Horizon Worlds (Meta)
Facebook Horizon is an ever-expanding VR world where you can explore, play, and create in extraordinary ways.
Role: Senior Game Designer
Engine: Unity
Project: Meta Horizon Website
Team Size: 100+
As Senior Game Designer on the team, I led a team of designers, artists, and audio designers to ship out a catalog of live games and experiences. The work I did helped the Horizon VR creation tools go from a prototype to a shippable product VR users could use to create their own games and experiences.
I led first-party experiences built with Horizon. First party experiences were created to improve usability of the tools, experiment with mechanics and art style, and iterate on product look and feel. I defined the creator user journey from launching the application, to how they learn to build with tutorials and documentation, to how creators share their content with other players.
This timelapse of me building in VR was shown during the keynote at Oculus Connect 6.
Contributions
I had the most hours of creation time in the app when I was on this project so I knew how a lot of it worked. I was in VR for many hours a day. I created the first technical documentation for creators, templates, and prefabs for new creators to learn how to make worlds in the product.
Creator Resources
I partnered with the Oculus Developer Relations folks in 2020 to supply a tutorial for Launchpad to help developers build in Meta Horizon Worlds.