Marblers

You own one marble. You build it on the bench, you race it down the hill. Marblers is a campaign of six seasons. Each one opens by unlocking a single specification — grip, mass, sphericity, charge, lubrication, drive — and each one runs on ground that argues for the part it just gave you. The dry season is packed earth. The wet takes your grip away and the line you trusted stops holding. Shingle is loose stone, night is lamplit, cold snap is snow over ice, and the grand championship draws its ten tracks from all of them. Twelve on the grid. You start in the last slot, four abreast, and drag anywhere on the screen to steer. Bearings are on the course and at the line; parts are on the bench. Points go to the first six, and you have to finish first on points to take the season. Lose it and the season restarts — but the marble keeps everything you built into it. Nothing is ever taken away.…