Remember the mid-1980s Atari game from the video arcades named Marble Madness? It gave players unbelievable fun, controlling the progress of a marble up, down, and around perilous paths. Each of the 12 levels is filled with time boosters and extra lives to help when gamers inevitably drop the ball. For example, the paper ball is highly maneuverable and can be rolled over fans to float, but it is too light to affect seesaws or move obstacles, whereas the stone ball obliterates obstacles but cannot ascend steep slopes. As the material changes from wood to paper to stone players must adapt to the ball's new mass and rolling abilities. Players compete against a clock, but gravity and inertia also come in to play as each level contains transformers that change the ball's physical properties. The goal is to reach the end of each level without falling off the course. An action puzzle game, somewhat in the vein in Marble Madness, Ballance requires gamers to guide a ball through the nebulous sky along metal tracks, wooden roads, concrete paths, and over and around mechanical obstacles. When exploring the world of this game and its rules, the view into endless depths gives the player a continuous thrill.Atari and Cyparade invite players to get the ball rolling in Ballance. They often refer to the physical transformation of the ball. These puzzles count on an intuitive grasping of the level architecture and the principles of simple mechanics. While the skill component is omnipresent - everything finally depends on steering the ball - the element of intelligence reveals itself in the form of "physical puzzles". Picking up various Extra Scores may provide the player with additional "time scores" or even an "extra life".īallance is a combination of a puzzle and a game of skill. The faster a player gets through a level the more scores will be granted. For changing the material of the ball, the player has to steer the ball onto one of the transforming fields (transformers) that can be found at various places in the levels.īallance is played against the time. The material can be changed from wood to stone or paper. The special feature of the ball is that the player can change its material, and thus its physical properties.
There are 12 increasingly challenging levels, each one bringing with it ever more complex puzzles and mechanisms to overcome.
Steer a ball through a surreal cloud world full of puzzling mechanisms, over metal rails, wooden bridges and more. and i thought i should upload it for others to play.įight against the force of gravity! Face dizzying heights and plummeting depths. I was cleaning up my pc to format and i just found this game around somewhere.
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