Walkabout Mini Golf’s new 8-Bit Lair is chock filled with nods to the Eighties with one among Mighty Coconut’s strongest narratives introduced by means of theme park story design.
The brand new paid downloadable course is obtainable now throughout Quest, PSVR 2, Pico, and Steam β with iOS nonetheless to return. The course is the third within the Walkabout Evil Lairs collection following Ice Lair and Laser Lair, becoming a member of dozens of others because the studio is already planning future releases into 2026.
Walkabout’s unique developer and Mighty Coconut studio head Lucas Martell provided UploadVR a behind-the-scenes design tour, mentioning inspirations together with Die Arduous, Tron, and WarGames. The video under works as a commentary observe should you maintain it taking part in within the background whereas transferring by means of the course on any platform.
We have greater than 20 tour movies in our YouTube playlist embedded under charting Walkabout’s design journey with the sport’s designers and companions constructing out new lands to play in top-of-the-line locations inside any VR headset.
For many who do not thoughts spoilers, or have already performed the course by means of, the video under exhibits the key lab of the villain of this explicit story, Vincent Vector, a superb online game designer who experimented in Eighties-era digital actuality expertise earlier than transferring alongside to Tron-like conversions of bodily objects into digital counterparts. Following this concept to its inevitable conclusion, sure, you may even enter Vector Actuality from Digital Actuality.
The course contains a new brick-breaking mechanic in addition to an arcade space with playable cupboards made by Walkabout’s designers particularly for 8-Bit Lair. Some holes function shiny floating cash which have to be collected as a substitute of sinking your putt. The course concludes with a shocking new gameplay aspect that completes the exceptional environmental storytelling arc, cementing it as one among Walkabout’s finest but.
On a current Gamescast episode whereas absolutely immersed within the UploadVR Studios on Quest 3, I performed 18 holes of mini golf on my iPad with a mouse utilizing Quest HDMI Hyperlink. Maybe on a future episode in VR, I might pull up 8-Bit Lair on my iPad as my second layer of actuality and, round gap 12, I am going to find yourself drawn three ranges deep into Vector’s Vector Actuality.
For these on the lookout for the total Walkabout retro expertise, there’s additionally a newly created 1983 version of the sport obtainable in Arcade Legend cupboards in addition to the Internet.
Correction: An earlier model of this text incorrectly acknowledged the discharge timing for 8-Bit Lair on iOS. It’s now appropriate.
