📱 Coming this May: Build worlds your way
May is packed with practical live sessions designed to make you a sharper creator. We’re covering the art of reverse-engineering great game design, putting your most recent builds in the spotlight, and offering up AI workflows that free up time at every stage of your process. Plus, you can expect all new Build-Along and Feature Detective sessions to round out the month. 🖌️How It’s Made: Reverse-Engineering Game Art 🗓️ Date & Time: Thursday, May 7 @ 11:00 AM PT Host: SpaceGlitterUnicorn One of the fastest ways to level up is to study the great work you already know and love. In this session, SpaceGlitterUnicorn breaks down existing game assets to uncover the lighting, texture, and design techniques that make them so effective. 🗺️“Whatcha Building?”: Community World Tour 🗓️ Date & Time: Tuesday, May 12th @ 5:00 PM PT Host: MKE_TheGuru Want your world featured live? Submit it here for a chance to walk the community through what you’ve been building. If selected, MKE_TheGuru will screen share from inside your world while you take questions in real time and explain your workflows. 🤖 Do More of What You Love: Practical AI for Every Role 🗓️ Date & Time: Thursday, May 14th @ 11:00 AM PT Host: MikeyAce There’s an AI workflow that can take the friction out of whatever you’re working on right now. MikeyAce shows you how to use these tools to move past the work that’s slowing you down, whether that’s designing, sticking to timelines, or writing code. 🕵️ Noesis Build-Along, Part 2: Feature Detective 🗓️ Date & Time: Tuesday, May 19th @ 5:00 PM PT Host: SeeingBlue, Ashes2Ashes2, MKE_TheGuru Feature Detective is back! Watch your mentors turn last month’s UI plans into working TypeScript components and a code base for a small-scale game loop. 🤳 Going Mobile First (Without Breaking Your Game) 🗓️ Date & Time: Wednesday, May 21st @ 11:00 AM PT Host: Ashes2Ashes2 Building across surfaces means making the tough calls about what to cut and what to rework. Join us for this session as Ashes2Ashes2 takes us through the decisions and tradeoffs she makes in her own mobile-first workflow. 🕵️ Noesis Build-Along, Part 3: Feature Detective 🗓️ Date & Time: Monday, May 26th @ 5:00 PM PT Host: SeeingBlue, Ashes2Ashes2, MKE_TheGuru Our Feature Detective Noesis Build-Along picks up where we left off with the tamagotchi project we started last month. Whether you’ve followed every part or you’re jumping in fresh, see how the pieces come together as our expert mentors build out the next layer. 🎯 Worlds Playtest 🗓️ Date & Time: Thursday, May 28th @ 11:00 AM PT Host: GausRoth What’s one of the fastest ways to find out what’s working in your world? Put it in front of real players. Join GausRoth for this month’s Worlds Playtest to surface real-time feedback alongside your fellow creators. Submit your world here to be featured.
