These recaps always hook me. Always, always, always.
Not only am I excited to see more monthly recaps about the developer community and the wonders they’re making, but I am also very excited to see progression and implementation of features listed on the developer roadmap. I’ve been hyped up for quite a while, especially regarding those Packages.
The RDC was a blast to skim through. I always hunt for GameJam games and videos because they interest me the most. Seeing what developers can pull off when they come together with a theme in mind is, for someone like me, simply breathtaking. I’ve never actually participated in any Bloxcon, RDC or other offline Roblox event so far, so I’m hoping to change that within the near years.
Finally, in regards to the updates made for this month, I gotta deeply thank the engineers for their hard work in providing us developers with awesome tools, whether that’s to help us newer developers settle in better or help us developers as a whole make our games better. My personal favorites from the ones on the list:
- Accurate Play Solo. As the thread says, no more complaints about things working in Studio but not in a live game. In APS, we can simulate how a live server would act like, whereas before Play Solo would run the DataModel as both the server and the client.
- Official Collision Groups Editor. The headache of using the command bar is gone at last (and Clone’s plugin is now rip). I personally did any Collision Group work at run-time to avoid using the command bar and getting confused, lost or disorganized with my groups. Now, I have a great visual editor to work with.
- Social Media links. To summarize my joys with this update in four words: Discord servers are back.
- GUI inset ignoring. I cannot even begin to explain to you in the past how annoying the GUI inset was. I’d normally have to set the topbar transparency to 0 and make a background frame that extends over the inset with my other elements in a separate frame using a higher ZIndex. Now, one checkmark gets rid of that hassle for me for good.
Here’s to another good month ahead of us, September. Aside from school, you know… 