Space Battle - Marble Race

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In space battle, two space ships must fight each other for survival. The laws of physics are obeyed - if a ship is travelling at great speed, it will continue travelling in that direction until it spends enough time thrusting in the opposite direction.
They have the following weapons in their arsenal:
Railgun - Fires an unguided projectile at high speed, devastating at short to medium range.
Missile - Explosive projectile that homes in at the target continuously until it hits, dealing massive damage.
Point Defense Cannon (PDC) - Short range machine gun that primarily is used to shoot down Missiles, however can be used effectively against other ships in close range.
Movement is guided in relation to the enemy ship. The ship has four modes: slight left/right or hard left/right. The ship faces the enemy ship offset by a small or large amount in the chosen direction, and accelerates forward.
Colours:
Red vs Blue
Which colour will win?
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Patreon: / lostmarbleruns
Credits:
Space ships by MSGDI - assetstore.unity.com/packages...
Explosion and projectile effects by Swift Games - assetstore.unity.com/packages...
Various icons by Kenney - www.kenney.nl
Skyboxes by Dogmatic - assetstore.unity.com/packages...

Пікірлер: 341

@kosakukawajiri5007 Жыл бұрын

6:44 Everybody loved the final barrage of missiles, but nobody mentions this beautiful pentashot from the rail cannon.

@jaideepshekhar4621 Жыл бұрын

I also noticed it! :)

@alexvives1335 11 ай бұрын

That was my favorite shot personally.

@cesare_1302 9 ай бұрын

truely, it felt like a LoGH moment

@GenericSpaceNerd 2 жыл бұрын

that missile rush with the boost at the end was just 👌

@ervinwilneder 2 жыл бұрын

That was awesome!

@CrispySkinwalker 2 жыл бұрын

I like the FTL style, very unique to the "marble" genre, I would love to see this concept go further

@lostmarbles2d 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks! It was obviously heavily influenced by FTL, amazing game.

@bagofnails6692 2 жыл бұрын

@@lostmarbles2d I like it. lots of fun. FTL is an amazing game.

@djdywo812 2 жыл бұрын

I don't know FTL, but I agree 100%. This Video is unique, it's new and I'd like to see more.

@traviscecil3903 2 жыл бұрын

@@lostmarbles2d I think the next obvious place to take this would be fleet battles. Is that possible?

@lostmarbles2d 2 жыл бұрын

@@traviscecil3903 Yes, that's the plan! Development has been on hold for a bit though. Hoping to get back to it soon. The idea is that there will be two fleets, each consisting of different types of ships: large battleship, medium sized missile cruised, smaller sized defense frigate. Possibly also new weapons.

@seanholm8957 2 жыл бұрын

The layout might look like FTL but the battle mechanics are directly inspired by combat in the expanse, which is the most realistic take on space combat out there. There are no shields, so missiles are defeated using point defense cannons, but these can be overpowered by railgun shots.

@aznsolja84 11 ай бұрын

Knew it. No wonder it seems closely familiar to it.

@aaronbredon2948 10 ай бұрын

The Honor Harrington series has an even more realistic take on space battle. There is even a board game battle simulator.

@epcfal 9 ай бұрын

*which might have been the most realistic take on space combat if children of a dead earth didn't exist

@JamesTDG 2 жыл бұрын

Oh man, that was incredible, you DEFINITELY need to turn this into a whole series.

@lostmarbles2d 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks, definitely more coming! FFA, team battles, boss battles, etc

@JamesTDG 2 жыл бұрын

@@lostmarbles2d I'm really excited now

@adrien5568 2 жыл бұрын

The best thing about this is that it's realistic enough for marbles! Honestly, space war will be more like submarine battles with very long shots that can take up from hours to months to reach their target.

@lostmarbles2d 2 жыл бұрын

Exactly! I heavily draw inspiration from The Expanse (TV series). One day I'd love to make a game where you do realistic space warfare at distances on the order of thousands of kilometers, where even the speed of light starts to impact things.

@adrien5568 2 жыл бұрын

@@lostmarbles2d Well actually there's one game like this (and it seriously needs improvements) : Children of Dead Earth

@lostmarbles2d 2 жыл бұрын

@@adrien5568 I was not aware of that game, thanks for mentioning it!

@gavinhobbs6325 2 жыл бұрын

@@lostmarbles2d Have you ever read the Honor Harrington series? Might be a good resource!

@republiccommando6104 2 жыл бұрын

@@lostmarbles2d Be careful though. The lore in CoaDE is grimdark on a level similar to 40k, but more realistic.

