Player Message from Walkabout Creator Lucas Martell
Hey everybody!
Walkabout Mini Golf just turned 3 and I just can’t believe all the fun, connection, and creativity you all have made possible! With the launch of Quest 3 and now Pocket Edition for iOS just around the corner, and having brought the game to PSVR2 and DLCs to PICO earlier this year, we’re about to hit 7 platforms played monthly by hundreds of thousands of players in over 40 nations. And we’re still growing and have even bigger plans in store…
We recently announced our 22nd course Widow’s Walkabout creeping up before Halloween, which many people have been asking for since the very beginning. It’s chock full of spooky fun, new supernatural mechanics, and loads of surprises! Then in December, we’ll be releasing the highly anticipated Walkabout Mini Golf: Meow Wolf course, which is going to be not only eye-popping and brimming with possibilities for play, but with more technical feats than we’ve ever packed into any course to date! At the very beginning of 2024, we’ll be bringing the final course on the Jules Verne trilogy: Around the World in 80 Days. Thanks for being patient here as we tirelessly tinkered to get it just right; we think it will be well worth the wait!
Pocket Edition for iOS is also nearly ready for you all to play, show, and bring your mates into the game. First, we’ll have an “open beta” and then it will go on the App Store when it is ready. Not only is it totally crossplay with all our VR platforms, but it’s going to feature an exclusive mode of gameplay to make it even easier for folks to get into the game. Another thank you for your patience, as we're a very small team trying to do a lot of new things at the same time, and game development is full of surprises and unpredictability. We always err on the side of quality and don't want to release something before it's ready.
The response to the Walkabout Grip-to-Putter was so positive that we had to extend the production run with HelloRealVR twice! If you missed out on the limited first edition, we’re thinking about what’s next.
2024 is also coming into focus and we have a new series planned, new game modes, and some really cool features in development which we hope will take Walkabout in some exciting new directions while still holding on to the core experience you've come to love! We’ll also be keeping up our cadence of a new course every several weeks with a wide variety of themes and mechanics which will add to the fun for all.
Thank you all again for being part of this community, and for being so receptive to what we’re doing here at Mighty Coconut. We’re mighty grateful that so many people have come along with us on this adventure, and that you've allowed us to be creative and have so much fun turning a simple little game like mini golf into such a key part of the VR ecosystem. We can't wait to share what we've been working on with you.
See you in Walkabout!
Lucas