Debbie and the team have been a blast to work with and have the same vision for the game as we do. Our small team was just not equipped and lacked the knowledge to bring Golf With Your Friends to consoles we needed the help from a third party, and we were super comfortable with Team17.
Tell us a bit about how you came to that decision and effect of the partnership on the game and the team. Instead we learnt through YouTube videos and online articles during development, so I think it’s fair to say the game changed as we gained more knowledge and experience.īlacklight partnered with Team17 at the start of 2019. We did not have any prior study or experience in developing games before starting our journey with Golf with Your Friends. For instance, the map ‘Twilight’ was entirely suggested by the community on our development streams people would design the holes and send in designs for us to create live on stream for them. so I think it’s fair to say the game changed as we gained more knowledge and experience.įrom the very start our focus was integrating the community into the development of Golf With Your Friends, we listened to what the community wanted and slowly crafted the game into what it is today. How has the game changed and evolved in that time? GWYF has been in Early Access on Steam for several years now.
We started work on Golf With Your Friends because we couldn’t find anything like it at the time, it’s been something I have wanted to play for a long time now and it turned out I would have to be the one to create it! We looked to Dungeon Defenders, World of Warcraft and Overwatch for our art inspiration as these games have such a beautiful and unique art style, we thought that our take on these would suit the game perfectly. We play such a variety of genres from simulators, indies, FPS games, and MMOs so we get inspiration from many different places, it’s hard to list just a few.
What games influenced you when you were developing Golf with Your Friends? My passion is game design and programming, we have spent the last four to five years growing our talents and learning new things! Brayden is my older brother and art is his focus, digitally sculpting and painting his way through the game Lachlan is my younger brother and he is an all-rounder, handling art, modelling and FX. Alongside me are my two brothers, Brayden and Lachlan. We are an all brother team from Brisbane, Australia. We understand Blacklight is a three-person team – can you tell us a little about who does what? Kailan Cl ark: To put it simply, Golf With Your Friends is a fast paced, exciting, mini-golf game focused on fun with your friends! Golf With Your Friends stands apart from the rest, thanks to it featuring 12-player simultaneous games, various game modes and options to adjust to your liking, including changing your ball into different shapes and sizes, collision, and changing gravity or friction settings, all to increase the fun and keep your friends on their toes!
We recently caught up with Kailan Clark, CEO of developer Blacklight Interactive, to discuss the game, the small team behind it, and how this craziest of crazy golf simulators has evolved after four years in Early Access on Steam.įor anybody that may be unfamiliar with the game, give us the elevator pitch for Golf with Your Friends and tell us what sets this apart from other golf games (or golf-type games) out there. 12-player mini-golf game Golf With Your Friends snuck out onto the Switch fairway for a cheeky few rounds towards the end of May and brought with it a dose of party-like levity to a sport that can get a teensy bit serious in real life.
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