Mini Golf – Augmented & Virtual Reality Confabulation

March 11, 2024

VR’s Favorite Mini Golf Game is Getting a ‘Wallace & Gromit’ Course This Summer

Mighty Coconut, developer of indie VR hit Walkabout Mini Golf (2020), announced it’s partnering with Wallace & Gromit creators Aardman to bring a course inspired by the very same British boffin and canine pair.

The course is set to feature 18 easy mode and hard mode holes, and commemorative in-game putter and themed avatars all set in the world of Wallace & Gromit, the studio says in a blog post.

There’s no trailer out yet, although Aardman and Mighty Coconut say it will take players to duo’s 62 West Wallaby Street and pack in plenty of “humor, and the clever contraptions that generations have come to love.”

Mighty Coconut has however given us a brief glimpse at the course’s blueprints in a post via X (formerly Twitter), which appears to how the house’s ground floor, top floor, and basement laboratory:

The studio hasn’t announced precisely when it’s launching the Wallace & Gromit-inspired course beyond its ‘Summer 2024’ release window, however we can expect it to come to all supported platforms when it does, including Quest 2/3/Pro, PSVR 2, SteamVR headsets, Pico platforms, as well as iOS devices via Walkabout Mini Golf: Pocket Edition.

This isn’t the first high-profile partnership for the plucky mini golf game, which include courses based on Jim Henson’s Labyrinth, Cyan’s Myst and interactive art installation Meow Wolf. The addition of its Wallace & Gromit paid DLC will make for the studio’s 27th course, following its latest ‘Ice Lair’ course released last week.

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March 9, 2023

Upside Town: See Walkabout’s Wild New Gravity Mini Golf Course

The developers of Walkabout Mini Golf are taking a bigger swing with their latest Upside Town course design toying with gravity.

In a city that seems drawn from Inception, Doctor Strange, or even The Matrix, Walkabout’s new course is now available for $3.99 as an add-on to the game on Quest, Pico, Steam, and soon PSVR 2.

Like all Walkabout courses, if you score under par during the day you unlock a harder version of the course that plays very differently. We walked through the course during the day with Mighty Coconut’s head and original Walkabout creator Lucas Martell pointing to highlights of the design.

Upside Town Course Design

Gravity shifts for the ball in Upside Town but not for the player, Martell explains in our tour video embedded above. When combined with art choices like sunlight casting at a consistent angle across the buildings, the effect is a comfortable gravity playground with a continuous “walkabout path” from hole 1 in the subway to hole 18 on a crane overlooking the city.

“You’re always standing on the ground,” Martell says. “So the entire level, even though the holes might be up above you or on walls, it’s always something that you’ll still have your feet on solid ground and you can still walkabout this course and explore it just like you would any other course.”

Upside Town features rectilinear spaces to move through from a courtyard at the ground level to a hole in a museum gallery and a cafe that might bring to mind Central Perk from Friends. Like Walkabout’s last DLC Atlantis this course also includes interactive animals, though they aren’t rideable here.

“We love this course. We also know that it’s not going to be for everyone,” Martell says. “The next couple of courses are gonna be more in that classic mini-golf vein, but it also feels like we’re getting to that point now where we’ve got enough courses out that we feel like it’s okay to take a couple of big swings and try something that’s totally new.”

We’re continuing to tour through the design evolution in Walkabout Mini Golf with its creators. We’ll have coverage of the latest updates with the game and if you want to follow along with future tour videos be sure to bookmark the playlist embedded below or subscribe to our YouTube channel.

February 17, 2023

VR’s Favorite Mini-Golf Game is Coming to PSVR 2 Soon

Indie VR studio Mighty Coconut announced its smash success VR mini-golfing game Walkabout Mini Golf is making its way to PSVR 2.

Arguably one of VR’s most favorite social gaming experiences, Walkabout Mini Golf is said to arrive on PSVR 2 “soon”, which is set to include cross-play with all supported versions of the game; this includes versions available through Steam, Meta Quest Store, Viveport, and Pico’s European-facing digital store.

