Wacky Mini Golf Beta

[Danlab]

here is the beta of my current project
http://danlabgfiles.propagation.net/wackygolfBETA.zip

http://www.danlabgames.com/blogpics/wackylava.jpg

There is 4 levels of details.
it use a lot of shader , that mean a good video card and 10.4

i need to finish the registration window and the Manual

please tell me if you found any bug

i also heard it not workin well on old imac(g4) with nvidia video card.

Thanks
Dan

[FreakSoftware]

Can't wait to have time to try it :)

[Fenris]

Simply fantastic! :D Extremely well polished, and runs well at the best settings 800x600 on my lowest-line MacBook.

[Jake]

Looks great!

I turned everything up on my 2GHZ Macbook Pro Core Duo at 1600x1200, and unfortunately it scaled down the graphics until I unchecked the box that lets the game automatically scale the graphics. After that it looked amazing, but before the laval looked very pixelated. I only noticed one glitch, the ball shadow goes through objects and still lands on the volcano!

Very nice, keep up the good work!

[Frank C.]

i also heard it not workin well on old imac(g4) with nvidia video card.
I don't get the fancy pixel shaders on my GeForce3 (to be expected) but it otherwise runs great. I'd suspect the iMac's problem is an "MX" card - my ancient PCI Radeon 7000 with no T&L performs better than those POS ;) I did notice some pronounced "normal popping" on the animated models - are you doing your own lighting?

Gameplay wise I ran into some weirdness after hitting a ball into the water, where the game kept dropping the ball in a bad spot (back in the water!) over and over - it finally hit dry land after 6 or seven tries. The only other complaint would be that it sometimes takes forever for the ball to stop rolling if it's moving slowly along a slope/edge.

Other than that it plays and looks great - the controls and camera angles work nicely!

[Danlab]

I don't get the fancy pixel shaders on my GeForce3 (to be expected) but it otherwise runs great.
are you running 10.3 ?

[EvolPenguin]

Great looking and fun to play, it took me a few seconds to realize the controls, but... there doesn't seem to be any music playing during the actual game, just ambient noise. Is that intentional or not?

Alex

[Danlab]

Great looking and fun to play, it took me a few seconds to realize the controls, but... there doesn't seem to be any music playing during the actual game, just ambient noise. Is that intentional or not?

Alex

there is a music during the game, did you played with the prefs ?
like enabling itunes...

[igame3d]

So far so good. No problem to report. Will have more later.

[Frank C.]

are you running 10.3 ?
I'm running 10.4.9, but the GeForce3 doesn't export ARB_fragment_shader/program.

[MarkJ]

It looks like the game's officially released now on Dan's website.

Meanwhile, I've made a little trailer of highlights for my blog: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A3mcc2JwUX0

[nich]

why did you decide to do another golf game?

[Danlab]

why did you decide to do another golf game?
i started playing with Newton to see how physic engine work.
playing with a ball on a mesh made with Cinema4D...
and i did a golf game..


basically its "Islands Mini Golf 2".
i did in Wacky Golf what i wanted to do in islands mini golf.

adding animated characters, physisc engine, shaders, camera stuff.

also... adding online game.. the next version is ready.. i added multiplayer online game , with ingame chat, and htat really cool.