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Show HN: Putt.day a daily mini golf game
- 2OEH8eoCRo0 5mo agoPar 6 my ass
- ben0x539 5mo agohttps://i.imgur.com/PzlgXnD.png https://i.imgur.com/PzlgXnD.png skill issue edit: https://i.imgur.com/9xnntqB.mp4 https://i.imgur.com/9xnntqB.mp4 fairly reliable trick shot
- Retr0id 5mo agoMind giving a description for the jurisdictionally challenged? (imgur self-censors in the UK)
- duncancarroll 5mo agoThere's a shortcut
- ben0x539 5mo agoscreenshot of finishing with 4 strokes / 6 par (tho my locked-in daily result was 14 strokes). The video is bouncing the ball of a wall right at the start to make it jump over the wall, water, and corner behind the start, to skip most of the track.
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- bauble 5mo agoBefore making the first shot, turn around and face backwards. Shoot back and to the left toward the barrier. After the ball ricochets, it should hit the downward-angled barrier on the opposite side and hop over it to the end section, where it's not too hard to sink the ball with three or four more shots.
- spython 5mo agoYou can go from the starting position to the last u-turn, skipping nearly the whole course. But I doubt that's intentional.
- wuliwong 5mo agoGot dat Birdie son!
- brikym 5mo agoI like it. What stack did you use for rendering, physics etc?
- darkgray 5mo agoProve you can get in the hole in just 6 putts, damn you.
- jdauriemma 5mo agoI scored 5. Bank at max power at 5 o’clock from tee, the ball bounces over the wall and skips most of the course.
- mcapodici 5mo agoThanks for the tip. Was 26. Now 4. More specifically: aim back, and where the left side (as you now face) starts to ramp down there aim for the spot where it starts to slope down. Full power.
- unknown_user_84 5mo agoI have to wonder if they modded it because this doesn't seem possible anymore. Though I may be holding the putter wrong XD I tried hitting the little floating island behind the start too to get a bounce but the ball clips through it. What I did find was that you can use the purple spinning circle at the beginning as a teleporter to the one near the end if you aim at the wall opposite the spinner. Your ball will hit the wall and bounce back and up into the teleporter thing. edit: I think the level changed?
- darkgray 5mo agoThere's a new course every day (like Wordle), so we were talking about yesterday's. It's still accessible from the archive / calendar button in the menu! I'm pretty sure Mr Dev Man messed with the power levels after I played, though, because it absolutely wasn't doable when I first tried. Surely.
- daemonologist 5mo agoYou can bounce the ball up slightly (presumably the spin from rolling is modeled or approximated, and gives lift when hitting a bumper), which might be enough to skip from the tee to near the end of the course. Not sure that should be considered for "par" though. Took me 14.
- Retr0id 5mo agoFeels like there's too much rolling resistance, even with a perfectly lined up shot there's not so far you can go. And definitely not enough to make it in 6! Also if the camera angle is too high, you can't pull back far enough to reach maximum speed.
- wtfHN26 5mo agoGot it done in 4. https://ibb.co/VYwvY4qN https://ibb.co/VYwvY4qN
- ellg 5mo agotweaking this currently, thanks for the feedback
- Retr0id 5mo agoMy pasteable "scorecard" was fairly simplistic, just 8 solid green circles followed by an ellipsis. I think you could improve this by dividing the course into regions (either visibly or invisibly - same number of regions as the par) and considering each hit to be green if it makes forward progress, amber if it doesn't, or red if it goes backwards. And don't truncate it if it takes more than 8 shots!
- taikahessu 5mo agoAlso it was very disorienting especially after making into the circular hole thingy, hard to know which way to aim, some small sign which is the right way would be nice, other than that, quite nice.
