Hi Creators,
Nick and Tian here. We are excited to share the Spring 2024 edition of the Creator Roadmap, showcasing the progress made on a number of launches that shipped this year, including Secret Store, Audio API (Beta), and Open Cloud Engine API for Scripting, which sought to address some of the top creator needs. Along with this, we introduced some exciting AI-powered solutions like Texture Generator, Avatar Auto-Setup, and Automatic Chat Translations. With your help, these features are already changing the landscape of the platform for the better. For instance, since chat translations launched, we’ve already translated nearly 20B messages!
For a full list of launched features, click here.
Over the past few weeks, we’ve opened up Marketplace creation to more creators, and launched a revamped Creator Store that provides 100% net proceeds to creators. We know these are major changes to our ecosystem, and we’re committed to iterating on these products to ensure they deliver value to our community.
2024: Quality and performance
There are many upcoming product features to celebrate, but we first want to reiterate that we’re extremely focused on quality and performance. In the past year, we closed or responded to 3300 bugs and counting—one of our key focus areas. Among other things, we plan to make major headway on Studio hangs this year.
We also continually work to make the user platform as stable and performant as possible. While we provide automatically scalable systems that perform well on all platforms, we see the highest quality results when our creators help optimize their content. Therefore, we’re improving our developer-enabled performance tools, such as updating Script Profiler and improving memory tooling, which make it easier for creators to optimize their own experiences.
Upcoming roadmap
We’ve updated the Creator Roadmap with our revised roadmap and removed any features launched in 2023. Following up on The Hunt: First Edition, we are excited about future events. We’ve added specific roadmap items for points of interest and events, allowing creators to define key areas in their experiences. We plan to unlock the discovery of events later this year. We’re also working on a number of enhancements to the engine, including native code generation, type isolation, and improved haptics, while also continuing to iterate and improve the Studio experience with completely revamped asset management and much more!
Click here to see what else we’ve added to the roadmap.
Be on the lookout for updates regarding our next installment of the Creator AMAs, where we’ll discuss everything monetization and economy-related.
Happy creating!
Nick & Tian
Features launched this year
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Create how you want
Easy creation, optimized for your ideal workflows
- Live Scripting (Full Release)
- Window Context Cues
- Engine Open Cloud API Beta (Scripting only)
- Package Version Descriptions
- Path2d
Studio will address long-standing bugs and pain points
Create rich and lifelike worlds
- Audio APIs
- Improved debuggability of the Physics system: Pausing physics
Cloud creation improves collaboration and reliability
- Experience Activity History (live on Creator Hub, coming to Studio)
Generative AI accelerates creation
Avatar Creation and Marketplace
- Community-led Marketplace
- UGC Validation
- Marketplace price floors
- Avatar Auto Setup (Alpha)
- UGC Validation
Grow and engage your audience
Break down language barriers
- Automatic Chat Translations
- Automatic Translation Support for Non-English Experiences
- In-experience Translation Feedback
- New Regions: Shipped support for four new locales on platform by the end of 2023 - Indonesian, Thai, Turkish, and Vietnamese. Shipped support for Polish in Feb 2024. Arabic support upcoming in the second half of 2024.
Balanced Safety and Moderation
- Ads brand safety and suitability controls
- Rights Manager (formerly Tools to manage Intellectual Property)
Match your users to the best server
Re-engage your community through notifications
Empower immersive communication and expression
Benefit from a growing creator ecosystem
More ways to earn and advertise
- Earn more on Creator Store sales
- Expanded Subscription API functionality
- Subscription description updates
Roblox Cloud helps you scale
Creator Hub is your key to success
Learn, connect, and create with one another
- Staff Articles in Dev Forum (Formerly Experts in Dev Forum)
- Updated Experience Templates (Racing template live, more to come)
Actionable insights to grow your experience
Notifications and personalized to keep you informed
New roadmap items
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Easy creation, optimized for your ideal workflows
- Improved Package Discoverability and Update Workflow: Easily discover package actions and apply updates.
- Dragger Improvements: Improved controls, guides, and measurements for draggers.
- DragDetectors for UI: Make UI in your experience draggable and interactive without scripting.
- Builder font released.
- Content Importer: Creating a streamlined single importer that enables users to import all their content easily.
Engine can support any type of experience
- Native Code Generation: Improves script performance on RCC and in Studio plugins by compiling Luau to host CPU instructions instead of interpreting bytecodes in a virtual machine.
