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Show HN: My first game, minimal procgen gravity golf inspired by Desert Golfing

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Re: Show HN: My first game, minimal procgen gravity golf inspired by Desert Golfing

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Yes, exactly. Have to pay $$ to remove that splash screen logo!

Stupid question, but I see your logo is on there as well. Might you be able to just make a larger image, or make a background image that blended in with the colors so as to make it illegible? I'm sure that was not top priority, just curious.

No, they don't make it easy (and more importantly, it would violate their terms). You just have to pay to remove the splash screen.

Re: Show HN: My first game, minimal procgen gravity golf inspired by Desert Golfing

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I remember playing a game like this when I was a kid (25ish years ago) at school, except it wasn't golf, but rather a two player game where you shot gravity-assisted missiles at each other (think Worms-in-space). I remember it being on an Acorn Archimedes, but it may have been a PC.

Warheads? I played it too!

Wow, warheads looks fun. Very complex. I'll be giving it a play tonight!

Re: Show HN: My first game, minimal procgen gravity golf inspired by Desert Golfing

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I don't normally install games on my phone, but this looks fun so I just installed it. Seems like something I could entertain myself with for some time! Also kudos on having a Linux version <3

Thank you! The entire game was developed on Linux as well ;)

Re: Show HN: My first game, minimal procgen gravity golf inspired by Desert Golfing

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I don't usually install apps (especially games) with in app purchases. The only time I sometimes do is when I know what they are up front. Can you explain what the in app purchases are in the description?

You can expand a section lower down on its App Store page to see what's the iaps are. In this case I think it said unlock full game.

Re: Show HN: My first game, minimal procgen gravity golf inspired by Desert Golfing

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This is a great game! One request: there's a way to turn off the music but the sound effects keep playing. Could you make that button turn off all sound, not just the music? Or add another one to turn off the effects as well?

Thank you - that seems sensible, I'll fix that shortly.

Re: Show HN: My first game, minimal procgen gravity golf inspired by Desert Golfing

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I don't usually install apps (especially games) with in app purchases. The only time I sometimes do is when I know what they are up front. Can you explain what the in app purchases are in the description?

You can expand a section lower down on its App Store page to see what's the iaps are. In this case I think it said unlock full game.

That's good to know. Not sure if that's the case on Android - I don't think it is.

Re: Show HN: My first game, minimal procgen gravity golf inspired by Desert Golfing

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So had I :( A lot of these bugs seem to also go unfixed, I think with the intention that you pay for Unity Pro which gives you source code access to the engine and you can work around them / fix them yourself.

Pro doesn't give you source code access, just you need to at least have a Pro license to buy source code access (which is very expensive).

Ah, my misunderstanding. That's good to know. I imagine Unity pays more attention to Pros though? If you're free and you open tickets / post on the forums, they seem to just get totally ignored.

Re: Show HN: My first game, minimal procgen gravity golf inspired by Desert Golfing

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You can expand a section lower down on its App Store page to see what's the iaps are. In this case I think it said unlock full game.

That's good to know. Not sure if that's the case on Android - I don't think it is.

Ah yeah, I'd not clocked your link takes us to the relevant App Store so I'd assumed it was an iOS only game.

It's great by the way! I've played a bit of desert golf over the years after reading a HN comment about it, and your game is a delightful improvement =]

Re: Show HN: My first game, minimal procgen gravity golf inspired by Desert Golfing

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Pro doesn't give you source code access, just you need to at least have a Pro license to buy source code access (which is very expensive).

Ah, my misunderstanding. That's good to know. I imagine Unity pays more attention to Pros though? If you're free and you open tickets / post on the forums, they seem to just get totally ignored.

Each level gets better support, right up to getting roving Unity engineers in to help you out.

I don't think they are deliberately leaving bugs unfixed in order to up sell people though. More its just an enormous software project with an awful lot of people using it in lots of different ways. Basically an enormous surface area to try to tackle.

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