Walkabout Mini Golf from Mighty Coconut launched its latest paid add-on course impressed by Jules Verne’s novel 20,000 Leagues Below The Sea.
Gamers start on a small submersible touring to dock on the prime of Captain Nemo’s famed submarine, The Nautilus. You’ll play by way of 18 holes packed into the Nautilus’ decks shifting downward to an encounter with the story’s memorable sea monster, an enormous squid. Builders added seating places all through the ship so gamers can pause for a chat amid the “opulent” environment, which take inspiration from earlier interpretations of the story.
The course additionally features a new sport mechanic — steam — which pushes your ball across the holes in new methods.
“We’ve heard a whole lot of multi-players prefer to play a sport after which they spend simply one other hour or so simply visiting with mates,” Senior Artwork Director Don Carson informed UploadVR. “So we’ve additionally labored in snug seating and locations that appear like an apparent place to hang around.”
Carson gave UploadVR a tour of the steampunk course within the video under and shared behind-the-scenes particulars of the growing course of at Mighty Coconut.
Carson was an imagineer at Disney within the ’80s and ’90s and labored on points of interest corresponding to Splash Mountain in Disneyworld and Toon City in Disneyland, he informed us. Whereas 20,000 Leagues Below The Sea began as a “multi-layered illustration”, Carson says a lot of the work on the studio’s upcoming programs begins in VR with a “shared collaborative mannequin” utilizing Gravity Sketch.
20,000 Leagues is the primary of three of Verne’s nineteenth century works to get the mini golf theme park therapy from Mighty Coconut. Verne’s long-in-the-public-domain works have been tailored numerous occasions within the years since their publication, with Carson teasing that they have been excessive on a listing of “at the least 100 concepts” in consideration for growth by the studio when he joined up a couple of 12 months in the past. The course will ultimately be joined by Round The World In 80 Days & Journey To The Middle Of The Earth.
“They are surely want achievement,” he stated. “ There’s an 8-year-old model of myself — that child that may go to the yard with a shovel and know by lunchtime you’ll have dug to China — and this concept that we get design that journey from that ebook the place we descend into the Earth after which undergo these iconic environments one after the opposite…is pinch-worthy.”
Carson stated he joined Mighty Coconut after sending in a fan letter to the builders, impressed by the similarity of their programs to theme park design. He stated he’s obtained a brief record in his head of programs he needs to construct and about half of them are presently beneath development.
Mighty Coconut additionally just lately introduced a Myst course that’s coming quickly, just lately launched a course impressed by the 1980’s film Labyrinth, and Carson confirmed once more {that a} phone-based model of the sport remains to be within the works to supply cross-play throughout extra units.
You’ll find the 20,000 Leagues paid DLC course for Walkabout Mini Golf on shops for Quest and Steam.
