Previewing, publishing, and Explore

Goal

Publish every world with the right visibility and enough polish that its intended audience never feels lost.

When to use it

• You are ready to share a world beyond the builder.
• You need a private review link or a public Explore listing.
• You updated a live world and need those changes pushed out.

Step-by-step walkthrough

1. Open Preview from the builder before you ever touch the publish flow.
2. Walk every scene and confirm it has a ready panorama and a meaningful title.
3. Open your major hotspots and verify each portal lands on the destination you intended.
4. Choose visibility: private for owner-only review, unlisted for sharing a link, public for Explore discovery.
5. When publishing publicly, add a category and tags so the world is findable.
6. Open the published viewer and experience the world as a first-time visitor.
7. Use Update whenever a live world needs new changes pushed to the public version.

Best practices

• Publish unlisted first and gather honest feedback before going public.
• Make the first scene fully self-explanatory for visitors who arrive with no context.
• Go public only once the description, cover image, tags, and navigation are all polished.
• Reopen the live route after every meaningful update to confirm it shipped.

Avoid these mistakes

• Publishing publicly while scenes still carry draft names.
• Forgetting to re-test portals after rearranging scenes.
• Assuming Explore will explain the world for you, without a strong title and description.

Go deeper

• Three visibilities, three jobs: private is for your review, unlisted is for intentional sharing, public is for discovery.
• Explore visitors arrive with far less context than invited viewers — public worlds need clearer opening copy.
• A simple publish checklist prevents the large majority of visitor-facing issues.