For writers, streamers and the curious
Everything on this page is free to reproduce, including the artwork. If you need something that isn’t here, email and you’ll get an answer from a real person — there is only the one, so it may take a day.
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An isometric marble roller that keeps derailing into other games.
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Marble Magnificence is a 90-second marble roller for iPhone and Apple TV in the Marble Madness lineage — except it isn’t mean, you can spin the whole world with your other thumb, and every so often the level stops being a marble game. A ramp becomes a bowling lane. A corridor flattens into a side-scroller. A gargoyle challenges you to a turn-based duel. Same marble, different rules. Falling off costs a second and a half and is usually the funniest thing that happens to you all run.
The technical angle
Built in native Swift with SceneKit and a hand-written sphere solver running at a fixed 120 Hz — no Unity, no engine licence. The game core is a Swift package with zero Apple-framework dependencies, so it unit-tests in under a second without a simulator and the renderer stays swappable. Levels are data on a one-unit grid rather than hand-placed scenes, which makes them diffable in git.
Free to reproduce, with or without credit. Credit is nicer.
Screenshots of the actual build land here once M0 has been tuned on a real phone. Asking for them is a good way to hurry that along.