Great game! Reminds me of Gravitee which was also a blast to play, but requires Flash https://www.kongregate.com/games/funkypear/gravitee
Show HN: My first game, minimal procgen gravity golf inspired by Desert Golfing
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#72Congratulations on your first game, and keeping it simple and fun.
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#73Looks like a rip-off of the good old "spaced penguin" shockwave (flash?) game.
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#74I 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!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vu3jzhwK60A
This one? If so, I played it three! One of those non-AAA games I most fondly remember from my teenage years!
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#75This is brilliant! I've put hours in to Desert Golf, and this is an improvement on every level. In particular, I find it much more relaxing that Desert Golf, which I think comes down to a couple of factors. The design is one – the cute graphics and colours really help. Music is another – you've done a great job there. I think the most important bit is the gameplay though – with not showing the score constantly, I'm n…
Thank you, those are very kind words. Have you discovered Hard Mode in the menu? That might scratch the high-pressure itch if you every get bored of relaxing! PS: and please tell your Desert Golfing friends!
Yeah I'll second that. This game -- on hard mode -- is hitting exactly the same notes as Desert Golf but even better. Super relaxing and very strong on the "one more hole". I've been playing on and off throughout the day, up to level... 58. And now 61 because of course I couldn't just put the phone down.
Extremely impressed that this is your first game. There's a ton of polish in there. Love how pleasing the animation between holes is; you can just tell that went through many iterations until someone with the exact vision said "Yep, there it is".
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#76why no portrait?
it also wouldn't be bad to have the previous launch vector shown
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#77Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
Even if you're technically able to cover the splash screen, you aren't legally or morally able.
That's why I called it a "stupid question", because I asked out of technical curiosity alone and without intent to do so.
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#78Earlier quoted context omitted.
Thank you, those are very kind words. Have you discovered Hard Mode in the menu? That might scratch the high-pressure itch if you every get bored of relaxing! PS: and please tell your Desert Golfing friends!
Yeah I'll second that. This game -- on hard mode -- is hitting exactly the same notes as Desert Golf but even better. Super relaxing and very strong on the "one more hole". I've been playing on and off throughout the day, up to level... 58. And now 61 because of course I couldn't just put the phone down. Extremely impressed that this is your first game. There's a ton of polish in there. Love how pleasing the animatio…
Thanks - people seem to be really liking hard mode!
That level transition took a lot of iterations indeed - I'm glad people are noticing it!
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#80Looks like a rip-off of the good old "spaced penguin" shockwave (flash?) game.
Hadn't heard of spaced penguin, but I make no claim that the gravity mechanic is original. There are a long trail of similar games going back to the 80s!