Launch delay

Due to unforeseen circumstances with Steam, we are forced to delay the launch of Mad Machines for 4 days. The new launch date is 15.11. We apologize to all our fans who looked forward to playing the game today. Don’t worry though, we are not going to sit in idle, but will continue working on polishing the game even more while we all wait for the Friday’s launch.

Where You Can Find Us

You can come chat with other players and the developers in our Discord server! Interested in writing about Mad Machines? You can find our press kit on our website or click here for a direct link. We will be attending many different events in the future so make sure to stay tuned to our Discord if you want to challenge the team in person!

- Team Mad Machines

After months, maybe even years, of toying around with a 100% fighting game mode, it’s finally ready. Mad King, an all new game mode, is coming to you on November 11th, and it’s going to be an epic battle.

Mad King will feature endless running games with drop in/drop out gameplay where you grind points through eliminations and surviving, to ultimately become the king. Once you become the king, you start growing bigger and stronger and it’s up to you to hold onto your crown, keep growing and taking down enemies to maintain the crown as everyone around you is gunning for the title.



Mad King is truly back to basic destruction. Destroy your opponents as you fight to grow more and more as you play in this arena shooter mode. Find new weapons and power ups littered around the map to find the perfect loadout to take on a hulk-sized opponent. With instant respawns, high speed brawling, and dynamic leaderboards the action never stops. Eight players enter the arena but only one can be the king. With never-ending games, you’re sure to always have a fight ready for you when you want it. Running on a refined engine with massive updates to the back end of Mad Machines this new mode is what you’ve been waiting for.

While current Mad Machines players slugging it out in our ball game will get this all new mode for free, new players will still have to purchase Mad Machines. For a limited time only, pre-order this new mode and get a 2-for-1 deal. Buy it for yourself and get a gift for a friend!

With the focus we put on Mad King we have decided the ball game is now out of touch with our new expectations, so we are temporarily removing it.

• Third person arena shooter
  
  
• Instant respawns
  
  
• Endless running games
  
  
• Points gained during gameplay decides the in-game rank
  
  
• Inspired by the .io genre, the leading player is King, and grows bigger and stronger
  
  
• 8 player free-for-all
  
  
• Hot Rod style robots
  
  
• High speed, physics based action
  
  
• Dynamic in-game leaderboard, as well as a global leaderboard for the best kings around

You can pre-order on our website today. Purchase before release on November 11th to get two copies of the game for the price of one! You can also come chat with other players and the developers in our Discord server! Interested in writing about Mad Machines? You can find our press kit on our website or click here for a direct link. We will be attending many different events in the future so make sure to stay tuned to our Discord if you want to challenge the team in person!

- Team Mad Machines

Mad Machines has always been a game built by the community, our community has always been a big influence in everything we do, from helping us bug hunt to implementing ideas entirely came up with by the community. Making the game the people want is priority number one to the Hero Blocks team, and this month is no exception. Starting today, September 4th, Mad Machines is entering a large rework and optimization period, and because of this we have decided to temporarily remove Mad Machines from the Steam and Discord stores. This is a temporary decision, and we will have more information for you on October 1st. During this period Mad Machines will go through some big changes the community has been asking for, and we believe these changes are large enough to temporarily remove the game from the store as we would like to launch these changes to a larger audience rather than having new players experience the current state of Mad Machines.


Players who have already purchased Mad Machines will see no change in their ability to download, install, and play the game. Even if you acquired Mad Machines 6 months ago and never installed the game you can still download it anytime and start playing. All this decision means is that the games store pages will temporarily be down. During this time we have decided to reduce the number of servers to only the EU and US-W servers. If these servers are not enough for everyone then a second US server is a possibility, and something we will work for if the demand is there.


Remember this date! That is the day we will be back to excitedly show you all the work we’ve been doing lately. Reworks, optimizations, and a core refinement that we hope will make Mad Machines better than ever before. Until then, please keep the suggestions coming, and we will still be working closely with our community to ensure they do experience any issues during this transitional time.


Have some suggestions on additional improvements or looking to learn more about Mad Machines? Please join our Discord server as we will continue to leverage community feedback to improve the game.


Add Mad Machines to your wishlist on Steam: Store Page

• Remake of movement systems, your character will now always look where you are pointing without any delay
  
• Aerial movement updates
  
• Cannonball aim updates, character will look where you are aiming in air to make feel more smooth
  
• Dribble system remake
  
• New settings UI (WIP, has some bugs)
  
• UI updates in Solo Games
  
• Shooting mechanics (WIP, only in practice atm, need to reset your bindings to try it, press R to shoot)
  
• Shop bug fixes
  
• Customization bug fixes
  
• Fixes to few goalie issues
  
• Ball camera and Free camera disabled in all modes
  
• Practise ball count on rematch not resetting fixed
  
• Tutorial UI update
  
• Custom match exit popup

Come join our Discord server! Discord[www.discord.gg]

There will be no tournament this Saturday as we are preparing for Gamescom. That doesn't mean nothing is happening though. Everyone will have a chance to challenge a team of devs to 2v2 in Mad Ball best of 5. Winners will get 50$, 1 chance to challenge per team. Event will last for few hours or until there is no more challengers.

