Golf Dev Blog Archives

Fly By Creation Tool

We have just released a video in our videos section that shows how simple it is to create helicopter fly bys in Course Forge

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Some virtual camera fun

Every golf game needs a virtual camera but we're not talking Nikon or Olympus here! Our 'virtual eye' cams will allow you to view your round from almost unlimited viewpoints. After all, what's the point of having a complete 3D virtual world if you don't use it to it's full extent.

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Home improvements

Sorry no Tim Allen today, although I'm told he's a keen golfer and plays charity pro-ams quite regularly so maybe there's a tie in there ?

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A Bit Of Physics

Hey guys - as you could see in our last blog post, we have our golfer taking some basic shots, which means we've started tip-toeing into the shot physics.

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A Portrait of a Designer as a Young Gamer

Why do I get up in the morning and do what I do? This is the big question we all should be asking ourselves until we know it like a 3 ft. putt

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Somewhere over the rainbow...

...skies are blue and the dreams that you dare to dream

really do come true.

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First crawl - Character update

With a bit more colour in his cheeks, our golfer is slowly coming to life. Mike pointed out that this guy looks a bit squat, which is an interesting observation and brings up a good point.

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Anatomy of a practice area

I thought it might be interesting to show some of the things which went into designing and creating one of the practice areas for our game. We're trying to create a realistic golf game here and so what do most golfers do when they want to get better? They practice!

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perfectGolf Animation Testing

It's one of my other goals to have hyper realistic and natural animation in perfectGolf. This means to me we should not just try to create the most perfect golf swing, but recreate a variety of different swings that work for different body types and golfers.

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A little night golf practice

I headed down to my own private range this evening to practice a few drives and pitches. It was getting dark so I switched the floodlights on..

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Our characters first steps

Just a small update, but I wanted to share it with you

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Tropical Environment test

I started this hole to test our latest version of our course designer program (it's continually updated with new features and bug fixes every few days)

What can I say...I got carried away

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Bunker Development

We've been working hard since we posted the first video clips of our new course graphics a while back. We had a lot of positive feedback from the golf community from our initial video showcase but did we decide to leave it at that?

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Golf Course Tee Markers

So over the last few days I have been creating a bunch of different golf course objects, namely tee markers, From simple wooden stakes with painted ends, to aluminium hemispheres with club logos. We have 10 different tee markers so far with the appropriate colors, but also with spaces for club and course logos, or hole numbers.

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Live Leaderboard - Visual brainstorming

Part of the beauty and the battle when designing an interface is there are an infinite number of directions one can take it. As one of our goals as a company is to be truly multi platform, we look at all interface and design decisions from that perspective. Would it look good on a tablet ? How can we make the experience as good for a mouse user as a touch user, or even a gesture user. What sizes of text read best on what devices, how much can we or do we want to fit on screen?

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First full course finished

Perfect Parallel finally releases  long awaited images to the public of our first full course!  Set in an idyllic Mountain sanctuary, Crystal Pines features, rolling terrain, tricky sloping greens and fantastic views of the nearby snow capped mountains...

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