No Cameras Allowed by Computer Clan #005 - Marble Blast: A Semi-Obscure Game Put Us On the Map (ft. DYADCAST)

Show Notes: Special thanks to Wave from DYADCAST for joining the episode. DYADCAST YouTube Channel @DYADCAST Twitter

Click Here for the Computer Clan’s First Marble Blast Video (Oldest Video on the Channel) Click Here for MichaelMJD’s Video About a Marble Blast Mod IsraeliRedDragon’s Marble Blast YouTube Channel

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Hey guys, how you all doing? If you're new here, welcome, my name is Krazy Ken. And welcome back to another episode of No Cameras Allowed the autobiographical podcast that follows the history of myself and the Computer Clan YouTube channel, which is one of the longest running tech YouTube channels still operating today. So there's a lot of cool stuff in the past to talk about, and also some cool stuff from some recent projects. And today we are going way, way back to the past to one of the things that put us on the map, this obscure little video game, which I know maybe it wasn't so obscure back then it was more popular back then, but this little game called Marble Blast. And that was one of the things that helped us establish our, I guess you could say authority on YouTube and I am here with wave today because wave has actually been with me a long as time. We did some of these types of videos back in Oh man, 2007, 2008. So it's kind of cool to have him here and talk about this stuff from the past wave. Thanks for being on the show today. Thank you for having me. Ken Marble Blast is a game we've been playing for years and funny enough, I still play it today, but having a newer PC really does me no benefit whatsoever when try to play that game, because the amount of glitches that happen when you try to run it super high end, the, I was playing platinum about two weeks ago. And if you turn on mouse controls, you will spin like indefinitely, fast that you can not control it. So, so, So you're on newer hardware, much newer hardware And having windows 10 and high-end graphics and full screen on 4k monitor. Why does the mouse do that? Do you have like really high like sensitivity studies? I turned the DPI down to one on my lodger tech miles, just to see if that would do anything. It doesn't matter. Well, first time a single input is put one direction. It is done Just a software glitch or something that has to be wow. Okay. So yeah, I mean, it's cool that you still play it. I mean, this game goes way back. We'll just do kind of, um, a brief history here, but also just to brief people who, on who wave is. I mean, if you haven't been following the channel from the early days, you probably don't know, but we've collabed before. And, um, he currently runs the DYADCAST YouTube channel with your buddy Jack. Right? That is correct. Yeah. And it's, um, it's new channel, so it's cool to see those things getting off the ground. And I also had Jack on my live webcast, a problem, man. It's probably been months ago already, but uh, yeah, he's a game designer. So he's working on that. How's that going? He just, he just face pumped right here in the office, as I asked him that question. So it was supposed to be released about Jack's game, right? Yeah. 12 weeks ago. No. And While Jack is new to game design, he is not the most computer tech person he's recently getting into PC world. I've just built him a computer, but he learned the valuable lesson of having a backup. Oh yeah. Because Someone did some editing for him on the, um, script that was in the game, all the words that would appear on screen like an RPG. Right? So text, he took all the text over in save the file. Well, that file. The person was editing was a very old version of the game. Just had the script in it and he saved over the game itself. That was almost completed with the updated script. So we lost Oh, no weeks. Oh no. And I asked If he had a backup and he was like, I do, but he didn't realize when he saved it, he saved it over his backup, not the initial file. So when he moved it to his PC, then he over, uh, wrote the original file on the backup. Yup. Oh no, we lost both. I had nothing. I shouldn't be laughing at that. That's horrible. I'm so sorry, Jack. Um, if you're listening, yeah. Save early. Save often have backups. Um, I always encourage people to do backups, but like even so like you can still have that user error. It's good news. It actually is to steam right now. And one steam approves the game. It will be live on the steam store. Oh, cool. So hopefully within the next week or two steam will give us the approval and we'll have the green light. Yeah. These episodes are recorded at different times from when they're published. So hopefully by the time you're hearing us right now, Maybe it's already live by Christmas. We're hoping I'll be left by Christmas, 2020. Sweet. So, okay. So now you know, a bit about wave and DYADCAST and Jack's unfortunate. Uh, so let this be, we're all about gaming here today. Let's talk about Marble Blast. So this is a game that came out in 2002. It was originally called Marble Blast. But then in 2003, they must've done some update to it. Cause they called it Marble Blast gold. Again, this was probably much more popular back then than it is now. And I will have some videos of it, including I could probably include one from my buddy, Michael MJD. He played it recently on a video. I'll include that stuff in the show notes, go ahead and click that link. And