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Hey everyone,
Our Labor Day Weekend Madness Event has come to a close. We are pleased to announce that 44 of our users managed to make it online and join us during the five hour event, and we hope everyone had a glorious (and extremely laggy) time with us today. We will be doing more of these events in the future (and I plan to hold some of these events personally roughly once every two weeks), so if you missed out on some excitement, do not worry!
For those of you who were online today during the Event, you should notice some shiny new Website Achievements attached to your user profile page! Go check them out!
Here's a quick recap of what happened today for those that missed it:
A 13-Player round of my custom mission, Meltdown
17 Players attempting to play the Multiplayer Beginner Level, Bowl
A 13-Player Rated Teams Match of the Beginner Multiplayer Level, King of the Marble
A 14-Player non-rated round of the Beginner Multiplayer Level, King of the Marble
A 12-Player round of the Beginner Multiplayer level, King of the Marble where everyone scored over 100 (except me)
I had a great time, and I look forward to hosting the next event with you folks! Cheers!
~Aayrl
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Hey folks,
This weekend for many of us located in the US is the annual celebration of Labor Day, and in honor of your hard work and dedication in Marble Blast, we'd like to host a little Multiplayer Madness event. Join us on the Marble Blast Platinum Online Leaderboards between 3:00 PM UTC and 8:00 PM UTC on August 30th, 2014 (Note the UTC Time zone : Converter here) to earn yourselves a special website achievement, as well as a couple of rounds of Rated Multiplayer Mayhem. I will be running some custom levels from community members as well as loading up some of those fabled PQ ones as well.
Our goal is to have at least 20 players in a single Multiplayer session. We'd like to see if the server can handle a massive amount of stress, and we'd also love to play against 19 other players on King of the Marble (you do too, right?).
So, mark your calendars, free up your weekend and join us for an hour or two for the most chaotic multiplayer scrimmage of all Marble Blast history. We hope to see you there!
~Aayrl
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Thanks to the launcher we have been able to push out updates more frequently. Better said, we pushed out two patches already to RC1 totalling over 50 different fixes and adding a few things. If you haven't done so yet, run the launcher and let it update your game. Biggest change is you can play on Windows XP/8/8.1 and Mac OS X 10.7/8. No support for 10.6.8 or below (Thanks Obama Apple) and no Linux support -- yet! We will do an update in the future to our Linux users.
On a more related note I should update the front page images and stuff. Probably later this week when I'm less busy/lazy and feel more like PQing the server.
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Go get it people.
On a more serious note, this build has been in the works for the last four and a half months and contains many many improvements and changes over Beta 3. This build is for Windows and Mac only, no Linux support. It contains changes in the engine-level which allow us to fix some serious bugs and crashes as well as enable moving platforms and cross-platforms (Win/Mac) on Multiplayer. Additional security has been implemented to further stop exploits from happening. In addition to these major changes, MBP 1.50 RC1 includes over 50 new items and over 100 fixes.
A few additions and fixes include:
- 490 total SinglePlayer levels (100 MBG, 120 MBP, 60 MBU, 210 Customs) and 35+ Multiplayer levels
- Added back challenges and made way more changes to Super Challenges
- Over 100 achievements
- New replay system (in-game)
- Over 80 different marble skins
- Better Multiplayer Leaderboards
- Lots of options in the options menu
- Not exactly addition or fix but removed 24 easter eggs from MBP levels
The Marble Blast Platinum User Interface (UI) has had an almost complete makeover, save for a few UIs which were fine as-is. The new interface looks and runs better and has many tooltips to help people out. While there is no Manual at this point, it may be added before final release.
MBP 1.50 RC1 is also the first to provide a launcher. This launcher will check your game files against the server. If all is fine, it will launch MBP and you can play normally. Otherwise it will automatically download and install any new patches, meaning you get fixes pushed out to you as they happen. The launcher can also launch MBP in offline mode (no server checking) in case you have no internet connection. In this case, MBP will disable its online mode altogether, thus limiting you to Single-Player offline.
Credits to: HiGuy, Matan and Jeff (Platinum Team devs), amd42 (engine master), Phil (1.20 Dev, 1.50 - some achievement icons/UI), MadMarioSkills (Skies), Seizure22 (PQ codes), Whirligig (radar, name tags), Aayrl (Launcher dev, custom levels hype-ist), RDs.Empire (Ultra Blast & Mega Marble shapes), Lonestar (MP textures), CyberFox (shapes), Buzzmusic (Comforting Mystery & Challenge music), and the community (finding so many bugs and requesting a lot of cool things.)
We hope you will enjoy Marble Blast Platinum, the new and improved Marble Blast experience.
- The Platinum Team
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I think this image can say much more than anything else. But I’ll still explain. First, feast your eyes:
So what do we see?
1) Marbleland. A PQ level. In MBP.
2) Nametags, now you can tell even better who’s who
3) Radar now has a third mode, which now has the gem icons on the gems themselves, so you can see their location underground and behind other objects.
4) Not really well shown, but improvements to the movement system were made so it's so much smoother.
5) Moving Platforms. Now 100% working even with two or more players. That’s an engine fix, by the way.
And talking about engine fixes…
6) Jeff and I are playing on Windows. HiGuy plays on Mac. I’ll let you do the 1+1 here.
Credits to amd42, Whirligig, HiGuy, Jeff and IsraeliRD
- The Platinum Team