{"id":9152,"date":"2026-07-03T02:42:39","date_gmt":"2026-07-03T00:42:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/03\/meta-has-released-an-app-for-making-generative-ai-games\/"},"modified":"2026-07-03T02:42:39","modified_gmt":"2026-07-03T00:42:39","slug":"meta-has-released-an-app-for-making-generative-ai-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/03\/meta-has-released-an-app-for-making-generative-ai-games\/","title":{"rendered":"Meta has released an app for making generative AI games"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"wrapper\">          <main id=\"main\" role=\"main\" data-post-type=\"articles\">      <\/p>\n<div id=\"content\">\n<div>\n<p>Vibe-coding right in your Pocket.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n<div data-post-url=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2207426\/meta-has-released-an-app-for-making-generative-ai-games\/\" data-post-title=\"Meta has released an app for making generative AI games\" data-slide-num=\"0\" data-post-id=\"2207426\">                                                                          <picture id=\"p8419bed57aad9567795bf81c531f41a0\"><source media=\"(min-width: 429px)\"  type=\"image\/webp\"><source media=\"(max-width: 428px)\"  type=\"image\/webp\"><\/picture>\n<p><span>Meta<\/span>                      <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Meta appears to have soft-launched a new app called Pocket that&#8217;s aimed at getting people to vibe-code their own minigames. Mobile developer and reverse engineer Alessandro Paluzzi spotted Pocket and posted about it to X today, but reporting platform AppFigures told <em><a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2026\/07\/02\/meta-quietly-launches-vibe-coded-gaming-app-pocket\/\" target=\"_blank\">TechCrunch<\/a><\/em> that the app has been available on both iOS and Android since June 29. Though the app is listed publicly, it&#8217;s not available in the US on any of the half dozen phone models associated with our Google accounts, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.meta.com\/help\/pocket\/4433460963602094\/?srsltid=AfmBOorsFUlAdRqBlbRxFvDy8NhPEvL_VuNzGqdqapQFhAAJG41VMDsW\" target=\"_blank\">a help page on Meta&#8217;s site<\/a> says &#8220;the\u00a0Pocket app is not yet available everywhere.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The company has not made any public announcement yet about the launch or where the app is being trialed. We&#8217;ve reached out for comment and will update this post if we receive a response.<\/p>\n<blockquote data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/hashtag\/Meta?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\">#Meta<\/a> is working on a new app called Pocket \ud83d\udc40<\/p>\n<p>\u2139\ufe0f A new creative platform to make and share gizmos. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/zFjMU5jj1U\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/zFjMU5jj1U<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Alessandro Paluzzi (@alex193a) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/alex193a\/status\/2072678860936577047?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\">July 2, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/social-media\/facebook-is-offering-meta-ai-powered-animations-for-profile-photos-201022506.html\" target=\"_blank\">cosmetic tweaks<\/a> to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/ai\/meta-is-giving-its-ai-slop-feed-an-app-of-its-own-192208200.html\" target=\"_blank\">standalone app<\/a> for AI slop, Meta has been going gangbusters on getting artificial intelligence into its services in the past year. <em>TechCrunch<\/em> suggested that Pocket may be the result of the company wholesale hiring the team behind of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/ex-snapchat-engineers-behind-gizmo-join-meta-superintelligence-labs-2026-3\" target=\"_blank\">Gizmo<\/a>, an app that used AI to create interactive experiences based on prompts from users, earlier this year. Pocket uses that exact same nomenclature, dubbing itself &#8220;a creative platform for making and sharing gizmos&#8221; in the app listing, and the Play Store shortcode of &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/play.google.com\/store\/apps\/details?id=com.facebook.gizmo\" target=\"_blank\">com.facebook.gizmo<\/a>&#8221; does little to dispel the notion\u00a0either.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>            <\/main>    <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vibe-coding right in your Pocket. Meta Meta appears to have soft-launched a new app called Pocket that&#8217;s aimed at getting people to vibe-code their own minigames. Mobile developer and reverse engineer Alessandro Paluzzi spotted Pocket and posted about it to X today, but reporting platform AppFigures told TechCrunch that the app has been available on<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":9153,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ai_generated_summary":"","wpai_meta_description":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[338,344,36],"class_list":["post-9152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tech","tag-apps","tag-meta","tag-mixtv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9152","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/55"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9152"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9152\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}