Marbles [v0.1]

Quick Description

You play as a fragile marble, and your goal is to quickly reach the goal. Mainly for single player.

There are 5 main stages currently, and I will add more stuff later. That's all you need to know, so continue reading only if you're interested in the internal mechanics.

Introduction

• This is essentially a movement map, “move from start to finish as fast as possible”.
• The only controls are WASD, and your camera is always fixed to an angle.
• Primarily intended for single player, though there can technically be multiple people playing in the map.
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• However, there is input delay with multi player, and also the player marbles don’t collide with each other (intentional).

[*]In a stage, there are numerous invisible “checkpoints” placed along the path from start to goal.

• If the marble hits the ground too fast, falls from a tall height, or falls off the stage, it breaks, and you will respawn from the last claimed checkpoint.
• If the marble falls off a certain height (but not that tall), it is stunned temporarily (you can’t move).
• There are several “out of bounds” zones placed in the stages. If you hit these, the marble breaks.
• Intended mechanic: You can safely fall from any height (and avoid break/stun) as long as you land in a specific way, on some specific things.

[*]To be considered as claiming a checkpoint, you must be strictly on land, and stay within a checkpoint's range for a certain short amount of time. The checkpoints are invisible (intentional), but once you respawn, you will eventually remember where is where. [*]To be considered as reaching the goal, you must be strictly on land. If you fall and break onto the goal zone, it doesn’t count. But, getting stunned still counts. [*]Movement mechanics:

• The marble movement relies on cs2 physics mainly. I’m just adding on top of it.
• Due to relying on cs2 physics (and subtick?), there may be “cs2” moments, like if you fell from a very tall height where the marble is sure to break, there is a short moment where it looked like it landed properly, but it registers as break in the next tick.
• The marble has a speed cap, and it has a constant acceleration for the marble’s speed to move from 0 to its speed cap.

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Timer Rules

• When you spawn in a new stage (not respawning), as long as you don't instantly hit the move key: you are considered as asleep, and the timer doesn't run.
• Official run is you playing all the stages in the order. The final time will be the actual time spent not being "asleep" in all of the stages.
• Practice run is you playing a specific stage.[/list]
• [h2]In Game Command[/h2]
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• !r → Restart.
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• If you’re on official run mode, you go back to Stage 1.
• If you’re practicing a specific stage, you go back to the spawn of that stage.

[*]!start → Start an official run. You will be teleported to stage 1. [*]!play [number] → Practice a specific stage (1 to 5). [*]!play sandbox → Access the additional sandbox stage. [/list]