After spending my career working in higher level languages, I'm always impressed by what people can do with languages like C. It's not just for drivers anymore.
Open Golf: A cross-platform minigolf game written in C
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Re: Open Golf: A cross-platform minigolf game written in C
#12Any recommendations to learn to build cross-platform games like this?
I work on frontend projects day-to-day. I'd love to build a simple cross-platform game in C/Zig/C++ for some variety and to learn lower-level programming.
I've looked at Handmade Hero in the past but its specific to Windows at the moment.
Re: Open Golf: A cross-platform minigolf game written in C
#13After spending my career working in higher level languages, I'm always impressed by what people can do with languages like C. It's not just for drivers anymore.
Putters, too!
Re: Open Golf: A cross-platform minigolf game written in C
#14This is excellent. Can I suggest a couple of improvements?
1. Maybe have a "par" for each hole.
2. Be able to better see the layout of multi-level holes, i.e. the ones with slopes.
Other than that this is a really nice lunchtime distraction.
Re: Open Golf: A cross-platform minigolf game written in C
#15Seems really great, I played all the way through. Here's a couple low-hanging QOL suggestions:
* Use right-click for the camera control, rather than left-click away from the ball. It's unnerving to have the camera change while you're trying to line up a shot.
* Show a shot counter, and assign each hole a par.
* Slightly tune down the friction. I had the ball stop dead on slopes a couple of times, and it stopped way earlier than I expected on slower shots.
Re: Open Golf: A cross-platform minigolf game written in C
#16After spending my career working in higher level languages, I'm always impressed by what people can do with languages like C. It's not just for drivers anymore.
Once upon a time such kind of games used to be done in C, after being done several years in Assembly, hardly anything to be amazed.
Re: Open Golf: A cross-platform minigolf game written in C
#17After spending my career working in higher level languages, I'm always impressed by what people can do with languages like C. It's not just for drivers anymore.
It used to be the norm to write games in C. In fact it used to be the norm to write them in assembly, C was seen as a higher level abstraction that sped up games development once upon a time.
Re: Open Golf: A cross-platform minigolf game written in C
#18Re: Open Golf: A cross-platform minigolf game written in C
#19Cool project! Was this inspired by Golf with Your Friends? I've been playing that a fair bit, it's pretty fun and good value.
looks like it doesn't (yet?) have networking support. my fiancée plays GFW almost daily after it was on sale recently, it's a fantastic casual to play both with friends or with strangers online, pretty chill community
Re: Open Golf: A cross-platform minigolf game written in C
#20Nice.
Perhaps a level generator based on some ascii art or something would be nice.
That way more people could add levels in merge requests. Or even add a level loader where you can import a list of those levels.