@RazgrizKnight Жыл бұрын

this has me legit watching both sides intensely. It really did look like two cruisers duking it out in real time not just a bunch of marbles bounding around. REALLY cool idea! Would love to see this expanded on in larger ships.

@SaraMorgan-ym6ue 8 ай бұрын

what are those ships pin ball machines?

@JohnnyCash101 7 ай бұрын

Im imagining a Star Trek episode where an AI keeps defeating humanity in engagements because its perfectly predicting their attacks so the captain just pulls out a bag of marbles to dictate their attacks

@Interesting_Failure 2 жыл бұрын

holy moly how long did it take you to get this working Only three thoughts: - Would be cool if strikes on a specific part of the ship could affect that part's functionality - This would be interesting as a playable where you only get to control the "piloting" function and everything else (boost, weaponry) is still handled by the marble crew - 4 player version when :v EDIT: In case it wasn't clear this is really good; great idea, well executed, simple mechanics that nonetheless provide good interplay and an especially great job on making it clear in the visuals what's going on.

@lostmarbles2d 2 жыл бұрын

Hmm, according to the date I posted the first WIP on Patreon, about 2 weeks? Seems like it was longer! Thoughts: 1. Planned - wanted to keep the first one simple. 2. I have thought of that, what I had in mind is full player control, and see how long you last against infinite swarms with limited ammunition type of thing. Your idea of partial control sounds much better! I can imagine the frustration when dodging missiles only for your marbles to refuse to hit the PDC. 3. Why limit yourself to 4 when we could have 8, or more?

@Interesting_Failure 2 жыл бұрын

@@lostmarbles2d That makes sense; I kinda suspected it from the damage visuals actually striking a specific side of the ship. Full control would be a different (no less valid!) concept; for me the appeal of making one of these marble games playable is giving the player a small amount of influence and the challenge being how to use that to generate the biggest advantage despite the highly random conditions. Probably because a lot of what appeals to me about these in the first place is the system taking the random inputs and producing the gameplay out of them! It's just not quite the same game unless you, like the CPUs in the video, can get screwed by RNG :v Not to mention it'd introduce a gameplay element of trying to watch for when you/the opponent are firing specific weapons and position accordingly (as opposed to yelling "DAMMIT RED DON'T FLY INTO ALL THOSE MISSILES AGAIN!!!" impotently at the screen). Also I think there'd be a thing of trying to get as close to enemy missiles as you can without hitting them to maximize the chances of the point defense taking them out? Ah, so we're making a battle royale now. Cool, cool. Actually I'm surprised we don't have any 2D shooter games in that genre yet.

@dharveyftw7349 2 жыл бұрын

@@lostmarbles2d why limit yourself with 8 when you can have galactic warfare with 100k on each side?

@HEYJO77 Жыл бұрын

@@lostmarbles2d maybe a 4v4 would be intresting

@hanchen267 Жыл бұрын

bro should totally make a game from this just like how MIKAN did with shuttle crush

@crassirus Жыл бұрын

FTL meets The Expanse meets Star Sector... with marbles!

@SeanMirrsen 2 жыл бұрын

This is very, very cool. And very cool that it works for marbles. Some suggestions for later iterations, if you'd like: - Impacts should create temporary barriers that marbles bounce off of. PDCs make tiny blots that disappear in one bump, missiles make larger blots that disappear in three-ish bumps and get smaller with each, and railguns make medium-sized blots that disappear in two-three bumps and stay constant size. This is imitating 'repairs' done by the 'crew', and would more organically 'disable' certain systems. - Have impacts jolt the ship, changing its orientation slightly and jostling its marble 'crew'. - Possibly try to have the fight work with multiple ships? Would be great to see a classic 'red/blue/green/yellow' war. An extra system at the helm could be responsible for selecting a new target ship, either randomly or by closest distance. Really great to see the 'marble race' genre branch out so much on youtube. :)

@lostmarbles2d 2 жыл бұрын

Awesome ideas, thank you! I am planning to do versions with multiple ships, both FFA as well as team battles. Adding a target selection might make the ships too busy, what I had in mind is to simply go by closest distance. But your idea to have target selection would be more fun I think.

@billul1 Жыл бұрын

This random marble video unironically have better space battle mechanics than a lot of scifi games

@ajdembroski7529 Жыл бұрын

FTL Meets The Expanse. This should be a real game.

@Dark_Slayer3000 Жыл бұрын

Imagine a marble game 1v1 where you could influence one of the marbels, let's say, give it a targeted velocity every 5 seconds. That would make for a spicy player vs AI or PvP marble game. Actually, I've never seen a marble game that's not fully automated before 🤔

@darthutah6649 2 жыл бұрын

That low key looks like what an actual space battle would be like.