it's basically just like this little game, you roll this marble around these obstacle courses, but there's time challenges and people were really competitive. Like this was before like e- sports stuff was really getting big. I would assume like this was like early 2000. It's another type of speed running. Yeah. It is a speed running game. And the speed running scene has been around just forever. Whenever. Pretty much. Yeah. Right. And um, there were people who would just get super competitive with this and leaderboards and time challenges. And, um, we'll talk about some of this stuff later, but like the game was very moddable and like I would mod my own stuff and release them out there and I would like set the time challenges and people would record videos and put them on YouTube of like, dude, you need to, you need to decrease your time. And I'm like, why, how quick did you beat it? And I see them do these edge hits and stuff. And they like quote unquote, like bunny hop or whatever you want to call it right to the end. And I'm like, what the? So yeah, there were these guys that were really good at this. They play it day in and day out. So it was really big back in the early thousands. And there's still people that play today. So it also came pre-installed on certain Macs. I don't remember which ones, but you bought a Mac and you got it for free. But back when wave and I played it, we had a Windows PC. So that's how we knew that gateway. Yeah. We had like a gateway. Um, Oh, I don't remember the model of it, but I remember as it got every single virus known to man. Yeah. We had some problems with that back then, but you know, we weren't smart. Like we are now we know how to avoid. I want to play flash games. Oh, there'll be flashed. Yes. We'll be talking about that on other shows on YouTube and on the podcast flash man, good times and bad. Um, so it was developed by garage games. It was published by monster studios, which is very evident because every time the marble game starts in your marble drops on that start pad, it says monster studios on it. So you know who the publisher is and it was built on the torque. You're giving me a weird face. What does that mean? I've never read the start test. Jennifer. Is there something on the end? Bad too. I think it's just the Marble Blast logo. See, I thought this was the start one was this the start one say, so it says monster studios, the publisher of the game. Okay. Well, we'll take a look at some videos tonight that you probably haven't seen in like 10 years. No, dear. We'll take a look at some of those. Um, but yeah, and it was written on the torque engine, which man, I haven't kept up to date with that. Do you even know of any like modern games that are on the dork engine? I'm sure there are not, not that I know nothing yet. I know of. So, um, that was the torque engine and there was Marble Blast model blast gold. And there was Marble Blast ultra for the Xbox three 60, which I was super jealous about because it had an all new design, all new levels, all new soundscape and voice. And I was like, Oh my gosh, there's all this cool stuff that only the Xbox 360 people get. Of course. Um, and then there was an online version of that Xbox game that you could run with some plugin and a web browser. Um, instant action. I believe it was the website. And I guess that didn't last long because that got shut down and uh, but it's still being monitored today. There's awesome people out there that made Marble Blast platinum and those guys also made platinum quest and, um, there's some really awesome people that brought the Xbox Ultra version to PC. And I actually became buddies with some of them because we would talk and play their game on our live streams back in the days. And um, we just kinda met each other through that. So that's like a quick and dirty history of Marble Blast. So now how did it affect the Computer Clan? Well, the first, at least on this date, the first publicly available video you can watch on the Computer Clan channel is actually a Marble Blast video. And I'm going to pull it up here just for nostalgia's sake. And uh, we get to listen to my voice. My favorite thing about that though, is our screen recording software. We use that video. So we had just a little HD Handycam. It wasn't even agency. It was standard definition, Davy tape. Yeah. So we just had our little tape cab just on a tripod behind us and we're squatting down on the floor. So our heads, not in the shot of this thing, we're just, we're filming this point, the camera at the screen and shoot. Oh my gosh. Um, but yeah, that's what we did. We didn't have stream recordings. I mean, this was also 2007 screen recording software. Wasn't like the easiest thing to get. And even if you could get it, it probably wouldn't perform the greatest OBS. Wasn't a thing. Yeah. These were using, was it like Fraps? Fraps was like, Oh, yes Fraps was the big one. I use traps a ton later. Yeah. Fraps actually probably would have recorded it just fine. But I had no idea what it was when I was like 13 years old. So yeah, the earliest video you can watch on the Computer Clan YouTube channel is about Marble Blast. So the cool thing about Marble Blast is it actually had a level editor in a console built into the game. Kind of like if you install it like a valve game, you can type into the console and get all this source engine control stuff. Well, you could do that with the torque engine in these games. So I made a video