Walkabout Mini Golf’s builders are planning a retro Las Vegas course impressed by Elvis Presley.
Mighty Coconut is planning to launch a course in 2025 impressed by Elvis Presley’s connection to the unique man-made escape from actuality within the Nevada desert.
Known as Viva Las Elvis, Mighty Coconut is teaming with licensing accomplice Genuine Manufacturers Group to convey the namesake’s Vegas period into VR.
“We’d been on the lookout for a method to make a retro Las Vegas course, and the pop-culture vibe of Elvis supplied a singular method to come on the world constructing and the gameplay mechanics,” mentioned Lucas Martell, creator of Walkabout Mini Golf and head of Mighty Coconut, in a ready assertion. “Genuine Manufacturers Group has been a supportive accomplice in not solely imagining a completely fictional house for individuals to mini golf and discover in Elvis’ Vegas, but in addition to create customized Elvis avatars so gamers can begin impersonating in-game. This kicks off a sequence of licensed avatar packs together with creatures from Henson’s Darkish Crystal and Fraggle Rock, in addition to a set from Exploding Kittens.”
The musical components of the upcoming course are nonetheless an open query, Martell informed UploadVR. With many months left earlier than their launch goal in 2025 to work out a plan there, Walkabout’s Jim Henson-partnered Labyrinth course works even with out David Bowie’s music accompanying the maze. That is as a result of Walkabout is already geared up with an ambiance-creating soundtrack from Chris Reyman, accessible on streaming providers like Spotify and Apple Music. In latest paid course releases, the studio additionally recreated the vibe of Venice or the Eiffel Tower because it appeared at its opening in 1899 utilizing Reyman’s sounds as background. So why not additionally the brilliant lights of Las Vegas and iconography of Elvis Presley?
We met briefly with Martell within the recreation’s Welcome Island to listen to in regards to the plan.
The course suits right into a packed schedule for the event studio seeing new programs, avatar packs and options filling out the schedule by means of 2025. Close to time period, the studio is releasing a gadget-filled course impressed by Wallace & Gromit, following a late 2023 partnership with artwork collective Meow Wolf and 2022 partnerships with Jim Henson and Myst creator Cyan.
Mighty Coconut confirmed they’re planning so as to add $1.99 avatar packs for Jim Henson’s Fraggle Rock and The Darkish Crystal, in addition to packs for Exploding Kittens and one for Elvis as nicely.
