After 8 years of not touching my first Steam game, one random sale made me patch it. Giving away 8 keys.
Hey everyone,
I made a small Steam game called Platform Golf back in 2017/2018.
It was the first game I ever released on Steam. I barely marketed it, and over time it more or less disappeared.
For about 8 years I did not really touch it. A few days ago I noticed a sale. First one I had noticed in a while. It was just one sale, nothing huge, but it still made me think: oh, people do still find this game sometimes.
So I came back to it after all these years.
It was strange to revisit something I made so long ago. Some parts were rough, some parts were weird, but it also reminded me that even back then I had managed to finish and release a real game. Looking at it again mostly made me realize how much you can learn in 8 years.
So I gave it a small update.
The game should now run better on modern systems, the physics feel smoother, and a few old issues that annoyed me are fixed.
Then I gave it to a friend of mine to test, and she played it like she did not want to stop even though she really should have gone to bed. That made me weirdly happy.
Platform Golf is still a small and slightly quirky game. It is a physics-based arcade golf game with 50 levels. The early levels are easy, but later on it gets a lot more challenging. Quick resets, weird angles, and levels that somehow still hold up better than I expected.
I guess that is the nice part of coming back to an old project. You realize you got better, but deep down you are still making the same kind of games. Just with a bit more experience now.
Anyways, to celebrate the update, I am giving away 8 Steam keys.
First 8 people who comment and want to try it get a key by Reddit message.
Thanks for reading, and kind regards to everyone who still enjoys small, weird games made with a lot of trial and error.
Joschi