Greens was featured by Apple for the iPhone Duo launch

I still can't quite believe I'm writing this. When I started building Greens: Mini-golf, I set one goal for it: make a game good enough that Apple would want to feature it. On Friday, the day iPhone Duo came out, it actually happened.

Brian at an outdoor mini golf course at dusk, holding up his iPhone with Greens on the screen and pointing at it — Launch night, at a real mini golf course

From the Editors: Great Games on iPhone Duo, a list of games with Toastie, Nitelore, Crossy Road Castle and Greens: Mini-golf — Great Games on iPhone Duo

How Greens started

I started making apps this summer.

Greens began one night in September. I wanted a simple mini golf game that had intuitive aiming/release controls and clean 2D graphics. A lot of games on the App Store are full of ads and bloat, I wanted a calm course and a good putt.

Greens launched on September 30 with 72 holes on eight courses. Since then it's grown fast:

1.1 doubled it to 144 holes on sixteen courses and added iPad.
1.2 made every hole aceable and built the game around iPhone Duo.
1.3 made Greens free to play, with one purchase for the theme courses.
1.3.1 out the morning of the Duo launch, with minor bug fixes.

Launch day

On Friday morning, October 23rd, I opened the App Store and saw the Greens icon in the Today story about apps and games for iPhone Duo. Then I found it in the editors' list, Great Games on iPhone Duo, next to games like Crossy Road Castle and Heads Up!

The App Store Today tab with the story Great Apps and Games on iPhone Duo, and the Greens icon in its row of apps — The Today tab on launch day

The Greens: Mini-golf App Store page on launch day: Classic mini golf, beautifully made, rated 5.0, #54 in Sports — Greens in App Store on Duo launch day

A hand holding an iPhone Duo demo unit at the Apple Store, closed, showing the App Store Today tab with Great Apps and Games on iPhone Duo — On the Duo demo table at the Apple Store

The iPhone Duo demo unit opened, showing the Great Apps and Games on iPhone Duo list with Greens: Mini-golf in it — Opened up: Greens in the list

The iPhone Duo demo unit showing the Greens App Store page: Classic mini golf, beautifully made — The Greens page on iPhone Duo

Thank you

Thank you to everyone who has played Greens, sent me a note, or challenged a friend on the Daily Three.

There's a lot more coming, including more polish for iPhone Duo and new courses on the way!

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