A little spoiler The winner is the one who destroys the opponent's core "first".

Red: Yeah that's gunna be a quick one, look at all this damage and explosion and- Cyan: *R E P A I R*

Cyan: Don't even try. It's game over. Red: *Hanging on there for about 7 minutes*

These "marble races" are basically an art form more than a game to me at this point. It's just so nice to watch. On another note, I'm frankly baffled at how these things work, and how you learned to make them. I've looked into algodoo scripting before and the resources available seem so few and scattered. I was able to make some basic things but there are mechanics you're doing here that I can't conceive of a way to accomplish them. As a hobbyist programmer, I would *love* to see some behind the scenes videos for these. Maybe make a poll and see how many people are interested, to gauge whether it's worth your time? I would be happy if it's only a video every month or so with a compilation of various things you've worked on and figured out. I also understand if you don't want to reveal all your secrets and have a ton of knockoff channels, but I'm a big proponent of sharing knowledge, as that lends itself to more innovation :D

The key point is this game is Seek 5, at what point most of the bullets can slowly come back up to hit.

This one is cool. You can guess what the other color would grt based on the other one. Red was getting more offensive colors, because of this cyan mostly got mostly non offensive, which is why cyan's heal got higher so quickly. But nevertheless it wasn't enough to defend against red.

Let's analyze this setup a bit. Your defensive capability is determined by N of Barrels and Repair while your offensive capabilities is determined by N of Barrels, Damage, Explosion and Seek. There are two stats that increase your defensive capabilities and four that increases you offensive capabilities. Now, it's not as simple as the offensive capabilities increasing with the power of 4, but your offensive capabilities will increase faster than your defensive as the battle goes on. This means that eventually, the cannons will break trough each other's defenses. In general, MIKAN battles are set up this way. Cyan was in lead early on to almost the end since it had better defensive setup and defense beats offense until much later. However, red had more offense and eventually the importance of offense overtakes the importance of defense and as such, red got the lead near the end. However, even closer to the end cyan suddenly got a significant lead in N of Barrels and that stat is the most powerful as it affects both offense and defense. The battle got fairly even then and a double kill ensued with cyan being destroyed first.

Red really went "if I can't win, im taking you down with me"

Could we have a few more trees in the future?

Seek seemed to backfire pretty badly. The ones on good, arcing trajectories pushed themselves really far down because they saw they were 'too high' compared to the core, and then badly undershot it by the end of the flight.

wow an additional things call "combo", that looks like an intense game!! great work mikan! also wow the winner make me shock.....

I think it would be cool in this to have a defensive winning condition Like being able to expand your walls so far that it could potentially reach the enemy's core and destroy it this way, like in territory war

I kinda like how there was an almost natural differentiation in strategy as time went on and unintentionally made this somewhat of an "attacker vs defender" situation. Teal got a very good defense going on early that almost completely countered red's abundance of damage/explosive stats. In the end though, The one that destroyed the opponent's core first won.

This just became one of my favorite “races.” I don’t know quite how much it was, but great job on the coding that went into this!

Cyan: "You just don't give up, do ya, kid?" Red: "I could do this all day." On a more serious note, as an aspie, these videos are oddly satisfying to watch. Not only for the gambling purposes (I root for Rainbow every time), but because I can't explain why they are the way they are. Congrats, MIKAN, whoever you are.

I am rooting for cyan! And.. I was not happy, but not disappointed either...

core destruction is even advanced more and more!👍👍

The time limit for each step of combo is 10 seconds,lose it and you restart.

