Eugene, OR (PRWEB) May 10, 2005
GarageGames today announced that Marble Blast is accessible for download on Xbox® Live Arcade (XBLA), a new social expertise that brings well-liked retro classics and broad appeal games directly to your Xbox® video game program over the Xbox Live service.
In Marble Blast, a quickly-paced arcade-style action game, players race against time as they navigate marbles through moving platforms and harmful hazards, collecting treasure along the way.
For the Xbox version, GarageGames has cranked up the cartoon look to the max drenching the visually rich landscape by totally exploiting bump mapping, specular lighting and stencil shadows. Optimized to work on the Xbox controller there are nine challenging new levels, 12 craftily hidden Easter eggs, along with Xbox Live Arcade leader board high scores that take full advantage of the all new scoring system with ever elusive gold times.
ÂGetting to leverage the graphics capabilities of Xbox lets us demonstrate some of the power of Torque on a console, says Pat Wilson, GarageGames Lead Programmer on XBLA Marble Blast. ÂTorque is an very solid platform to develop on, so we could focus on fine-tuning the fun of Marble Blast on Xbox Live Arcade.Â
ÂPlayers searching for a quick action hit are absolutely going to uncover it with this next-gen marble racing game, and they can quickly download it directly on Xbox Live Arcade, says Jay Moore, Evangelist for GarageGames. ÂBeginning with ÂLearning to Roll all the way to ÂSchadenfreude, the only level with a difficulty rating of 11, Marble Blast provides a significant challenge to any gamerÂs abilities.Â
The Xbox Live Arcade disc is free ($ 4.99 U.S./$ 7.99 Canadian for shipping and handling.) Microsoft will send the disc to enable your Xbox console to play totally free trials of the games, such as Marble Blast. The full version of Marble Blast is available by download for only $ 19.99. More data about Xbox Live Arcade can be discovered at http://www.xbox.com/livearcade.
About Marble Blast:
Marble Blast is an arcade action game with easy but addictive gameplay, suitable for players of any age. In the rich cartoon landscape of Marble Blast, players will race their marbles through moving platforms, hazardous hazards, sparkling treasures and power up enhancements in an effort to complete every single course in record time. The hazards players will face in Marble Blast contain powerful fans, whirling tornados, land mines, pinball-style bumpers, narrow catwalks, moving pistons, dizzying chasms, and a lot more.
About Xbox Live
Now in its third generation of transforming and uniting Xbox game communities, with far more than 300 games planned by end of holiday 2005 and now with presence in 24 countries worldwide, Xbox Live has set the bar for on the web games entertainment. As the initial global, unified online console games service, Xbox Live continues to take online gameplay and entertainment to unprecedented heights. With a rapidly growing global community, Xbox Live delivers greatest-in-class games, intelligent matchmaking, tournaments, special programming and integration with Xbox.com  there is simply absolutely nothing else like it. The service continues to offer a lot more and more ways for members to meet, interact and stay engaged with each other.
About Torque Game Engine:
The Torque Game Engine is a cross platform commercial high quality AAA game engine with seamless indoor / outdoor rendering engine, state of the art skeletal animation, drag and drop GUI creation and a built-in world editor. TGE also features the latest in scripting, geometry, particle effects, exhaustive documentation and award-winning multiplayer networking code. TGE started life as the technologies behind Dynamix’s Tribes series and is presently becoming utilised by thousands of developers around the world to make innovative games such as Marble Blast, Orbz and ThinkTanks.
About GarageGame:
GarageGames mission is to alter the way games are made and played. GarageGames supplies the technology, community and market to empower game makers to develop commercial quality multiplatform games. Identified for bringing the Torque Game Engine to independent developers for $ 100, GarageGames is located in Eugene, Oregon and on the internet at www.garagegames.com and is the annual presenter of IndieGamesCon (Oct. 7-9, 2005).
©2005 GarageGames.com, Inc. Marble Blast, Torque and Torque Game Engine are the trademarks of GarageGames.com Inc. The names of actual organizations and goods mentioned herein may possibly be the trademarks of their respective owners. Microsoft, Xbox, Xbox Live, the Live Logo, and the Xbox logos are registered trademarks or trademarks of Microsoft Corp.
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