📱 Your World on Mobile: April Mentor Programming
This month’s seven curated mentor sessions are all about exploring what’s next for your world. Take deep dives into designing for short play sessions, participate in hands-on workshops on how to reuse your creative work, and explore the latest tools to accelerate your workflow. It’s all happening this April. 📱 VR-to-Mobile World Tour 🗓️ Date & Time: Thursday, April 2 @ 12:00 PM PT Host: SeeingBlue Tag along with SeeingBlue in this interactive tour as he explores what it takes to bring existing VR worlds to mobile. Together, you’ll discover how to transition VR-specific elements like triggers and grabbables to mobile, then build out a practical porting checklist you can use on your own worlds. ▶️ How I Ported My World to Mobile 🗓️ Date & Time: Tuesday, April 7th @ 11:00 AM PT Host: GausRoth GausRoth takes a systematic, real-world approach to porting a VR world to mobile using one of his own worlds as a case study. The live world walkthrough portion of this session will cover how to begin the porting process in desktop editor, before transitioning to a breakdown of the planning system he uses to keep track of every necessary change for a mobile port. ⭐ Pick Up and Play: The Art of the Five-Minute Loop 🗓️ Date & Time: Thursday, April 9th @ 11:00 AM PT Host: MikeyAce How do you create a play session that engages players while still respecting their time? MikeyAce answers that question by examining the short-loop game design he used in his games, Mall Mayhem and Star Chasers. Learn to create satisfying five minute loops that feel intentional, instead of an afterthought. 🔍 Feature Detective: Let's Investigate 🗓️ Date & Time: Tuesday, April 14th, 5:00 PM PT Host: SeeingBlue, Ashes2Ashes2, and MKE_TheGuru Feature Detective is back, and three mentors are on the case. SeeingBlue, Ashes2Ashes2, and MKE_TheGuru dig into new platform features and tools, all while solving unscripted problems in real-time. Bring your questions and expect a few surprises. 🚚 Asset Transition: Moving and ReusingYour Creative Work 🗓️ Date & Time: Thursday, April 23 @ 11:00 AM PT Host: MKE_TheGuru and SpaceGlitterUnicorn How do you go about transferring the VR-first worlds you built in-headset? Join MKE_TheGuru and SpaceGlitterUnicorn for an interactive workshop on archiving and exporting your primitive-built assets for future use. 🔍 What Makes Your AI Tick? - A Deep Dive on Understanding AI Agents 🗓️ Date & Time: Tuesday, April 28 @ 11:00 AM PT Host: Shards632 If you’re already using desktop editor’s AI tools, or are curious about what’s under the hood of your go-to AI workflow, this session is for you. Shards632 takes the foundation SeeingBlue laid in his previous AI sessions and takes it a step further, exploring the technical intricacies behind modern AI agents, LLMs, MCP servers, tasks, and orchestrators. 🧪 Worlds Playtest: VR-to-Mobile 🗓️ Date & Time: Thursday, April 30 @ 11:00 AM PT Host: GausRoth Close out the month with a focused playtesting session alongside GausRoth. This is your opportunity to play through worlds that creators want to make the jump from VR to mobile, and hear structured feedback on how to convert VR native features. Want your world featured in this session for feedback? Submit details here for a chance to be chosen.📱 March Mentor Programming to help you create mobile worlds that engage players
This March, our MHCP mentors are unveiling a slew of new live sessions tailored to help you create the best mobile experiences possible. We'll unpack the latest AI workflows for building more polished and performant worlds faster than ever, with practical strategies and hands-on examples at every step of the way. Join us to add these powerful techniques to your toolbelt. 🕹️ Discussion: Guiding Arrow 🗓️ Date & Time: Tuesday, March 3 @ 11:00 AM PT Host: Tellous It can hard to know where to go, but a simple arrow can guide the way. Join Tellous for this practical session showing the philosophy behind the guiding arrow design principle and ways it can help or hurt the players ability to orient in your world and know what to do. 