Spoilers When your team is winning in a Mikan video: “Something’s wrong, I can feel it”

Yo that ending is FIRE

Cyan is like Risotto Nero here: "I was winning" "I won't die alone"

spoiler alert: technically a draw since both sides died, but technically a red win comeback-ish since red had its shield very low most of the match, while cyan had a almost max shield, and red still managed to destroy cyan's core first.

cyan had the lead the entire match but what a clutch last second win from red, once again showing why they’re one of the all time greats here

I like how blue killed red with their last breath, respect with the mighty bullets

Red: Yeah I'm going to win this with all this damage and explosion and- Cyan: Time for R E P A I R

i love how he timed the music with the first shot

Its cool that the booster/shooter came out in the middle

I wonder how many effort MIKAN puts in his videos. I found only 7: 1. Looking for idea At comments/thinking about it yourself 2. Making that idea into the algodoo. 3. looking for scripts tutorial (if MIKAN doean't know how to do the part of the idea) 4. modelling. 5. Testing if it works. 6. Putting it into the video. 7. Montaging it. Hope MIKAN Will like that comment, because that's all i found of MIKAN's effort into every video.

I love your videos Mikan ♥️ So incredible race my favorite marble is Magenta 👾

The Idea of status accumulation is amazing, absolutely love the repair-attack. If you gonna ever repeat that, i reccomend adding an status for chance of each bullet take fire on the opponent.

If seek 5 wasn't mandatory to end it, Blue would have won 5 minutes earlier into the vid. Blue wins in my heart.

Moral of this video: never resign even if you’re down in material

This video really felt like Blue, the impenetrable fortress against red, the unstoppable force. I really thought one was going to win but then, the other got super lucky, but I mean, that's how most marble races end. Keep up the good work, your vids are awesome!

Cyan's insane repair build got me convinced that Cyan could block anything easily and outlast for the win, because of Red's low repair stat. But Red's offense build was able to easily one shot through Cyan's defenses as Red was able to at least get a high enough repair level to last until the offense power was high enough.

Can't wait for 500K subscribers!!!

Cyan was too much damage control, but red was full on attack!

This is so cool. It explain exactly why great defend is good offend.

Red won before dying in seconds... *Moment of silence for red* 😞🔴

And that, children, is why "full defense build" doesn't always work in multiplayer !

SPOILERS: Cyan: We are defender Red: We are destroyer **After match ended** Cyan: I guess I lost Red: Me too Cyan: **What?!?**

Cyan: I'm gonna win Red: but what if,.. you don't

Cyan:The Healer Red:The Shooter Alive:Nope,Both Ded🗿

dang that was a close match! really love the idea MIKAN, having the cores build up their defenses as they attack each other.

Cyan:"Ez win" Red" Hold my 8 explosion"

The definition of offence vs defence.

Cyan be like: hahaha this gonna be easy Red: **C O M E B A C K**

Man when I saw Blue's thick defense I thought Red was gonna lose

Cyan: More brick health repair, less explosive damage effect. Red: Less brick health repair, more explosive damage effect. Pick your poison!

Mutually assured destruction. Red created a glass cannon, didn't it? LOL

Cyan: I'm strong and best! Red: Are you sure about that? Both dies

10:17 Holy crap red was so low, I was sure it was going to die at the drop! Red seemed to focus on getting early combos and powering its weapons, beating blue in everything except healing. Because of this, red did really well with damage but was constantly kept low, however, they were able to take out blue and all its amazing healing in one fell swoop only a few seconds later! ...And then to die a few seconds later itself? xD

I wonder if M&R, weapons over time, stat increases and the best leaders of the cores, towers, battleships, trees and zombie slayers and others will unite to defeat the MIKAN worm in an epic anime battle...

Red defeated cyan first. But basically there were no winners...very interesting.

Man, you are as creative as the algorithms you create! Truly, one never knows what will happen in your videos. Seriously, the last minute was intense. Beautiful conclusion to this battle. Core Destruction is my second favorite after Tree Growth/Territory Battles.

Cyan and its 8 barrels: "We were so preoccupied with whether we could, we never stopped to think whether we should."

10:31 red winnnnn👏👏👏👏👏👌👌🤘🤘👍👍✌✌😁😁😀😀😀😃😃😄😄

I just love how cyan said it's repairing time and repaired all over the place

The ultimate battle of offense and defense

You should definitely do a team core destruction

The repair is so strong at the beginning and mid game, as you can see red can't break the strong wall outside cyan. But on late game, when the damage of the bullets become so huge and so does the explosion, the repair shows its weakness. Moreover, the low level of damage and explosion make cyan impossible to win although he only 1 more bullet to the core. But no matter the result is, this is such a good game and red did an insane play against cyan!!!

