There's enough information on the net and You Tube now to establish that HB Studios is developing and plans to publish their own golf game (name unknown at this time). You can see video of the game from last July in this video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xWupEz_XEGY. The first glimpse of the golf game occurs at ~2:45 into the clip and pops up several more times later in the clip.
We also have an article related to it that was written by Colin Mieczkowski (aka Golfsprince here) at The GP Golf Report - http://gpgolfreport.com/2013/09/10/n...-on-golf-game/ Colin had contact with a representative of HB Studios, who suggested the game should be out in the first half of 2014.
Both the video and Golfsprince's story speak about the game's course creator (although the game's Executive Producer, Peter Garcin refers to it as a "course generator" in The Game Code video I linked). This will be a huge advantage for the game if they can pull this off and users are actually able to create courses that others truly want to play. It's hard to imagine designing a golf course from a gamepad, but they seem to be down with it. I pointed out that Peter Garcin referred to it as a course generator because that could imply that you are presented stock, generated courses on which to make modifications. I doubt that's the case, as the screens the devs were showing in the video seemed to be a much deeper seeded interface than a simple generator/modifier.
For a game that was rumored to have an April/May release date, I'm a little surprised that we haven't read or seen more about this game since Colin's article back in September. I'm really stoked for this game and hope that it's at least still on track for a release sometime this year. HB Studios doesn't seem to be bogged down in corporate mentality and aren't afraid to tackle innovation and creativity.
We also have an article related to it that was written by Colin Mieczkowski (aka Golfsprince here) at The GP Golf Report - http://gpgolfreport.com/2013/09/10/n...-on-golf-game/ Colin had contact with a representative of HB Studios, who suggested the game should be out in the first half of 2014.
Both the video and Golfsprince's story speak about the game's course creator (although the game's Executive Producer, Peter Garcin refers to it as a "course generator" in The Game Code video I linked). This will be a huge advantage for the game if they can pull this off and users are actually able to create courses that others truly want to play. It's hard to imagine designing a golf course from a gamepad, but they seem to be down with it. I pointed out that Peter Garcin referred to it as a course generator because that could imply that you are presented stock, generated courses on which to make modifications. I doubt that's the case, as the screens the devs were showing in the video seemed to be a much deeper seeded interface than a simple generator/modifier.
For a game that was rumored to have an April/May release date, I'm a little surprised that we haven't read or seen more about this game since Colin's article back in September. I'm really stoked for this game and hope that it's at least still on track for a release sometime this year. HB Studios doesn't seem to be bogged down in corporate mentality and aren't afraid to tackle innovation and creativity.
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