Walkabout Talkabouts

Join Walkabout Mini Golf Creator Lucas Martell and Technical Lead John Pistella as they play a round with Concerned Ape LLC's Cole Medeiros of Stardew Valley fame, where they discuss what makes an addictive, ongoing game! ⛳

On this episode of Walkabout Talkabouts, Senior Art Director Don Carson takes hosting duties to chat with colleague and friend Dr. Ruth Diaz of BridgeMakers. World about the craft that goes into environmental design in virtual worlds! ⛳

Walkabout Mini Golf creator Lucas Martell and Lead Tech Artist Chase Shields are joined by James Thomas (Assoc. Tech Director of Rare), where they discuss live service game development, the success of Sea of Thieves and the power of community perception! ⛳

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In part 2 of our conversation with Michael Frederickson, Principal Technical Artist at Pixar Animation Studios (Coco, Inside Out, Up, Luca, Cars 2) and Walkabout Mini Golf superfan, he and senior art director Don Carson continue climbing the tree and mantle in Holiday Hideaway. In this episode, they talk about riffing in environmental design, intent documents, staying playful as a world builder, d...

For this special two-part Walkabout Talkabout, Lucas Martell and senior art director Don Carson are joined by Michael Frederickson, Principal Technical Artist at Pixar Animation Studios and Walkabout Mini Golf superfan. As they climb the tree in Holiday Hideaway, they talk about the Pixar production process, environmental storytelling, how VR can help put creators in the worlds they are building,...

Our 22nd episode of Walkabout Talkabouts features the puppeteer of Red Fraggle from Fraggle Rock and The Worm from Labyrinth herself... Karen Prell! Watch as she tries out the new Fraggle Rock avatars and goes back to Labyrinth to discuss Jim Henson, Muppets, and being a computer animator on Portal 2.

Finbar Hawkins, Creative Director of Interactive and Bram Ttwheam, Head of Post and at Aardman meet Walkabout Mini golf creator Lucas Martell at 62 West Wallaby Street to talkabout all things Wallace and Gromit, cheese, tea, contraptions, and very crazy golf. Find out how Mighty Coconut collaborated with UK's beloved animation studio to bring this dynamic duo home to life with a new adventure unde...

Andrew Borman, Director of Digital Preservation and Christopher Bensch, VP for Collections at the Strong Museum of Play in Rochester, New York join David Wyatt, Mighty Coconut's head of business strategy to talk about the transformative nature of play, a museum full of toys, video game culture, and "Playful Putters: The History of Miniature Golf", their newest exhibition. Check it out then tell yo...

For our 19th Walkabout Talkabout episode, join Mighty Coconut Creative Director and CEO Lucas Martell and Positron's CEO Jeffrey Travis as they putt and discuss Positron's immersive VR chair and its significance in providing the theatrical imagination of theme parks closer to you.

To celebrate our 2nd anniversary of the Walkabout Talkabout series, join Mighty Coconut Creative Director and CEO Lucas Martell and Amazon's Head of Games at Twitch & BPS Bill Young as they putt and dissect what it takes to become a successful streamer, and the importance of incorporating streaming in game development.

Join Mighty Coconut Creative Director and CEO Lucas Martell and Kluge Interactive's CEO Arturo Perez, as they putt around Shangri-La and talk all things Synth Riders and VR game development, in a brand new Walkabout Talkabout.

In celebration of the launch of Walkabout Mini Golf: Meow Wolf, follow the Creative Director of Mighty Coconut Lucas Martell and Senior Art Director Don Carson plays through the course with the co-founder of Meow Wolf Caity Kennedy, who had a hand in designing the Walkabout Mini Golf version of her world.

Mighty Coconut's resident composer, Chris Reyman and Walkabout Mini Golf's creator Lucas Martell talk scoring while scoring on Shangri-La on the occasion of the release of the Original Soundtrack, Volume 2 as well as how they met, getting into the business of film/game composition, scoring animated shorts The OceanMaker and Pigeon Impossible, and the particular fun challenge of composing music for...

Walkabout Mini Golf creator Lucas Martell chills on Cherry Blossom with some of the Polyarc Games team behind the Moss duology as they talk about designing immersive interactions for various controller UI, creating a VR hit with a small team, transition from AAA studios Bungie and Rockstar Games to an independent scale, the design process, and the importance of asking "why" when developing for vir...

Walkabout Mini Golf creator Lucas Martell floats through Tethys Station with Michael Wentworth-Bell of Espire VR series to talk about designing for VR comfort, controls, optimization, and UI as tools for the best experience possible. They also get into the challenges and new unknowns of mixed reality from development and tech perspectives.

In this new Walkabout Talkabout episode, Walkabout creator Lucas Martell and stop-motion animation luminary Kevin Parry play a round while discussing the value—and difference—of making motion graphics by hand in a time when things seem increasingly automated or AI-generated.

Follow along for a mouth-watering discussion with Walkabout Mini Golf creator Lucas Martell and Owlchemy Labs COOwl and Cable Slinger Andrew Eiche as they give you a taste of developing for virtual reality—without sugar-coating it. They get into VR hits like Job Simulator, Vacation Simulator, and Rick and Morty: Virtual Rick-ality as well as interactivity maximalism, the battle for accuracy, hand/...

A special Livestream with Walkabout Mini Golf creator Lucas Martell, sr. art director Don Carson, 3D environment modeler Edward McAndrew, 3D character modeler Emma Mercado, and friends!

To commemorate the launch of Walkabout Mini Golf: Myst, the co-founder of Mighty Coconut Lucas Martell plays through the course with the co-founder of Cyan Inc. Rand Miller, half of the Miller brothers who in 1993 changed PC gaming with the launch of Myst. Follow the playthrough and conversation about how Myst island is no longer a solitary experience, the nuances of "Myst water", how to stay inde...

In the latest Walkabout Talkabout, Walkabout Mini Golf creator Lucas Martell plays through Tethys Station with Jesse Schell CEO and founder of Schell Games the studio behind the #iexpectyoutodie series and the upcoming title Among Us VR. Watch along as they discuss VR development approaches and the considerations of creating or remixing game genres on new technology.

In this latest Walkabout Talkabout, Mighty Coconut's head of communications plays a round in Arizona Modern with LIV manager Atom Bomb Body and content creator TougeVR as they discuss the evolution, challenges, and possibilities of content capture, streaming, and creation in virtual reality—including how the content community is so vital to the adoption of VR overall.

Exploding Kittens’ co-founder & CEO Elan Lee turns the Walkabout Talkabout format around, interviewing Mighty Coconut executive producer Lucas Martell about how he got his start, set studio's roots in animation, one fateful trip to Belize, narrative projects, the jump into interactive/games, and how the Walkabout Mini Golf: Labyrinth course came into existence in partnership with The Henson Co...

In this episode of Walkabout Talkabouts, WMG creator Lucas Martell plays through Shangri-La with the team from Pontoco independent studio behind The Last Clockwinder. The conversation bounces around how they got into game development, the leap into virtual reality, conceiving and implementing unusual game mechanics, publishing games, working with Cyan, incongruent college degrees and winding caree...

On this Walkabout Talkabout, WMG creator Lucas Martell plays through Cherry Blossom with Tima Anoshechkin, CEO and founder, of Alta—the studio behind A Township Tale. The discussion bounces from modern VR's origins, Tima's experience developing from Rockstar Games, WB Games, and Activision Blizzard to the practical considerations of the indie developer release cycle, MMOs, and what's ahead.