The golf parody game, which gaming website Polygon describes as “hilariously strange,” is being developed by Danish studio Triband, and features twists on the game, in which players fling an entire house across a field, a Super Mario Bros.-inspired level, and one round in which the golfer becomes the golf ball.
Danish games studio Triband has opened crowdfunding on Fig for What the Golf?, a sports parody game that Polygon describes as “hilariously strange.”
“There is so much hate in the world so we thought it might be a great idea to aim it at something insignificant like golf,” creative director Tim Garbos said. “We have known golf for some time now and we are sure golf can take it.”
Using what Garbos calls “advanced computer technology,” Triband has taken the basic premise of golf—swinging a club and hoping to make it into the hole in as few attempts as possible—and reworked it from the ground up. You’re still taking aim and counting your strokes in What the Golf?, but you won’t always be swinging a ball at the hole. Sometimes, you’ll be flinging an entire house across the field; sometimes, the golfer becomes the golf ball. There’s even a level that looks like Super Mario Bros., but with Mario replaced with a big golf ball, Polygon reported.
Triband insists that the team knows nothing about golf and finds it “really that boring,” but the hope is that potential funders will appreciate the studio’s attempt to make golf good, Polygon reported.
Triband is asking for $50,000 in funding; it’s raised nearly half of its goal thus far with just over a month to go. Backers can choose from reward tiers that offer goods like digital copies of the game, their name in the credits and, at the top tier of $578, the chance to design their own level, Polygon reported.
In the Fig equity platform, there’s also an option to invest in What the Golf? and receive a share of future profits. “When looking for a crowdfunding platform, we look for the most golfable logo,” Garbos said about the decision to go with Fig over Kickstarter. “We also heard Fig backers are the nicest people … and we love the idea behind Fig. The Fig platform is continuing to grow and adapt and we like the direction.”
To help explain the project, Triband has released a public demo build, which gives a taste of the lengths to which the studio is going to make golf anything but golflike. The demo will update with new levels on a weekly basis until the campaign’s end, Polygon reported.
Triband is aiming for a third-quarter 2018 release on Mac and Windows PC. Production is ongoing, but the team appears to be approaching the finishing touches, Polygon reported.
“We just got out of the rough and landed nicely on the fairway,” Garbos said. “Even though we hit a few bunkers early in the game, I believe we can get it to the green with this crowdfunding campaign. It looks like we’ll make it on par.”
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