🧱 Build-Along: Modular Asset Building for Mobile 🗓️ Date & Time: Thursday, March 5 @ 11:00 AM PT Host: SpaceGlitterUnicorn Join SpaceGlitterUnicorn for an essential Build-Along session on modular assets. Learn the secrets behind high-quality assets you can create once to deploy across your entire world, all while keeping performance high. ⏱️ Discussion: Onboard Your Players in Seconds 🗓️ Date & Time: Tuesday, March 10 @ 11:00 AM PT Host: MikeyAce Mobile players won’t wait around for long tutorials, meaning the first few seconds are where you either hook them or lose them. MikeyAce walks through how to capture attention immediately using visual cues and implicit teaching mechanics so your players learn by doing, not by reading walls of text. 🤖 Workshop: Advanced Scripting Techniques with Your AI Copilot 🗓️ Date & Time: Thursday, March 12 @ 12:00 PM PT Host: SeeingBlue Learn to use instruction files and standard project prompts to get the specific results you want from your AI copilot in VSCode. This session is perfect for creators looking to make the transition from CodeBlocks scripting to TypeScript. You already know how Worlds systems are built, and SeeingBlue shows you how to use that knowledge to tell the AI exactly what you need. 🔍 Feature Detective: Let's Investigate 🗓️ Date & Time: Tuesday, March 17 @ 5:00 PM PT & Tuesday, March 31 @ 5:00 PM PT Host: SeeingBlue, Ashes2Ashes2, and MKE_TheGuru Meet Feature Detective, our live collaborative learning sessions where mentors explore a feature/tool with you in real time. Take a raw look at the creative process you won’t find in a formal tutorial, plus learn the tactics for addressing those “wrong turns” and rabbit holes that pop up when you’re figuring out new features. 👆 Discussion: Tap-Friendly Game Design 🗓️ Date & Time: Thursday, March 19 @ 11:00 AM PT Host: Ashes2Ashes2 Why do some button presses feel intuitive while others fall flat? Ashes2Ashes2 analyzes real examples from mobile worlds, including the best practices for hitboxes and interaction zones that will ensure your players never miss a tap. 🎨 Discussion: Clear UI Design, Even Without Words 🗓️ Date & Time: Tuesday, March 24 @ 11:00 AM PT Host: MKE_TheGuru Great UI speaks for itself. In this session, MKE_TheGuru walks you through essential visual hierarchy techniques, like color and placement, that help your players easily navigate through menus and interfaces on mobile screens. 🧪 Playtesting: Worlds Feedback 🗓️ Date & Time: Thursday, March 26 @ 11:00 AM PT Host: GausRoth If your world is ready for feedback, this session from GausRoth is for you. Submit your world for a chance to have it playtested live and receive constructive community and mentor feedback to inform your next round of improvements.Congratulations to the winners of the Meta Horizon Creator Competition focused on "Mobile Innovation”
Congratulations to all participants of the Mobile Innovation competition! Our panel of judges was deeply impressed by the caliber of entries, specifically highlighting your exceptional creativity, immersive world-building, and innovative gameplay mechanics. The potential shown in these worlds is impressive, particularly given the short development window. With further polish, these entries could become standout experiences in the ecosystem. We’re proud to celebrate this year’s winners and can’t wait to see how their work continues to evolve. Top Prize Winners 🏆Ship It! by MKE_TheGuru 🏆Gunship: Quackdown by Shirkides 🏆Spell Swiper: Defend the Kingdom! By Qol, Alla20011, HaruHiru, Nadir_Salhi, TravisMobergMusic, Ranger777 Check out the full list of the 35 winning categories here. A special note of gratitude to every creator who participated in our competitions this past year! Your collective dedication and talent have allowed us to distribute over $7million to creators globally via competitions. Even if your world wasn’t selected this time, your creativity is a vital part of our ecosystem. Every entry fuels the growth of this community, and we are excited to see how you continue to refine your craft and what you build next. Regarding competition prize payouts, our partner, Enteractive Solutions Group (ESG) will still manage the process. Winning world owners will be contacted by ESG within two weeks with details. Please check your junk/spam folder for emails from enteractivesolutions.com.$1.5M Meta Horizon Creator Competition: Mobile Innovation – Your Moment to Shine!
