Dustbin::Games MarbleGP - Manual

About

Welcome to the World of Marbles. The marbles are a peaceful species. They know no greed, envy or anger. All they care about is to put fun in their lifes. As anywhere else in the universe fun is in the eye of the beholder - some like to unveil the secrets of the universe, some like to discuss the Meaning of Liff, some others like to race.

Marbles as such roll. Long time ago they discovered that this can be used to race against each other. The long history of marble racing has seen many changes. There were marblathons and cross country rolls over short and long distance, they even did the Iron Marble.

Short time ago someone started to put together weird tracks with ramps and such and started to roll. It didn't take long until the fun of this spread all over the World of Marbles.

Dustbin::Games MarbleGP is a free racing game available for Windows and Android. The game is free to play and does not contain any sort of ads. Just have fun playing the game. You can play alone against the AI or against other players in a Network or Splitscreen (Windows only) game.

MarbleGP has four simple rules:

Main Menu

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This is the main menu shown when the game is started. Click or hover the buttons on the screenshot to see where they lead you.

Start a Game

This chapter guides you through the steps of starting a game. It is assumed that a profile has already been created during the first start of the game.

Game Setup

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This is the menu for the general game setup. Not that in the Android version only a single player can be selected whereas the Windows version allows up to eight players for splitscreen. All basic settings for thrilling races can be done here. Click or hover the items of the dialog to get further information.
Click on the "OK" button to proceed to the "Starting Grid" dialog shown in the next chapter

Starting Grid

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This dialog shows the starting grid order for the first race. As you can see the grid is made up of one human player named "Marblus Rundus" in starting position 16, the rest of the players are AI players. The AI players are divided in three classes which can be identified by the icon on the right side of the name field:

MarbleGP IconMarbleGP: This is both the strongest and the most aggressive AI class available. It's not recommended for beginners to race this type of AI as this easily leads to frustration.
Marble2 IconMarble2: The medium AI class. If you have some racing experience it's not hard to beat these marbles.
Marble3 IconMarble3: The slowest computer controlled marbles. It's not hard to win against these as they are neither fast nor aggressive.

Select Track

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In this dialog you can select the track you want to race. You can either use the arrow-buttons on the left and on the right to select the previous or next track, or you can drag the list of tracks, the selected track is inside the black box in the center and it's name is shown above the text with the category names. These categories can also be clicked to jump to the first track of each.

Use the selection box labelled with "Number of Laps" to select how many laps you want to race, and when you're done click on the "OK" button to start the race.

The Race

This section of the manual shows you how to race agains the other marbles.

Loading Screen

Loading Screen

This is the (not very entertaining) "Loading Game" screen which appears for a few seconds before the race is started.

The Countdown

Countdown

After the track has loaded a countdown starts (Ready - 3 - 2 - 1 - Go). The race starts once "Go", now it's up to you to stay on the track and show the other Marbles what you are capable of.