@lostmarbles2d 2 жыл бұрын

Glad to hear it, that's what I was aiming for :)

@andrewcore7672 Жыл бұрын

"in a 2d representation"

@burrdid 6 ай бұрын

not from what I've heard, mostly since lasers can hit things for far away so you likely wouldn't see anything. space battle yes, realistic? who knows.

@darthutah6649 6 ай бұрын

@@burrdid That's probably true. But maybe those ships are actually pretty far away.

@burrdid 6 ай бұрын

@@darthutah6649 they dont look that far, I'm guessing not to scale?

@Extramrdo Жыл бұрын

4:54 that brief musical sync, amazing.

@basedeltazero714 2 жыл бұрын

That's... actually just a great system that'd be fun to make into a two player game with actual controls.

@collectiusindefinitus6935 Жыл бұрын

Something to consider is the point defence cannons are a bit op and are only really balanced in this by the fact it’s random whether they’ll fire or not. If a player was operating it it’s unlikely any missiles will land a hit.

@randyrandom78 16 күн бұрын

1:47 the way blue dodged all them missiles: ULTRA INSTINCT!!!!

@Drakuba 11 ай бұрын

looks awesome, wish this was a prototype of modern take on FTL/Shortest trip to Earth type of games

@Trades46 11 ай бұрын

FTL meets Expanse with marbles. Very creative.

@paradox11111111 Жыл бұрын

That final missile barrage could not have been better timed, beautiful!

@darkequation 11 ай бұрын

"Engage Missile Rush!!" "Missile Rush initiated, playing random quote: 'We're making a torpedo run. The outcome is doubtful, but we will do our duty.'" "Hurrah!"

@marcohueber5130 2 жыл бұрын

This really feels like Space Wars, we're only missing the Death Star :D Edit: could it be that one of the good old indestructible Death Stars from the previous videos are going to appear soon? :P

@GothLobster 2 жыл бұрын

This was great-super original and fantastic to watch. I see a lot of commenters have already brought up really cool ideas re:the gameplay, so I'll just say what I was thinking the whole time: I *really* wish the camera zoomed out to show a map of all the carefully-plotted trails as these crazy fellas flew around all over the place.

@lostmarbles2d 2 жыл бұрын

That's a great idea! I had previously thought of a minimap that lets you track all the motion, but it was too busy. Your idea of having it zoom out at the end would work much better, thank you!

@sethm7761 Жыл бұрын

This looks like an incredibly well done game. Kudos. Make it an option so explosions in the ship can take out your marbles effectively reducing your "crew"

@completelybored9228 Жыл бұрын

I mainly focused on watching Blue, and wow some of those dodges were timed so well I almost thought they were intentional - nice job, Blue!

@luska5522 11 ай бұрын

Yknow what? I like "The Expanse" too man, good shit

@Crazyhuskylady 2 ай бұрын

I like how blue instantly destroy red in the end with just 1 bullet 💙😮

@Brzeczyszczykiewicz666 10 ай бұрын

Love it. The best moment is when blue stops, after taking enemy fire and then face the enemy when unleashed barrage of fire. "Alright that's enough! Give them hell boys!!" Amazing. And these charges at red when firing everything they got :)

@BenjiiBee 11 ай бұрын

Music is on point

@chargeo1 2 жыл бұрын

This is by far one of the best marble videos I have ever seen

@lostmarbles2d 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much! I put a lot of work into this one

@kuuluna Жыл бұрын

How space fight in movie and vs how it's gonna be realistically:

@NOGOHIPOO Жыл бұрын

That opening missle Salvo was nuts

@thatrandomdude5899 Жыл бұрын

This would be an awesome game.

@BATTLELABproductions 2 жыл бұрын

Nice concept. Feels like a real dogfight!

@lostmarbles2d 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks! When are you making another of your space ship videos?

@CrysJaL 7 ай бұрын

You could easily turn this into an actual game. Have some degree of modifiability to the ships and also different marbles and marble types with speed, bounce and momentup physics. Design of the ship in term of how you arrange controls in combination with the positioning of marbles would make for a very interesting "ship builder" with rng playing an interesting role in battles.

@KiriMantiss Жыл бұрын

This was a really neat thing to come up in my suggested feed. I see people comparing it to FTL; however it is more similar to Cosmoteer in the usage of point defense and a lack thereof shields, with being able to move actively throughout the fight. Regardless, this was a good watch. Kudos to the originality!

