G5 iMac To Come With Marble Blaster Gold

Ophelea writes "Anyone who knows Jay Moore of Tribes fame may know about his great company Garage Games. Today it was announced that Marble Blaster Gold, one of their best games was bundled on the iMac G5. Woot! Go Go Garage Games!"

Comments

Err... wrong person?

[dalabrat]

Umm.... that would be Jeff Tunnell of Dynamix / Tribes fame. Jay Moore never worked for Dynamix, nor had anything to do with Tribes. But he along with the other guys at GarageGames are all great people.

Re:Err... wrong person?

[venicebeach]

Actually, I think he did.

This is from an interview with Jay Moore.

Jay Moore - Marketing Director for GarageGames Jay's wildly diverse background includes serving as Marketing Director for a computer magazine publishing company, Sales and Marketing Director for a K-12 educational software distributor, and President of a small advertising design firm. Jay started his gaming career with "The Even More Incredible Machine!" when he took the game into the classroom. Jay worked to bring all the Sierra educational games into the educational channel. Then worked with Dynamix in 1997 to successfully launch category-creator "Driver's Education." Jay joined GarageGames in July of this year. He has a BS is Biblical Studies and lives in Eugene, Oregon.

Re:Err... wrong person?

[GarageGamer]

Well ok... I lived in Eugene, would work out of the Dynamix office (although I never had a desk), I actually was employed by Sierra Online in Bellevue (recently closed), but always as a 'hired gun' my work for other clients at my design firm kept me from signing any 'you own my every thought and idea' employment contract.

i belive the title of the game is actully ...

[rhino_badlands]

i belive the title of the game is actully ... "Marble Blast GOLD", not marble blaster gold.

but who cares still cool, and those iMacs look nice

iMac G5 only has an FX5200

[Anonymous Coward]

Oh man, there are going to be a LOT of sorry people who waited for this. All that wait for the G5 imac and then it's crippled with a pitiful fx5200 video card? Did they actually think that would work? Might as well come with an ati rage 128.

Quite a few errata in this post...

[alexandyr]

The title of the game is Marble Blast Gold, not Marble Blaster. Jay Moore is a GarageGame employee and head of marketing, but the company is run by Jeff Tunnell, former head of Dynamix, as noted by alabrat above. The game WAS at one point released under the title Marble Blaster in its windows-only retail boxed version by eGames, whose marketing department thought the "er" made it more appealing or somesuch. More info on this story and Marble Blast for Xbox available here.

Re:Cool!

[Anonymous Coward]

I threw together a quick list of Mac games. Not that you care, I know you just went for the quick and cheap "funny" karma points by repeating one of the oldest jokes on Slashdot. But there are games, enough to keep a causal gamer like me happy.

Coming soon:

Doom 3
Homeworld 2
Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic

Notable titles released over the past year or so:

Republic
James Bond 007: NightFire
Battlefield 1942: Deluxe Edition
America's Army: Special Forces 2.1
Black Hawk Down
The Sims: Makin' Magic
TRON 2.0
XIII
Medal of Honor: Breakthrough
Call of Duty
LOTR: The Return of the King
Dark Horizons: Lore
No Limits Roller Coaster Simulation
Command & Conquer: Generals
Unreal Tournament
Nanosaur 2: Hatchling
Northland Strategy & War
Law & Order: Dead on the Money
Star Wars Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy
Rainbow Six 3: Raven Shield
Baldur's Gate II: Throne of Bhaal
Shadowbane: The Rise of Chaos Adventure
Halo: Combat Evolved
Ghost Master
Age of Mythology
No One Lives Forever 2
WarCraft III: The Frozen Throne
Shadowbane
Warrior Kings
Neverwinter Nights

Re:Cool!

[Dot.Com.CEO]

There are invitation-only torrent sites (that are well know but whose existance I shall not spell out, use google) that have about 50 new torrents A DAY for the mac. That's about as many PC apps come out at suprnova per day. Not bad.

The purchase price thing is a joke. A Mac is worth 200-300USD more of your paycheck. It really is a superior machine.

Well, for what it's worth

[TomorrowPlusX]

...sidestepping the snarky threads about the number of Mac games and so on...

Anyway, I want to say Marble Blast GOLD is a really, *really* fun game. It's original, it's nicely done, and it's based on the Torque engine which is something I've considered buying the developer license for. When you buy it, for 99 dollars, you get FULL source code.

I'm developing behavioral AI for robotics and my self-taught, home-brewed opengl is pretty crufty. While I could use an open source system like Ogre, there's appeal to using a proven API, even if it's not "free".

Well, really, what I want to say is give the Marble Blast GOLD demo a try. It's a kick in the pants.

looks fun!

[theMerovingian]

I'll be downloading this when I escape from work this evening!

Those games look nice, I'm looking forward to checking out your stuff.

For the wanabee civil engineers ...

[Midnight Thunder]

Another game that makes use of Torque and has recently been ported to the Mac is Bridge Construction Set from Chronic Logic. They have only just recently started porting their, Torque based, games to the Mac and Linux.

Torque, from Garage Games is great for anyone wanting to start getting into game development, since it is relatively affordable. There is a demo of what the engine can do on the web site.