{"id":699272,"date":"2026-05-28T11:57:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-28T11:57:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/699272\/"},"modified":"2026-05-28T11:57:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-28T11:57:08","slug":"fruit-ninja-designer-reveals-normal-golf-game-with-a-demo-theres-nothing-normal-about-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/699272\/","title":{"rendered":"Fruit Ninja designer reveals Normal Golf Game with a demo &#8211; there&#8217;s nothing normal about it"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Waking up on a golf course, you&#8217;re trapped and the menace game designer Luke Muscat has taken $100K from you &#8211; so time to play a totally normal game of golf. Okay, it&#8217;s anything but normal, you don&#8217;t even remember how you got there.<\/p>\n<p>Luke Muscat previously designed some hits you might have heard of including the original Fruit Ninja and Jetpack Joyride. Normal Golf Game is their new solo indie game where you use physics to manipulate the path of your club, while simultaneously managing your stance, direction, and the angle and path of the club face.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a lot more challenging than you might expect that&#8217;s pretty darn satisfying to get a good hit in and with the weird setting &#8211; I want to know more about what&#8217;s going on. Time to go exploring\u2026<\/p>\n<p>From the press release:<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>About the game<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>Hazy memories. A $100,000 debt. No sign of an exit. Welcome to Normal Golf Game, the latest project from the twisted well-adjusted mind of Luke Muscat (Fruit Ninja, Jetpack Joyride).<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>Use physics to manipulate the path of your club, while simultaneously managing your stance, direction, and the angle and path of the face. Explore a giant golf course that is both a trap and a playground. Shoot from anywhere. Hit anything. But remember: you\u2019re not leaving until Luke Muscat himself is satisfied.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>Featuring:<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\nHave nice day out&#13;<br \/>\nLearn a fun new sport&#13;<br \/>\nMeet a game developer &#13;<br \/>\nHave a great, normal time&#13;<br \/>\n\ud83d\ude42 &#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s a demo live on Steam that appears to work great with Proton 11 on Linux.<\/p>\n<p>Platform: \u269b Proton \/ Wine<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\tArticle taken from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamingonlinux.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">GamingOnLinux.com.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Waking up on a golf course, you&#8217;re trapped and the menace game designer Luke Muscat has taken $100K&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":699273,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[443],"tags":[49,48,622,82],"class_list":["post-699272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-golf","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/699272","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=699272"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/699272\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/699273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=699272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=699272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=699272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}