where I thought it was a cheat code. It kind of was, but it was more of a developer thing. And I showed people how to use it. It was published on November 11, 2007. Yeah. This was really early YouTube days and it currently has 85,999 views. Uh, and I guess you could say like, this is kind of one of the earliest things that helped put us on the map. So let's uh, go ahead and uh, take a Gander at this here. You ready for this? What does that intro font? I don't know what the font is, but it's like that movie title that like scrolls like star Wars. Oh my gosh. I don't know what the font is though. But uh, here we go. Here is the first video available on the computer Klan YouTube channel Marble Blast. I'm going to start to do a mega cheat tomorrow, Bosco, mega cheat, and called it a mega cheat. No, I didn't script this. We mainly thought it was a cheat because once we activated all the levels that came online, that's true. That's actually a good unlocked. All beginner, intermediate advanced. Otherwise you had to beat a level to move on to and see the next one. That's when you punch that in and quit out, every level became available. And that's why we thought it was a cheat code. He gave us everything. Yeah, true. That's why we were under that impression. True. But then we later more like found out like it's actually a full- blown like level editor. You can manipulate things, import your own diff files, make an admin debugging tool. Basically. It's what the game developers would use to test everything without actually having to play everything. And the fun thing is nowadays those rooms have significant consequences in online games and actually circling back. Um, I wasn't really clear on this earlier, but one of the cool things about marble West ultra, the Xbox exclusive was it was a multiplayer game because now you can compete with everyone else rolling their marbles around you. And it was kind of cool, but uh, yeah, this was um, Well, step one at drone level, there are monster studios. Now that little squiggle button against the escape button till the kids called me what's so is the tilt Of the squiggle or the other one? So the squiggle is a till day. Okay. The other one is a [inaudible] accent. Bless you. Yeah, I think it's Italian. It's called a Bravo accent. What did that actually used for? Um, it's still on keyboards just to have some purpose. You're talking about the [inaudible]. Okay. So in final cut pro the gravel accent, disables, the clip connections. But other than that I have for any hot key, actually. I don't know if you can in final cut. I think it's only, I don't know though, but you're right. I don't know what the gravity accents is it a programming thing maybe because it's still on every keyboard or orange to the American thing of we're too stubborn to get rid of it. And now we're going down this rabbit hole, I'm going to Google this. What is the gravel accent used for now? Just to remind people, you know, this is more of a fun show. We're not doing like lectures and massive research. So I'm just going to read the top result on Google, but take it with a grain of salt. A gravity accent placed over a vowel is to indicate the vowel is open or lax as in French. I think that's how you pronounce that has a distinct syllabic value as an English word beloved. So yeah, I guess it's for phonetics. Hmm. Yeah. I mean, I hardly even use a comma. So at this point doesn't really matter. Hey, top result on the Wikipedia, excerpt on Google jumped to programming. So yeah, I guess. Okay. So it's primarily used in program. That part I somehow knew, but heck if I know I'm not a programmer, but uh, I'm curious now it is programmers. Use the grabby accent symbol as a separate character for a number of tasks in this role. It is known as a back quote or a Bactec. Alright. Okay. Well, something new every day you learn something new every day. So yeah, back to this lovely thing, You'll see a blank column right here and here type in this code dollar sign, T E S T C H E a T S equals sign. That type of one. So I call them, I'm sorry. You failed the spelling bee. Yeah. Right. So that was like the little code you typed in and you entered like that debugging mode or whatever you want to call it. So, um, yeah, that was, that was man. Wow. This is where this started. The channel started September 16, 2007. This was uploaded November 11, 2007. So this was, uh, this was early and it has 85,000 views. I think it was the first video on the channel to break 10,000 views. So where did we go from here? I mean, obviously we were doing other things at the time. Like we still had a focus on tech, but we were also doing some gaming stuff back then. Oh, what do you got my life in reverse? Oh yeah. We did a bunch of like little films where it's like, my life in reverse was like, didn't we also like try to like mimic smash at one point. We actually did. I did talk about that in episode one. So for those who didn't listen to that one, check that out. I talk about like the re or wait, no episode two. I talked about it. I talked about some of our really early videos. Like the, like when we were mimicking. Well, I was talking about this stuff in both episodes actually. That's why I'm confused. I covered it in both episodes. Right. I remember we were, we had, we would like do the ax murderer, you know, we would reenact the expert. How to go on a date. Like you were on the DVD. Yeah. You were the instructor that taught the character how to go, like