Are you ready to redefine what’s possible on mobile devices within Meta Horizon Worlds? The Meta Horizon Creator Competition returns with its grand finale for 2025: Mobile Innovation! This is your chance to push the boundaries of creativity and technology, design groundbreaking experiences, and win big. Competition Highlights: Theme: Mobile Innovation – Optimize for touch, designing out-of-the-box mobile-first interactions, and leverage the unique capabilities of mobile devices within Horizon Worlds. Massive Prize Pool: Compete for up to 35 prizes, with a top prize of $100,000 for the top 3 entries, and a total prize pool of $1,500,000! Key Dates: Launch Competition: November 3, 2025, 10:00 AM PST Competition Submission Period: November 3, 2025, 10:00 AM PST – December 8, 2025, 5:00 PM PST Creator Community Voting: December 10, 2025, 9:00 AM PST – December 12, 2025, 11:45 PM PST Judging: December 9, 2025, 11:45 PM PST – December 16, 2025, 11:45 PM PST Winners Announced: From December 22, 2025 Why Participate? Build for a Growing Audience: Showcase your work to a wider audience within Meta Horizon Worlds. Power Up with GenAI and More Tools: Utilize cutting-edge generative AI and a suite of creator tools to build faster, smarter, and more immersive worlds. Join a Thriving Creator Community: Become part of the MHCP community, where creators inspire self-expression, play, progress, and connection. Ready to push the limits of mobile innovation? Create, compete, and shine. This is your moment! 🔗 Learn more & join the competition: https://mhcp-mobile-innovation.devpost.com/ If you have any questions about the competition or need technical support, please post below and one of our community managers will assist. Thank you!📅 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 Programming 10/6 - 10/10
Creators, as you continue to work on your submissions for the Mobile Genre Showdown - Reloaded competition, don't miss out on this week's mentor programming designed to help you make mobile worlds with solid fundamentals. Learn to plan out your world's gameplay loops and implement leaderboards to increase your world's social aspects. 🎮 Gameplay Loops: Plan Before You Build 🗓️ Date & Time : Tuesday, October 7th @ 11:00:00 AM PT Host : Gausroth Plan your world’s gameplay loops before even starting up the desktop editor. Gausroth will break down Core, Mechanic, and System loops and show you how pre-production design frameworks can make your worlds more engaging. 🏅 Leaderboards 101 🗓️ Date & Time : Thursday, October 8th @ 11:00:00 AM PT Host : MikeyAce & Gausroth Enhancing your worlds’ player progression and replayability is key to building successful worlds. Join MikeyAce & Gausroth to learn simple steps to leverage leaderboards. Check out the latest social sharing features and learn how the right leaderboard (in the right place) can boost engagement.Unleash Your Creativity: Explore Genres & Power Up with GenAI!
What's up, creators! This week, let's talk about genres! We're diving deep into Simulation (think Tycoon, Incremental) and Roleplay & Avatar Sim (Dress Up/Life, Pet Care/Animal), plus the Open Genre where your imagination can run wild. And don't forget to supercharge your builds with our generative AI tools – they're a game-changer! Choose your path and start experimenting: Join the competition today! Upcoming key events: Tuesday, October 7th: 🎮 Gameplay Loops: Plan Before You Build Wednesday, October 8th: 🏅 Leaderboards 101 Catch up on past events and tutorials on the Meta Horizon Creator Program YouTube channel📅 This Week in MHCP Programming 9/29 - 10/3
Prepare for spooky season by submitting your world to be featured across Store, Feed, avatar rewards and more. Catch the latest on-demand videos on the MHCP YouTube, and continue working on your Mobile Genre Showdown entry by attending this week’s live mentor sessions. 🎮 Work Smarter - Reusable Components 🗓️ Date & Time : Monday, September 29th @ 11:00:00 AM PT Host: @spaceglitterunicorn and Ashes2Ashes2 Join this session to learn how to build worlds with reusable components in mind and repurpose assets, scripts, and mechanics you’ve already honed to save you time and work smarter, not harder. 💬 Talk to Them: LLM NPCs 🗓️ Date & Time : Thursday, October 2nd @ 11:00:00 AM PT Host : Shards632 Learn how to use the new LLM NPC tools to create characters that converse with players — and each other. Plus, see how easy it is to migrate from AvatarAIAgent to the new NPC and NPCPlayer API classes.🎃 Don’t be scared — This October, MHCP mentors are by your side with a full month of live sessions 🎃
