Walkabout Talkabouts

In the latest Walkabout Talkabout, Walkabout Mini Golf creator Lucas Martell plays through Tethys Station with Jesse Schell CEO and founder of Schell Games the studio behind the #iexpectyoutodie series and the upcoming title Among Us VR. Watch along as they discuss VR development approaches and the considerations of creating or remixing game genres on new technology.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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!

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.

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.

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!