Using Sublevels for Seasonal Updates - Workshop Resources + Remix World
Hey creators! 👋🏾 Thank you to everyone who joined the workshop on Sublevels for Live Ops Updates! It was great introducing Live Ops to folks who hadn't explored it before and seeing all the ideas that came out during the session. As promised, here are the resources we used so you can try this in your own worlds: 🔗Step-By-Step Guide I put together a guide to help you setup your own sublevel world that you can use for things like: Seasonal updates Layout A/B testing Limited time Events 🌍 Remixable Demo World This is the same world we used in the workshop to show seasonal updates in action. Feel free to remix it and experiment! I would love to see what themes you come up with to help show your creator personality. Feel free to share screenshots or questions in the thread. Happy building! 💛 Ash📅 This week in MHCP Programming 1/12 - 1/16
This week, join us for the first of JoyReign’s four part series dedicated to recharging your creative spark, and learn how to use sublevels to easily swap seasonal live ops updates in and out of your worlds. Then, join Shards632 for an exploration of the new Developer Dashboards analytics features. Reclaiming Your Why 🗓️ Date & Time: Monday, 1/12 @ 5 PM PT Host: JoyReign Our opening Creator Recharge session invites you to revisit your early creator moments and share your personal "why." Take a moment to reflect on your journey and leave our group discussion feeling inspired to push your creative limits. 🏠 Sublevels for Live Ops Updates 🗓️ Date & Time: Tuesday, January 13th @ 11:00 AM PT Host: Ashes2Ashes2 & Tellous Keeping your world fresh gives players a reason to keep coming back. Sublevels allow you to build out modular areas and components that can easily be swapped in and out for seasonal updates, challenges, and expanding levels. Learn from Ashes2Ashes2 and Tellous how to make the best use of the sublevel gizmo to plan, implement, and impress players. 📊 Feature Detective: Analytics Explorer 🗓️ Date & Time: Thursday, January 15th @ 5:00 PM PT Host: Shards632 The new Developer Dashboard is your home for extensive world analytics you can use to tune and refine your world for the best player experience. Learn how to use heatmaps, player interaction information, and traffic attribution from Shards632.Recharge in 2026 with new programming led by JoyReign
This interactive four-part creator recharge series is designed to help you slow down and reconnect with what inspires you. Find balance and recharge while building healthier habits alongside your fellow creators. These group sessions will happen one time only, and will not be recorded, so don’t miss out. Reclaiming Your Why Monday, 1/12 @ 5 PM PT Our opening session invites you to revisit your early creator moments and share your personal "why." Take a moment to reflect on your journey and leave our group discussion feeling inspired to push your creative limits. The Quest for Balance Monday, 1/19 @ 5 PM PT Our week 2 session focuses on cultivating sustainable creativity through check-ins, honest discussion, and a personal recharge challenge. Leave with a single clear intention for personal improvement to guide you into the week ahead. From Burnout to Breakthrough Monday, 1/26 @ 5 PM PT Week 3 is all about resilience & creative renewal. You’ll explore those tough moments when creating felt hardest and reflect on what helped you move past those obstacles, all in the name of building affirmations you can carry into future projects. The After Party (Fun Through Competition) Monday, 2/2 @ 5 PM PT Our final session is your chance to celebrate your growth as a creator. We’ll play mini games, share what we’re grateful for, and leave feeling energized to tackle our next big builds. Join us for each session to grow together and enter 2026 with a refined purpose.📅 Get ready for the next generation of building worlds in Meta Horizon with January’s mentor events
Creators, 2026 will be a landmark year for creators with the release of Meta Horizon Studio. To prepare, join us for mentor workshops designed to give you the skills you need to succeed and make impactful worlds. 🏁 Your World Is Published! What’s Next? 🗓️ Date & Time: Wednesday, January 7th @ 11:00:00 AM PT Host: Meta.Jesus Creating a world players love is just the first step. Hear top creator Meta.Jesus’ approach to planning ongoing updates that respond to player actions and feedback, and that keep your worlds feeling fresh. Walk away with actionable steps you can use today to bring excitement and mystery to players returning to your world. 💡Stylized Shadows 🗓️ Date & Time: Thursday, January 8th @ 11:00 AM PT Host: SpaceGlitterUnicorn Bring detail to your worlds with baked-in texture shadowing. Utilizing baked shadows allows you to create complex and advanced lighting without the need for resource intensive lights placed within the editor. Learn how to analyze light within your world and implement color theory to design shadows that feel real. 