Walkabout Talkabouts

Walkabout Talkabouts

by Mighty Coconut

Hobbies Video Games Technology

Season 1

Talkabout #8: Stream of Consciousness on VR Content Creators

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.

Talkabout #7: Elan Lee's 1.5 million questions about WMG: Labyrinth

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 Company. Follow along as they duo talk tech, artwork, production, and playing your way through the maze of entrepreneurship.

Talkabout #6: Winding Up In VR Game Development

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 career paths. Find out how independent developers make the gears all turn.

Talkabout #5: How Big Is Too Big (for VR Development)?

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.

Talkabout #4: Are You in a Themed Experience?

Our latest Walkabout Talkabout: Disney Imagineer alums Don Carson, Senior Art Dir. at Mighty Coconut; Karen Thompson, Colorist & Designer at The Hettema Group, and Heidi Hirsch, Project Dev. & Colorist at Reveal Studio correlate design for Virtual Reality with 30+ years of collaboration!

Talkabout #3: Animators Putting It All Out There

On this "Walkabout Talkabout" on Seagull Stacks, WMG creator Lucas Martell plays with Sean Sexton, Head of Character Animation at Dreamworks; Ben Willis, Head of Character Animation on Trolls 3 at Dreamworks Animation; and Fred Nilsson, Lead Technical Animator at Epic Games about everything from animation tools, using VR for work meetings, animating using a spreadsheet, how they got into the field, smelling in VR, and their work on The Bad Guys (out now), the Simpsons, Futurama, Kung Fu Panda and Trolls.

Talkabout #2: From Passionate Complexity to Simple Gameplay

In this Walkabout Talkabout, WMG creator Lucas Martell plays through Sweetopia with Alexis Moroz (game director of InnerspaceVR, the studio behind A Fisherman's Tale) and Thomas Van Bouwel (the developer of Cubism) on myriad aspects of creating VR puzzle games including developing for MetaQuest—then vs. now, game mechanics, working in Gravity Sketch, Bob Ross, as well as creating games as passion projects and turning that into a job.

Talkabout #1: The Players Are Entertaining

Walkabout along with Elan Lee, Co-creator and CEO of Exploding Kittens, Gustav Stenmark, Game Producer at Resolution Games, Lucas Martell, Executive Producer and Don Carson, Senior Art Director at Mighty Coconut as they play Walkabout Mini Golf: Gardens of Babylon and discuss how fun games are made including the origins of Exploding Kittens, how a former Disney Imagineer came to work for Mighty Coconut, the scale of the team at Resolution Games, the physics of loop-to-loops, publishing physical vs. virtual games, Star Wars Episode 1, and much more!

Jim Henson's Labyrinth Playthrough

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!

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