- munro 5mo agoIf you bounce off the wall at the start, and RNG gods look down on you, you're lined up to go through castle on first shot. Then knock it through castle, and lined up for 3rd final putt into hole. But I agree with those points. I feel like real putt putt glides more, then more resistance at slower speeds then slow speeds have more resistance. And then yeah, default camera angles are troublesome--it makes it impossible to do full power shot at some angles too.
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- sergiotapia 5mo agoPar 6 seem impossible? At least 15 necessary at the least?
- Retr0id 5mo agoI got it in 15 but overshot the last 2, so I'd say 13 at least is possible. But definitely not 6!
- duncancarroll 5mo agoThere's a trick to it
- cactusplant7374 5mo agoI got 12. I'm not going to tell you the secret though.
- recursive 5mo ago6 is possible. Just did it. Less is possible. Hitting a wall gives you a vertical impulse. That can be used.
- slopinthebag 5mo agoI did it in 3, but you need to hit a jump from the start over, and roll far enough to go through the arch on shot 2.
- djmips 5mo ago2 :) https://ibb.co/v6RtSPDM https://ibb.co/v6RtSPDM
- kaonwarb 5mo ago[dead]
- hankbond 5mo agoIt's cute but the physics feel off. Something about the bouncing feels like it dampens the momentum too much, and the rolling resistance also feels like it's too aggressive. I really did not like the ramp that pushes for you.
- ellg 5mo agoya its still a wip, I appreciate the feedback though and I do want to keep tweaking stuff like this. Feel free to add feedback at the end of level prompts too if you feel like it, I'll be reading all of them
- Hugsbox 5mo agoThis is really awesome! But par 6 is absolute bullshit. I thought I was doing really good, made great progress with every putt, didn't seem to make any major mistakes... but way over par :( I'll return tomorrow and try again
- wuliwong 5mo agoI got a Birdie! You don't just have to follow the main path...(mysterious sounds)
- therealdrag0 5mo agoCongrats on game that can be used in a mobile browser. Thats rare.
- ellg 5mo agoI made this because I wanted something quick to play while pooping
- Madmallard 5mo agohow the vibes though
- lellow 5mo agofun little game!
- kjgkjhfkjf 5mo agoI like the concept. It's fun. Feedback: 1. The ball seems a bit soft. I suggest you get a real golf ball and putter and see how they behave, if you haven't already. 2. It would be nice if the camera positioned automatically so that it's roughly in the direction the ball should go on the next shot. 3. There were a bunch of flying yellow blobs. I was not sure what they were supposed to be.
- em-bee 5mo agoi agree on the camera direction. that is annoying. the flying blobs are other players going wild
- Scoundreller 5mo agoI suggest "feather touch" you have selected: "POWER DRIVE"
- unknown_user_84 5mo agoyou have selected a 3 wood, may I suggest PUTTER https://youtu.be/k3vWkqfX9fY?is=ot-bpGP8tXMcgE6b https://youtu.be/k3vWkqfX9fY?is=ot-bpGP8tXMcgE6b
- montag 5mo agoThe score card should reflect your latest playthru even if it “doesn’t count.”
- em-bee 5mo agoor the best one, so i can challenge myself to improve.
- wuliwong 5mo agoFreakin awesome. Hahahah, I love that there are 'cheats' and the fact that you can see everyone playing definitely makes it cool! You can even get hints by watching the ghost players. Great job!
- falsaberN1 5mo agoAdorable little game, works very well! In today's hole I found a little shortcut by bouncing back from the starting position into just before the little "house" and managed to complete the hole in 4 shots. I like that such things are possible, feels satisfying.
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- m1rsh0 5mo agoI like it! The graphics are really good but it feels a bit laggy to me. IDK if someone else has experienced this.
- ellg 5mo agothanks again for the feedback everyone. I just pushed a few updates around physics and scoring!
- kevinwang 5mo agoNice! Also reminds me of https://minigolfle.com/ https://minigolfle.com/
- chandler5555 5mo agoam i dumb how do i get past the first little ledge
- heystefan 5mo agolol same
- datenyan 5mo agoSame here, got stuck in an infinite loop of the booster pad (?) sending slamming me into the wall over and over.
