Brightside Entertainment Releases Marble Arena

October 29, 2007

Brightside Entertainment Releases
Marble Arena

Independent game developers,
Brightside Entertainment have announced the release of a new family friendly,
single player and multiplayer game for PC and Mac, called Marble Arena.

Independent game developers
Brightside Entertainment have announced the release of a new family friendly,
single player and multiplayer game for PC and Mac, called “Marble Arena”.

The goal of the game is to control
your marble in order to get close to bright and colorful stars placed around the
level and then let your zapper do the talking. The more stars you zap, the more
points you get. Each level has a certain amount of points you need to get in
order to complete it. The more points you gather the bigger you grow, and the
harder you are to be pushed around by physics contraptions that you’ll encounter
such as jumppads, air vents and vortexes. The downside to this is that your own
weight will slow your jumping down, making some places unreachable after growing
too much.

You’ll have to navigate through a
total of 44 levels, ranging from really easy to really hard, up and down
slippery slopes, mastering the laws of physics. You’ll fight your way through AI
controlled marbles and send them flying into each other and towards their doom.
Make them collide with each other to increase their energy and then convert that
energy into points by making them explode.

To complete levels you must master
rolling around various types of surfaces such as ice, glass, water, sand and
tarmac. Each surface makes your marble act differently, and while some surfaces
you’ll like and want to travel on, others you’ll want to avoid as much as
possible. Powerups you’ll find along the levels will improve your stats for a
limited period of time while special materials will change your marble into
something totally different altogether.

If you can prove you have what it
takes and finish a level before a certain time limit you will be rewarded with
upgrade points which you can then use to improve your marble. Using these you’ll
be able to customize your maximum speed, jump force, overall grip and the size
of your marble at any point in the game. You will also be able to buy other
skins from the wide selection the game has to offer.

The game offers a built-in editor,
that will allow you to easily create your own custom levels. You’ll be able to
design the course of your dreams, make it quite difficult if you want, and then
dare your friends to complete it if they have what it takes. You can also post
them on the official website and share them with the world. Plenty of help and
tutorials await those interested in this aspect of the game.

Show everybody how good you are at
this by posting your scores and stats directly from the game and compete for the
first 25 positions that are featured on the on-line hall of fame.

The multiplayer mode allows you to
play with your friends on each and every single map in the game, even custom
ones that you created or downloaded from the website. In multiplayer games the
goal is to win as many rounds as possible. To win a round you have to gather a
certain amount of points, the same way you do in single player mode. The more
you gather, the more you grow and the more of a menace you are to your
competitors because you’ll be able to push them a lot harder than they’ll be
able to push you. To spice up the game, you can add a virtually unlimited number
of AI controlled marbles which can make for a very intense game even with few
human players.

Click here to download the demo of
Marble
Arena

For more information, discussions,
screenshots, got to Marble Arena official website :
http://www.Marble-Arena.com