Meta · built at KoffeeCup · 2025

A Wild West showdown on your table, in mixed reality.

A mixed reality duelling game for Meta Horizon: up to four players shrink into a tabletop arena for a quick-draw showdown, while spectators tower over it like giants. Spun off from the Wild West Saloon duel.

Role
Interactive Developer
Team
KoffeeCup × Meta · team of ~20
Stack
Meta Horizon · mixed reality · multiplayer
Teaser: Gunslingers in mixed reality.

01 — THE PROBLEM

Turn a popular mini-game into its own experience.

The quick-draw duel was one of the most loved parts of Wild West Saloon. The challenge was to expand it into a fully immersive, standalone mixed reality experience that would keep players coming back.

02 — THE BUILD

Three decisions that made the duel work in MR.

  1. Two avatars standing in a real room beside a barrel-shaped tabletop arena

    Players shrink, spectators tower

    Duellists shrink to fit a tabletop arena, while spectators stay full size outside it, looking on like giants. It creates funny, dynamic moments between players and onlookers.

  2. The barrel arena placed in a real office, with a Wanted: Lock Eyes instructions poster above it

    An arena that sits in your room

    The arena is a barrel-top diorama placed in the player’s real space, with an in-world poster explaining the rules: listen for the signal, draw, shoot.

  3. First-person view holding two revolvers, facing an opponent across the desert arena

    Draw fast, aim true, dodge bullets like Neo

    Up to four players face off, or practise against a training dummy. The goal was smooth, intuitive gameplay with high-stakes Wild West drama and a touch of humour.

03 — THE IMPACT

players per duel
4
standalone mixed reality experience
MR

Published by Meta in February 2025 as part of Horizon Mixed Reality with Friends (beta).

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