- Wilduck 5mo agoYou don't, you just cheese the level by slamming into the wall just to the left at the start and skip most of the course.
- LearnYouALisp 5mo agoThe ball appears to go high enough but it [control] doesn't like that it went over space. So the best one could do was put it (after +1s) into the port.
- ellg 5mo agoi fucked up the random seed and it generated a bunk level, its fixed now sorry
- Rmnesia 5mo agoLooks quite funny actually. Maybe it could be some multiplayer mode that I can srike and crash my opponent ball.
- purple-leafy 5mo agoThe phrase “how was this hole” was amazing
- fabled-out 5mo agoLove it! If you added a more useable multiplayer mode, I'd love to share with some friends I usually golf with.
- zoleeg 5mo agoTry https://minigolfclub.io/ https://minigolfclub.io/ with your friends if you are looking for an online golf game
- sudo_cowsay 5mo agoAin't even loading for my poor laptop. Sounds like a lot of fun though!
- sinvestor 5mo ago[dead]
- naet 5mo agoI made my own daily golf game a couple years ago; honestly it isn't even really finished but it gets a couple thousand plays every day somehow. It's more like a 2d platform golf: https://squigglegolf.com/game/ https://squigglegolf.com/game/ I had built out a custom level editor and some other fun features, but never really polished off the UI enough to release those. Someday I should really finish / update it.
- footydude 5mo ago> it isn't even really finished but it gets a couple thousand plays every day somehow. Having just spent 5 minutes on it...I imagine it gets played because it's pretty good fun (good work!) The inclusion of showing the trajectory of your previous (failed) attempts is really neat - it means I can refine my shots more accurately.
- nswango 5mo agoNo offense to the OP but this game is much more fun.
- rkudeshi 5mo agoI really enjoyed this! It was also a pleasant surprise when I learned I could hit the ball again while it was in mid-air.
- rendx 5mo agoLike it a lot!
- Hugsbox 5mo agoThank you, this is wicked! Straight to the favourites bar for daily play.
- passiflora96 5mo agoReally love the concept! It was kinda laggy for me tho. Had to stare at a blank screen until i spammed the refresh button. Other than that, pretty cool stuff.
- paulhebert 5mo agoReally fun idea! Though I agree about the feedback on the physics: the ball doesn't travel as far as I'd like and bounces off the edge too often. The game also often wanted to reorient me towards the flag which was annoying when I was trying to go another direction. It also sometimes was tricky to drag the ball - It thought I was trying to pan the perspective. All that said, this is fucking rad! I think with a few small tweaks you've got something really special. And it could easily be extended with windmills, power-ups, etc. I'm excited to play more and see it progress!
- chrisweekly 5mo agoincredibly annoying to get close to the hole then go back and forth over the hole on what should be a tap-in. reached it in 3, then got to 22 strokes before saying fuck it, I have better things to do
- cush 5mo agoOn mobile, don’t make the ball the hit target to putt, because you can’t see where the direction/power under your thumb
- vladsiu 5mo ago[dead]
- twosky 5mo agoIt's a good game! If I had to give a little feedback, I wish the sound of falling into the water was a bit more natural! Other than that, I'm satisfied.
- ZeWaka 5mo agoDoesn't seem to render on Firefox.
- unknown_user_84 5mo agoWorks on mobile firefox for me. I often get webgpu errors with firefox. 151.0.4 (Build #2016165791), GV: 151.0.4-20260608154138 AS: 151.0.2 OS: Android 16
- verytrivial 5mo agoAlmost complete inability to sink the ball. I though I was meant to get it to stop in the spinning circle? But it is impossible to putt a short distance, it's always a couple of feet, and when I managed to use the edges to bounce away energy and stop the ball on the circle, nothing happened.
