Sungolf
Play 5 tiny golf courses, but the golfball is the sun! Featuring a scrolling dynamic background that reacts to how close to the goal you are.
After you've played all levels once you get sent back to the beginning, but with this time a highscore (lowscore) to beat. Not only the invuvidual courses, but also how many shots it took you to complete all five levels, including respawns.
Controls:
- Drag your mouse from the sun to aim and change strength, release to send the sun flying.
- Press R to restart the level
Made by a solo dev. Initially created for Trijam #279 with the theme "Sunset".
Shoutout to the SmartShape2D plugin for making the terrain possible.
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Development log
- Post jam update!Aug 01, 2024
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also...this happened lol
Nice shot!
really fun! I would definitely play more levels. for now I'll just have to stick with getting an unbeatable score on each level (I got a hole in one on level 1 and 2 and a par 3 on the last).
That are as far as I know the optimal scores, well done! Thanks for playing
I also definitely had to play to a perfect 1-1-3 score however many resets I had to do in the end, haha. Addictive gameplay to get the best scores. Would probably translate well to a mobile game as well, and could keep people playing just to perfect scores and be rated after a 3 star system, 3 stars only for the optimal plays. Good Job!
Thanks! It would definitely fit as a mobile game
I've added two more levels now along with a way to track your highscore when playing them all in a row! I would be very happy if you gave it a go :D
yeah, I'll check it out!(I was on vacation so that's why I didn't respond)
just played them both! I somehow got the third level sooner than the second though which might not be intended. Might need tweaking
It might been, the new ones currently are nr 3 and 5. Old nr 3 got moved to be nr 4 now. Is this what you experienced?
yeah, not quite what I meant though. I finished level three faster than level
The dynamic background is a thing of beauty!
And the sun-setting after making a hole is even cooler.
Personally, would've liked a bit less forgiving gameplay: if I miss or restart, the score shouldn't reset. That way I have more incentive to try again to beat my previous score.
Super fun, keep at it!
Thanks for playing! The idea for less forgiving score is interesting, might add a counter for total shots for all levels consecutively, that way you get kind of a "marathon" feeling to it.
"Iron man" mode ;)
Hi! There is now a overall highscore tracker that counts the total number of moves during an entire playthrough. Give it a go if you want a new challenge. Also there are two new levels along with other improvements.
Well done! It's really a fun game to play :D
Thank you!
Cool idea! It took me more tries to win than I'd like to admit... but I did it :)
I like the
scrollingdynamic background and lighting.Thanks for playing! I'm glad you appreciated the hard work I put into the
scrollingdynamic background.this is really fun :D
my current record for each level (striked out ones are my previous pbs)
1:
twoone2:
twoone :D it took me a while to get this one lmao3:
fourthreeWell done! I don't think it's possible to get any better honestly. Thanks for playing!
An interesting and addictive game! I really liked the idea and the effect of the sun. I played through phone :)
Thanks for playing! I'm planning on adding even more pretty sun effects and I'm glad the phone support worked.
Superb! I never expected to have so much fun playing golf! The idea of making us start again to beat our record worked really well for me: I ended up doing level 2 in one shot! =D
In short: minimalist and effective ! Well done!
Thank you! Getting the second one on one shot is something (afaik) only one person before you has been able to do, good job!
You need to explain the mechanics a bit more. Leaving the screen kills you, for starters.
I sadly didn't have time for a proper tutorial, but hey, you did learn that yourself so I don't think a text telling you that is necessary. Any more things that you found confusing?
This game is absolutely fantastic. I think it work great with a few more holes as a short mobile game. It's especially impressive considering it only took 5.5 hours
Thank you! I do want to expand on it a little, I especially want to explore making some godrays for the sun to really sell the effect. And more levels too of course, maybe even a moving obstacle or something.
This game is awesome - the first two holes really prepared me for the mechanics of the final level and the music is so catchy.
Thank you! The second and third hole actually swapped places during the last bit of development, glad that made the difficulty curve good! The music is an older piece I touched up a bit before adding it. Thanks again!
Amazing game! Played through all levels and was really invested in getting to the goal with minimum flings :)
also! Big thank you for the little bumps in the floor, really helped me ^^
Thanks for playing! I'm happy my attempts at reducing the difficulty worked.