London, 4th August 2021
The wait is over!
Today Big Head Games are immensely proud to announce the start of something beautiful, we will be making JMR video games based on all of Jelle’s amazing creations, Marble League, Marble Rally, Marbula 1, and some that are yet to be imagined, we’ll be working directly with Jelle and his team on those ‘only for video games’ creations early in 2022.
Up first is the Marble League for PC and Mac and is now inviting contributions through Indiegogo here - https://igg.me/at/Jelles
Due to be released on Steam in October 2021.
If you want to come along on that journey, get in touch, jump on Indigogo or just write about us.
Big Head Games is a developer and publisher of video games. Since 2008 they have been responsible for creating games for the world’s biggest publishers on platforms as diverse as mobile, plug and play joysticks, console and PC. Nominated for Develop Industry awards and regularly featured by Apple on the App store, with International Snooker being used in the iPhone 3GS TV commercial. Top releases include Lemmings mobile, Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3 iOS, Grease the movie on Nintendo DSi, Colin McRae Rally mobile, The Terminator on PSP, and Elefunk on PS3. www.bigheadgames.co.uk
Jelle’s Marble Runs is a Netherlands based YouTube content creator, the work of brothers Jelle and Dion Bakker, they have crafted marble videos since 2006, won countless awards, appeared in media around the world, and are consultants on a new tv show from the makers of Big Brother. https://jellesmarbleruns.com/hub/
Jelle’s Marble Runs are the go to place for marble run videos, Jelle first posted on YouTube in 2006 a video of thousands of marbles in one of his ‘marble machines’, in 2009 he was awarded the Guinness World Record for the world’s longest marble run a record that stood until 2011.
By 2016 Jelle had created the MarbleLympics (later becoming the Marble League), a series of beautifully crafted events featuring 16 teams winning medals and points, the YouTube channel took off with fans around the world loving the passion and creativity, Jelle’s Marble Runs had arrived.
In 2020 at the height of the pandemic Jelle’s team was looking for a sponsor, John Oliver (comedian and host of HBO’s Last Week Tonight show) was already a fan and stepped up sponsoring the whole season of events and giving it pride of place on his show.
Also in 2020 Jelle launched Marbula One a series of circuit-based marble races taking place in different venues with all the action of real world formula 1 and, like Marble League, featuring live commentary, crowd chants and superb camera work.
By June 2020 Jelle’s Marble Runs YouTube channel had over 1m subscribers and received the coveted Golden Play plaque and in January 2021 100,000 Bilibili subscribers in China.
By June 2020 Jelle’s Marble Runs YouTube channel had over 1m subscribers and received the coveted Golden Play plaque and in January 2021 100,000 Bilibili subscribers in China.
For further information please contact jmr@bigheadgames.co.uk
Note to editors: For immediate release. Indiegogo campaign is now live, for further details or assets please get in touch on the above email.