Games. An independent development 4 man team formed to create games for IOS, Android, WP8 and various other platforms, I,Marble was originally an experiment that was only meant to be developed as a get to know each other team project, Josh Blazer (Programmer, Unity game dev), Andrew Brown (Programmer, Unity game dev), Jamie Lewis (sound engineer, sfx) and myself Damien Meade (Art designer, 3d modeller), this is our game I,Marble.

I,Marble.jpg

Also here are some development images showing how i developed the assets using sketchup, (These images are rendered)
STAGES OF DESIGN.JPG
BEFORE + AFTER.JPG
For windows phone there had to be 3 live tile designs created for users to customise how they prefered the app to appear on screen, here are the 3 tile designs, again these were created in SU and a render to create each asset as clip art for the tiles.
LIVE TILE ART.JPG
Here follows examples of the 3 worlds created in SU for the game, each word consists of 6 challenging levels. The longest process for me in developing these assets was creating the textures, as you can see the modelling was of simple design but hours went into the texturing... HOURS

Jungle Jam

Lava World

Future Frenzy

For more images on the development from prototype to what it is now please follow this link

https://www.facebook.com/OctagongamesIMarble/photos_stream

And now for a little gameplay, let me explain how it works, the player only needs to tilt the mobile device in the direction he/she wishes the marble to go, From 1 portal at the start to another at the end, that simple, but it gets more challenging as each level is unlocked, but there is a catch, you have only 2 mins to complete each level (Timer counting down at the top), there are 10 coins in each level and you will need 5 coins to unlock the next level, there are also timers to collect, each timer adds 5secs to the count down time, in some cases it is essential to collect timers, other timers will cost you time to collect so choose wisely
Oh almost forgot, there are obstacles along the way
I guess its really not that simple
Anyways check out this vid for gameplay.

http://youtu.be/ynDWxxuJNNw

And finally if you like what you see as our gift to the community, I, Marble is going free to play here for the foreseeable future (really, truly free!) if you haven't had a chance to pick it up on Windows Phone, now would be a great chance. All we ask in return is to take a minute to leave feedback and/or a rating on the game in the Windows Phone Store…

Thanks to all on the sketchucation forums for your help and I hope you enjoy the game

LINK TO DOWNLOAD
http://www.windowsphone.com/en-us/store/app/i-marble/e1420d37-e858-4656-af4f-36db666593c2

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pilou

Astonished!
Bleu ball can't fall in the lava?

iichiversii

Just 1 of many obstacles to overcome

ken28875

Awesome, loving it. Congrats, iichiversii.

Best,

_KN

pugz1983

Nice work Ichi and friends! Very Impressive! Looks like a game I would download when browsing games in the Store. Keep up the good work.

Greetz Twan

JQL

A remake of Marble Madness? I alwasy thought why there wouldn't be one for mobile... excellent, if I hadn't thrown away my own phone I'd play that for sure!

iichiversii

@ken28875 said:

Awesome, loving it. Congrats, iichiversii.

Best,

_KN

Thanks Ken, that makes 2 of us now with released games using SU as the main modelling app

@pugz1983 said:

Nice work Ichi and friends! Very Impressive! Looks like a game I would download when browsing games in the Store. Keep up the good work.

Greetz Twan

Thanks also Twan, hoping to get the game released sometime in september for IOS and Android with more features for even better gameplay

@jql said:

A remake of Marble Madness? I alwasy thought why there wouldn't be one for mobile... excellent, if I hadn't thrown away my own phone I'd play that for sure!

Again thanks for your kind words, the entire team were huge fans of the original Marble Madness by Atari, we were inspired to make a new version of the game, there has been many remakes but none with the isometric gameplay of the original which we set out to do when creating I,Marble

And not to worry about throwing your phone away, we will be releasing on all mobile platforms in the near future

Ill submit another gameplay video later this evening, please dont forget to download it, rate it and leave a review, and more importantly enjoy the game

Rich O Brien

I wish you the best of success with this. Well done.

Some SketchUp output would be nice to see also.

iichiversii

@rich o brien said:

I wish you the best of success with this. Well done.

Some SketchUp output would be nice to see also.

Thanks Rich, yeah i will update a few screens here later of the models in SU for the level design

Lz

Fantastic work.

iichiversii

@lz said:

Fantastic work.

Thanks Lz,

iichiversii

Here follows some images of level design done in SU prior for use in Unity

I,Marble level design_1.jpg
I,Marble level design_2.jpg
I,Marble level design_3.jpg

iichiversii

http://youtu.be/FmQSPf_0fo8

Marian

So it's finally out. Great job mate.
I suggest that in the next one you should use a pair of blue balls. )

iichiversii

Thanks Marion lol, a pair of balls, u had me there ha ha

olishea

nice work. looks addictive!!

jiminy-billy-bob

Would love to see this on Windows!

iichiversii

@olishea said:

nice work. looks addictive!!

Addictive is exactly what it is, i designed the levels with Meatboy in mind, it starts off easy and the level of skill increases as each level goes on, you will find yourself repeating a level over and over to pass it, every level is passable tho, i made sure of it, i have clocked up countless hrs play testing it.

@jiminy-billy-bob said:

Would love to see this on Windows!

We do have a demo working on windows but its not perfected yet, we are testing the best control scheme for gameplay, once its ready for launch i will post it here.

Thanks everyone for the feedback, if you own a windows phone and live in the US you will notice for 2 days starting from the 1st of July I,Marble will be featured on the main app store

notareal

Looking nice, just installing it.

iichiversii

@notareal said:

Looking nice, just installing it.

Awesome, please let me know what you think, hope you enjoy the game