Creators can automatically rig, cage, segment, and skin 3D models in a few minutes, eliminating hours of manual work through the power of AI. We introduced a new curation unit to recommend new experiences to people on Roblox every day. We’ve partnered with Integral Ad Science (IAS) and Kantar Context Lab to verify that Immersive ads drive engagement with people who view them on Roblox. Our new aerodynamics system entered open beta, improving how objects move through the air & interact with the world around them. Creators can now add music to their experiences via our new integration with our partner Distrokid.
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We tested our Audio ML technology with English-voice users to reduce policy-violating behavior in Voice Chat through real-time user feedback, education and consequences. We expanded phone verification to 100% of eligible users in Mexico, Spain, Argentina, Columbia, Chile, Peru. We released a new way for creators to send personalized notifications to 13+ users to keep up with the most important moments in their favorite experiences.
Paid access experiences are now eligible for Engagement Based Payouts, which awards Robux to creators for the amount of time spent and number of premium players in the experience. We published a set of eligibility guidelines for the broader creator community on Roblox to continue growing the number of experiences that can publish ads. The real-time translation API allows creators to translate text into player’s local langues programtically, enabling better automatic localization of experiences. We overhauled Studio’s Explorer, the primary way creators use to manage and organize assets, by improving performance and eliminating most hangtime. We launched in-experience automatic translation, enabling creators to support up to 16 languages and bring their experiences to people all over the world. We improved our group revenue system, enabling creators to pay collaborators directly within creator hub and define percentage splits by revenue source.
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Our improved grass system moved to beta testing, allowing creators to adjust the height of grass which now reacts more accurately to wind forces. We introduced the Ban API that allows creators to ban people and their alternate accounts from a given experience. We launched ads preferences within settings, allowing users to opt-in or out of personalized ads and data sharing. We launched a new chat tab in app, allowing users to access their chats with a single click from anywhere on Roblox.
- Creators now have access to Assistant, that can help auto-complete and edit scripts, insert objects into experiences, and more to help creators build faster.
- We upgraded our water and shoreline system, enabling more realistic interactions where water meets land in experiences.
- We made it easier for creators to get the word out about in-experience events by enabling custom thumbnails & notifications for people who engage with their experience.
- Eligible creators can now run price tests to find the best price is for each of their in-game products, helping creators grow revenue without sacrificing user engagment.
- We improved Assistant’s capabilities to allow for script review and iteration, AI-powered debugging, and other quality-of-life improvements.
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We rolled out our updated lighting system to Android devices, improving the quality and performance of lighting across experiences. We enabled creators to highlight events happening in their experiences on the group page. We launched one of our first commerce experiences, enabling people on Roblox to buy real-world movie tickets to see Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice at Fandango’s virtual box office. We launched search ads providing creators and brands another way to reach new and current audiences based on what they’re searching on Roblox. We enabled sharing of Creator Store items via hyperlinks, and improved preview images of each item.
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We launched new capabilities for our AI assistant which is now able automatically add, remove, or change assets in a scene in realtime. Our audio API was fully released, enabling creators to build more complicated and rich audio interactions in their experiences. We launched a pilot test of a new Shopify integration, allowing select brands and creators to partner and sell real world items in game.
We added optimization mode, allowing people on Roblox to select whether they want to optimize for performance, quality, or a balance of the two. We enabled users under the age of 13 to correct their age if necessary to ensure they’re engaging with content most appropriate for their age. We gave creators the ability to archive past Marketplace items without reaching out to Roblox for assistance, allowing them to better maintain their catalog of available items. Avatar creators can now merchandise and sell entire avatars on Marketplace; previously, they were only able to sell individual items. Creators can now enable automatic occlusion culling, saving performance by not rendering objects aren’t in the player’s view. Everyone on Roblox can now filter their charts by device and country, to help them find the right experiences and games.