how to impress women. Just like That. Wasn't a smash knock-off. That was a NIGA Higa wasn't it Smash did, was it smile? I remember smash did that. Yeah. Old you tubers now that I'm just yeah. How much they've changed. Oh yeah. I was getting super nostalgic about that stuff on an earlier episode that I even, uh, went to. Is it a good idea to microwave this jewelry, carrots, something like that? Your jury Karen? Yes. Is it a good idea of microwave? This let's find out here at the jury here on the board, safety is our number one concern. That's why we hide behind this aluminum building. Yeah. In Boyle shield or whatever. Yeah. It's to protect her nuts. Cause nobody likes roasting nuts. Geez. I don't even remember that. It's crazy. That was a good show. But yeah, that, um, I did talk about more of that stuff on episode one. So if you guys didn't listen to that, check it out. Some awesome YouTube nostalgia there. Um, but for our channel, like, you know, it wasn't like the biggest, most popular thing, but like it still gave us something to publish videos about kind of on a regular basis because then other players started like noticing and like people were watching this stuff and subscribing. So we were just doing, I don't know if we ever did like videos of the game itself. I think what we jumped into was we made our own levels and we made videos of us running through them and we posted those online and it got attention. And then what we started doing was we put the, the files online so people could download the levels and play the stuff we made. Um, so that's what we did. And you know, hundreds of views ended up turning into thousands of views. And I actually tried searching like YouTube archives and I can't find anything of the old Marble Blast episodes. So I think I deleted them. Well, that's a bummer. Yeah. It's a bit of a bummer, but I think maybe the reason was, is because I used copyrighted music in them and yeah, back then you could get away with that. But nowadays, do we use it Copywriting music or just like garage band? I'm moving here. No, I use, I used, um, I used like actual like music music. Oh. But like, you know, I was 13. I didn't really know the significance of that. Um, maybe some different videos use like garage band music, but even nowadays, some of that stuff gets caught in the content ID system. Some of my old videos using like garage band loops pop up. I like the content systems now being used on YouTube and Twitch have many issues with just how fast they are. Medical report stuff can happen yet. A person on Twitch was recently banned permanently for having Scrillex copyright. Like he was playing scribblings music or what? No, he's actually Cook on Twitch in his blender. Picked up the same sound as Scurlock, scary monster song. Wait, I'm not Kidding the sound, the sound, the sound, the blender mate. He repealed it. Yeah. And he's got it fixed now, but he was still banned for a couple of days because of using Scrillex copyright music. And it was just his blender. That's stupid. Now I get why like they have to jump on this automatically and quickly. Cause otherwise lawyers are gonna be slapping him in the face and went out if they don't do it. But like they gotta find a way to meet us in the middle. Like, wow, that's crazy. Okay. I saw some tweets about blenders and now this makes a lot, cause I didn't know the source, like what was, Oh gosh. But anyway, um, we would release the files and they call the mission file. So like, you know, they didn't really call them maps. They call them missions. I guess that's just a torque, um, engine thing and um, yeah, people would download them and like the stuff got views. So what ended up happening was, uh, later we started playing marble bless platinum, which was made by the modding community. I don't remember what was it called? Uh, let's see. Who, who were the guys behind it? Yeah. I don't remember the names of the people that made platinum, but I do know, um, you know, they've commented on some of the videos back in the day, but yeah, I'm blanking on them. I'm trying to Google it and I'm not having a good time, but we started using their model. We started making levels for that model. We started posting videos about that and um, started getting a little more traction there. And then there was actually a time where on a live broadcast way back in the day, and this was before YouTube live. I actually tried building a level in the torque, like actual like torque engine level editor, not inside the game, but actually with like the developer kit. And uh, basically it just, it kept crashing. Okay. Let's start off by, you know, clicking the top left area of that toolbox, which has the square, you know, create a simple little two by shoe to square thing. Okay. Now save it whatever you want and then dot map. And then what we need to do is go into your root files. Do you know where that, all that stuff is? Like where it stores the maps and stuff? Yes I do. And I don't know if, if you remember me telling you this before that, when I do that, it causes it to crash like that. Yeah. Oh my that's a really weird does it say, can you scroll down a little bit? I need to see the rest of this because this is really weird. I've never had anything like this happen. It's a FireWire device in Japan anyway. Yeah. This is really, really weird. I've never seen something like this before. I thought what you meant was um, during the conversion process, not the actual saving