Creator Roadmap: Fall 2024 Edition

[leogames2012plus (Luan)]

@Roblox

Hi Creators,

Oh what’s up?

@Roblox

Fall is here, and we’re excited to share the latest edition of the Creator Roadmap . This update covers what we announced at RDC, showcasing the recently shipped features and adding several new projects. We’ve also cleaned up the roadmap by removing some older launches that shipped over six months ago.

Wait,isn’t it already always summer? Maybe i’m in a country whose fall is always summer,like brazil.

@Roblox

Catching you up, a few features that have launched since the last roadmap update:

Umm…what is it?

@Roblox

• Gamepad Emulation - Simulate inputs from PlayStation, Xbox, and generic controllers directly in Studio so you refine controls and gameplay across platforms.
• Activity History in Studio - See a history log of all of the key configuration, publish, and edit activities in Studio.
• Studio Visualization Modes (formerly Viewport Settings) - Toggle various debug modes and visualizations in Studio to speed up and augment your workflow
• Custom analytics events - track the actions that matter to your experience and segment them by custom fields for a deeper understanding of your users’ behaviors.

Finally! We got to get gamepad emulation! I’m so happy with it!

@Roblox

For a complete list of launched features, click here, or to view the full Creator Roadmap, click here .

Meh,I’d rather do it myself…

@Roblox

We’re continuing to work behind the scenes to optimize your experience across platforms so it works well across all devices — saving you time, resources, and effort. Since the last Creator Roadmap update about two and a half months ago, we’ve closed 791 bugs .

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Oh,what bugs did you fix since you updated that roadmap?

@Roblox

We’ve also added a new “Studio Performance and Stability” category to the Creator Roadmap. For that category, we’re working on the following items:

Oh,what is it?

@Roblox

• Reduce Studio Hangs: As mentioned at RDC, we’ve reduced 60% since the beginning of the year and continue to drive these down.
• Explorer and Properties improvement for large places: We’re focused on reducing lag when using the Explorer and Properties panes in large places.
• Output performance for large places: Improve lag when printing to Output in large places.
• Improved and faster autocomplete for scripts: Faster, progressive display of autocomplete results for scripts.
• Type Inference for Native Compilation: Incorporating types inferred by Luau into the decisions made by native code generation will allow more optimizations to be performed and reduce the size of the generated native code.

Oh,these changes could mean i can return to development right now. But those ain’t exactly neccesary.

@Roblox

We’ve added 40 new features to the roadmap, including many we announced at RDC – Custom Matchmaking, Party API, and more.

Oh…what is it?

@Roblox

More ways to test and learn

We’re excited about the opportunity to help creators test, learn, and iterate. In the second half of next year, we plan to ship Remote Configs, which will let you dynamically update experience settings or content without requiring a new update or deployment. We’re also working on In-Experience Experiments, which will let you test different versions of experience features or content with live players to optimize gameplay and engagement.

Did we already could update our experiences?

@Roblox

Improved music discovery

We’ve added a new category called “Powering Music Discovery” that features new ways for you to upload music to Roblox via Distrokid, an in-experience What’s Playing UI, and upcoming Music Charts to drive discovery of top songs and music-focused experiences on the platform.

Finally! Distrokid! But what’s that? Some sort of linux distro for kids?

@Roblox

For a complete list of newly added features, click here. Finally, you can see any delayed or on-hold features here.

I don’t need to,sorry…

@Roblox

Happy creating!

Okay!

@Roblox

DistroKid Music Integration - You can now incorporate select music from DistroKid’s catalog into your experiences, bringing a new level of creativity and engagement to the platform. For artists that own the rights to their music, starting in October, you’ll be able to upload your music via DistroKid.

This is fun,but what if the music doesn’t require rights or is probably unauthorized? Does it mean you cannot upload it to roblox?

@Roblox

Text to speech API - Takes in text and outputs speech audio. Can specify input and output language, but output language defaults to the user’s account language. Allows creators to build diverse experiences with more speaking NPCs, narrators, etc. (Mid 2025)

You’re thinking you can bring Goanimate grounded videos to Roblox? It uses TTS voices.

@Roblox

R6 to 15 Conversion Tool - Streamline the conversion of existing R6 experiences to R15 with tools to migrate characters, animations and scripts. (On Hold)

Oh,so sad,we can’t get that R6 to R15,do we? People hates this feature and they claim and believe it will break games…

Anyways,I had to cover the important things after i readed all the roadmap fall 2024 edition.

Thank you for those improvements,Roblox!