Mighty Coconut and Cyan will create Walkabout Mini Golf: Myst in VR
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Cyan has partnered with Mighty Coconut to make a virtual reality course set on Myst Island, dubbed Walkabout Mini Golf: Myst.
Austin, Texas-based Mighty Coconut is developing the new 36-hole VR course as an extension of its existing Walkabout Mini Golf VR title. The Myst course will debut in the fourth quarter of 2022. Walkabout Mini Golf: Myst will be a downloadable content (DLC) course for the popular VR game.
The course will be available on Meta Quest, Steam, and forthcoming VR platforms and will feature immersive gameplay with realistic physics, and iconic settings, objects, and the spirit of puzzles from the Myst saga.
Lucas Martell, executive producer and head of Mighty Coconut, said in an interview with GamesBeat that his team is consulting with Cyan on the development to get the look and feel of Myst Island correct.
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“We’re able to do some much larger things that you could do in a real-life course,” said Martell.
It helps that Cyan has already turned Myst into a 3D adventure in VR. Myst VR debuted in December 2020 on the Oculus Quest 2 headset. But Martell said that his team has to remake the island in the art style for Walkabout Mini Golf, so they will use the art work from Myst more like an inspiration for their own title.
The original Myst is a graphic adventure puzzle video game initially released for the Macintosh personal computer platform in 1993, now
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