Changelog

Linkside is a small game built and maintained by one person. This is what has changed since it launched, newest first.

25 August 2026

Every theme got its own detail

Fixed the rainbow. It was being drawn off the bottom of the screen and had never once been visible, on any device - so the "After the Rain" achievement could unlock for something you couldn't see. It now arches properly over the course.
Haunted Links gained ghosts that drift through every minute or so, and flickering jack-o-lanterns among the dead trees.
Mushroom Hollow was a bit plain - now there are four different mushroom species scattered through the forest, fairy rings in the long grass, and the occasional cap that glows.
Aurora Night's lights now fade softly at their edges instead of cutting off, and they reflect in the water.
Every other theme got one detail of its own: mowing stripes on Fairway, wind gusts in Autumn, animal tracks wandering the snow, koi instead of ducks under the cherry blossom - and they swim laps of the pond rather than sitting in one spot - long low-sun shadows at Twilight, a tumbleweed in the Desert, surf foam around the Tropical Coast shoreline, a stag on the Highland ridge, raked zen gravel in the Bamboo Garden bunkers, moonlight on the water in Moonlit Round, dew beading the whole course in Morning Mist, a herd of giraffes and elephants out on the Savanna, and bubbling lava on Volcanic Ridge.

24 August 2026

Haunted Links - a Halloween course that only appears between 25 October and 2 November, and is guaranteed on the 31st. Dead trees, graveyard fog, bats.
Mushroom Hollow - deep mossy green with oversized red-cap mushrooms in place of trees, and spores drifting up through the frame.
Volcanic Ridge - the water hazards are lava. Black basalt rough, pale pumice bunkers, obsidian shards and rising embers.
Morning Mist - a soft, quiet dawn course with fog banks rolling across the board.
Savanna Safari - dry golden grass, flat-topped acacias and a teal watering hole. The hidden fox is a bat-eared fox here.
Aurora Night - green and violet curtains drifting over a dark winter course. Rare year-round, and much more likely in December.
Rebalanced how often every theme appears, so a course that isn't the standard Fairway look now turns up on roughly two days in three.

August 2026

Added the Streak Calendar - a month view of your Daily Challenge history showing which days you played, how you scored, and where the gaps are.
Fixed a start-up failure on browsers with storage fully blocked. Some privacy settings cause an error on any attempt to read local storage, which could leave the game on a blank screen instead of loading. Storage access is now handled safely throughout.
Added How to Play, Daily Challenge and this changelog as proper pages.

13 July 2026

Fixed a scorecard bug where finishing a round could show a broken total and a missing hole. A double-tap during the hole-complete animation could advance two holes at once; the animation now ignores stray taps, and the scorecard can no longer be broken by a missing hole.
Added a PAR readout to the top bar, between the hole number and your strokes.
Made shot cancelling visible. Dragging back to the ball has always cancelled a shot - now it shows a red ring and an X, tells you what will happen, and confirms that your roll has been kept.
Added an aim readout at the top of the course showing direction, real distance and whether the shot is legal - useful when your finger is covering the ball, and especially in putt mode.

28 May 2026

A full pass over every screen - title, menu, heads-up display, action bar, coach marks, hole-complete card, scorecard, share sheet, shop and stats - tightening clarity and consistency throughout.
Achievement notifications now queue sensibly instead of stacking up, collapsing into a single summary card when several unlock at once.
Rebalanced the Coin economy after comparing real earn rates against shop prices.

26 May 2026

Linkside went live.
Cosmetics shop - 25 hand-made ball skins and flag designs, bought with Coins earned through play.
Achievements and streak milestones.
Celebrations tiered to how well you played the hole, plus an animated scorecard reveal at the end of a round.
Wildlife and weather moments, including a rainbow when the rain clears.
A frameless, full-screen course and an install-to-home-screen hint, so the game fills the phone properly.

25 May 2026

The core game: an 8-direction grid, dice for distance, terrain effects, tree and water rules, slope chaining, and par-6 scoring.
Drag-to-aim, replacing an earlier design that showed all eight options at once - one moving line proved far more tactile.
Procedurally generated holes built as forest corridors and doglegs, every one verified solvable before you see it.
Variable putting and Tap In, fixing the frustration of overshooting the cup from two tiles away.
9- and 18-hole rounds with a difficulty curve, and a capped Mulligan allowance so scores stay comparable.
Daily Challenge, shareable scorecard and stats.
Seasonal themes that change the look of the course with the calendar.
The hidden fox.