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Post by pozbaird on Apr 20, 2020 15:08:58 GMT -5
Home of the Slytherin Open Championship. 7229 yards from the Sirius Black tees. Hope you give it a play, and even if you don't want to cast your spell in the 2020 Slytherin Open itself, maybe you could drop by and just potter around.
As always, I cannot see where to simply insert the photo I took of the course, and posted in the HB Studios forum 'completed courses' thread. Hopefully our esteemed course photographer Mr Karma could do the needy!
Hope you enjoy the course! Have a wizard time....
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Post by karma4u on Apr 20, 2020 18:42:34 GMT -5
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Post by pozbaird on Apr 21, 2020 2:57:54 GMT -5
Brilliant Vic. I owe you a butterbeer.
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Post by bassman70 on Apr 21, 2020 18:25:41 GMT -5
Being a big Harry Potter fan I had to play this. Showed it to my boys as well as they are huge fans of the books and the movies...anyway..this was brilliant. I got all of the references like the fog and the deer, the floating candles, just really cool. Me and my boys LOVED the quittage hole!!!!!!!! Thank you very much for this fun course.
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Post by pozbaird on Apr 22, 2020 3:24:17 GMT -5
Being a big Harry Potter fan I had to play this. Showed it to my boys as well as they are huge fans of the books and the movies...anyway..this was brilliant. I got all of the references like the fog and the deer, the floating candles, just really cool. Me and my boys LOVED the quittage hole!!!!!!!! Thank you very much for this fun course. Glad you enjoyed it. I swore that my last course ‘Sport City Las Vegas’ would be my last, after spending a crazy amount of time working on it. That was during a long, cold, dark Scottish winter, where staying home out of the cold and sitting in front of the PS4 was great.... fast forward to the Spring. The weather has been good, time to get out onto my real golf club, watch the Masters on TV and wave goodbye to winter.... coronavirus. UK in six week lockdown. I swear this is true. Turned on the TV at the start of our full lockdown, and they were showing the first Harry Potter film. I looked at the great hall with the floating candles, and immediately, I just thought ‘you could do that in TGC with benches, yardage markers, and the pink flower.... that was it. I was off on one! Been great fun building this course over the last few weeks. Thinking ‘can I make a dragon out of sailboats, marker signs... and a crocodile. If you only knew how long I spent trying to create dementors before giving up! I also thought flying broomsticks would be easy, but nothing looked remotely convincing. I tried to do the ‘sorting hat’ out of rocks, but gave up on that too. I did manage to create a decent representation of something though... a pile of rocks. 😀 Anyway, glad you and your boys had a bit of fun there. I worked hard at making the course itself a nice one, but obviously the Potter elements are the thing here. The course designer has been great over these few weeks. It’s actually a great brain train tool, as you work out how to do things using X, Y, or Z. Working out angles, distances, slopes. Creating the whole thing down to where you place an individual flower, bit of grass.... or a flying car. The game, and HB Studios, get some stick, but this is a great game. I still get a lot from it. The new courses - people are STILL coming up with great courses, and doing things that make me smile and say ‘wish I’d thought of that!’ I am not a big gamer, I only play golf games and motor racing games, but TGC 2019 is a great, great game. The designer is so addictive. Didn’t intend for this to be a long post, but there you go!
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Post by Deleted on May 4, 2020 8:41:49 GMT -5
Just played Hogwarts. Wow, you really were able to pull off some interesting moments/scenes from the movies in that course using the available objects in this game's designer. My wife just watched the series with my daughter recently to show her "what was popular when mom and dad were younger". If I hadn't had that refresher, a lot of that course would have gone unappreciated. Props sir!
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Post by ChrizZcE on May 4, 2020 9:11:34 GMT -5
I gave this 5 stars just because the dragon on the second hole was so well done and so creative. Gave me a good chuckle because it came so unexpected. As others have said the floating candles, stairs and quittage arena were also genius. Consider me a fan. Can´t wait for your next design!
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Post by pozbaird on May 4, 2020 9:40:12 GMT -5
Appreciate the comments. Not sure when I can face starting a new design though. Only copious amounts of caffeine and chocolate frogs got me through this one! After designing a few ‘normal’ courses, I have had more success and fun with this Harry Potter one, my Sports City Las Vegas, and Desierto Parque Central courses. Silly themes! Maybe silly themes are my thing. Probably says a lot about me. 😊
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Post by bmckenzie69 on May 6, 2020 9:11:15 GMT -5
Had to give this course a play, and really enjoyed it. Loved the flying car and all the other things mentioned. Very creative use of available items, and the course actually played good too. Thanks for the fun and surprises.
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Post by pozbaird on May 6, 2020 11:00:39 GMT -5
Had to give this course a play, and really enjoyed it. Loved the flying car and all the other things mentioned. Very creative use of available items, and the course actually played good too. Thanks for the fun and surprises. No worries, thanks for the play. Appreciate it!
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Post by lowero on Jul 22, 2020 16:50:21 GMT -5
Just played as it was today’s Ultra Casuals tournament course. Loved it. Real mix of fantasy and ‘proper’ golf. Challenging but not crazy so. Will definitely check out your other courses.
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Post by pozbaird on Jul 23, 2020 3:55:35 GMT -5
Just played as it was today’s Ultra Casuals tournament course. Loved it. Real mix of fantasy and ‘proper’ golf. Challenging but not crazy so. Will definitely check out your other courses. Appreciate the comments. If you enjoyed Hogwarts, you might enjoy my last two designs ‘Sport City Las Vegas’ and ‘Desierto Parque Central’. Both are in the Hogwarts vein - a fantasy theme, but with (hopefully!) real golf challenges and nothing too tricked up from a gameplay standpoint. Prior to those, I had a bash at a few ‘normal’ course designs. I enjoyed designing the ‘themed’ courses far more though, much more fun. The New York one is set in a future Central Park where global warming has seen NYC with a desert climate. The Las Vegas one is set in the University of Las Vegas campus, where remnants of a failed attempt to bring Formula One back to Vegas can be seen, amongst other sporting activities such as football, basketball, baseball... and a golf driving range that the course designer thought could double up as the 16th hole. 😀
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