Media: Video Game

Genres: Golf, Physics, Funny

Status: Published

Start date: 26 Jan, 2024

Release date: 28 Jan, 2024

Platform: Windows, HTML5

Engine: Unity

Golf? is a physics based golf game where you must use unconventional tools and environmental effects to aid your golf ball to the flag. Try your best to meet the par by any means necessary, either by slowly coercing the ball towards the green or go balls to the wall (pun intended) and send the ball catapulting through the air praying that it goes in.

Throughout Golf? your club, ball, stage and even gravity can change. Starting off with small changes and getting more chaotic as you progress. All tied together with unpredictable human fall flat inspired physics to deliver a chaotic but unique feeling game experience.

This game was made for the 2024 Global Game Jam which had the theme "make me laugh". The general process of generating this idea consisted of us sitting down, figuring out some funny things that make games funny and boiling it down, to a little bit of frustration, a pinch of unpredictability and a smidge of familiarity. All of this coming together to bring a funny twist on a game known world wide.

My role on the game was as the programmer and systems designer, I took notes of things we wanted in the game and implemented them as best as I could given the time limit. A lot of the fun of this game jam came from just throwing stuff at the wall to see what sticks, it provided a sand box like environment for me to just tweak things about the game that I thought could add more to the overall experience.