🏠 Sublevels for Live Ops Updates 🗓️ Date & Time: Tuesday, January 13th @ 11:00 AM PT Host: Ashes2Ashes2 & Tellous Keeping your world fresh gives players a reason to keep coming back. Sublevels allow you to build out modular areas and components that can easily be swapped in and out for seasonal updates, challenges, and expanding levels. Learn from Ashes2Ashes2 and Tellous how to make the best use of the sublevel gizmo to plan, implement, and impress players. 📊 Feature Detective: Analytics Explorer 🗓️ Date & Time: Thursday, January 15th @ 5:00 PM PT Host: Shards632 The new Developer Dashboard is your home for extensive world analytics you can use to tune and refine your world for the best player experience. Learn how to use heatmaps, player interaction information, and traffic attribution from Shards632. 🖌️ Real World Materials 🗓️ Date & Time: Tuesday, January 20th @ 11:00 AM PT Host: SpaceGlitterUnicorn Bring realism to your worlds by creating your own real world material swatches. Learn how to analyze objects to determine the best details to translate to textures. 📱 Noesis Tips & Tricks 🗓️ Date & Time: Thursday, January 22nd @ 5:00:00 PM PT Host: MKE_TheGuru Hear from the winner of 2025’s Mobile Innovation Competition , MKE_TheGuru, the tips and tricks you need to make your Noesis UIs engaging, performant, and core to your world. Learn how to use data collections to power your UIs intuitively and automatically. Just getting started with Noesis? Watch this video first . 🧑💻 AI Coding Agents 🗓️ Date & Time: Friday, January 23rd @ 11:00:00 AM PT Host: SeeingBlue Bring along a copilot when coding your next world. Join SeeingBlue for the latest in using AI Agents to design and implement game systems in VSCode. Speed up your development workflows and remove tedious tasks when designing complex systems. 📱 Noesis in Action: Under the Hood 🗓️ Date & Time: Tuesday, January 27th @ 11:00:00 AM PT Host: Shards632, MKE_TheGuru, GausRoth, Tellous Noesis introduces an entirely new and powerful way for players to interact with your world. Join 4 MHCP mentors for a comprehensive look at everything you can do with Noesis Studio using real world examples. See complex UIs broken down into their component pieces. Just getting started with Noesis? Watch this video first . 🧑💻Playtest: Worlds Feedback 🗓️ Date & Time: Friday, January 29th @ 11:00:00 AM PT Host: GausRoth Sign-up for our Worlds community playtesting session to get feedback on your in-development worlds. From the submitted worlds, a few will be selected for feedback from GausRoth and other community members during this live session. Submit your world and attend to hear and give live feedback and learn from other’s progress. If you submit your world, be sure you are able to attend. 📺 Can’t make the live sessions? Subscribe to the MHCP YouTube channel for on-demand recordings as soon as they’re available.📅 This Week in MHCP Programming 12/15 - 12/ 19
In our final week of live programming for 2025, we’re closing out with a two part session from meta.jesus, showing you the blueprint for building and sustaining a successful world. You won’t want to miss it. And join us for a Holiday Fashion Show on Wednesday to close out the year with some holiday cheer. 📷 Post. Refine. Repeat | Social Media Strategies & Tactics for Meta Horizon Creators 🗓️ Date & Time: Monday, December 15th @ 11:00 AM PT Host: GTMA and Scout House In this session, we'll be diving into the practical social media habits and frameworks you can use to begin growing your worlds immediately. Plus, you’ll hear from an expert panel of creators from this year’s Social Media Bootcamp, and how they applied these strategies to build their communities. ⭐ Your Brand and World Building Blueprint 🗓️ Date & Time: Tuesday, December 16th @ 11:00 AM PT Host: meta.jesus Illuminated Studios owner, and creator of hits Spin the Bottle and Kart Clash, meta.jesus joins us for the first of two in-depth sessions laying out his design philosophy, player engagement strategies, and live ops secrets. This first session focuses on establishing your brand through community engagement and marketing, along with actionable ways to plan, design, and build your worlds. Don’t miss this opportunity to hear from one of the top creators in Meta Horizon. 🧑🎄 Holiday Fashion Show 🗓️ Date & Time: Wednesday, December 17th @ 11:00:00 AM PT Host: SpaceGlitterUnicorn & MKE_TheGuru It’s time to get cozy and show off your holiday-inspired designs! In this interactive fashion show, SpaceGlitterUnicorn shares quick tips for presenting your clothing on social media for seasonal moments, then invites you to join live and walk the runway with your creations. Flip through your wardrobe and dress to impress. Check out last month’s Halloween Fashion Show to get inspired for this event. 🏁 Your World Is Published! What’s Next? 🗓️ Date & Time: Thursday, December 18th @ 11:00:00 AM PT Host: Meta.Jesus Creating a world players love is just the first step. Hear top creator meta.jesus's approach to planning ongoing updates that respond to player actions and feedback, and that keep your worlds feeling fresh. Walk away with actionable steps you can use today to bring excitement and mystery to players returning to your world.
