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A sequel to Marballs, now with verticality, orbs and jump pads!
Controls:
Roll around with the arrow keys, jump with Z and use X to pause and restart.
Use the pause menu (ESC or enter) to return to the main menu.
To swap to 45° controls choose "swap controls" in the pause menu.
Create and share your own levels using the custom cart!


pretty awesome :-) where's my joystick?


Top shelf, man, top shelf. Did you do the music too?
I haven't inspected any code yet but there are a ton of things I'd love to learn from this cart...or have snippeted out, even - like the intro "drawing" of the title. Is that some magic or just drawing lines from coordinate to coordinate?
And now I really need to find my old NES Max controller :)


Very nice game, dude! I thought Marballs was pretty good, but this is even better!


This is incredible! The music is awesome.. the gameplay is so frustratingly addictive.. Custom levels.. whaaaat? Like others have said, I hope to learn a lot by dissecting this.


wow great game! the music was really well done, and the controls+collision feels just right. Your attention to detail is amazing, like that intro is so good it gives me shivers, haha


This is just superb - so slick and playable! Congratulations!


Thanks for nice comments everyone :)
@johnesco Good idea! You can change this in the pause menu now.
@morningtoast Yep the musics all me! Here's the logo thing clipped out:



This is great work! Thanks for sharing!


I want to test the level editor, but I cannot run the custom cartridge with pico8 0.1.11 nor 0.1.12c. Loading works (2683 chars) but on RUN:
Syntax error line 11 (tab 0) creator_name = ??? unexpected symbol near `?` |
Also, I had to download it and put it in my pico8/carts folder, as it was not present on the BBS like the actual game.


Really cool! How'd you make the pixelate effect? ... (as if PICO isn't pixelated already--) how'd you make it pixelate... more?


@Blessmyday I saved the png of the cartridge at the bottom with "custom" written on it (then got the issues mentioned in my previous post).
But I've just realized I may have to fill the "???" in the creator_name, that's all!
UPDATE: ok, so to actually make it work:
- Create a copy of the png cart in case you want to start anew
- Open the custom png cart with pico8 (drag and drop to PICO-8 if your OS support it, else run "pico8 marballs_2_custom.p8.png" (not "pico8 -run" the first time, it would fail on the "???" mentioned above)
- In the source code editor, read the comments. In particular, you need to set your author and custom cartridge name, as well as fill some level data (replace the "???").
- Edit the cartridge data following the instructions
- Save and run!
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