Putter King Adventure Golf
Putter King Adventure Golf is a challenging miniature golf game. 24 themed holes, three courses, four characters, a professionally-composed soundtrack, and realistic physics.
- 24 unique, themed hole designs + 3 user-designed holes
- Intuitive gameplay that follows real-world physics
- Beautiful graphics & professionally-composed soundtrack
- Track your scores and achievements against your friends (OpenFeint enabled)
“This game is sure to please both lovers of putt-putt golf and lovers of cute things all the same.” — App Advice
Explore the kingdom
The Game
Putter King Adventure Golf
24 themed holes across three courses: Adventures in Japan, Trip around the World, and Putty's Playground. Won 3rd place for Best Sports Game in the 2011 Best App Ever Awards.
ExploreFuture Kings
Miniature Golf Math & Physics
Free classroom-ready lessons using miniature golf to teach angles, trigonometry, the Law of Reflection, and Newton's laws of motion. Five levels from Prince to Queen.
ExploreCommunity
The Scavenger Hunts
Two annual global challenges, #PKSH1 (2011) and #PKSH2 (2012), with players from the US, UK, Australia and beyond. Guinness records, YouTube channels, and lifelong friendships started here.
Explore2011
Hole Design Contest
18 fan-submitted miniature-golf holes recovered from the Wayback Machine. PK's crown, Island Moai Statues, putterking car course, and 15 more.
ExploreBe a King
Franchising
The original call to entrepreneurs who wanted to bring Putter King to their own corner of the world. Still the best starting point if you'd like to build one.
ExploreThe Vault
Preserved files
The business plan and the Android APK — the two files that survived from the original project, kept on Google Drive and linked from this page.
ExploreA note from Kevin
This site is an archive. The door is still open.
Putter King began in 2010 as a daydream on the Yamanote line — 18 themed holes, a little character named Putty, a warehouse in Oyama that never got built. The app shipped, the scavenger hunts connected people across three continents, and then the world moved on.
I kept the dream. If you've read this far and something in you lit up — if you're thinking “I could actually build one of these” — I'd love to hear from you. I'm open to helping, investing, or co-founding a real Putter King location with the right person.
— Kevin Scott Dias, founder
The backstory
Read the Putter King Chronicles
The full story — from the Yamanote line to a warehouse in Oyama that never got built, through nine months of contractor chaos, an unexpected community that grew up around a failed marketing campaign, and the recovery of the game years later by my own kids — is told across five posts on my personal blog.
Read the Chronicles