Our second patch focuses on releasing our 2nd map and optimizing the game. Also plenty of bug fixes.

Patch notes:

• Extra map, randomized
  
• Daily King is rewarded a King’s Trophy Weapon on the next day
  
• AOE damage doesn’t penetrate props and environment anymore
  
• In-game chat
  
• More optimizations
  
• Various bug fixes

You can buy Mad Machines directly from our shop, which will support the developers even more: https://playmadmachines.com/buy-now

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

Our first patch is ready. It has some big gameplay changes and features that we couldn't get ready for the launch and also some bug fixes.

Patch notes:

- every player can grow
- no health potions
- points gained from Blocks only
- mining rocks only provide health repair
- leaderboards have been wiped, due to updated points system

- jetpack changed to now using fuel
- added ‘Flash’ power-up
- added charge attacks
- added option to invert jog and sprint

- map adjustments, more pickup spots
- adjusted weapon speeds, damage and range
- adjusted melee damage

- fixed bindings not saving, added ping to in-game tab menu
- various bugs fixed

You can buy Mad Machines directly from our shop, which will support the developers even more: https://playmadmachines.com/buy-now

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

We are happy to announce that Mad Machines has re-launched with the all new Mad King mode today for just $9.99! Returning players who have already purchased Mad Machines will automatically receive this all new mode for free.

Mad King

Mad King is a never-ending battleground featuring 24 hour match-loops where you can enter and exit whenever you wish. Rip your enemies apart and eat them piece by piece to grow in size and claim the crown.

10 player free-for-all brawl with destructive, highly customizable robots and endless explosive combat.

Mad King Features

• Third person arena shooter
  
• Online multiplayer
  
• Dedicated servers
  
• Instant respawns
  
• Endless running games
  
• Ranked system with points earned during matches
  
• Inspired by the .io genre, the leading player is the King, and players fight to get bigger and stronger
  
• 10 player free-for-all
  
• Robots made from 40 laser cut blocks
  
• High speed, physics based action
  
• Dynamic in-game leaderboard, as well as a global leaderboard for the best kings around

Fun Features (totally not bugs)

• Ragdolls get possessed by evil spirits every so often (our exorcist is on vacation).
  
• Angered machines occasionally can walk in the air like a god.
  
• Your character may decide to start blinking sometimes, apparently they are big rave fans.
  
• Mine bombs might ignore the ground and go right through it.
  
• Shields have become sentient and might leave you if they don’t like you, so be nice to them or they will stop protecting you!

You can also buy Mad Machines directly from our shop, which will support the developers even more: https://playmadmachines.com/buy-now

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

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