Marble Blast Powered Up [REALLY^4 RELEASED]

The soundtrack is now available! Check the first post.

Pro Marbler wrote: Also, judging by how quickly Angular Limbo overflows the console logger when tracing, I'd recommend occasionally quitting and restarting the game when playing that level. Just the sheer amount of function calls might be too much for some to handle. Also avoid touching the orange stick without a platform (as shown above). Touching it will cause game-fatal memory corruption within a second, and crash.

That is exactly what caused the crash for me. Luckily I'm not making the same mistake twice.

I tried out the rest of the game, it's good stuff, though I'm not pro at this game so I lost interest in a lot of the new advanced levels very quickly, which are notably a LOT harder in comparison to the typical advanced levels bunched in there as well, which is pretty unbalanced in my opinion. And although I do like the concept of a points system to buy unlockables, the amount of points you collect after beating levels are too small. It would take ages to be able to save up enough points to get some of the more expensive prizes. If you could earn more points after beating a level (or make the prizes a little less expensive) I think it would be more worthwhile to save up.

On the positive side though: Favorite level outside the sandbox has got to be the apartment level, which while simple to play, is very impressively designed. I also noticed the TV and actually managed to figure out the key to that musical code level in the Sandbox. THAT is a clever use of hints if I ever did see it. Well done. Once again I also enjoy a lot of the new gimmicks added here; the double power-up makes the normal power-ups a lot more enjoyable to exploit in certain situations, and as I said before I enjoyed a good number of the concepts in the sandbox levels, which I would love to see more of in the form of new levels to add-on to in the future.

Overall, the new content here is great, but I think it would have made a stronger impression if all of the levels were new instead of taking the Platinum route and re-using all the MBG levels. I can't say I have much interest in replaying those levels, even if there's new challenges to try out with them. But the new stuff is very cool, and I hope to see more levels built around the concepts you came up with.

I believe that harder-difficulty levels should give you a bit more points for your efforts. As to how balanced gameplay is, well, it depends on your skill. I'll have to spend more time and see.

The increased cost of skill points are supposed to encourage those who are active and dedicated players to be more promptly rewarded, while those who don't persist can still obtain something for their efforts after a period of time, but not until a certain amount of cumulative effort has been made. In other words, you have to work to be rewarded.

I would love to see cool mod/level concepts made around these ideas as well. Whirligig put quite a bit of sophistication into this "mod", and I do admire many of them and some just continue to inspire me!

PQ ON A STICK.

I can understand fully that you want to work hard at earning those points you save up, but when you're earning around 50 to 85 points per level and a lot of the prizes cost 5000+ to unlock, it does get pretty jarring.

Especially if you like to tinker with the graphics and font scripts within the application contents like me and wonder why you have -2000 points when you start the game back up, but that's another issue.

Whirli, can you please modify the OSX and Linux launchers so that they pass -nohomedir to the game executable? This prevents the game from storing .dso files in your home directory or Library folder. Otherwise this can cause vanilla MBG to break MBPU and vice-versa. It would solve the problem that Craftnime is having.

Derpking wrote: Whirli, can you please modify the OSX and Linux launchers so that they pass -nohomedir to the game executable? This prevents the game from storing .dso files in your home directory or Library folder. Otherwise this can cause vanilla MBG to break MBPU and vice-versa. It would solve the problem that Craftnime is having.

Unless you downloaded the Mac build within several hours of release, it already uses -nohomedir. The Linux build will be recompiled when I have time (this weekend, if that). In the meantime, the source code for the launcher is at src/unix/MarbleBlastHelper/MarbleBlastHelper.cpp, so anyone with Linux and g++ should be able to modify the code. (Well, let me fix that: anyone with Linux, g++, and experience coding C++.)

whirligig wrote: Unless you downloaded the Mac build within several hours of release, it already uses -nohomedir.

Ah, I wasn't aware of that. I just looked at the source code that came with the Windows version of the game and didn't see it in there so I assumed you never thought to include it. I told Craftnime to upgrade to the latest version.