@heroastra8928 2 жыл бұрын

Victory with that glorious final salvo!

@tripplea_3338 2 жыл бұрын

Blue absolutely flexed

@shadowblocks2905 2 жыл бұрын

I like the idea, but I feel like having more or less just a progress bar being shot at doesn't make much fun. It's hard to see what the marbles are doing and a sudden loss of one team is t that nice either. The ships should show the damage, not just explosions and shaking, although that was a nice addition none the less

@lostmarbles2d 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the feedback, I would like to do something like that.

@leovin00 Жыл бұрын

I see someone else really likes FTL and The Expanse

@addisonmartin3200 Жыл бұрын

Blue had some fine pd game

@blu_shift1001 2 жыл бұрын

Ngl, this isn’t actually very amazing Very cool concept

@TheFrankuck99 Жыл бұрын

This seems a good way to represent how real space battles would happen. Add to this g-forces crew could withstand, limited fuel and ammo adding to strategy, maybe increase distance (How much I don't know) and on top of all that make it 3D instead of 2D and yeah, I can see this being how things would go.

@lostmarbles2d Жыл бұрын

I've been wanting to make a game like that at some point (not using marbles). The g-forces would come into play as a limitation on what your crew can handle. Things like ordering crew to go into crash couches before hard acceleration. But I feel like trying to make it too realistic would likely end up being boring due to the massive differences between ship accelerations and projectile speeds, so it would probably be more balanced around making it more fun and less realistic, similar to the balance I did for this one. Another aspect I'd add is some form of "stealth" - the primary way to detect ships would be via heat signatures, and because everything on your ship uses energy which must eventually be radiated out, the more active your ship is the brighter you are, and thus easier you are to see. It would be cool to have a strategy of drifting in space with the engines off until you are close enough to your target, or something like that.

@YoshiBlad3 Жыл бұрын

Gives me serious “The Expanse” vibes with the railguns, ‘torpedoes’ and close range PDC barrages.

@crackheadengineer3716 Жыл бұрын

Why can i see this as an honor duel between two long-lasting rivals

@Rjciralli Жыл бұрын

That last song reminded me of the Star Control franchise, and the fighting style seemed like FTL. Beautiful choices all around

@randomdude8202 Жыл бұрын

FTL needed this kind of battle mechanics

@Dark_Slayer3000 Жыл бұрын

Ayo my guy turned FTL into a marble race! xD That has to be one of the coolest marble games I've seen, well done! :)

@KeithOlson Жыл бұрын

What you have here is 80% of a *VERY* unique idle game. *PLEASE* take it forward; I'd love to play it!

@tylermitchell185 8 ай бұрын

I want to see whole fleets of these bad boys going at it

@jobreau1725 Жыл бұрын

Ok this one was REALLY cool

@ta-uk9dx 2 жыл бұрын

you made a new genre

@tianxiu Жыл бұрын

3:23 Blue ship did a turn-around boost dodging that railgun is just amusing.

@lucasnikunen7571 Жыл бұрын

this needs to be done in the vibes of the Wrath Of Kahn space battle GOD that would be amazing

@fishtimelapse4198 2 жыл бұрын

Interesting game!

@thedeadwookie25 Жыл бұрын

I want this on my computer as a background... like those old windows screensavers

@CentroBBerry Жыл бұрын

Yes the classic: one of the team is losing but becomes the winner

@leonardusrakapradayan2253 Жыл бұрын

That last barrage of missiles from the blue ship was so satisfying, kinda reminds me of one scene in The Expanse.

@Jaydee-wd7wr Жыл бұрын

It’s literally the Roci vs Pella fight and it’s great.

@egurt8144 Жыл бұрын

I came up with almost the same concept of the game. I think I'm not the only one

@NomeDeArte Жыл бұрын

Imaging when the marbels being control by an AI. The new colosseum.

@loklan1 Жыл бұрын

"Who would be insane enough to take on the Donnager in CQB?"

@lostmarbles2d Жыл бұрын

Do you think the roci could beat it if both were controlled by marbles?

@River-0G 2 жыл бұрын

Love the choice of music in these videos! specifically the last one 👍

@lostmarbles2d 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

@adriansorop4199 Жыл бұрын

@@lostmarbles2d what is the name of that last song ?

@GunkleSeven Жыл бұрын

when blue won it looked like a ninja slashing through something

@darthbugge3987 2 жыл бұрын

This has so much potential to be much much more

@neutralflowerland 2 жыл бұрын

last blue missile attack is definition of last strike

@BobfromSydney Жыл бұрын

This kinda feels like two low-tech frigates in StarSector duking it out.

