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| Founded | 2002 |
| Headquarters | Tacoma, WA, United States |
| Key people | Mark Batten |
| Industry | Online/Video Games Developer/Publisher/Distributor |
| Products | Various; see list |
| Website | http://www.redmarblegames.com |
Red Marble Games was started in 2002 by Mark Batten with the intent of porting the best indie games from Windows to the Macintosh. For other uses of this term see Industry (disambiguation An industry (from Latin industrius, "diligent industrious" In Marketing, a product is anything that can be offered to a Market that might satisfy a want or need A website (alternatively web site or Web site, a back-construction from the Proper noun World Wide Web) is a collection of Web pages Indie games are Video games that are created independently of the financial backing of a large Video game publisher. Microsoft Windows is a series of Software Operating systems and Graphical user interfaces produced by Microsoft. Macintosh, commonly nicknamed Mac is a Brand name which covers several lines of Personal computers designed developed and marketed by Apple Inc The Macintosh platform is infamous for its dearth of commercial video games (see Mac gaming), and the indie realm is no different. Mac gaming refers to use of Computer games on Macintosh Home computers In the 1990s Apple computers did not attract the same level of Video Red Marble is primarily concerned with only porting indie titles, although it has started to develop its own titles as well. This approach has given Red Marble an unusually wide variety of quality games considering its size. Red Marble is small enough that it accepts open invitations from developers and the internet community at large about quality games that should be on the Mac.
Games
Red Marble Games seeks out pick-up-and-play games suitable for all ages, especially award-winning games that "deserve" to be made available to a larger audience. These are keyboard- or mouse-controlled 2D games that do not require any more hardware power than a simple eMac could provide. 2D computer graphics is the Computer -based generation of Digital images mdashmostly from two-dimensional models (such as 2D geometric models text and digital The eMac, short for education Mac, was a Macintosh desktop computer made by Apple Inc As of this writing, Red Marble offers 32 Mac and web games for sale across all 2D genres. A genre (ˈʒɑːnrə also /ˈdʒɑːnrə/ from French "kind" or "sort" from Latin: genus (stem gener-) is a loose set
Notable Games
- BreakQuest - A Breakout clone that uses a highly sophisticated physics engine featuring springs, spinning objects, curved surfaces, ball spin, etc. BreakQuest is a Windows Breakout -style game created by Nurium Games, and later ported to Mac OS by Red Marble Games.
- "I just have to say this from the get-go: BreakQuest, from Red Marble Games, is quite possibly the best, most addicting Arkanoid-style ball and paddle game I have ever played. Ever. . " -- Inside Mac Games
- "BreakQuest may be the best Arkanoid game in existence. " -- Game Tunnel (rated BreakQuest one of the top 5 games of the year)
- "BreakQuest is what a shareware game should be: Simple, fast, and fun while bringing something surprising to its genre. " -- MacGamer
- Democracy - A simulation of government and politiking
- "Games such as Democracy are an important step forward in the evolution of education" - Kristofer Poland, Instructor of Political Science, Ohio University
- Simulation Game of The Year; Top Ten Games of the Year - Game Tunnel
- Kudos - A life-sim game
- "This game stands out in depth and design. Democracy is a Computer game that was first developed by Positech Games in 2005 with a sequel released in December 2007 Kudos is a video game developed by British-based Positech Games (the makers of Democracy) There is so much to discover in the game, and much more even I haven't done yet" - gamevortex. com
- Most Innovative Casual Game 2006 award, Yahoo! Games
- The Witch's Yarn - If indie games are about Something Different, then this interactive story certainly qualifies. See also Interactive fiction for other forms Interactive storytelling is a developing kind of computer entertainment
- Nominated for the Innovation In Game Design award at the 2006 Independent Games Festival
- Original developer interviewed by Gamasutra here. The Independent Games Festival ( IGF) is an annual festival at the Game Developers Conference, the largest annual gathering of the indie video game industry Gamasutra is a Web site founded in 1997 for Video game developers It is owned and operated by CMP Media, and acts as the online sister publication to the
- FizzBall - Breakout meets Katamari Damacy, with farm animals
- Independent Games Festival Finalist 2007 (out of a field of 141 games)
- Arkanoid Game of the Year (2006) -- Game Tunnel
- Professor Fizzwizzle - A platformer-puzzle game featuring a scientist and his insane robots
- Independent Games Festival Grand Prize Finalist 2006 (out of a field of 118 games)
- Casual Game of the Year (2005) -- Game Tunnel
- Aargon - Colored lasers bend, split, refract, and recombine in an eye-pleasingly sparse puzzle game. FizzBall is a cross-platform Computer game in which the player bounces an object called a "FizzBall" around the screen is a third-person puzzle-action Video game that is published and developed by Namco for the PlayStation 2 Video game console. The Independent Games Festival ( IGF) is an annual festival at the Game Developers Conference, the largest annual gathering of the indie video game industry Platform game, or platformer, is a video game genre characterized by jumping to and from suspended platforms or over obstacles Puzzle video games are a genre of Video games that emphasize Puzzle solving The Independent Games Festival ( IGF) is an annual festival at the Game Developers Conference, the largest annual gathering of the indie video game industry Aargon is a puzzle computer game from Twilight Games in which the player must solve puzzles by reflecting refracting splitting and joining
- ". . . it's a perfect game for those of us who have always been more into the "thinking" side of the gaming world. I'm hooked on Aargon Deluxe; I can't stop playing it. " -- Lockergnome
- "Designing a Rube Goldberg machine was a compelling concept for a game when Dynamix introduced The Incredible Machine in 1993. These were mostly physical puzzles. Other recent games like Fallout Tactics are puzzle-oriented but rely mostly on line of sight and probability. Or take Hitman which relies on violence and stealth to solve its puzzles. Aargon is a nice, peaceful, mathematically elegant game. It has the potential to root you to your computer for hours at a time, and is enjoyable to play by oneself or with others. " -- X-Treme Gaming Radio
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