We made it easier to merchandise items on Marketplace by improving lighting, and situating items in context. Eligible players who are over 18 years old can now gift and request Robux to and from other eligible players. Our goal at Roblox is to build the safest and most civil online platform, where everyone is empowered to create, learn, share, and thrive.
- Material generator moved out of beta to full release, enabling creators to utilize generative AI to create materials based on prompts.
- Brands can purchase a 24-hour ‘takeover’ of the banner at the top of the the Roblox homepage, which serves the ad to everyone on Roblox whose over 13 years old.
- The latest census figures in 2020 denote a positive annualized growth rate of 1.90%, or an increase of 446 people, from the previous population of 4,765 in 2015.
- We launched search ads providing creators and brands another way to reach new and current audiences based on what they’re searching on Roblox.
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Paid access and restricted games can now use Ads Manager to promote their game for better discoverability on Roblox. We made it easier for users to find new experiences and revisit experiences they’ve interacted with recently by introducing dynamic sorting on Home. We redesigned the events and updates tile on the Experience Details Page, making it easier for players to see what the event is about or what was included in the most recent update. Creators now have access to a dashboard that provides them an overview of all of the reviews and feedback their experience has received from their players.
We began a test to increase the amount of server memory available to creators, enabling creators to create experience that can support more content and more players. We updated our genres to allow creators to more accurately pick the genres that fit their game, and help users find specific genres that they’re interested in. Creators now have access to Assistant, that can help auto-complete and edit scripts, insert objects into experiences, and more to help afrodite casino creators build faster. “Top Playing Now” is a new experience sort that offers a real-time view of the most popular experiences on Roblox based on concurrent users. We announced our Cube 3D platform, and launched it’s first capability that allows creators to generate objects in Studio.
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We expanded controller emulation in Studio enabling creators to test their experiences in VR including Quest 2 and Quest 3 without the need for physical hardware. Creators now have more insight into where players are finding their experiences and insight into the effectiveness of their ads. Creators can now test multiple thumbnails for their game or experience to see which perform the best, and have those thumbnails automatically be served to the right audience on Roblox. We introduced a new suite of parental controls, enabling parents to link their Roblox account to their child’s, and set restrictions on spending, screen time, chat privileges, and more. We made significant improvements to Ads Manager, making it esaier for creators to create more engaging ad units, set up campaigns, and providing better reporting on ROI.
We introduced two new experience templates with premade functionality enabling creators to customize and build their vision faster. Creators can now manage groups of people they’re working with directly in Creator Hub, improving how creators collaborate on Roblox. We enabled creators to measure where and when people in their experiences make purchases, allowing them to optimize their monetization.
Our updated our login experience, makes it easier for users to sign-in based on whether they signed up with a password or a passkey. Accessory adjustment tooling launched for creators, empowering them to seamlessly integrate accessory customization into their experiences. We introduced platform chat within experiences so users can seamlessly communicate with their friends both inside and outside experiences. We made it easier for creators to pick the lighting options that make the most sense for them by unifying lighting controls in Studio. Creators now have more controls over which players see what branded assets, with criteria like age and location.
We launched the material picker providing creators visual previews, powerful search, and intuitive filters, to make finding and applying materials is faster and easier than ever. Creators on Roblox can now see what changes their collaborators have made to their experiences in Roblox Studio. We increased the number of connections that a player can have on Roblox up to 1000, up from 200. Brands can purchase a 24-hour ‘takeover’ of the banner at the top of the the Roblox homepage, which serves the ad to everyone on Roblox whose over 13 years old.
We launched the Friend Referral Program, that allows creators to offer rewards to player for inviting their connections to their experience. Our teams are building powerful, intuitive tools that empower millions of people of all skill levels to build and share their immersive creations with the world. We introduced a Developer Console tool to help creators debug and solve issues with memory usage and memory leaks. We released chat translations so that users around the world can communicate with each other, regardless of what language they speak. We made model improvements leveraging real-time and richer sequential user history to inform our recommendations system.