$2.5 million is on the line in this fall’s Mobile Genre Showdown - Reloaded competition. As you build your entry, take a break with live mentor sessions designed to equip you with tools to create a scary good world. 💬 Talk to Them: LLM NPCs 🗓️ Date & Time: Thursday, October 2nd @ 11:00:00 AM PT Host: Shards632 Learn how to use the new LLM NPC tools(https://developers.meta.com/horizon/blog/environment-generation-embodied-conversational-llm-npcs-genai-tools/) to create characters that converse with players — and each other. Plus, see how easy it is to migrate from AvatarAIAgent to the new NPC and NPCPlayer API classes. 🎮 Gameplay Loops: Plan Before You Build 🗓️ Date & Time: Tuesday, October 7th @ 11:00:00 AM PT Host: Gausroth Plan your world’s gameplay loops before even starting up the desktop editor. Gausroth will break down Core, Mechanic, and System loops and show you how pre-production design frameworks can make your worlds more engaging. 🏅 Leaderboards 101 🗓️ Date & Time: Thursday, October 8th @ 11:00:00 AM PT Host: MikeyAce & Gausroth Enhancing your worlds’ player progression and replayability is key to building successful worlds. Join MikeyAce & Gausroth to learn simple steps to leverage leaderboards. Check out the latest social sharing features and learn how the right leaderboard (in the right place) can boost engagement. 🏆 Rewarding Quests 🗓️ Date & Time: Tuesday, October 14th @ 11:00:00 AM PT Host: Tellous & Gausroth Use the built-in Worlds quest system to surface your worlds’ quests in the Meta Horizon app. Follow a live demo on integrating quests that grant IWP rewards to motivate specific player actions. 👕 Advanced Avatar Clothing Creation 🗓️ Date & Time: Wednesday, October 15th @ 11:00:00 AM PT Host: SpaceGlitterUnicorn Want to take your avatar clothes to the next level? Join this advanced session and learn to use downloadable templates to create must-have designs with custom textures. Then, explore the latest items available for customization and new ways to share your outfits. 🌐 Mobile Genres World Tour 🗓️ Date & Time: Thursday, October 16th @ 11:00:00 AM PT Host: Shards632, Gausroth, MKE_TheGuru, Tellous The fan-favorite Mentor Worlds Tour is back — this time focusing on Simulation and Roleplaying hits in Meta Horizon. See gameplay best practices, design innovations, and standout worlds. Get inspired for your entry to the Mobile Genre Showdown - Reloaded competition. 🛒 IWP Setup Best Practices 🗓️ Date & Time: Tuesday, October 21st @ 11:00:00 AM PT Host: Shards632 Even with great IWP items, a confusing store UI or the wrong implementation can reduce sales. Join Shards632 for a look at listing options using the IWP seller gizmo, Shop Gizmo, Shop Asset, and custom-scripted IWP sales. Learn to use each method effectively so players can see and buy your items. 🛍️ Create IWP Items your Players Want 🗓️ Date & Time: Thursday, October 23rd @ 11:00:00 AM PT Host: Tellous & SeeingBlue What do your players want to buy? Analyze your world to identify the most desirable items — the ones that enhance gameplay and showcase unique looks. Gain unique insights into creating high-value items that let players flaunt progress or status, and learn techniques for tailoring items to your player base. 🖌️ Substance Painter for Avatar Clothing 🗓️ Date & Time: Tuesday, October 28th @ 11:00:00 AM PT Host: MKE_TheGuru Join MKE_TheGuru for an in-depth tutorial on the optimal workflow for creating clothing using Adobe Substance Painter. With these techniques, you’ll produce high quality textures that show off your unique style as an artist. 🎃 Halloween Fashion Show 🗓️ Date & Time: Thursday, October 30th @ 11:00:00 AM PT Host: SpaceGlitterUnicorn Show off your Halloween designs in this interactive MHCP fashion show. Bring your outfits and design techniques to share how you brought your spooky ideas to life. Learn posing and lighting tips for eye-popping social media content. 📺 Can’t make the live sessions? Subscribe to the MHCP YouTube channel for on-demand recordings as soon as they’re available.