process Live. Of course. So I got nowhere. So anyway, that was, uh, that was a good time. So then, you know, probably, I don't know. That was, that was like 2010 ish. I feel like. Did, did, did we both kind of fall out of it or was it just me? Because I feel like we kind of stopped playing it for awhile, like around 2011 or so. So you were using a laptop, got into like playing, Um, like assault cube in some other games that involve like online communities. That's where we kind of just stopped playing like your computer central single player games. And you kind of stopped gaming for the longest time until like portal and half-life Right. I did get, yeah, like that was like 2009. I probably got more into that because portal was free, you know, steam just came to the Mac, you get portal for free and then it sucked me into the valve world. Yep. Um, I think we've tried, we tried making some more videos when the Marble Blast ultra game came to online because then we could actually play multiplayer. Yep. That was a to screen record. Cause it was a really intensive plugin we're talking like maybe 2010 hardware plus screen recording. You were lucky to get like 20 frames. Yeah. Cause you, me and jammer would play the game a lot jammer. Played it a lot. That's right. Yeah. You should talk to jammer. Yeah. I still talk to him. Uh, we play league of legends clash Sundays. It's the first weekend of every month. So we get together and still play that every once in a while. Yeah. I haven't seen him. He's gotten into world of Warcraft and Oh my wallet doesn't let me do that. No, I still stay in touch with him. It's I I've always wondered like, man, it would be fun to try to get people back into the game and play it online. But I don't even know if you can play it online anymore. So you can't Instant action, but like, um, platinum quest and all that stuff. And I think the Marble Blast ultra PC port still lets you do multiplayer because back when we started doing this more like in 2014, 2015, we brought it back. We like only strictly played online stuff on streams and stuff. Cause then a bunch of people could play with us. And I remember those streams. Those are either very good or very bad. Yeah. So like sometimes, you know, every week this was during the time I did a weekly tech news and gaming show. Sometimes we would do a segment where we just played Marble Blast, but the community, but there were some times streams that were just like hours straight of like only playing like Marble Blast, ultra PC port with people. And um, I believe, Well, it was great playing until some of the speed runners started joining. Well, I still think it was fun even though I was getting my butt. Kat, is it, is it fun losing 57 to like three, two, one, one zero when no one else score? I, I mean, I don't know. I don't remember if he met. Oh, there Were some things where it was really bad. Probably Be at the last live stream that I can see on my record here was December 17, 2015. That might've been the last time I played Marble Blast, like period. Um, and the last video we uploaded, this was also PC port online stuff was March 25th, 2015. Oh that was a lucky, safe. That was a very lucky save. I like used the SuperSpeed and use the outside deterrent. You remember that? How it looks. I knocked you out. I remember that. See jammer was playing with us for that one. Yeah. I forgot jammer was in there. That's right. Oh the, we called this show or Marble Blast videos were called all the marbles. That was the name of the show. And I made this like little three. I totally forgot about this like 3d scene. I recreated the environment in a 3d program with like physics and You know, Oh, that's pretty good though. Yeah. They actually look Kind of cool shoe to 3d. That was cheated 3d. Yeah. I just took the textures from the game and like the normal maps and everything and imported them into cheetah and it basically maps the same way. So now works. Yeah. That was pretty fun. Put a physics engine in there. Bullet physics, physics engine in case people were curious it's called bullet. But yeah, so we, um, played a bunch of that. And I remember, I think you were maybe in some of these streams, but when we started playing the PC port of Marble Blast, ultra, which again guys, this wasn't official Marvel bus ultra only ran on the Xbox three 60. This was a fan project. Some awesome people poured it into the PC, which made my day. I loved it. And it was free when we would live, stream us, playing that game and we would get people to join us. The developers contacted me one time and they were probably in the chat room to watching. And they were like, dude, the traffic on our website goes like way up when you go live. So we ended up getting them a lot of traffic and one day they surprised me. They put the computer Klein logo on one of the marble skins, which was really cool. So when you download the game, you can actually use our logo on the skin. I don't know if it's still that way, but wow. I thought that was really cool. And um, yeah, I mean, I talk with them here and there. I haven't really talked with them much lately. I think the main one, I see comments on my videos still every so often Tommy, uh, I don't even think he does stuff with them anymore, but he was doing stuff with them for like years. So, you know, you gotta move on to some different things sometime. But uh, yeah, it's been a long time since I played Marble Blast. But you said you played it like recently, right? I