July 28, 2025
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Walkabout Mini Golf has long been a Meta Quest Store top seller and is available across multiple VR platforms including Steam, PSVR, and Pico. The team at Mighty Coconut recognized a challenge their players faced when trying to capture those perfect moments.
"We've always loved seeing players share impossible trick shots and their most satisfying hole-in-ones," explained Jeff Mills, Senior Designer at Mighty Coconut. "But the human head makes a terrible camera. It's jittery, unsteady, and framed awkwardly when capturing directly from the headset."
The solution? A handheld camera system that provides precise control, combined with smoothing and variable zoom capabilities for professional-quality footage.
Download Walkabout Mini Golf: Available with the LIV Camera on the Meta Quest and Steam versions.
What is the CocoVision Camera?
Rather than simply implementing LCK as-is, Mighty Coconut created a branded experience that feels native to Walkabout Mini Golf. The "CocoVision Camera" offers players on Quest and Steam:
- Motion smoothing technology for stable footage
- Offset and locking capabilities for creative camera positioning
- Variable zoom controls for perfect framing
- Portrait and landscape modes for different sharing platforms
- One-handed operation maintaining Walkabout's accessibility philosophy
The camera integrates seamlessly with the new Walkabout Wristwatch, allowing quick access without disrupting the social mini golf experience.
Impressive Early Results
The numbers from the first three weeks speak volumes about player adoption:
- 15,000+ player videos totaling over 125 hours of footage
- 22,000+ photos captured and shared
- Immediate surge in player-generated content across social platforms
"These numbers showed us that the new features were compelling, but also that quicker access to capture made recording more apparent to players," Mills noted. The success demonstrates how removing friction from content creation can dramatically increase usage.
Ready to add professional camera tools to your game? Visit dev.liv.tv to see how LCK can enhance your players' content creation experience in just hours, not weeks.
Content Creation as a Growth Strategy
For Walkabout Mini Golf, user-generated content isn't just a nice-to-have feature—it's central to their growth strategy across all platforms.
"Walkabout Mini Golf has grown largely on player recommendations to their loved ones, mates, colleagues, etc.," Mills explained. "So their ability to capture and share better looking content from new perspectives is essential to how we grow and stay top of mind."
This organic, word-of-mouth marketing approach has helped maintain the game's position as a top seller, with players naturally becoming advocates through the content they create and share.
Implementation: Faster Than Expected
Mills' recommendation for other developers considering LCK integration is refreshingly straightforward:
"Just drag and drop. Seriously. Bring the plugin into your project, drop the tablet prefab into your scene, and start capturing. It's wonderfully straightforward."
The main technical consideration was performance impact, particularly on Quest hardware when rendering demanding environments. The team addressed this proactively by adding a tiny post it note on the camera to manage player expectations about performance during recording.
Looking Forward: The Future of Creative Content
What excites Mills and the Walkabout team most is the creative potential they've unlocked for their community.
"I'm excited to see what creative players do with this tool. I miss the days of machinima, where fans turned games into storytelling platforms like Red vs. Blue," Mills shared. "With Walkabout Mini Golf's diverse environments and robust avatars, nothing's stopping friends from recreating The Office in the 8-Bit Lair, staging an Indiana Jones adventure in El Dorado, or inventing their own skits and short films using the world we've built."
This vision goes beyond traditional gameplay content, imagining Walkabout's beautifully crafted environments as stages for original player creativity—from comedy skits to adventure stories..
The Power of Thoughtful Integration
Walkabout Mini Golf's approach demonstrates several core principles for successful content creation integration:
- Brand the experience to match your game's aesthetic and philosophy
- Remove friction from the content creation process
- Consider performance implications and communicate them clearly
- Integrate with existing UI systems for seamless user experience
- Think beyond gameplay to unlock creative potential
The results—15,000+ videos and 22,000+ photos in just three weeks—prove that when content creation tools are thoughtfully integrated, players eagerly embrace them.
Ready to Enhance Your Game?
Walkabout Mini Golf's success with the CocoVision Camera shows that adding professional content creation tools doesn't just benefit players—it becomes a core part of your marketing and growth strategy.
For Developers: Ready to integrate LIV Creator Kit into your game? Visit dev.liv.tv to get started. As Mighty Coconut proved, you can be up and running in about an hour.
For Content Creators: Playing Walkabout Mini Golf or other LCK-enabled games? Tag us @PoweredByLIV on social media—we love seeing the creative content you make!