🎥 The Making of Super Strike | 4 Lessons Every Game Developer Should Know
What does it take to turn a killer game idea into an experience players obsess over? Just ask OURO Interactive, the acclaimed creators behind Super Rumble and Super Strike. In this Meta Presents session, the team breaks down the four unwritten rules every creator and developer should follow to build fun, sticky games that keep players coming back. From dialing in your core loop to giving players “unfinished business” that lets them show off their progress, you’ll get practical lessons pulled straight from real Horizon hits. Learn how Ouro refined the game's core gameplay loop first, before focusing on the rest of the experience's details. The Ouro team also answers creator questions on how they achieved the world's visual fidelity using the Worlds desktop editor, ways to use daily rewards and quests to keep players coming back, community engagement strategies, prototype and playtesting best practices, and more.…
Last GTMA event of the year - 🎯 Post. Refine. Repeat | Social Media Strategies & Tactics for Meta Horizon Creators
Join the Meta Horizon Go-to-Market Academy for our next learning collaboration with Scout House, the VR/MR production studio bringing game-changing immersive content and creator education to the Meta Horizon community. In this session, we’re diving into practical social media habits and frameworks you can use to begin growing your worlds immediately. Plus, you’ll hear from an expert panel of creators from this year’s Meta Horizon Social Media Bootcamp, and how they applied these strategies to build their communities. 🎙️ Featuring our hosts: Samantha Yu, Creative Strategist, Scout House Kara Kittel, Senior Program Strategist, Scout House ✨ With Special Guests @Takatado, VR creator & designer @JDunnRRP, XR evangelist * Chief Metaverse Officer of Onyx Leaf Media Chixie 📋 Agenda: 📅 Monday, December 15th @ 11 AM PT Webinar presentation 11-11:45am PT Office Hours Q + A with JDM 11:45am-12:15pm PT This session is perfect for MHCP creators ready to share or update their worlds. Register here.📅 This week in MHCP Mentor Programming 12/8 - 12/12
The final countdown is on for the Meta Horizon Creator Competition: Mobile Innovation at 5 PM PT today, Monday December 8th. Remember to test your published world on your mobile device and prepare your DevPost submission ahead of the deadline to avoid any last minute issues. Later this week, join us for a world tour from new creators who attended our recent Worlds Creator Academies, and get started with implementing powerful Noesis UIs into your worlds. 🌐 Worlds Creator Academy World Tour 🗓️ Date & Time: Wednesday, December 10th @ 11:00 AM PT Host: MikeyAce, MKE_TheGuru, Ashes2Ashes2 Our fan favorite world tour is back, this time spotlighting worlds created by the talented MHCP creators who attended one of our 3 MCHP Worlds Creator Academy bootcamps. ✏️ Get Started with Noesis Studio 🗓️ Date & Time: Thursday, December 11th @ 5:00 PM PT Host: GausRoth & Shards632 Noesis Studio is a powerful, feature-rich UI tool that empowers you to create AAA level UIs in a visual interface. Learn the advantages of adding Noesis to your workflow and see what it can do in action. Follow along as you set up your world for Noesis, convert your existing Custom UI to the more performant Noesis, and create TypeScript-friendly view models.📅 This week in MHCP Mentor Programming 12/1 - 12/5
Start this final month of the year off right with a chance to find your next collaborator with our two Creator Connection events this week. Join Ashes2Ashes2 and MKE_TheGuru and meet other MHCP creators working on exciting worlds. Then learn principles for UI design you can implement your world immediately. 👋 Creator Connection: Find Your Next Collaborator 🗓️ Date & Time: Tuesday, December 2nd @ 5:00 PM PT & Wednesday, December 3rd @ 11:00 AM PT Host: Ashes2Ashes2 (Tuesday) & MKE_TheGuru (Wednesday) Creating with a team is a rewarding and efficient way to build. Relying on the strengths of your peers can elevate your ideas and support a shared vision that bears the mark of everyone who touched it. But finding the right collaborator can be challenging. This interactive session is your opportunity to meet other MHCP members, share your design philosophies, and learn what others are building. Learn new ways to describe your projects and find your next collaboration match in small breakout rooms. 🖊️ UI Design that Engages 🗓️ Date & Time: Thursday, December 4th @ 11:00 AM PT Host: SpaceGlitterUnicorn For mobile players, your world’s UI is always front and center. Unclear menus, cluttered layouts, or clashing design can cause players to bounce before the experience even begins. Join SpaceGlitterUnicorn for a comprehensive look at UI design philosophy, and learn how to visualize your UI across different genres and styles to implement a clear, readable design language that puts essential information front and center.