Mikan best ever creator of marble races 🙂🙃.

That win was ridiculous. The fact they were able to hang on that long while literally having 0 shields for pretty much the entire round and still win is insane

I thought cyan would win but he lost... But these 2D 2 marble battles are AWSOME!!! I love 2 marble battles!

10:32 me: WAIT! WAIT Wait wait wait... how did we lose? red: *_has a 9 in strength_* me: ohhhhh... oh.. ok cyan: *_kills red too_*

[Spoiler] So glad Red came back. Rooting for it

Cyan reminds me a lot of my own playstyle.

This video is so amazing with status. Keep going Mikan

I love the music in these videos, is there anywhere I can find a full playlist of the music you use?

OHHHHHHHH! That was THE MOST INTENSE DUEL YET! (Spoilers!!!!) Never before have I rooted for my color so hard, nor had it SO CLOSE TO DEATH AO MANY TIMES! This realm was a true underdog moment. Oh my goodness! Phew!

I didn't think there could be a "race" to match the epicness of the ammo mixer one, but here it is.

Wow I was so rooting for cyan but this shows that in the end, the best defense is always offense

Red had an insane clutch

This is what I love about your Content. Its 100% RNG yet it keeps you on the edge of your seat

I'd love to run this simulation multiple times to see the different outcomes

Red be: Attac Cyan be: *R* *E* *P* *A* *I* *R*

Another core destruction! Thank you mikan

Holy fuck, Red survived the ordeal through sheer anger and firepower, it was a glass cannon the entire time

This is awesome! I love the randomisation of the different coloured balls being used by both players. Just annoying to see so many shots go under 😅 go go go red!

make another marble core destruction that includes the combos from this video but there is something that you need to change: 1.the ball picker at the bottom must dispense more balls 2.the time of the combo to run out needs to be longer 3.level cap must be higher 4.the elevator needs improvement

I was sure Cyan was going to have this.

Cyan: if i die then you come with me mikan: *The winner is the one who destroys the opponent's core "first".* Cyan: shet

Cyan: Defense is the best offense. I'll just let him wear himself out. Red: Offense is the best defense. I don't need to defend against something if it's not there.

What a move!! this one was definitely hype!

I have no idea how you came up with this amazing idea but wow another great video again Mikan.

I remember 1 and a half years ago when it was marble eliminations and basic castle destructions! Wish there was more of the oldish stuff and 1 video per day stuff... but great job looking forward to the next video

Fantatic as always, Miikan. I am missing the growing tree battles. Those are the best. PLS DO MORE! haha thanks for the amazing content.

Cyan with Little Hole on his Brick walls : *I'm in DANGER* Red barely expose his core : *It's Totally Fine*

Cyan:you are lost already Red:are you sure? *does a comeback*

Cyan developed an overwhelming regeneration build, and red. An overwhelming offence build.. Great match

Red: **focuses on damage to kill blue faster** Blue: THE FUCK YOU WILL

it was like "immovable object" vs "unstoppable force" Cyan had lots of defence, but red had lots of offense

Blue strengths: Repair Blue Weaknesses: Damage Red strengths: Damage Red Weaknesses: Repair

Spoiler Red: I have better Damage AND better Explosion stats! You're done for! Cyan: *laughs in Repair Level 8* Also Cyan at 10:32 : *surprised pikachu face*

This is the coolest core distruction ever seen

One of the best comeback I ever seen *clapping for red*

ive never used aldogoo before, but how long does it take you to work on something like this? not only that but what kind of computer do you run such a smooth animation on?

Cyan: Damn, he won... BUT I'LL TAKE YOU TO THE GRAVE WITH ME.

the end was so tight, amazing

We need more of this

Let's go, red! That was a truly amazing performance!