play it recently. I, I just, the algebra, we play games. Like I still play like rollercoaster tycoon three and put children off of broken roller coasters with pit water. Um, you Break the track and the cars just go flying It. I play robot arena too. And just being older now and figuring out more things about the game. I have built like robots, Nate game that are ungodly broken. I've literally figured out how to instantly kill anyone in that game now. So doing stuff like that, I've been playing robot Wars. I've been playing. Yeah. I went through that whole thing again and then totally forgot the first time I booted up that if you spend money on stuff and you can't sell it and then I couldn't buy wheels. And I had a restart After the first like 10 minutes, like in game currency. Yeah. Cause like there was that stupid glitch. I like programming problem, whatever. I don't know if they left it in there on purpose, but you know, you would pay to enter a tournament. And if you won the tournament, you would get a payout. But if you lose, you lose the money. But how do you get around that? Like if you exit to the main menu before the tournament ends, you get your money back. Do you remember? I don't remember that. Oh yeah. I think I had to do that before. Like if you know, you're going to lose, you can exit the tournament and you can get your money back. I just keep playing the Japanese rooftop. I just sit on the corner of the glass and they all charge at me and fall down the center and it just went instantly on top of skyscrapers and stuff. It was a no. So I was playing blast gold and Marble blast platinum. Or is it ultra whichever one I have on my PC. And I was just going through and playing the old levels, like playing the first expert level, which is like a purple rollercoaster type look and level. And I was practicing like wall hits and I actually successfully wall hit off the backside and up over the back end, like complete the level in like six seconds. So I've successfully done that in that level once as well. But yeah, that actually kind of circling back to one thing, like when I would make these levels, like people would speed running and post the videos. And that was the thing edge hitting was like the best thing. If you could roll the marble fast enough and edge hit it in the right spot, you can bounce like a cross, You'd have two skills. You had to be able to edge it for one. And then you had to be able to do everything diagonally because holding like forward in w or forward in deep made the ball spin faster. Cause it was using both inputs instead of just one forward input. I totally forgot about that. But yeah, like part you had, yeah, you had to play diagonally to move faster. That's why, if you watch speed runs you, it's never a straight on shot. It's always diagonal and sideways. You're looking at people's cameras. That's true. Yeah. They always run diagonally and then do the edge hits that's yeah. That's how you speed running Marble Blast. Those are like the two masters secrets. Now there's maybe a third one. We don't know. Do you remember when you finally learned how to read text or stuff in that game? Like changing the Skybox and stuff? Yeah. It's just the weird circuit board, Computer Clan locate. The last level. Well I made was called air affair and yeah, back in the day, a lot of our branding had like the circuit board kind of texture cause you know, tech, whatever. I use that image and I mapped that into the sky box and it looked kind of cool, but uh, yeah, we could, we learned how to customize everything because everything in the game was moddable that's what was so cool about it. So yeah. I'm now looking up at Israeli red dragon, because I think his name is Matan or Matan I don't know how to pronounce it, but uh, he was at like a big like speed runner, I guess, or a big player in this community. And he's also like you hear his voice and marble wise platinum, like when he says ready, set, go. I think that's his voice. You can look up Marble Blast gold movie. Oh yeah. That's right. He has that video too. Yeah. If that's still up here. I hope so. Marble glass gold, because that goes way back. Oh yeah. Mar was gold. The movie 12 years ago. Israeli RD, I guess he bargained his name. Yeah. 164,000 views. Well, let's see if he's still posting stuff all these days. Oh gosh. He is. I'm subscribed to him. He's posting pretty consistently Too. Holy crap dude. I'm subscribed. I just, I want to subscribers, does he have a 20,000? Nice. I guess he still does post of, yeah, he posted one, three days ago. A week ago. Two weeks ago. Yeah. He's actually still actively posting stuff on here. Well, that's, I mean, that just goes to show and these things have a couple of thousand views each. So it shows that people are still into this. The best thing is he's playing user levels that were made in some of them. He's like he did a, he did a little short series too, where he found the worst user made levels after. Oh my God. Look at how complicated this map. And you see the end point all the way over here. Well, actually it's invisible behind you and you just roll it backwards. So, Oh gosh. I'm just going to play one of these CIF. Um, you talk still on them. Oh yeah. That's him. Yep. It's interesting seeing him in like, you know, smoother frame rates and stuff now. Cause like back in the early YouTube days, like you didn't like my four one not 1440 P 144, 41 44 P is Sony DV tape. I remember when videos