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Loved this, I hope it's not another promotion by anthropic :D

Feels 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.

Cool project. On my phone the camera is facing the opposite direction and I can't figure out how to consistently rotate it.

It'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.

I 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.

Prove you can get in the hole in just 6 putts, damn you.

Would be awesome to also have a private room where you can play X old random/picked holes in a series versus your friends.

Nice! Also reminds me of https://minigolfle.com/

I 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/

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.

On mobile, don’t make the ball the hit target to putt, because you can’t see where the direction/power under your thumb

This is really cool. Probably needs some physics tweaks as a short putt is almost always way to hard. But love the idea!

Almost 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.

Very nice. I'd be interested to hear how the real-time/multi-player element is working?

A positive AI side effect. The era of "little flash games" is coming back and I love it!

Bug: Show a message that WebGL is disabled instead of blank white screen.

I'd love a rotation fixed overhead camera

I like it! The graphics are really good but it feels a bit laggy to me. IDK if someone else has experienced this.

Adorable 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.

am i dumb how do i get past the first little ledge

Really 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.

Love it! If you added a more useable multiplayer mode, I'd love to share with some friends I usually golf with.

It'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.

Looks quite funny actually. Maybe it could be some multiplayer mode that I can srike and crash my opponent ball.

Par 6 my ass

Ain't even loading for my poor laptop. Sounds like a lot of fun though!

Doesn't seem to render on Firefox.

The score card should reflect your latest playthru even if it “doesn’t count.”

I like it. What stack did you use for rendering, physics etc?

The camera auto orientation was 180 degrees wrong after clearing a stage. Maybe you need to give it a sort of "preferential direction"?

Congrats on game that can be used in a mobile browser. Thats rare.

Really 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!

Fun 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

The phrase “how was this hole” was amazing

putt.day #32 14/9 +5

https://putt.day

thanks again for the feedback everyone. I just pushed a few updates around physics and scoring!

Nothing beats Neverputt. https://enderandrew.com/neverputt/

Freakin 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!

This 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

Par 6 seem impossible? At least 15 necessary at the least?

incredibly 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

fun little game!