Community:Maelstronomer/Super Blocky Ball

Super Blocky Ball (abbr. SBB) is a marble racing game created by  inspired by the video game Super Monkey Ball. Created and opened on June 21, 2014, it is the most played game created by him with close to 43 million place visits, over 350,000 favorites and over 70,000 likes, the second is Pilgrim Islands Reborn. Super Blocky Ball is the first marble racing game on Roblox.

Gameplay


Marble racers will have 3 minutes to race. When a marble racer finishes the race in the first place, time resets to 60 seconds. When the timer goes to zero, the remaining racers will be teleported to the lobby and get a DNF on their race results. The player can spectate other racers in the game. (Must have at least two players in a server.) The player can create VIP servers that cost 10 ROBUX to choose one of 19 maps and see their finishes and medals at the Total Races leaderboard. The player can also buy particle trails from 10 ROBUX (cheapest) to 200 ROBUX (most expensive). To get a medal, the server must have at least 4 players in a race. During 2017, some of the well-known players were huantran, blackbird3333, SwimmerGod098, and PolarisThePichu. The rankings of that year were (1) huantran, (2) PolarisThePichu, (3) SwimmerGod098, (4) blackbird3333.

Music
The music used in SBB features songs from Virtuo System's EPs "Out Of Touch," "Illusions," and "Contact." Each song used in-game is listed here:
 * Virtuo System - Xeno
 * Virtuo System - Dreaming
 * Virtuo System - Not Over
 * Virtuo System - Strange Feelings
 * Virtuo System - Contact
 * Virtuo System - Voyage
 * Virtuo System - Interstellar
 * Virtuo System - Pursuit

Maps
The game has 19 maps, of which 17 are classified as real maps, with the exceptions being Pipe Nightmares and Checkpoint Chaos.

The maps are Tomb Ruins, Roblox Circuit, McManor, Teapot Circuit, Stunt Stadium, Barrel Boardwalk, Glass Houses, North Palace, Shedletsky's Castle, Blazing Mountain, Clockwork Canyon, Rock Oasis, Slime Factory, Palm-Top Pier, Coastal Cove, Desert Dunes, Pipe Nightmares, Checkpoint Chaos, and Dizzy Volcano.

Here is a list of the maps as well as the creator of each map:

Blazing Mountain was added in around summer 2015, Clockwork Canyon and Rock Oasis were added in mid-November 2015 during BLOXgiving 2015, Slime Factory was added in late February 2016 during Nickelodeon Kids Choice Awards and Palm-Top Pier was added in mid-November 2016. Explode1 has made the most maps on this game. In total, he has made 8 maps. These maps have been on the game since it opened. Slime Factory is the only map that was based on an event.

Times
Old Physics (as of May 2018)

Mid Physics (as of August 2020)

Current Physics (as of January 2021)

Marble meshes
The player can choose any marble meshes in the game. Marble meshes hidden at the lobby are Cyan Head, Green Head, Magenta Head, Sad Head and Swapped Head. The player can find hidden chicken marble meshes at Tomb Ruins, McManor, and Glass Houses. 15 marble meshes were added to the marble meshes menu in mid-November 2015. 5 marble meshes were added in late February 2016. Another 5 marble meshes were added in mid-November 2016.

Particle trails
There are 24 particle trails in this game. Players can buy any of them with ROBUX.

Here is the list of the particle trails:

