We've just launched our 20th add-on DLC course for Walkabout Mini Golf. It's a moment worth savoring. When we launched the game four years ago as a solo project, players embraced it so fully and the investment in downloadable content was a big swing that ultimately landed. We thank them and each of the Coconuts that pour their hearts and souls into each place we build. "Fifty years after landing on Mars, the colony thrives in "Mars Gardens", and you're the latest to arrive at the cutting-edge bio-dome on the edge of the Huygens crater. Find yourself in this plaza and bio-agricultural-mini-golf lab for some far out fun overlooking base camp."
Mighty Coconut
Entertainment Providers
Austin, TX 2,604 followers
Award-winning studio creating animation, VR/AR games incl. the best-rated multiplayer game on Quest—Walkabout Mini Golf.
About us
Founded in 2014 on the heels of Lucas Martell’s award-winning short film THE OCEANMAKER, Mighty Coconut is an Austin-based entertainment studio specializing in immersive virtual reality game development, animation, and visual effects. Led by a creative team of industry veterans with a passion for combining stunning visuals and well-crafted narratives, the studio has also found success in VR game development and has the best-rated multiplayer game on the Meta Quest platform: Walkabout Mini Golf. “An adorable mini-golf game that is unexpectedly convincing” — New York Times “Brilliantly designed... Seriously, you have no idea how good VR mini-golf is” — CNET “Everyone with an Oculus Quest 2 needs to play Walkabout Mini Golf” — TechRadar “A magnificent collection of challenging holes set in fantasy locations” — The Washington Post
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http://www.mightycoconut.com
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- Industry
- Entertainment Providers
- Company size
- 11-50 employees
- Headquarters
- Austin, TX
- Type
- Privately Held
- Founded
- 2014
- Specialties
- Animation, VFX, Motion Graphics, Branded Content, Live Action VFX, Original Content, Television, Web, Film, VR, AR, Interactive, Events, and Video Game Development
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Austin, TX 78756, US
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“The new course transports you to a futuristic bio-dome on Mars, housing a colony. Across 18 holes, playable in both an easy and a challenging mode, you must putt your way through gently curving lines and craters. Mighty Coconut promises a unique atmosphere that captures the challenges of life on the red planet.” — MIXED
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“Each hole is lovingly crafted to tell some kind of story, whether it's harvesting wheat on a space threshing floor, pretending a space suit is a scarecrow for non-existent Martian pests, sitting on the steps of the kids' area and admiring their precious drawings, or reading about how a giant gourd was hollowed out and turned into a surprisingly cozy reading nook that you can go in and experience for yourself. Playing Walkabout with friends is one of my favorite monthly activities. I get together with a group of folks from the Ruff Talk VR podcast Discord and the experience perfectly mirrors the way it feels to be on a real mini-golf course alongside friends. As with anything VR, it's hard to describe the feeling adequately without experiencing it for yourself. Putting on the headset and stepping onto the course feels like you're there, and that's what I'm looking for in a social mini-golf experience. I'd go so far as to say that Walkabout Minigolf might be the ultimate social VR game simply because it's so tightly focused on a specific social experience and is effortless to jump into.” — Nicholas Sutrich, Android Central
This mini-golf game is one of the most creative games I've ever played
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“The four level structure is built into the side of a crater with a course laid down for players moving up through 18 holes to a vista with a stunning overlook across the martian landscape. The paid DLC course features an optional gravity simulation mode to make your ball fly around more playfully, as if you were actually mini golfing on Mars. Walkabout creator Lucas Martell offered UploadVR a pre-launch design tour, explaining how the martian colonists have a ton of automation and their fresh foods grow big on the red planet.“ Ian Hamilton, UploadVR
Walkabout Mini Golf Mars Garden Course Features Gravity Mode
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"Mighty Coconut's Walkabout Mini Golf is expanding across platforms, including Quest 3, PSVR 2, and iPhone. The mobile Pocket Edition aims to bridge VR and non-VR players, allowing cross-platform play with friends and family. The game maintains its core physics-based mini golf mechanics and offers new immersive features like 'swing-to-putt' for iPhone users. In addition to platform growth, the game continues to release new courses, including upcoming collaborations with arts collective Meow Wolf. The iPhone version enhances accessibility, creating an experience where VR players and mobile users can seamlessly play together." Charlie Fink, Forbes #indiegamedev #virtualreality #mobilegames
‘Glowtime’ For Apple, AI Gamifies NFL Games, New AI Videos From Sora, Minimax
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Check out this interview with Lucas Martell, Jeremy Wynn, and Jeff Mills. “Walkabout Mini Golf has taken fans to not only all corners of the world we live in, but far beyond the boundaries of reality as well. From settings inspired by popular films to mind-bending creations from the depths of the developers’ imaginations, there is no shortage of ingenuity on display in this remarkable golf game. Now, they’re back once again with something original and special that takes players to the distant planet of Mars for the first time with the Mars Gardens DLC course.” — Meta Quest blog
‘Walkabout Mini Golf’ Lifts Off For Space With New ‘Mars Gardens’ DLC Course, Out Today on Meta Quest | Meta Quest Blog
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Architect Zaha Hadid, director Douglas Trumbull, composer Gustav Holst, and the work of countless others influenced the design of "Mars Gardens" from the ideas of terraforming, 3D printing, curvy lines, and lilting melodies fill our minds, hearts, and our Field Notes:
Mars Garden Field Notes — Mighty Coconut
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Are you ready to transform the way you work, create, and lead? Join friend of Mighty Coconut, Dr. Mary Poffenroth, biopsychologist and author of “Brave New You: Strategies, Tools, and Neurohacks to Live More Courageously Every Day”, at Capital Factory here in Austin on October 10 for an evening packed with networking, actionable tools, and the official launch party for her book. The event + wine reception is free of charge—so go grab a ticket here:
Neurohacking Innovation + Book Launch Wine Reception
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“Gaming in VR has been subjected to a vicious self-reinforcing cycle wherein VR developers create hardcore games, which appeal to a certain kind of hardcore gamer user, whose purchasing habits in turn drive further development of those kinds of games, and not others. As a result, the scope of VR games remains narrow, and oblivious to the kinds of games that might take VR to its billionth user.” Marcus Carter and Ben Egliston for IEEE Spectrum
Where VR Gaming Took a Wrong Turn
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