"MEOW WOLF" COURSE CO-CREATION + WALKABOUT MINI GOLF: POCKET EDITION ANNOUNCED!
Around the corner from our just launched gravity-defying latest DLC course Walkabout Mini Golf: Upside Town, today we're announcing plans to vastly expand the universe of Walkabout Mini Golf with an innovative creative collaboration with Meow Wolf for a transformative new course coming this Fall, the addition of an AR-powered and full-featured version of the whole game called "Pocket Edition" for iOS on iPhones and iPads coming this summer, and partnerships that will bring Walkabout to hundreds of arcades as we offer new ways to gather with other players and share the experience with friends!
PUTTING THROUGH A PORTAL
For our third licensed course, Mighty Coconut has partnered with Meow Wolf—the perspective-shifting arts and entertainment company that inspires audiences to explore creative possibility and storytelling through their exhibitions in Santa Fe, Denver, Las Vegas, and soon Grapevine and Houston, Texas. Walkabout Mini Golf: Meow Wolf course for will punch a portal in the multiverse traveling to VR, mobile, and physical locations this Fall.
Walkabout Mini Golf: Meow Wolf is a true collaboration between studios, with hands on creation by Meow Wolf co-founder and senior creative director Caity Kennedy alongside the Mighty Coconut team. The course will be based on a central world in the Meow Wolf Denver location called Numina— a sentient universe attempting to communicate in the peculiar language of mini golf.
“The mechanics of virtual reality are just another set of physics for Numina to play within. Collaborating with Walkabout has given us the opportunity to encounter Numina in digital space” said Kennedy, “Meow Wolf—and Numina—are now everywhere, and we can’t wait for all of our trans-dimensional friends to discover the playful ways Numina has rearranged mini golf to mess with our minds!”
The course will be a vivid, quizzical, and beautiful course for players where they can escape, explore, and play solo or rendezvous with up to seven other players for 18 easy mode and 18 hard mode holes—complete with iconic Meow Wolf objects, settings, and surprises.
POCKET EDITION
Later this Summer, we'll launch Walkabout Mini Golf: Pocket Edition, enabling anyone with a modern iPhone or iPad to enjoy an augmented reality-powered version of Walkabout Mini Golf—including full cross-play with people they know on other mobile devices, Quest and Steam VR, PSVR 2, PICO, and HTC Viveport. The novel approach to AR uses the phone itself as a putter, gently moving their device to play in a way that feels remarkably accurate and lifelike.
"Our goal is to be the first experience for VR/AR everywhere—and the default place to return. We want to make it as easy as possible for people to try out Walkabout Mini Golf, show their friends and spend time hanging out virtually with loved ones.,” says Lucas Martell, creator of the game. "We've got several courses planned for 2023 including most Lost Cities, more Jules Verne courses, and an entirely new series! This year, we're releasing about a course every 6-7 weeks so our community has more to explore!"
ARCADES!
Pushing far beyond the home, where players have customarily enjoyed VR, Mighty Coconut is partnering with companies including Dave & Busters, Synthesis VR, and CTRL-V—among other arcade chains and VR providers—so our players have more places to gather and more ways to share the experience with others.
