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iKeepsies - Classic Marbles


iKeepsies is a fantastically retro, open ended and user collaborative marbles game. 


Summary:

When marble playing reached it's peak in the 1950's, children everywhere gathered to play marbles in school yards, homes, or any other place where wandering kids would go. Every marble player had porcelain and glass marbles in different, fascinating designs. Even today, the best thing about playing marbles is the pleasure of finding new and different designs. 

When playing marbles, it is “keepsies” when friends agree that each will keep the marbles they win. As in the classic game, iKeepsies presents the best experiences of playing marbles – wining, losing, collecting, trading and pondering the endless variety of marble designs. 

 

 

iKeepsies marbles

Game marbles are a growing set with beautiful and entertaining designs. This web site enriches the iKeepsies marble playing experience as artists submit new marble designs. New marble designs will be introduced frequently to the game as in-game downloads, not application updates. 

Objective – Manage your marble set to get the best designs, best shooters, and largest collection of marbles. Creative players may make marbles that are added to the game and available to other iKeepsies players. 

Control – Original glass marbles were shot by “knuckling down”, and flicking the marble with the thumb or tossing it with two fingers. Ikeepsies supports pinching, dropping and shooting marbles too. The game includes a tutorial to explain the user interface. 

Trade and Collect – As players gain more experience, they become qualified to download new sets of marbles. Any marble can be won or lost in a game, or given away to a friend. 

Contribute – iMarbles.com is an open system that permits anyone from grade-schoolers to graphic designers to create digital marbles. Designs may be submitted in three formats; still images, animations, and 3D models. Once approved by our moderators, they are released to into the game. 

Features: 

iKeepsies comes with the following features. Wireless online play will be added in a future version.

  • Socially interactive design that supports exchanging marbles between players. 
  • Three classic marble games; ringer, ring-taw, dropsies. 
  • Fifteen different play environments including a skate park, grandma's house and a school yard. 
  • One hundred basic marbles included. 
  • Endless supply of user generated marble designs to download from iMarbles.com. 
  • Three types of marbles – still images, animations, 3D models. 
  • Creative marble designs including cartoons and visual jokes. 
  • Game marbles have different weights and sizes for in-game physics surprises. 
  • Win, lose, collect and trade digital marbles. 
  • Web site to support marble design submission and user profiles. 
  • Web site for “trophy case” display of your marbles. 
  • Web site to describe everything you would ever want to know about playing marbles.




The Future of iKeepsies:

Ikeepsies is developed and published by Welcome Friend Productions. We are committed to continuing to develop this game and to implement additional features that have long been a part of our design plan.