Ranking consistently as one of the most highly-rated games on the Quest Store, Walkabout Mini Golf supports both single-player and up to four-player multiplayer, offering up a wide selection of mini-golfing courses.

We don’t know precisely when the hit mini-golfing game is coming to PSVR 2, although Mighty Coconut says it’s set to bring all of the main content at launch, including eight easy and eight hard mode courses, and paid access to all DLC courses and bundles.

We’ll be keeping our eyes out for a more precise launch date in the coming weeks, as Sony’s next-gen VR headset is launching on February 22nd. PlayStation VR 2’s so-called “launch window” content extends into March, so we’ll be keeping our fingers crossed that we’ll see it on PSVR 2 sooner rather than later.

April 6, 2022

‘Walkabout Mini Golf’ is Getting a Course Based on ‘MYST’ This Fall

Walkabout Mini Golf (2020) has been tempting us lately with the upcoming release of a course based on Jim Henson’s ’80s fantasy film LABYRINTH (1986), which is coming at some point this summer. Now developers Mighty Coconut say they’ve inked a deal with MYST (1993) studio Cyan to create a course based on the classic ’90s adventure game.

Mighty Coconut says it’s releasing the 36-hole VR course in Walkabout Mini Golf sometime in Fall of 2022, releasing on Meta Quest, Steam, and what it calls “forthcoming VR platforms.”

The studio says the MYST course will feature “immersive gameplay with realistic physics, and iconic settings, objects, and the spirit of puzzles from the Myst saga,” and will be “vivid, challenging, puzzle-filled, and beautiful.”

This isn’t the first time MYST takes a dip into virtual reality. Cyan has been a pioneering developer in the medium since the beginning, having not only brought original puzzle adventure Obduction (2016) to the first generation of consumer VR headsets, but also MYST itself to Quest and PC VR headsets in mid-2021.

“Our generations of players have discovered the starkly beautiful and now iconic Myst island, so it now only feels natural that we open this virtual mini golf attraction where fans can connect and explore,” said Hannah Gamiel, Development Director at Cyan. “People will be able to explore the world the Miller brothers, Robyn and Rand, created, and have friends from all over the world join them in the fun—all around the whimsical game of mini golf.”

Like all of its mini golf courses, Walkabout Mini Golf: MYST will include support for single-player and four-player multiplayer. It’s said to include 18 easy mode and 18 hard mode holes, contain 18 lost balls to collect, and what the studio calls a “fox hunt scavenger expedition” along with a collectable commemorative putter.

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September 30, 2021

Walkabout Mini Golf Adds 8th Course, Featuring New Wind Mechanics

Walkabout Mini Golf adds a new course today called Quixote Valley, available on all supported platforms in a free update.

The course is the game’s eighth, with both a day and night mode available. As you can see from the screenshots and teaser trailer, Quixote Valley is set among a rocky cluster of quaint windmills, a classic staple of most real life mini golf course. In Quixote Valley, you won’t just be dealing with one or two flimsy windmills though — there’s a whole fleet of them to contend with here.

However, the new map also brings with it some appropriate new mechanics. You can’t have windmills without wind, so you can expect to face a bit more resistance from the forces of nature on this map, thanks to the new wind mechanics. In select areas of the new map, players will now have to account for wind potentially affecting the trajectory of the ball when lining up their shot.

Walkabout Mini Golf started its life as a mobile game, before being ported over to Oculus Quest for release in late 2020. A SteamVR release followed this year in July, with support for cross-platform play. Starting with just four courses at launch, this latest content update rounds out the selection to eight maps, with normal and hard variations for each.

Back in July, Lucas Martell, lead developer of Walkabout Mini Golf, told us that Quixote Valley would be the last course added to the base game as a free update. Future maps will arrive in small DLC packages, the first of which will includes three courses and is already being worked on.

The Quixote Valley update is available now for Walkabout Mini Golf on Oculus Quest and PC VR via Steam.

