Marble Maze: Descent

Overall★★★★★★★★★★3.25
Fun★★★★★★★★★★3.30
Innovation★★★★★★★★★★2.86
Theme★★★★★★★★★★2.70
Humor★★★★★★★★★★2.19
Mood★★★★★★★★★★3.00
In Marble Maze, you will be tilting the playing board in order to get the player marble to roll around the map and eventually get to the goal.

Control the board with either the Arrow keys, or W,S,A,D.

Be careful of the numerous obstacles, objects and pitfalls that might get in your way.

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Genres: puzzle

Comments14

Dylan Morrow27 Apr 2021, 01:52
Awesome! Great work on keeping the ball visible when behind walls! Music and graphics were really cute! Well done! Oh and the difficulty was a great incline!
Kirby
Kirby27 Apr 2021, 02:28
Great game. L
I liked gameplay very much. So gl and my congratulations
Helen27 Apr 2021, 02:31
Interesting idea to interpret the theme. I liked the controls and enjoyed playing your game. Seems to be complete with menu, settings, music and multiple levels. Although the music stopped after the first level :)
NuclearChair
NuclearChair27 Apr 2021, 02:31
some of the mechanics were fun and interesting.
nephronhunter27 Apr 2021, 04:14
I liked that the first round taught me to take it slow and make small movements, a lessons needed after the first level.
Macibacsi5627 Apr 2021, 17:05
It was a little confusing that you couldn’t see the ball behind the wall, but it was a great game. God job :)
Ahmed Hamdi
Ahmed Hamdi28 Apr 2021, 00:52
Great game! It was a really creative entry for the Ludum Dare 48 game jam. Keep it up!
LDJam user 236256
LDJam user 23625628 Apr 2021, 10:59
I've played a lot of games with this mechanic and i love them so I'm glad someone made an ld game using this. Just a heads up on a bug that I encountered, if I click next level after completing then it just repeats the same level, but if I click nothing it'll just launch the next level.
asdehielo28 Apr 2021, 11:14
I love games like this so I enjoyed it from beginning to end. I found a few bugs tho:
- The next level button always returns you to level 1 for some reason
- The music doesn't loop
- In level 3, the zoom on the hole rotates the camera, but the tilting directions don't change, which makes it a bit confusing

And I also have some suggestions:
- Rotate the camera so it becomes completely top-down view. That way, tilting forward won't block the view.
- The quit button after completing a level shouldn't shut down the game but return you to the menu.

Nice game!
Drew Long
Drew Long28 Apr 2021, 11:24
I enjoy it, but I've caught a bug after the third level: The First Level Loop Bug :smile:
mpetrus30 Apr 2021, 01:19
Nice game
LDJam user 240168
LDJam user 2401681 May 2021, 06:42
Interesting game! Mechanics are nice, levels are well-crafted. The "next level" button doesn't work - always moves you to the 1st level. The camera is really awkward at times: sometimes it is too far from the ball so you can hardly see what's happening; sometimes the ball is e.g. at the right edge of the map, and if you tilt to move, the place where the ball was rotates significantly, which distract you from concentrating on the ball; sometimes the camera rotates 90 degrees around the vertical axes with the tilt directions staying the same, which further confuses the player; sometimes parts of the level cannot be seen because another thing is in front of them. Overall, I'd say the camera really needs some work; apart from that, fun game, good job!
h.m.murdock5 May 2021, 19:47
Nice and simple game, made me think of my childhood when you had to put a small ball in a hole using balance
The zoom before putting the ball in the hole is a bit too much at some times
good graphics and funny sounds on bouncing
GregoryBlomquist13 May 2021, 04:32
Nice and enjoyable mechanics and a nice soundtrack (too bad it cuts out quite early). The branching solution in puzzle 3 was a nice touch but the camera shift really adds an unnecessary complication to finishing it. I also experienced the loop back to level 1, but I enjoyed what I saw!
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