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Rollers

AKA: Ballers

Games where you are a sphere and you roll about.

Examples

(Bunch of new ones popping up. Probably due to beginner tutorials for doing ball-rolling stuff with Unity and Unreal Engine.)

  • 1990 - Jump'n Roll - Amiga game where you avoid obstacles in a pseudo-3-D
  • 1994 - Tama: Adventurous Ball in Giddy Labyrinth
  • 1997 - Armadillo Racing
  • 1998 - Kula World - Grid-based movement.
  • 2000 - Kirby Tilt 'n' Tumble
  • 200x - Tiltronica (unreleased) info.
  • 2002 - Marble Blast
  • 2003 - ボールの王子様1)
  • 2003– - Neverball (open-source) get
  • 2004 - Ball Racer
  • 2004 - Jump'n Roll - 3-D Crillion-ish game (without the bouncing).
  • 2004 - Hamsterball - Marble Madness-like
  • 2004 - Habitrail Hamster Ball - Licensed Monkey Ball clone
  • 2005 - Pac 'n Roll - Pac 'n Roll Remix has appeared on two compilations since.
  • 2007 - Namco Museum Remix - Hub world thing and some of the game modes (Galaga [indirect], Pac'n Roll, Pac Motos, …) have different kinds of rolling.
  • 2007 - REALPLAY Puzzlesphere - PS2 game with it's own ball-shaped motion controller.
  • 2008 - vertigo|Vertigo / Spinout
  • 2008 - The Incredible Maze
  • 20092) - Super Gerball
  • 2009 - Equilibrio - 2-D, WiiWare, Roller meet Cameltry.
  • 2010 - Puzle Dimension get
  • 2010 - Hamsterball - Unsure of the relationship between this and the 2004 game wit hthe same name. Different developers, same logo. This one plays like Monkey Ball though.
  • 2011 - Jump N Roll - Sidescroller for phones info
  • 2013? - Ballenger video
  • 2015 - Marble Muse
  • 2015 - JamG
  • 2015 - Dexterity Ball 3D
  • 2015 - Puzzle Ball
  • 2015 - Space Hole series 2016 2018 2020
  • 2016 - Groovy
  • 2016 - Mazement
  • 2016 - Road to Ballhalla
  • 2016 - Tiltagon
  • 2016 - Spherical Constitution get
  • 2016 - Super Impossible Road
  • 2016 - Marble Void get
  • 2016 - Steamroll
    • 2021 - Steamroll: Rustless Edition
  • 2016 - Marble Mountain get
  • 2017 - Finnish Roller get
  • 2017 - Winexy get
  • 2017 - Steel Punk Ball
  • 2017 - Totally Unbalanced
  • 2017 - Marble Skies
  • 2017 - Celestial Hacker Girl Jessica get
  • 2017 - Maso Marble get
  • 2017 - Marble Masters: The Pit get - physics-puzzley, combatty?
  • 2017 - Polyball get
  • 2018 - Galaxy Ball get
  • 2018 - Marble it Up
  • 2018 - Roboball get
  • 2018 - Marble Race get
  • 2018 - Poly and the Marble Maze get
  • 2018 - Mindball Play get
  • 2019 - Marble Odyssey get
  • 2019 - Marble Combat get - Multiplayer combat thing.
  • 2019 - Marble Marcher get - Fractal boards.
  • 2019 - E Marble get
  • 2020 - Paperball get
  • 2020 - Skully get
  • 2020 - Snow Game get
  • 2020 - Cyber Hamster Tilt get
  • 2020 - Super Marble Brothers get
  • 2020 - Marble Parkour series get
  • 2020 - QUAD DEATH: Core Meltdown EX get
  • 2020 - Plataforma Branca 1486170 - Birds-eye perspective
  • 2021 - Destruction Rocks get - Multiplayer.
  • 2021 - Frog Ball get
    • 2021 - Frog Ball Rerolled get
  • 2021 - Rolled Out! Homepage get - Looks good! Level design by the person who made a popular Monkey Ball mod called Super Monkey Ball Gaiden.
  • 2021 - Sphere Game Epic get
  • 2021 - The Fantaballous Tilt get
  • 2022 - Marble Mouse get
  • 202x - Rollerghoaster early demo

FIXME get dates (open-source):

Minigames

Rollers within other games.

  • 2005 - Fort Boyard: The Challenge has two different roller minigames. One where you roll a ball down a plank trying to get past a bunch of pegs, and a birds-eye view maze where you tilt the board.
  • 2007 - Wii Fit series.
  • 2011 - uDraw Studio: Instant Artist has two roller minigames that use the tilt function of the Wii. One where you navigate a maze, and one where you roll a ball to make drawings.
  • 2017 - The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild has some motion controlled ones in a couple of shrines.
  • 2022 - Kirby and the Forgotten Land has a birds-eye view roller minigame in the town.

No-control

See Marble Racing§Videogames for games where you don't directly control the marbles, but usually desing the courses (runs) for them to travel through.

Physical

  • SpongeBob SquarePants: 3D Obstacle Odyssey - You don't roll, but levels sure seem like Monkey Ball ones.
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Trans.: The Prince of the Ball | Source: Google Translate
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roller.txt · Last modified: 2023/06/25 00:12 by rjt