Mobile game · Solo project · 2026

Idle Golf Range Tycoon

An idle tycoon for iOS, made and published on my own in Unity: you drive the range cart, sweep up the balls and grow a scruffy driving range into a business that runs itself.

I did the art, the VFX, the UI and the game itself. Here is how the course, the assets and the effects were built.

Role: Solo project — art, VFX, UI and development
Engine: Unity 6 · URP
Tools: Blender, Affinity, Unity
Platform: iOS · Released September 2026

App Store

The range cart collecting balls on the driving range

The ball washer and the collect pad, with upgrade pads around them

Upgrade pads for capacity, brush bar and coffee courier next to the cart

Level design

The island course around the driving range

I started by drawing the islands in 2D from a top view, exported the drawing as an SVG and imported it into Blender. There I lowered the resolution of the curves, converted them to meshes, UV mapped them and textured the course in Substance Painter.

Low-poly golf course of green islands connected by wooden bridges, surrounded by water — Island greens connected by bridges, with the driving range in the middle

The course seen from directly above — Top view

The course from above with the wireframe visible — Top view, wireframe

Texture map of the golf islands: green fairways with lighter greens and yellow bunkers — The course texture, painted in Substance Painter

Assets

Modeled and textured in Blender

Everything except the course shares a single material: one texture of colour swatches that every asset's UVs point into, which keeps the whole scene down to very few materials. I didn't make that swatch texture myself.