Derpking wrote: Ah, I wasn't aware of that. I just looked at the source code that came with the Windows version of the game and didn't see it in there so I assumed you never thought to include it. I told Craftnime to upgrade to the latest version.

Yeah, I never updated those source folders in the other builds. Another thing to do when I have time.

Lol I couldn't beat Slendernado because it was too scary and I couldn't find all of the gems... THAT JUMPSCARE SCARED ME.

Also I saw what you did on the Friendly Flat level lol. "Infinite" stairs, the TV display and the Troll Door.

Also the Underwater level, when you come in contact with the fishes .

I LOVED Super Marble Galaxy. That concept is awesome.
Also, if you can't figure out the musical code, just play Friendly Flat
Also, I tried making a custom level for MBPU. The file saved and was loaded when I went to play the game again, but I was unable to find the file in the MBPU directory.
EDIT: Never mind, I found the file. It was saved in the %AppData%\VirtualStore\ section instead of just in Program FIles.

One thing to improve, since all MBG fixes does not have to be done in MBP, all of those fixes that were present in MBP 1.14 should have been made in the next version.

More people should make custom levels for this mod. While some features might be hard to use, others (like the planet) can be used quite easily. Additionally, the new power-ups and effects can be used very effectively (especially the doubler).
By the way, I am trying to make another level based off of the planet concept, as that kind of level is incredibly fun. However, if I want to use anything resembling a sphere, I will need to figure out how to use map splitter.

Where's the file for Marbucks?

Technostar wrote: However, if I want to use anything resembling a sphere, I will need to figure out how to use map splitter.

I just used a DTS. That entire level is one big DTS.

Rozi the Derp wrote: Where's the file for Marbucks?

What do you mean?

• The count is in prefs.cs. If you really want to cheat, open the console and use the changeMoney function to give yourself Marbucks.
• The image files for the icon are in marble/client/ui.
• Most of the code for it is in marble/client/scripts/currency.cs.

Thank you for that.

UPDATE: So, work is progressing on the first few Power Packs. Thus, there will be a stream Saturday evening at 7:00 PM EDT to showcase some of the cool stuff you can look forward to seeing! I can guarantee you'll find some of it really cool, so check it out. More info will be posted later.

7:00 PM EDT

You might as well have typed that in chinese, we need a rule here that says everytime you mention a time, it should be written in GMT+/- x amount of hours

7:00 PM UTC-400

That work?

works fine

REMINDER: MBPU is live on Twitch today at 7 PM EDT!

Be sure to check it out: www.twitch.tv/whirligig231

I'll be at grandmas. Make sure to save it.

No way. I'll be at grandma's too. (actually i think its before i go but still save it pls)

Stream should be up on YouTube momentarily!

So, the Power Patch and Power Packs 1-3 are released!

You can get them from the first post in this topic. Be sure to install the Power Patch before adding any Power Packs to the game. The Power Packs can then be added by placing them into marble/data/missions/powerpack. Have fun!

Also, the old download links that used to be in the first post will no longer function, as MBPU 1.5 is now accessible from the downloads page.

Awesome Mod,Whirligig!,i really hope to see more power packs in the future!
Edit:And,btw,how do u add power packs to the game?

It's not explicitly stated in the O.P., so...
Simply copy the three folders (including the folders themselves) to the directory marble/data/missions/powerpack/. Make the directory "powerpack" if it doesn't exist.
Open up the game, and the PPs should appear in the bottom right of the Level Select.

EDIT: No need to make another post saying thanks... that's exactly what the "Thank you" button is for!

Do the power packs work on MBPU 1.0? Since that's what I have on my desktop computer, and I'd much rather use that computer to play it since I did something horribly wrong in the installation on my other computer.

I assume not, since it is supported with the power patch, which is a patch for version 1.5, not 1.0. You would have to redownload the latest version.

they work but they ended up on the customs,but this isnt a bad thing,its just a THING

Power Packs won't work in any version of MBPU that isn't using the Patch. This is because only the Patch tells MBPU to use the init.cs script in the Power Pack's folder to load the gameplay elements specific to that Pack.