Sky Golf

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About the game

The course floats in the sky, one narrow strip of fairway after another, with gaps between them and a flag on the last one. Your ball sits at the left end. A line swings up and down from it all by itself, and you only have to choose the moment: press and hold to start the power building, and let go to hit the ball in the direction the line was pointing at that instant. Hold all the way to the limit and the ball is hit by itself at full power.

Each hole gives you five more shots, and the number you have left is shown at the top left next to a clock that runs for the whole round, so wasting shots is a bit like wasting time. The ground matters. Green fairway is a normal bounce, yellow sand soaks up most of it and also halves the power of your next shot, trees are walls that bounce it back, and falling into blue water or off the edge sends the ball back to where it was last hit from.

On the title screen you pick Easy (3 holes), Medium (6) or Hard (9). The holes are always the same ones, so you can learn them and come back to beat your time. When the shots run out the round ends. is one of the one-button mini-games that Kenta Cho, who works as ABA Games, makes with his crisp-game-lib library. There are no image or sound files: the graphics are drawn by the code, and the sound effects and music are generated while you play.

Playing it here

Click Play, then click one of the three buttons on the title screen. Nothing is installed or sent anywhere. The game does not keep scores between visits.

Controls

Input Action
Press and hold (click, touch or Space) build up power
Release hit the ball along the aim line
Click a button on the title screen choose Easy, Medium or Hard

A few things worth knowing

Watch the line, not the ball. The line sweeps from straight ahead, over the top, to straight back. Start your press a little early so that the release lands on the angle you want.

Short power is fine. A gentle hit that stays on the same island costs a shot but moves the ball away from the water.

Sand is a trap, not a hazard. It does not send you back, but the next hit is half as strong, so a ball in the sand wants a bigger swing than it looks like.

Credits and licence

Sky Golf was made by Kenta Cho (ABA Games) and published under the MIT licence in the crisp-game-lib-11-games repository. The licence texts of the game, of crisp-game-lib and of the libraries that come with it are linked from this page. The game files are served as published, with only the starting page replaced so that nothing is loaded from other sites.