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Marbles2 v1.5
A free lightweight addictive puzzle game for the Palm Pilot |
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01-July 2003 - Download v1.5
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Quick Overview
Marbles is a totally addictive puzzle game for your palm that doesn't eat all your memory! For just a fraction of your precious Palm RAM
you're going to get a great and simple game that you'll find hard to put down.
The only reason why I wrote this port to the Palm was because I love the game so much - you know you want it - it's FREE and COOL!
The aim of the game is to clear all of the blocks on the grid by tapping and removing block 'sets'. If you find clearing the board
too challenging then there is always the high score to try against - my personal best score is level 4 with 5,294 - email me if you do better
and I'll add you to a leader board on this site.
The latest changes to Marbles will bring league games to play against your friends and the ability to replay the games the 'champions' scored their best scores with using a game seed.
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When you get a top score on Marbles, you should email your score to me and I'll add it to the leaderboard. The animation on the left can show you how to do this, as I've found that since we're so used to tapping on the heading for drop down menu, some people forget that the menu is even there! So, get this code, and email to me and compete for that top slot! |
What's New
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How YOU can Help!
22nd June '03: I'm currently trying to add different styles of blocks to Marbles2 and being a programmer, my graphical skills are pretty poor. If
you would like to contribute and help me put some quality blocks in Marbles2 - then you'll have the GREAT(!) honour of being credited on my web site
and palm app - a-n-d ... you'll know that there are many Marbles2 players out there playing away using your designed blocks! I'm looking for any contributers
for the full launch of Marbles2 version 1.5.
The requirements are:
• Black and white, grey (4 colours) and colour (16 - 256)
• Height: 16 pixels
• Width: 16 pixels
• BMP format (though I'm happy to receive originals - png, etc)
• For the black and white, and the grey - the designs should also work when the colours are inverted. This is because when the backlight
comes on the player must be able to see the blocks.
• Send your designs to: MarbleSq-contrib@ihatemusic.com
Scoring system used for Marbles2
- Version 1.5 (01-July 2003)
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Features:
• Feature: Game seeds - the ability to play the high score grids over and over - and compete against the champions by playing the game that got their high score
• Update: Made the timeout on the possible and current score smaller
• Update: Improved the colour blocks to nice and bright :) (though the web image above needed updating)
• Update: Added options for sound, score timeout and double tap to remove blocks optional.
• Feature coming soon: Options box to change block style (can you HELP? See above!)
• Feature coming soon: Ability to download your position in the high score tables online, but also play league games against your friends
- Version 1.4 (08-Jun 2003)
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Features:
• Feature: Game breakdown available for 1 player games and can be checked any time during the game
• Feature: Put a timeout on the possible and current score
• Update: Removed the 'profanity' - on request - sorry :-P
• Update: Fixed the two player score break down bug (it wasn't updating properly)
• Update: Player 2 can not longer move to the next level (whoops!)
• Update: Very rare bug where the game would not finish when there were no sets left
- Version 1.3 (05-Feb 2003)
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Features:
• Feature: Added level based games when you complete the board - this means that the scores are going to rocket!
• Feature: 2 player games on the same Palm with end of game break down
• Update: Put the command bar back ( slash / ) + quick link to undo
• Update: 'Nicer' high score table
• Update: More organised menus
- Version 1.2 (02-Nov 2002)
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Features:
• Feature: Changed the display of the colour balls so that they are clearer
• Feature: Save game state when you leave the game (ie. when you go to another app the game saves)
• Update: Improved score validation
• Fix: Had to remove the popup command menu (only available from Palm OS 3.5)
• Fix: When you enter you name (rather than skip) the game may have caused some problems
• Fix: Serious bug with the undo - please use the newest version of Marbles
- Version 1.0 (12-Oct 2002)
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Features:
• Guaranteed hours of amusement!
• 10x10 grid with coloured blocks
• Full colour support
• Undo feature
• High score leader board
• Only 11K!!! Super small - without loss of quality
Score rule: number of blocks * (5 + number of blocks)
Bonus scores: +150 for 5 remaining blocks or less, +300 for a clear board at the end of the game.
Key: M = number of marbles
M Score 2 14 3 24 4 36 5 50 6 66 7 84 8 104 9 126 10 150 11 176 12 204 13 234 14 266 15 300 16 336 17 374 18 414 19 456 20 500 
M Score 21 546 22 594 23 644 24 696 25 750 26 806 27 864 28 924 29 986 30 1050 31 1116 32 1184 33 1254 34 1326 35 1400 36 1476 37 1554 38 1634 39 1716 40 1800
M Score 41 1886 42 1974 43 2064 44 2156 45 2250 46 2346 47 2444 48 2544 49 2646 50 2750 51 2856 52 2964 53 3074 54 3186 55 3300 56 3416 57 3534 58 3654 59 3776 60 3900
M Score 61 4026 62 4154 63 4284 64 4416 65 4550 66 4686 67 4824 68 4964 69 5106 70 5250 71 5396 72 5544 73 5694 74 5846 75 6000 76 6156 77 6314 78 6474 79 6636 80 6800
M Score 81 6966 82 7134 83 7304 84 7476 85 7650 86 7826 87 8004 88 8184 89 8366 90 8550 91 8736 92 8924 93 9114 94 9306 95 9500 96 9696 97 9894 98 10094 99 10296 100 10500