The $1M Mobile Genre Showdown Competition is Live!
The wait is over—the $1 million Horizon Worlds Mobile Genre Showdown is officially open! This is your chance to bring your favorite genre to life in Horizon Worlds for mobile and compete for a share of the $1 million prize pool.
We’re awarding 30 prizes, including $100,000 each for the top five winners. Whether you’re an experienced builder or new to Horizon Worlds, this is your opportunity to create, innovate, and win BIG.
Competition Details
Submission Window: March 11 – May 8, 2025.
Theme: Mobile Genre Showdown – Design a mobile-first world inspired by your favorite genre.
Prizes:
Top 5 Winners: $100,000 each.
25 Additional Prizes: A total of $500,000 awarded across standout entries.
Eligibility: Open to Meta Horizon Creator Program (MHCP) members.
💡 Access to Meta Experts – Get guidance from Meta Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) who can help you refine your world.
📚 Mobile-Specific Education – Learn best practices for optimizing your world for mobile performance.
🤝 Collaborate with Fellow Creators – Connect, share ideas, and troubleshoot with other participants.
🎤 Meta Office Hours & Q&A Sessions – Join live discussions to get expert advice on improving your submission.
This is the ultimate space to learn, iterate, and get feedback. If you’re serious about competing, the Creator Forum is where you need to be.
Why Participate?
🚀 Win Big – $1 million in total prizes, with five creators earning $100,000 each.
📱 Expand to Mobile – Get ahead by creating engaging, high-quality mobile worlds.
🎨 Showcase Your Creativity – Push boundaries, bring your favorite genres to life, and get recognized.
Don’t miss this opportunity to build something incredible. Whether you’re a seasoned creator or brand new, this competition is your chance to make an impact.
From the Competition rules - You may enter as an individual and/ or as a member of a Team, but each individual may be a member of only one Team (i.e., you may submit one or more individual entries and one or more entries as a member of a Team, but you may not be a member of more than one Team). Any individual or Team (including each Team member) that enters or takes steps to participate in this Contest is referred to in these Terms as an “Entrant”.
I'm unclear as to how to opt-in to join the Feedback week
The deadline to save your draft to get into the FeedbackFestivalisApril10,2025 at 9:30 am PT!Save your draft here.
Your competition submission entry details can be left as a draft or be a fully complete submission—just make sure to include a link to your world that is publicly accessible (see rules for details).
We recommend making this draft a clone of your world so you can continue developing in another copy without affecting the feedback process.
Create project, same as for the actual comp the "save your draft here" link is going to the page where people create the project add a link to the Clone world which must be public
so ALL drafts which have a link to a publicly available world are considered to be in the Feedback Week? or what needs to be done to opt-on the feedback festival?
My world has a decent mix of genres. How should I evaluate my submission? For my draft Devpost submission, i just picked the most fitting one to me but I'm wondering how the judges might view worlds that include a mix of 2 ore more genres
@lakaleigh Great question! Can you please share your project title or Devpost submission URL so we can have one of our feedback festival judges take a look and suggest a genre for you? Thanks!
That should also have links to the worlds I created. My submission is still very much in development (both worlds still need to be linked ) but hopefully, from the description and visiting the worlds, they can offer feedback.
Thanks for sharing! We recommend the Adventure category because the game involves exploration, puzzle-solving, and missions, which are key elements of adventure games. Good luck!
Thanks for your question. Yes, multiplayer games will be assigned a judging team to play and experience the game at the same time. Good luck with your entry!