- jachee 5mo agoThe hole (like in IRL golf) has a flag in it. :) The Overview button helps get an idea of where to go.
- kylegalbraith 5mo agoThis is really cool. Probably needs some physics tweaks as a short putt is almost always way to hard. But love the idea!
- mig74 5mo agoputt.day #32 14/9 +5 https://putt.day https://putt.day
- andrewshadura 5mo agoNothing beats Neverputt. https://enderandrew.com/neverputt/ https://enderandrew.com/neverputt/
- LearnYouALisp 5mo agoFriction?
- camillomiller 5mo agoFun but closer to the hole it’s impossible to aim. I missed it for time because I have no way to understand fine direction if my thumb covers the indicator at low power
- felooboolooomba 5mo agoBug: Show a message that WebGL is disabled instead of blank white screen.
- atoav 5mo agoThe camera auto orientation was 180 degrees wrong after clearing a stage. Maybe you need to give it a sort of "preferential direction"?
- felooboolooomba 5mo agoA positive AI side effect. The era of "little flash games" is coming back and I love it!
- uludag 5mo agoI kind of feel like I'm going crazy when I read comments like this. The era of "little flash games" has never left and there have always been countless number of such games developed. The only thing AI is doing is putting AI developed games in front of Hacker News readers.
- molybd3num 5mo agoi always enjoy going to the games section on newgrounds, plenty of great games
- LearnYouALisp 5mo agoWith zero dogfooding and feedback-based crafting.
- anotheryou 5mo agoI'd love a rotation fixed overhead camera
- aosaigh 5mo agoVery nice. I'd be interested to hear how the real-time/multi-player element is working?
- dirkhe 5mo agoWould be awesome to also have a private room where you can play X old random/picked holes in a series versus your friends.
- buggylearning 5mo agoCool project. On my phone the camera is facing the opposite direction and I can't figure out how to consistently rotate it.
- iAMkenough 5mo agoThere’s a setting on by default that aims the camera at the hole. Turning that off helps a lot.
- Dheerajiitr 5mo agoLoved this, I hope it's not another promotion by anthropic :D
- tosti 5mo agoI couldn't get past the partial instructions. The box of text is taller than my screen and centered vertically, with no way to scroll up or down.
- yason 5mo agoOn a related note, does anyone know of a good (open source) golf simulator/game for Linux? Serious level gaming more than just entertainment, I'm thinking something like FlightGear of golf games.
- Aardwolf 5mo agoI don't know any since I'm not playing any golf simulator games myself, but most games on Steam work in Linux with Proton so you might find something there. That's not open source of course but you had it in parenthesis which I think means this was optional :)
- jboogie77 5mo agoReminds me of http://kindahardgolf.com http://kindahardgolf.com
- mkolodny 5mo agoAlso reminds me of 3D Ultra Minigolf Deluxe (https://youtu.be/mr9GbmBROfo https://youtu.be/mr9GbmBROfo). That game was kind of Disney World meets minigolf with how imaginative the levels were.
- splwjs 5mo agoWhy can I see other people's ball/cursor? Feels like that adds a ton of complexity to the project but like, what do I do with/gain from that?
- rendx 5mo agoI enjoy "not playing alone". Keep!
- brador 5mo agoWhat was used to make this? Is it godot?
- Xotic007 5mo agoHonestly the games very good, i played all the holes in one go. One thing I’d like though is for the ball to lose a bit less speed when it bounces off the wall.
- axeno 5mo agoMy dumbass sent the ball backwards first go haha. putt.day #32 9/9 Par https://putt.day/s/sxUQOXKmSCxC https://putt.day/s/sxUQOXKmSCxC It is wild how far browser gaming has come. The stuff on CoolMathGames from when I was a kid isn't so cool anymore...
- opengrass 5mo agoEagle
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- madibo3156 5mo agoThe share images showing where putts landed is super cool.