Marble Blaster v. 1.0 for Windows Release Notes
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Contents
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Overview
Registration
Controls
About GarageGames
About the Torque Game Engine
Troubleshooting

Overview
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Roll your marble through a rich cartoon landscape of moving 
platforms and dangerous hazards.  Along the way find power ups 
to increase your speed, jumping ability or flight power, and 
use them to collect the hidden gems and race to the finish for 
the fastest time.

Controls
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All controls can be changed in the Options screen.

Roll Marble Forward - W
Roll Marble Backward - S
Roll Marble Left - A
Roll Marble Right - D

Jump - Space Bar
Use PowerUp - Left Mouse Button

Change Camera direction - Move Mouse - or

Look Up - Up Arrow
Look Down - Down Arrow
Turn Left - Left Arrow
Turn Right - Right Arrow

Free-Look Camera - Right Mouse Button

You can turn free look on by default from the 
Options->Controls->Mouse screen.

About GarageGames
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GarageGames is a unique Internet publishing label for 
independent games and gamemakers.  Our mission is to provide 
the independent developer with tools, knowledge, co-conspirators - 
whatever is needed to unleash the creative spirit and get great 
innovative independent games to market.  Check back often at the
www.garagegames.com site for great independent games at reasonable
prices.

About the Torque Game Engine
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The Torque Game Engine (TGE) is a full featured AAA title 
engine with the latest in scripting, geometry, particle effects, 
animation and texturing, as well as award winning multi-player 
networking code.  For $100 per programmer, you get the source to 
the engine that powers Marble Blaster, Orbz, Sierra's Tribes 2, 
and many other titles currently in development.

Problems and Questions
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Listed below are some common questions and troubleshooting issues,
as well as possible solutions or workarounds:

Problem: The game brings up a dialog saying it can't find a 
compatible display device.

Solution: Make sure the drivers for you graphics card are up to
date.  Marble Blaster requires an OpenGL or D3D compatible graphics accelerator.

Problem: I turned on stencil shadows, and my frame rate is
terrible!

Solution: Make sure your desktop bit depth is set to 32 bits.
If your frame rate problems persist, turn off stencil shadows.

Problem: I get clicks and pops in the sounds when the marble is 
rolling around.

Solution: Some on-board sound processors have problems with 
Marble Blaster.  Try updating your audio drivers or get a new 
sound card.

Problem: I have a really big/wide monitor and Marble Blaster doesn't
let me access all the different resolution settings of my monitor!!!

Solution: You can manually set your fullscreen resolution from the
in-game console.  Press the tilde key (~) to access the console, and
then type: 
listResolutions();
This should display a list of all the resolutions your monitor and
video card support.  You can then set the resolution manually with
the setResolution() command like:
setResolution(1600, 1200, 32);
Pressing the ~ again will cause the console to go away.

Problem: I've beaten all yer simplistic marble levels, and I want
some real challenges!

Solution: Well, you can either download other people's user created
levels (check the Marble Blaster forums) or you can create your own
rockin' levels.

Problem: Uh, how do I make my own levels?

Solution: First, check out the Marble Blaster level editing forum at
http://www.garagegames.com/index.php?sec=mg&mod=forums&page=result.forum&qf=84 .
That should get you pointed in the right direction.

Problem: Your easy listening music is cramping my marble style...
how do I play my own rockin' tunes in this game?

Solution: Marble Blaster looks for files with the .ogg extension
in subdirectories of the "Program Files/MarbleBlast/marble" directory.
To play your own tunes, just drop any ogg/vorbis encoded file (.ogg)
into the "Program Files/MarbleBlast/marble" directory.  If you want
to get rid of the music that ships with the game, remove the .ogg 
files from the "Program Files/MarbleBlast/marble/data/sound" directory.

Problem: I can get into the menus, but it crashes when I try to
load a level!

Solution:  Doh!  Try changing your graphics driver in the options
screen, turn shadows on or off, and see if that makes any
difference.  If not, see below.

Problem: I have some other problem other than the ones above.

Solution: Check the Marble Blaster support forum at 
http://www.garagegames.com/marbleblast/