Updates

 * On March 2, 2015, checkpoints were added to the game.
 * On March 3, 2015, McManor was the 3rd map added to the game.
 * On March 7, 2015, Teapot Circuit, Stunt Stadium, and Barrel Boardwalk became the 4th, 5th, and 6th maps added to the game.
 * On March 8, 2015, Glass Houses, North Palace, and Shedletsky's Castle became the 7th, 8th, and 9th maps added to the game.
 * On March 12, 2015, your current marble mesh would stay the same, even if you died or reset.
 * On March 13, 2015, 22 more marble meshes were added to the game.
 * On April 25, 2015, the current race finish position stats were shown on a panel in the lobby.
 * On April 28, 2015, after the first place racer finishes, the race timer changes to 60 seconds and all AFK players are automatically teleported to the lobby.
 * On May 3, 2015, the top 30 leaderboard was added for each map, which shows the 30 fastest times in the world.
 * On May 11, 2015, marble collisions were turned off.
 * On May 27, 2015, a spectating mode was added to the game.
 * On August 17, 2015, Blazing Mountain was the 10th map added to the game.
 * On December 14, 2015, Clockwork Canyon and Rock Oasis became the 11th and 12th maps to be added to the game.
 * On February 26, 2016, Slime Factory was the 13th map added to the game.
 * On September 28, 2016, the game was updated with the removal of the half of the lobby to make it run on phones better.
 * On October 18, 2016, the race start bug was fixed.
 * On October 24, 2016, the comments section was disabled on its game's page.
 * On October 29, 2016, the game was updated with the new lobby and the comments section was re-enabled.
 * On November 11, 2016, Palm-Top Pier was the 14th map added to the game.
 * On November 15, 2016, the comments section was disabled again.
 * On November 17, 2016, the game was updated with global leaderboards and updated lobby.
 * On January 14, 2017, the game was updated with a 15% chance of a mirror mode map.
 * On December 19, 2017, a new version of SBB was created called "lolwut", but it is in testing mode right now. [//web.roblox.com/games/1254627757/lolwut https://web.roblox.com/games/1254627757/lolwut]
 * On September 21, 2018, a Roblox update broke the physics to make the marble go faster. This was fixed the next day.
 * On October 1, 2018, Maelstronomer added new physics to the game, allowing various new movement strategies like aerial control or mid-air jumping.
 * On June 24, 2019, Maelstronomer made changes to 5 of the maps. Trees were added to Teapot Circuit and Glass Houses, and the barriers in McManor, Clockwork Canyon, and Slime Factory were edited.
 * On April 8, 2020, Coastal Cove was the 15th map added to the game.
 * On October 14, 2020, Maelstronomer implemented new physics, a new lobby, a new map (Desert Dunes), and several other minor changes to the game.
 * Later in October, Pipe Nightmares was the 17th map added to the game and was the first not actual map.
 * On November 17th, 2020, Checkpoint Chaos was the 18th map added to the game and was the second not actual map.
 * On December 21st, 2020, Dizzy Volcano was the 19th map added to the game and if you collect every marble mesh and press H, you can honk.

Trivia

 * In one of the hallways, Shedletsky's Castle has various pictures and drawings of John Shedletsky on them. There is also Ban Hammers places above the entrance.


 * The stage Clockwork Canyon makes an appearance in another game made by Kinnis97 called Roblox Rally. There are several differences in the design, such as the loop being removed and several ramps being placed in some areas.
 * On June 24, 2017, huantran was the first SBB player to officially beat a hacker (Faisal) on the map Tomb Ruins, with a time of 43.433, while the hacker's time was 43.44). Later that day, SwimmerGod098 beat the hacker as well. Only 2 other players (DiamondEyedMonster and PolarisThePichu) were able to also beat the hacker.
 * On February 11, 2016, a badge named "placeholder badge" was added, which was later used for the Kids' Choice Awards 2016 in 2016.


 * In spite of its popularity, there has yet to be a stage based on Pilgrim Islands Reborn.
 * On March 11, 2017, the game's description becomes hashtagged.


 * The community of this game is mostly located in the Super Blocky Ball Statistics, and is fairly large compared to what it used to be. The server can be found here: https://discord.gg/5PrH9qnCUz
 * The trails you can buy are glitched, in 2016 and 2017, there was a glitch where if you tried to buy the Noble Trail it would claim your purchase has failed, Some other fails has also happened, a sanic trail in the game was 100,000,000 Robux which was overpriced, only 2 people owned it.
 * On November 10, 2015, Super Blocky Ball reached one million visits.
 * On October 14, 2020, badges were finally added to the game, totaling with 7.