started showing four 80 and I was hype. Like I remember the widescreen transition to on YouTube and I was like, what? Something's wrong? And now like if something loads four 80, I just basically want a refund on my internet provider. Yeah. Um, do you remember like maybe what your favorite level was that you made? Do, do you have any memory of that? Um, there was one that I made that was like, it was like something like race to the giant gem or something of a whole crowd just had one giant gem. Like I made it as big as I possibly could before it kept crashing the level editor. And I just basically took every single map and string it together. And this long convoluted arguous piece of crap, it was terrible. Honestly, it looked like, like an eyesore and I beat it, I think one time and it took like 23 minutes for me to actually get through the whole level because as I got farther, I was so timid to make like hops and jumps and stuff. Cause I didn't want to fall and die [inaudible] and it just took ages. There was One level you have a master complex. Yeah. I was just thinking of that. I still have the file for that and I was practicing edge hits on it and I actually beat the level in under a minute because you can edge hit F double super jumped right off the little strip of road by the skyscraper and hook all the way onto the platform, up to the side. And you literally go across and down the loop de loop map and you're done that's it. But did you get the gems because aren't there gems in there. There's one at the very end. Oh, okay. Um, so I skipped probably 90% of the map. Yeah. I re I remember that one. That was a long along as level. Just again, not really like custom built, um, dif files. Those are the names of the objects. Like, you know, that you actually roll on. Um, but I just took prefabricated ones in smaller levels were stringing other level. Cause we didn't really, we didn't know how to use the torque cutter and I tried using it on the Mac. Anyway. It just crashed. Anytime you tried saving a mission file and yet gem collecting was another, um, component of mechanic of the game. You couldn't finish the level until you collected all the jobs, the whole mechanics of the game, where you roll the marble with your wasta keys, you were able to The jump by using space. There were a set of our power-ups where you could hold one at a time and you activated by clicking and you got to control the mouse control for your camera. And then the other thing was the gym concept, but not all levels had jets. And you just had to collect all gems and get to the finish line. If there was no gyms, you just had to get to the finish line. There was time trials, like you were to get like a gold silver, bronze medal. But even if you completed the level, pass those times, you still beat the level. The goal was just to get to the end with all the gems or the end. Yeah. Good point. Yeah. Yeah. I don't remember there being like a time limit. There was never a limit. Yeah. I think I'm like the moderate versions of the games there were. Oh really? I think so interesting. But that aside the time limits, quote unquote came into play when you were competing on leaderboards and stuff that got really competitive. Yeah. Well this was super nostalgic. I appreciate you, uh, talking about this before I move on to the next section here, where can people find you? Well, you can find me on YouTube as the diet cast. I am one of the members along with my friend Jack, as we mentioned earlier, before we also have a Twitter where we just post random, mainly things we're unhappy about in games. So I mean, I post a lot of stuff about league and then I delete it later. Cause I sound like I'm five years old when I'm ranting, but so we'll, we'll chat on there briefly. We're always willing to talk with people if you sh, if you send us anything on Twitter and add us, we'll, we'll definitely respond same with YouTube. We try to respond to most our YouTube comments because again, we're just starting out and trying to get this. We started about three, four months ago. We got posting for about a month and we ran into, um, some video editing issues in a lot of audio issues where by the end of a recording, we were coming like six seconds out of sync with each other and we couldn't figure out why. And I was spending hours editing audio, and we finally got it fixed. So I'm glad that we're able to get back on track of that, but we only have about a 300 subscriber base right now. And with that, we're interacting with everyone we possibly can and try and respond and actually build a community. And we're looking at possibly even starting on Twitch, just because me and Jack have very different time schedules. So that will let us both do our own thing while still having content for YouTube. Sounds great. Yeah. I'll throw links to your stuff in the description and in the show notes and I am new at podcasting and I realized the description and the show notes are not the same thing. So I was always saying show notes because I was like, Oh, it's description of podcasting or is that a YouTube thing? Apparently it's both. And sometimes people merge them, but you know, it's usually better to keep them separate. And um, also just in case people don't know, I also transcribe these well, a computer transcribes these. So it's like 85% accurate. And I'm the one link in the description brings you to the transcription in case you want to read along and the links and all that other cool