Early Access Release on Itch

Hello everyone and welcome to BINK golf. It's been just over 8 weeks (i think) and a friend lit a fire under me to finally release on itch and give this a go.

I've been wanting to get into game dev my whole life. Started coding on an Atari when I was about 7-8 years old from instructions I found in the back of even older magazines. On and off my whole life. Was actually working on another idea and just wanted to play a golf game one day, so I let Steam update WGT for 2 days (had to go through several iterations to get it working on linux), played 4 holes and rage quit.

Golf games have become needlessly complex, and I wanted to make something simple. Still challenging, but without the tedious click mini-game shot mechanics and without all of the shot selection options. Just an easily approachable game that you don't have to be a golf pro to understand.

So I sat down and designed BINK. It's far from finished, and this is an early access release, but it's come together very quickly and been a long 8 weeks of grinding to get it to this point. I still need to add AI opponents, a putting green, tournaments, and maybe some fun mini-games (first person to bogey has to wear bunny ears for the rest of the course, stuff like that) at which point I can transition to Beta and start fleshing out the graphics, textures, UI cleanup and more.

My current stack is Godot Engine, Blender, and GIMP, along with a lot of research on r/golf. I've even dusted off my old clubs and started practicing my swing IRL to stay connected to the project and motivated to keep it going, possibly making another game in the future that will have more shot physics and such for people who really know golf. But for now, BINK is the game.

This is my first release on itch, and I'm going to try building some momentum. I'm doing this all by myself, so if you know someone that might enjoy getting in early on this game please help me spread the word. I'm just one guy working solo on this, so any help is appreciated.

Love you all, will see you in a future update.