Tiny Town

Reviewed by: DeathDude

Positive Points: One button gameplay
Pretty good music

Negative Points: Same looking maps
Cannot go back to fix a shot

Genre: Simulation

Size: 1219 KB

Requirements: Windows

Questionable Content: None

Editor rating: 3.7

Homepage: http://www.crushpuppy.com/

Download location: http://www.crushpuppy.com/tinytown.zip

The sport of mini golf, home to interesting courses, mind-numbing obstacles and often an overbearing urge to just wind up and let your shot go, across the course seeing where it will end up. Well if you are looking for a mini golf sort of game to tide you over for a short period of time, without all the hassle of going to an actual course, you can try out Tiny Town. The game, which consists of nine holes, has you playing across ever-growing challenging courses, for the pursuit of the lowest number shots you can make. With some interesting course designs, some pretty good music overall, and only one button to memorize to actually play the game, Tiny Town, comes off as a pretty decent mini golf sort of game.

To clarify further, there is only one button you use in the game, the enter key. Shots and the power gauge are controlled automatically. This means when you are playing the cursor for your shot will rotate clockwise and you have to stop it before you take a shot, then your power gauge charges up and you hit enter one last time to fire away, so essentially it is three button taps to play the game not bad. The rotating shots feature and automatic power gauge may not be to everyone’s liking, and it is quite a challenge to get used to in the game, but after a few rounds you may either enjoy it or you will probably loathe it. It definitely does add a challenge to the game.

There are only nine holes to try your luck at in this game, which is quite short in the grand scheme of other titles out there. Each one though to its credit are quite challenging, and there were definitely a couple of them that gave me a bit of trouble at first, with some of the shots you have to take and with the added challenge of the rotating arrow to make your shot, it can be quite tricky at times to concentrate fully. Hopefully there is a chance later on to add at least nine more holes to the game, as the nine that are available here are quite good.

This particular game was made for the Blitz Coder One Button Competition, so the whole concept of only having to remember to use the enter key for the entire game is a neat concept and something you tend to hardly see. Obviously, the loss of control of controlling your shot and even your power gauge is a big change, something you would not expect in a mini golf type of game, but it was an intriguing idea to use for the competition, and it does fare well in terms of adding a different sort of experience with this game.

The music for the game I enjoyed listening to for the different courses. You get different tracks for almost each course, before it starts to repeat, but I was glad to see music in the first place with this game, as not all mini golf games come with music and are just silent types of games with minimal sound effects. Thus, I was glad to see music and sound effects being prominent in the game.

There really is not much more to say about this game, other than the same looking maps and little objects for the courses. Maybe some more variety would have been welcome but considering the game was made for a competition this idea was probably not at the forefront. The other concern about the game that I did have, was that there was no way to fix a shot once you click the enter key once. Obviously, it goes against the whole using one button idea, so I suppose it is just a minor thought, but maybe it could be added at a later day.

If you are looking for an easy sort of mini golf game to try your luck with and see how good of a mini golfer you are in the simulated world, check out Tiny Town and see it in action for yourself.