Game Mode: Mad Ball 2v2
Event starts: August 3rd at 1 PM EDT/ 7 PM CEST
Prize: 50$
How to join: write in our discord after event has started that you want to challenge us
Discord: www.discord.gg/madmachines

Time for our 14th weekly tournament. This week we are gonna have a 2v2 Mad Ball tournament! It should be easier to find 1 teammate than 2 teammates, so that's why it will be 2v2 instead of 3v3. The free agent system stays as it has been for the last 2 weeks, if you sign up as a free agent make sure that you use same nicknames in Discord and Battlefy!. Don't forget to write in #tournament-support if you have any problems. We had 14 players signed up for last week's tournament, so sadly it wasn't a 250$ prize pool, hopefully we can hit it this week.


In order to take part of the tournament as a free agent you have to register to the tournament with the same nickname that you have in our Discord server so that we can get hold of you. Free Agents who we can't find in our Discord server will not be able to take part in the tournament.

Format: 2v2 Mad Ball Double Elimination(If you lose you go to loser's bracket and still have a chance to win the tournament)
Tournament Starts: July 20th at 2 PM EDT/ 8 PM CEST
Server: US-E (unless players mutually agree otherwise); Grand Final will be played with switching the server after every game: US-E>EU>US-E>EU>US-E
Prize: Variable prizing based on entry.


12+ players: $150
24+ players: $250
48+ players: $500

Sign up link: https://battlefy.com/madmachines/tournamental-14-mad-machines-mad-ball-150250500-2v2-us-e/5d2f0c81b83da447e53234f8/info

If you have any questions about rules, prizing, or how to sign up, please ask Mickey in our Discord server, www.discord.gg/madmachines

Time for our 13th weekly tournament. We have done some balancing and changes to Mad Pong over the last weeks so it's a perfect chance to see how they work out in a 2v2 Mad Pong tournament! The free agent system with having to join the Discord with same name as in Battlefy worked great in overall, but there was still one player who had a different name so let me remind again, if you sign up as a free agent make sure that you use same nicknames in Discord and Battlefy!. Don't forget to write in #tournament-support if you have any problems. We had 20 players signed up for last week's tournament, so sadly it wasn't a 500$ prize pool, hopefully we can hit it this week.

In order to take part of the tournament as a free agent you have to register to the tournament with the same nickname that you have in our Discord server so that I can get hold of you. Free Agents who I can't find in our Discord server will not be able to take part in the tournament.

Format: 2v2 Mad Pong Double Elimination(If you lose you go to loser's bracket and still have a chance to win the tournament)
Tournament Starts: July 13th at 2 PM EDT/ 8 PM CEST
Server: EU (unless players mutually agree otherwise); Grand Final will be played with switching the server after every game: EU>US-E>EU>US-E>EU
Prize: Variable prizing based on entry.
Caster: twitch.tv/smirkinlive

12+ players: $150
24+ players: $250
48+ players: $500

Sign up link: https://battlefy.com/madmachines/tournamental-13-mad-machines-mad-pong-150250500-2v2-eu/5d23947de660415554bfcb10/info

If you have any questions about rules, prizing, or how to sign up, please ask Mickey in our Discord server, www.discord.gg/madmachines

Time for our 12th weekly tournament. The Rugby tournament showed us perfectly what parts are working and what needs improvements in Rugby. Time to return to our main competitive game mode with this week's tournament, it will be 2v2 Mad Ball. We heard your complaints and will try once again to make the free agents work without ruining other's experiences. Don't forget to write in #tournament-support if you have any problems. We had 24 players signed up for last week's tournament, so sadly it wasn't a 500$ prize pool, hopefully we can hit it this week.

In order to take part of the tournament as a free agent you have to register to the tournament with the same nickname that you have in our Discord server so that I can get hold of you. Free Agents who I can't find in our Discord server will not be able to take part in the tournament.

Format: 2v2 Mad Ball Double Elimination(If you lose you go to loser's bracket and still have a chance to win the tournament)
Tournament Starts: July 6th at 2 PM EDT/ 8 PM CEST
Server: US-E (unless players mutually agree otherwise); Grand Final will be played with switching the server after every game: US-E>EU>US-E>EU>US-E
Prize: Variable prizing based on entry.
Caster: twitch.tv/smirkinlive

12+ players: $150
24+ players: $250
48+ players: $500

Sign up link: https://battlefy.com/madmachines/tournamental-12-mad-machines-mad-ball-150250500-2v2-us-e/5d1a42af6eb86c3a8ea8df8d/info

If you have any questions about rules, prizing, or how to sign up, please ask Mickey in our Discord server, www.discord.gg/madmachines

It’s been a while since we last talked, but we’ve been hard at work adding as much content to Mad Machines as we can. We spent a long time perfecting our original game mode, Mad Ball, and have finally moved into adding new and different modes! Jump into the arena today and check out Mad Pong, Mad Rugby, and the new Pong Solo mini game.