@marcohueber5130 2 жыл бұрын

I forgot to ask... From what I see, PDC do 1 damage/hit, Railgun 8 damage/hit, missiles 32 damage/hit, but what happens if spaceships collide with each other? Mutual destruction?

@lostmarbles2d 2 жыл бұрын

In the current version, nothing. I think mutual destruction would be the right choice.

@aciarduce Жыл бұрын

I want this as a screen saver.

@alamos8 11 ай бұрын

This seems very based upon The Expanse. Cool

@31it3rsplyer Жыл бұрын

Its like watching two blind pilots randomly pressing buttons while locked on a target Xd

@cancerix1700 Жыл бұрын

Feels like combat in the "leviathan wakes" book

@Panopticon83 8 ай бұрын

That missile barrage at the end was a great finisher. And that pentashot from the railgun! awesome.

@memerthedealer Жыл бұрын

1:40 blue really Tokyo drifted from getting hit by most of those missiles

@weebobo955 2 жыл бұрын

Dude great concept not watched yet I'll start now!!

@weebobo955 2 жыл бұрын

Amazing battle so far I think my ships lost tho 😭😂

@trilecolorracing_TLCR 2 жыл бұрын

Alright! Great space game!

@alternate5354 Жыл бұрын

Quintuple railgun at 6:47 is pretty kino

@key7817 Жыл бұрын

Dude you make awsome stuff. Reminds me of the clay soidler mod for Minecraft, build citys and let them fight kind of the same facination. Or like when people make a civ 5 game with only Ai and let them Fight.

@IC3XR Жыл бұрын

AMAZING! Reminds me of The Expanse

@YourBoss_CORP 11 ай бұрын

That ending was absolute AMAZING, i was cheering for blue since the start

@S2468YT 2 жыл бұрын

This gives great Star Wars space battle vibes!

@DoDo-dy2fs 2 жыл бұрын

This is so good! Part 2 please!

@eggnoob1036 Жыл бұрын

I love this type of content

@andrereaves2712 Жыл бұрын

I'm just now seeing this game, and this is amazing.

@sereghost844 9 ай бұрын

Red's railgun crew needs to be FIRED bro they missed everything :skull:

@randomdude8877 8 ай бұрын

That's really cool actually

@DED_MEEM Жыл бұрын

I too tell people I am done tolerating their malarkey with a barrage of seven missiles.

@mattbatcraz 9 ай бұрын

"Missile Barrage, Researched."

@bigmaxporter Жыл бұрын

Looks very inspired by The Expanse :)

@lostmarbles2d Жыл бұрын

It is!

@Failuigi41 Жыл бұрын

Do you think you could integrate the Upgrades idea from Multiply and Release? I think it'd go really nicely here. faster missiles and railgun shots, more potent engine boosts, etc?

@lostmarbles2d Жыл бұрын

Certainly, revisiting this format is on my long list of things to do. I've been meaning to do a boss battle or fleet battle, but maybe doing a simple upgrades version of this would be the first logic step :)

@daredevevil 2 жыл бұрын

Damn, a 5v5 in this would be amazing

@mrmosaic7996 2 жыл бұрын

Wow. Just wow. Makes me wonder what's next. Realistic armies fighting each other?

@lostmarbles2d 2 жыл бұрын

I have something like that planned, eventually. Last year I was working on a game where you place armies and configure their behaviour using settings like min/max distance to enemy/ally, I've been thinking of reworking some of that into a marble game. Either that or start off with a more simple marble-controlled RTS.

@simoncastle836 Жыл бұрын

I want to play this as a multiplayer game that is player controlled

@lostmarbles2d Жыл бұрын

I would love to make it if/when I get the time!

@stephenfontanilla Жыл бұрын

Blue was more manoeuvrable and mobile, which lead them to victory

@siyustuff213 Жыл бұрын

these are getting really creative

@unknown-ug5zd 2 жыл бұрын

Awesome!

@user-mv3cg7hi7g Жыл бұрын

what an interesting concept for a game.

@AccessAccess Жыл бұрын

Does the railgun have to be on a turret? The ship can already rotate and you could mount a much larger railgun if the ship were simply built around it (like an A-10 aircraft which is built around the gun). The ship can already change its heading so a turret isn't a hard requirement for the weapon to be effective.

@emilsinclair4190 7 ай бұрын

Problem with it being a fixed weapon is that this would basically drastically decreased rhe hit probability since all other weapon track the target. Now in real live the problem would be that your field of fire would be very small.