Show HN: My first game, minimal procgen gravity golf inspired by Desert Golfing

Re:Show HN: My first game, minimal procgen gravity golf insp... by Xophmeister on Wednesday October 02, 2019 @10:48AM (#21137042)

I remember playing a game like this when I was a kid (25ish years ago) at school, except it wasn't golf, but rather a two player game where you shot gravity-assisted missiles at each other (think Worms-in-space). I remember it being on an Acorn Archimedes, but it may have been a PC.

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Re:Show HN: My first game, minimal procgen gravity golf insp... by mrspatula on Wednesday October 02, 2019 @10:52AM (#21137077)

Yeah, there are a few games with a similar mechanic! Probably not the one you're thinking of, but there is: https://sourceforge.net/projects/slingshot-game/

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Re:Show HN: My first game, minimal procgen gravity golf insp... by lufte on Wednesday October 02, 2019 @03:47PM (#21140091)

I've been looking for this game since I played it many years ago, but I had forgotten the name. Thanks for the link!

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Re:Show HN: My first game, minimal procgen gravity golf insp... by JamesAcorn on Wednesday October 02, 2019 @12:06PM (#21137976)

It was called !Gravity on the Acorn Archimedes. It was written in BASIC (and possibly some assembler) and I remember it being a popular game at school to hack - change the number of planets, acceleration rate etc.

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Re:Show HN: My first game, minimal procgen gravity golf insp... by Xophmeister on Thursday October 03, 2019 @04:20AM (#21144800)

That's the one :)

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Re:Show HN: My first game, minimal procgen gravity golf insp... by 0-_-0 on Wednesday October 02, 2019 @11:07AM (#21137247)

Warheads? I played it too!

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Re:Show HN: My first game, minimal procgen gravity golf insp... by TeMPOraL on Wednesday October 02, 2019 @04:40PM (#21140524)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vu3jzhwK60A

This one? If so, I played it three! One of those non-AAA games I most fondly remember from my teenage years!

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Re:Show HN: My first game, minimal procgen gravity golf insp... by spatulagames on Wednesday October 02, 2019 @11:14AM (#21137323)

Wow, warheads looks fun. Very complex. I'll be giving it a play tonight!

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