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  Dessert Biome

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  Night Dessert

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  Floating Island - Sky biome

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  GrassLand Biome P1

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  GrassLand Biome P2

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  Waterfall

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  GRasslands at Night

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  Mystic Gate Section

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  Night Mystic Gate

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  Winter Biome

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  Winter Scene

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  Cabins At Night

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  The Frozen Lake

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  The Frozen Lake

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  Frozen Lake at Night

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  Frozen Lake at Night

Knowhere 🌍

Excited for My First Participation in Meta Horizon Series!

Inspiration

I wanted a remixable world that feels like a canvas of exploration, inspired by open-world games like Zelda and Skyrim. My goal was to craft modular biomes—grasslands, deserts, sky, and snowfields—that creators can easily remix, expand, or reskin. Creators can expand on a single biome or work with combinations.

What it does

Knowhere is a multi-biome remixable world featuring:

• A central hub that connects to distinct elemental regions.
  
• Three complete biomes: Grassland (starter hub), Desert (ruins + oasis), and Snow (cabins + ice caves).
  
• Modular assets (trees, ruins, mystical elements, cabins, portals, crystals) that others can drag-and-drop.
  
• A consistent painterly, semi-realistic art style optimized for mobile.
  

How I built it

• 85% of the assets and scripts are built using Meta AI (Gen AI).
  
• Meta AI was the sole reason I was able to build this project as a beginner with no knowledge about 3D modeling and texturing.
  
• I generated skyboxes, 3D assets, texture options, ambient and SFX sound.
  
• Even the scripts were generated and attached with the help of Meta AI.
  

Challenges I ran into

• Building terrains and pathways was difficult and required experimenting with asset placement.
  
• Maintaining a consistent art direction across grass, desert, and snow biomes.
  

Accomplishments that I'm proud of

• Built three distinct yet cohesive biomes that feel immersive and welcoming.
  
• Created reusable assets that fit many genres (adventure, roleplay, obby).
  
• Aligned the project with the hackathon’s open source + remixability spirit.
  

What I learned

• How to design for remixability: decoupling art from scripts, exposing properties, and documenting usage.
  
• How much mobile optimization matters—small texture/geometry tweaks can hugely improve FPS.
  
• How to blend atmosphere and gameplay so the world is both beautiful and functional.
  

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Judging Criteria

Reusability

• Knowhere is a remixable world that provides creators with a library of assets such as trees, ruins, cabins, icy crystals, and portals—ready to be remixed in new projects.
  
• Each biome works as a standalone environment but can also be combined with others, allowing remixers to expand the world in their own direction.
  

Modularity

• Every component is designed to be independent and adaptable.
  
• Assets like trees, ruins, and cabins can be rearranged, reskinned, or replaced without breaking the environment.
  
• This modular design means creators can remix a single biome or stitch multiple biomes together for larger adventures.
  

Technical Impact

• All assets were optimized for smooth mobile performance, ensuring consistent frame rates across biomes.
  
• Minimal Scripts are used in this version to focus on remixable scenes and assets.
• By combining AI-generated models with Horizon Worlds scripting, I showed how even beginners can create a technically solid, large-scale world that others can learn from and remix.
  

Experience Design

• Each biome has its own unique atmosphere: warm grasslands, harsh deserts with ruins, and icy snowfields with glowing crystals and auroras.
  
• The painterly semi-realistic art style ties the different biomes together into a cohesive, immersive experience.
  

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What's next for Knowhere

• Add more biomes (Volcanic, Ocean, Secret Dark Level).
  
• Introduce new interactive systems (teleporters, jump pads, environmental hazards).
  
• Grow a community remix chain where creators link their worlds back into Knowhere.
  

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Overall

I am very proud to have built this as a beginner and that I could actually complete it and submit what I had in mind. I am especially thankful to the Gen AI tool and the YouTube channel for the supporting videos and insights :D

Hoping to see people make wonderful things out of these assets and remixable worlds :D

Built With

• meta
• meta-ai