Nine Circles of Hell (NCoH) is a simple strategy game whose goal is to eliminate all of your marbles from the arena. The arena consists of a set of nested, concentric rings with carved out notches. Each inner ring is lower than its neighbor outer ring, and they can rotate.
You start with a set of marbles placed in the notches of the outermost ring. The rules are simple:
The ring will rotate until the selected marble drops into the next inner ring. If that inner ring is the center, then the marble leaves the arena.
NCoH is a physics-based 3D model where spherical objects on a slanting floor roll due to gravity. As a result, marbles may hang up and not drop into a slot as you were expecting. The arena is dynamically constructed by a process known as CSG (Constructive Solid Geometry) where 3D objects are combined via Boolean operators. For NCoH, this means each ring is based on a cylinder from which a smaller cylinder is 'subtracted'. Notches are created by subtracting a long, tilted rod from that ring. It is this construction process that causes the delay in every new game startup.
Now available on Steam.