Meta Horizon v233 Release Notes
"Mobile Genre Showdown: Reloaded" Competition (MHCP Only): We're excited to announce our fourth Meta Horizon Creator Competition in 2025, our biggest competition yet, with a chance to win a share of $2.5 million for all MHCP creators!
The "Mobile Genre Showdown: Reloaded" competition is focused on designing and building new, innovative worlds with GenAI tools for Meta Horizon that work seamlessly on mobile, centered around specific genre games such as Simulation, Roleplay and Avatar Sim. Creators are also encouraged in this competition to leverage the new GenAI features. The submission period is open from now until October 30th, 2025. This is your chance to shine with the top 4 genre winners each taking home a whopping $200,000 each. Plus, 31 more talented creators will share $1,700,000 across multiple exciting categories.
Visit the competition site to learn more about the competition, how we'll judge, and what it will take for you to be eligible and win.
Read on for more details on Meta Horizon v233
New Features
Transforming World Discovery: We are continuously working on creating an intuitive, trusted, and effective discovery system, making it easy for users to find great experiences and for creators to grow with confidence. Rolling out now over time, we are excited to announce the following:
- The World Detail Page (WDP) is being redesigned for a cleaner, smarter look, elevating creator recognition and making it easier for users to quickly see why a world is worth joining and jumping in right away.
- We're introducing a new World Visits metric, so you can now easily see how popular a world truly is by viewing the real number of people who have joined each world. Find this in the Creator Portal.
- A new world's rating system that lets you see feedback about your world, helping you optimize for the best user experiences.
Avatar Clothing Creation (MHCP Only): We're excited to announce the expansion of clothing creation tools to all MHCP creators in Horizon Worlds! Creating and selling avatar clothing offers a new way for creators to enhance their worlds, monetize their creativity, and reach new audiences.
For avatar clothing creation and best practices, items must be rated 10+, adhere to content guidelines, create original content and leverage AI responsibly. Learn more about this feature here.
New Tutorial and Template Worlds: We are launching two new tutorial worlds and one new template world to help creators speed up their development. Find these when opening the editor in the creation home under the Tutorial and Template headers.
Sim Tycoon | Template: This tutorial contains all the game logic and systems needed for compelling player progression within a Sim Tycoon like game. It is designed to be easily reskinned and rethemed to anything the player can imagine. Learn more here.
Custom UI | Tutorial: UI is very hard! With this sample world we provide several useful UI elements for Creators to copy and use in their game. Learn more here.
New User Experience | Tutorial: This sample world contains many useful components to help new users learn the game in a more step-by-step way: arrows to lure them to points of interest, hint texts, and the ability to lock progression on certain actions. Learn more here.
Quality of Life Improvements
- Improved tooltips on the NPC character creation screen for the Edit Avatar and Edit Character buttons for explaining when functionality gets disabled and why.
- Triggering animations on avatars with TypeScript can now be supplied an onEndBehavior to define whether to end, loop or pause when the animation is complete, replacing the Loop flag and adding the new option to pause on the final frame of an animation until canceled.
- Player avatars will now be hidden when editing with others in the desktop editor and not in preview mode.
Bug Fixes
- Fixed a bug where a user's avatar would move forward unintentionally causing the user to look through their avatar's body.
- Fixed a bug where an avatar loaded into a world would fail resulting in a placeholder avatar.
- Fixed a bug where switching mobile avatars while in-world could cause swapped avatar issues.
- Fixed a bug where spawning a portal could break CustomUI for other users.