January 15, 2021

Walkabout Mini Golf VR Multiplayer Livestream: Chilling and Chatting

For today’s livestream we’re playing Walkabout Mini Golf VR on Oculus Quest; I’ll be joined by Ian Hamilton! If you’re curious about how we livestream the way we do then look no further than this handy guide for general tips and this guide specific to our Oculus Quest setup.

Today, we’re playing Walkabout Mini Golf VR, one of the most popular multiplayer mini golf games in VR right now. It’s a simple and accessible game, but it’s a ton of fun to play with friends and should be a great game to just hang out and enjoy for a bit before the weekend gets started. We’ll let viewers join us as well if it’s a simple process to get people into the game.

We’re going live with our Walkabout Mini Golf VR livestream at about 1:15 PM PT today and will last for around an hour or so, give or take. We’ll be hitting just our YouTube and we’ll be streaming from an Oculus Quest 2 while we try and check chat as often as we’re able.

Livestream: Walkabout Mini Golf VR Multiplayer

You can see lots of our past archived streams over in our YouTube playlist or even all livestreams here on UploadVR and various other gameplay highlights. There’s lots of good stuff there so make sure and subscribe to us on YouTube to stay up-to-date on gameplay videos, video reviews, live talk shows, interviews, and more original content!

And please let us know which games or discussions you want us to livestream next! We have lots of VR games in the queue that we would love to show off more completely. Let’s get ready to go!

May 20, 2020

Pro Putt For Is A Mario Golf-Inspired Quest Game By TopGolf

Next week on May 28th Oculus Quest is getting a new golf game in the form of Pro Putt. This Mario Golf-inspired golf game is designed in collaboration with TopGolf and is developed by Golf Scope.

I’ve only ever been golfing once in my entire life and had a really fun time, but I’ve been to my share of putt putt courses. I’m pretty bad, but it’s still fun. The great thing about golf games in VR though is that they have a great magic of making you feel like you’re better at the real sport than you actually are.

Pro Putt will feature online multiplayer with friends, bots, or a random player via matchmaking with a variety of game modes called TopGolf Classic, Top Pressure, Quick 9, and Quick 9 Pro in the Putt Lounge course. The game claims to utilize a “highly accurate physics model” for the ball’s roll and movement. The developers behind the game also have a mobile app that uses your camera to understand topography and offer putting insights. There will also be a full campaign with unlockable game modes, collectible golf balls, and several courses.

Notably, there’s already a very good golf game available on Oculus Quest ported over from PC called Cloudlands 2. It’s main differentiating feature is that it includes a level editor and the ability to download custom levels from other players, as well as a local multiplayer “pass the headset” style mode for in-person gatherings.

Pro Putt releases for Oculus Quest on May 28th. Let us know what you think of it down in the comments below!

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March 25, 2019

Play Beach Volleyball and Mini Golf in AR With Krikey

Krikey is an augmented reality (AR) app for iOS and Android devices that has lots of fun little videogames, having previously released a football title as part of the FIFA World Cup 2018, and an ice-cream experience for National Ice Cream month. The latest to arrive is Beach Volleyball and two Mini Golf courses.

Krikey Minigolf image1

All designed to be multiplayer focused played between friends locally or around the world, the Beach Volleyball experience enables anyone to play the popular sport anywhere they like, tapping the ball back and forth over a virtual net.

And then there are the two mini golf courses, Mini Golf: 7 Wonders of the World and Fruit. In 7 Wonders of the World, players start at the Taj Mahal and can then work through all seven of the new wonders, including the Great Wall of China and Christ the Redeemer. While Mini Golf: Fruit takes players through six levels of courses with mango, apple, and strawberry obstacles to avoid.

Krikey is currently available on the App Store and Google Play for free. Simply open the app, find some space, and then tap on the Volleyball or Golf icon on the Krikey wheel to start playing. Check out the trailers for each videogame below, and for further updates on Krikey keep reading VRFocus.