stuff in there as well. So yeah, I'll link DYADCAST in the description and in the show notes. So the next part here, I like to do a question of the day and I get the submissions through Twitter usually. And if anyone wants to submit their own question for me to answer, you can absolutely do that on Twitter at the Computer Clan, you can send me a DM. You can just send me an at reply. And if you want to stay anonymous, like just let me know. You can do that too. And this one today was submitted by gene Rick's G three on Twitter. I think I got the name all pieced together properly. And he asked what slash, who was the inspiration for the crazy Ken character and, you know, crazy. Ken is like the staple of the computer client. He's like Mickey mouse to Disney and, Oh, look, I just got sued by Disney who will take care of that email later. But, uh, yeah, so crazy. Ken has grown really big and I'm probably gonna do a whole separate episode about his origin story. So don't worry, but just to start off quick, crazy, Ken, actually it started as a gaming series and then it turned into a tech thing. But, um, it started just as like this one day before I was about to go live. I broke a key on my keyboard and I was like freaking out on the conference call before I went live. And like I jokingly called myself crazy Ken cause it had a nice alliteration to it, like Computer Clan, crazy Ken. And like that's how that started. And it evolved into a game show and then it evolved into the tech show and then it evolved into like a major part of the Computer Clan brand. So that's the quick and dirty answer, but I will definitely have a future episode that talks way more about the crazy Ken's story. Absolutely. I saw you making a face over there wave. So what were you thinking? I thought crazy Ken came to be when you demolish that MAPI controller into the doors. So I didn't actually, that was like, okay, so for context, this was like a pack Ms. Pac-Man like Namco TV games. Controller thing I threw that thing years ago was that I was like some fourth grader and I got mad at a game and I threw it at the ground. This was years after that. Okay. The first game I played on a crazy Ken show, this was back when it was crazy Ken's classic games or something like that was MAPI. So that's maybe why that's why. Okay. So kinda to bring it all back together, 2002, this awesome little game called Marble Blast came out there. And uh, in, uh, starting in 2007, we started picking it up on the YouTube channel with some friends and we would make videos about it. And that was one of the things that started getting us the views. There's one thing we didn't talk about, Oh, how did we find the game? Real arcade? So this was like steam, but like its own brand. I think, um, I forgot who owned it back then, but I think game house acquired them now, but yeah, it was a little like a app you would install on your PC and it was a game catalog and we found it in there one day and like, you could click it, play for 60 minutes for free and then you have to pay 20 bucks. And back then, like when us and our friends were like, what nine years old? Like 20 bucks was an incredible amount of money. So the day that any of our parents bought us a game on there was like a magical day. Oh yeah. So we found it unreal arcade. And that's how we started playing that. Now this was a couple of years before the channel. Mind you? Um, this was probably like 2004, 2005, maybe even earlier. Yeah, yeah. I would say, Oh four. Yeah. That's so that's when that started. So yeah, Marble Blast. That was one of the things I put the computer plan on the map. And there were some other things too, which I will talk about in future episodes, including a little cartoon I used to do called computer showdown. That was one of the earliest things that put me on the map as well. And, uh, that's a story for a different time. So make sure you subscribe and stay tuned for that because there's a lot more to come. And if you liked the podcast, feel free to leave a review or just a simple rating on your podcast app of your choice. And if you want to help fund the future of the computer claim, which means the YouTube channel and the no cameras allowed podcast feel free to pledge to my Patreon, which is Patreon.com/ KrazyKen—“krazy” with a “K”. I also have that link in the description. So thank you very much for your support. Anything else you wanted to say wave while we're here? No, I want to thank you for having me. It was nice to be nostalgic about some games that, I mean, like I said, I still once in a while play them when I need to get off multiplayer games. Cause I'm just hardcore, raging and treating, but It's nice to just do single player. Yeah, I do. I do miss the old days of some of those games and when that was the thing to be doing. Oh totally. Yeah. But yeah guys, just Google Marble Blast. You don't necessarily have to play it, but like just look into it just to kind of get a feel for it. I'll have some links in the show notes to some other videos. If you just want to get a feel. Um, I could probably link some of my own videos in there too, if I can track them down. Right. All right. Well guys, thanks for tuning in. Stick around for more No Cameras Allowed. Thank you for listening. Thank you for watching the Computer Clan on YouTube And as always… catch the crazy and pass it on. *Transcriptions are auto-generated by a transcribing software. 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