Mini Golf Classic Course - iPhone/iPod

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Just wanted to let everyone know my first iPhone/iPod game to use Unity was just accepted in the Appstore:

http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewSoftware?id=311530801&mt=8

You can see more screenshots and get more info here:

http://minigolf.brainstainentertainment.com

Pick it up and show some love!

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WOOT! Mini golf rocks! Nice job :slight_smile:

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I like the style.

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Just added a preview youTube video:

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Nice Video!!!

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Curious to how long the game took for you to develop? Were you the sole person on the project and if not how many members were on your team?

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Nice video, looks like a funny game. Good luck with it!

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I was the sole developer on this project. This game was my first to use Unity. Up until Mini Golf Classic Course we have been using an in-house engine (Hamster Dash uses the old engine which I wrote in Cocoa + OpenGL from scratch). The game took 2 months to develop, that includes time to get up to speed with Unity. Texturing + applying lightmaps was by far the most time consuming part.

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Wow, very impressive! Any advice for a Unity noob as far as developing another mini golf game? I am having quite a few problems with mine at the moment and I only have made one hole so far.

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Developing a mini golf game in Unity should be fairly straight forward so I don’t have a lot of advice to give you on the technical side… the only big issue I ran into during development was a physics bug described in this post:

http://forum.unity3d.com/viewtopic.php?t=6841

As far as mini golf games for the iphone in general I can offer a bit of advice…

  1. People don’t seem to like accelerometer based controls. This has been the #1 complaint I’ve received.

  2. 1 course (18 holes) is not enough. It is pretty rough for small iPhone developers because people now expect a whole lot for a dollar (or $1.99 in my case). The original goal was to offer 3 courses with a higher price point. I opted instead to offer one course at a much lower price. The bar is getting higher and higher every day while the race to the bottom ($0.99) continues. I think this is going to really hurt developers in the long term…

If you have any specific questions ask away.

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Hate to reply to an old thread, but this is a great game. Good work, really like the art style too.