What terror have we wrought
Last year in the thick of the pandemic (yeah right, as if we’re not still in it) with sports on hiatus around the world, the most magical thing available to watch arrived in the form of Jelle’s Marble Runs. The videos of marbles rolling down tracks and “offroad” had been building pop culture relevance for a niche group of us for years, before getting dropped onto ESPN as filler material until major sports came back. They were a surprising hit, prompting people around the world to take notice — including video game companies, apparently.
Big Head Games has grabbed the IP and is converting it into a series of games over the next two years, kicking off with the just-announced Marble League 2021. Arriving in October on Steam, the game will be a sort of olympics of randomizer marble physics, complete with teams and individual statistics for “marble athletes.”
With the IRL marble runs relying on absolutely random bumps and bounces, it’ll be interesting to figure out how players will actually engage within the digital sphere. Will they control the balls? That would go against the point, wouldn’t it? Or will it be more like the classic Marble Madness games in which players tipped the world?
We’ll find out in October, and then throughout 2022 as more iterations of the brand, including “Marble Rally” and “Marbula 1” arrive on platforms.
MARBULA ONE.
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