Marble Blasted [Chapter 4 Ready]

Before I start, I couldn't think of anywhere else to post this. The mods can move it somewhere more appropriate.

Marble Blasted was a project that has been on my mind for over five years now. It started out like any other Marble Blast Gold mod, scrapped or otherwise, with a bunch of reused MBG textures and below average custom ones. The project fell through sometime later, and I haven't thought of reviving it for a long time. Then PlatinumQuest's development build was released in early 2021, and it eventually gave me an opportunity to build a mod level pack hybrid from it, in an offshoot GitHub branch named BMdev1. This new iteration of Marble Blasted plans to have 5 chapters, each with 12 levels, most of them being recreations of custom levels I made over the years, giving them a fresh coat of paint and removing what didn't work in them.

Here's the fork repository if you know how to install them: github.com/BlastedMarble/Marble-Blasted/tree/BMdev1

And here's the current version of the game with four out of five chapters, ten hunt levels, and three sumo levels:
Marble Blasted Chapter 4

Update: Second test build primarily for Chapter 1 released. See link in the first post.

Update: Chapters 1 and 2 are ready for testing. A build has not been made accordingly as it might take a while. So you might have to download from the repository. See the first post.

Sorry for double post, but the build is now up. Link in the first post.

Chapters 1, 2, and a hunt level are now ready for more testing and feedback. Go to the first post to download build 0.4.

Chapter 3 is released and ready for testing. No survey this time as the last one didn't get as much reach as I'd hoped it would.

Hello, forum users. In the interest of consumer input, I have opened a survey for what you would like to see in a potential multiplayer mode for this project. Answer honestly.

Link to survey: forms.gle/2WSorQQGqRBd9ReZ8

Hello Blasted, I've taken the survey and have some additional questions and clarifications.

Would you (or someone) mind explaining to those of us who don't know what Hide and "Seek", Prop Hunt, Race, Steal, and Tag were in PQ? I had never heard of them before. I could therefore only choose from options I had heard of for that question.

I also said in the survey that there shouldn't be accounts for this game. If you could set it up in a way so that we could link our marbleblast.com accounts to it, that would be preferable to having completely separate accounts. Maybe Marble Blasted could even be an option in the PQ launcher?

I'll also just copy here my response to the question about additional multiplayer modes in PQ, since I want everybody to see it.

An entire mode where everything is like Arctic Inferno and you're a huge mega marble destroying ice shards on various different maps.

It would also be fun to incorporate fireballs into the Winterfest maps, and maybe have something where you start the round with each player having a 300-second fireball, and being hit by a snowball decreases the time by five seconds, or ten if it's a mega snowball. Then when someone's fireball runs out, they freeze as if by an ice shard, and whoever is left standing at the end wins.

Oh and I suppose Capture the Flag could be interesting too.

Prop Hunt is where you disguise yourself as, seemingly, an object from the game and try to avoid being detected by other players.

Race is exactly as it sounds: Race against other players to see who can finish the level the fastest.

Hide and "Seek" is where you hide in the recesses of a level, or search and tag others to achieve victory.

Steal is where you blast others to steal their points.

Tag where where you tag others by blasting them, with the players with the least amount of points being the winner.

The stuff regarding the accounts is something beyond my expertise. Perhaps I can get Randomity to help, provided he's not busy with other things. The launcher option is a good idea though.

The Arctic Inferno-styled mode is great idea too. I just need to find the equivalent of ice shards for the marble to destroy. Maybe crates?

Thanks for explaining all the modes. I still stand by those I chose during the survey.

For the Arctic Inferno mode, that question was originally about additional multiplayer modes in PQ, so ice shards and fireballs would be available. But are you thinking about Marble Blasted instead? Crates could be fun. There could also be an Arctic Inferno-style gem hunt mode, where the ice shards spawn in various locations like gems, rather than just gem madness. But this thread is for Marble Blasted suggestions specifically, so I'll raise the same suggestion but call them crates instead.

The survey is about Marble Blasted's multiplayer mode specifically. But I'll still take your suggestions into account.

Chapter 4 is released and ready for feedback. Of course, you can post any issues or ask any questions in this forum topic at your leisure.

I tried this mod for the first time, playing through all four chapters and a few of the multiplayer levels. You clearly have a knack for level design, and the challenges only get better as you progress through the game. The aesthetics of the mod are also pretty cool. Just wanted to say nice work and I hope you stick with it!

Curious, is this based on PQ 2.10?

No. It uses the "old" engine. I plan on upgrading it to the new engine by the time the final chapter is released. But I need assistance from Randomity and Terry if I'm gonna do it correctly.