In case you haven’t played Mad Ball lately, let’s talk about some of the changes we’ve made over the last few months. We’ve moved this mode to a more precise, shooting based mode by removing both the magnet and the killing. Combat damage now removes stamina from an opponent, slowing them down and removing them from the play. While this punishes them, it does not remove them from the game completely as it did in the past. The removal of the magnet also pushes the game in a direction of more calculated, precise hits, rather than grabbing the ball and just walking it up the field as players relied on in the past. Helping with this, we’ve also removed the double jump limit! Now you can get to the perfect position in the air to hit that beautiful aerial goal you’ve been dreaming of. To cap it all off Mad Ball got a slightly reworked arena featuring bigger goals to make scoring easier and accommodate the lack of magnet.

Don’t like Mad Ball? Well good news, everyone! We’ve introduced two new mainline game modes, Mad Pong and Mad Rugby! Mad Pong features a back wall filled with cubes, and each cube must be hit with a spikeball to be destroyed. First team to completely wipe out an enemies back wall or destroy more cubes than opponents when the timer runs out wins! This mode features a unique arena created just for this mode and it’s own ruleset to match. Mad Pong allows the use of magnet and comes with the new cannonball ability! While this mode can get intense at times, we’ve made it even more hectic by adding special cubes. If you wanted to practice this new mode, you can jump into the new minigame, Pong Solo. In our other new mode, Mad Rugby, we’ve tried to give a more slow paced feel to the game. This mode emphasizes passing and team play. Run the ball up the arena and pass to your teammates to score, but watch out, the heavy can tackle you right off the ball! With the introduction of these modes Mad Machines has gone from a one trick pony to a full robo-olympics! These modes are fairly new, and are still being balanced, so join our discord today to help give us some feedback on these modes!

While game modes are nice, if your PC can’t run Mad Machines then there’s no sense in adding them, so we’ve also patched a plethora of performance and visual improvements. Would you believe we’ve seen a 300% increase in performance over the last few performance updates? Well it’s true, and not only that but we made the game a lot more responsive, reduced boot/load times, and reduced memory usage to free up resources on your computer while in game. Matchmaking has also been streamlined, giving you shorter queue times and getting players into matches better. To accommodate all these backend changes there have been a number of UI updates to make everything a little better to look at. We’ve also improved bots across all modes, pushed training even closer to the sandbox mode our community asked for, and improved the functionality of our squad system.

As always, most of these changes have been either initially suggested by the members of our community, or refined by them. Everyone here at Hero Blocks takes great pride in how much of Mad Machines has been shaped by you guys, and we want that to continue! You can speak directly with our dev team and staff in our Discord server, and our regular, dedicated members get access to channels where their messages will always be read by a staff member, ensuring all suggestions are thought about. Almost everything a player has said in our server has been talked about among the team, and some things even play tested, so you never know who's idea will turn into the next mad mode! It’s been a long road to get to this point, but we’re nowhere near done yet. We hope for 50 years of refining Mad Machines, then another 100 years of you guys just loving it. We’ll see you in the arena soon!


Come join our Discord server! Discord

Time for our 11th weekly tournament. Rugby was added to Casual Play with last patch so it's a perfect time to see how it works out competitively. This week we are going to have a 3v3 Mad Rugby Tournament. We will not have free agents for this tournament either, so if you don't have a teammate, join our discord server and post in the #looking-for-team channel and hopefully you can team up with someone who also needs a teammate. Don't forget to write in #tournament-support channel if you have any problems. We had 28 players signed up for last week's tournament, so sadly it wasn't a 500$ prize pool, hopefully we can hit it this week.


It's fine if you don't have a teammate, just post in #looking-for-team that you are in need of a teammate, hopefully you will be able to find a teammate from there.


Format: 3v3 Mad Rugby Double Elimination(If you lose you go to loser's bracket and still have a chance to win the tournament)
Tournament Starts: June 29th at 2 PM EDT/ 8 PM CEST
Server: EU (unless players mutually agree otherwise); Grand Final will be played with switching the server after every game: EU>US-E>EU>US>EU
Prize: Variable prizing based on entry.
Caster: twitch.tv/smirkinlive


12+ players: $150
24+ players: $250
48+ players: $500


Sign up link: https://battlefy.com/madmachines/tournamental-11-mad-machines-mad-rugby-150250500-3v3-eu/5d0fdd2debc0ec31c608b6b9/info


If you have any questions about rules, prizing, or how to sign up, please ask Mickey in our Discord server, www.discord.gg/madmachines