- Updated Type Solver: This improves Luau script analysis including more accurate binary operators inferences and new type operators.
- DataModel Isolation and Script Capabilities: The ability to insert models with scripts into experiences and have those scripts isolated from modifying the world or accessing Roblox APIs that are not explicitly allowed—making it safer to use models shared by other developers, guaranteeing configurable packages are limited to themselves, and empowering in-experience creation, including scripting, without impacting server state.
- Type Inference for Native Compilation: Incorporating types added 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.
- Immersion Mode for VR: Support for tracked controllers in VR that animate avatar arms in real-time.
- Improved Haptics Controls: Improved API for adding haptics to your experiences and UI across all supported platforms.
Create rich and lifelike worlds
- Audio Meta Data API: Developer-facing API to help developers add audio metadata to their experiences.
Cloud creation improves collaboration and reliability
- Comments & Annotations inside Studio: Annotate and leave comments in Studio for your collaborators.
Avatar Creation and Marketplace
- Marketplace search and recommendations: Improve Marketplace search and recommendations to create a more seamless shopping experience.
- R6 to 15 Conversion Tool: Streamline the conversion of existing R6 experiences to R15 with tools to migrate characters, animations and scripts.
Grow and engage your audience
Roblox Home page connects you to your ideal audience
- Thumbnail Personalization: You can A/B test your thumbnails to optimize your conversion.
- Improved Experience Details Page: We’re updating the Experience Details Page to improve usability and conversion. We’re adding the experience icon to mobile experience pages and showing improved insights about the experience to help users decide better.
- Points of Interest & Events: We’re working on helping you drive the discovery of events and key places in your experience
Powerful search and browse capabilities
- Unified Search Result Page: Improved ranking of experiences, people, marketplace items inside search result page and ranking them based on their relevance to the user query regardless of content type
- Clickbait suppression: Detecting misleading and clickbait content and decreasing user exposure.
Benefit from a growing creator ecosystem
Roblox Cloud helps you scale
- Memory Stores Enhancement: Improve Memory Stores to support the key use cases better: 1) A data structure, HashMap, that has much higher limits for features like Server List, 2) Open Cloud APIs for Memory Stores that unlock use cases like external live leaderboards.
- Improved delivery of 3D meshes: LoD (Level of Detail) generation for your meshes will be much better and continuously improve over time. More optimized delivery for 3D meshes to reduce client asset download times.
More ways to earn and advertise
- Roblox Groups ‘Announcements’ can be posted via Guilded
Creator Hub is your key to success
Collaborate more effectively as a team
- Groups owning Groups: Set up more complicated hierarchies with your collaborators by managing groups owned by your primary group.
- Asset Privacy and Permissions: Animations: Sharing animations with friends and groups.
- Asset Privacy and Permissions: Meshes, Images, Models and Packages: Improved sharing of meshes, images, models and packages.
- Asset Management: We’re launching a revamped Asset Manager in Studio. This will enable users to organize (folders/labels) and search assets in their accounts and their groups’ accounts easily. We’ll be deprecating the existing Asset Manager and migrating user inventory out of Toolbox into the new Asset Manager, and Toolbox will become solely focused on Creator Store content.
Delayed roadmap features
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Create how you want
Easy creation, optimized for your ideal workflows
- Next Generation Studio UI
- Studio Luau File Sync Beta
Engine can support any type of experience
- Custom Logging
- UI styling
Create rich and lifelike worlds
- Future Lighting Android Beta
- Future Lighting Studio Default
- Mesh & Image APIs (formerly Texture)
Cloud creation improves collaboration and reliability
- Team Create Assets
- Enhance Drafts
Generative AI accelerates creation
- Material Generator Full Release
Avatar Creation and Marketplace
- Improved Avatar Face and Body Tooling
- Accessory adjustment tool
Grow and engage your audience
Roblox Home page connects you to your ideal audience
- Social and Contextual Descriptors
Powerful search and browse capabilities
- Algorithmically-Generated Categories and Sorts
- Combined Search & Discovery
Empower immersive communication and expression
- Updated experience controls
Benefit from a growing creator ecosystem
Accelerate creation through community-generated assets
- Additional Spam & Plagiarism Protections
Balanced safety and moderation
- Alt-Account Detection
- Banning API
More ways to earn and advertise
- Subscription promotions
Creator Hub is your key to success
Learn, connect, and create with one another
- Docs Available in Studio
Actionable insights to grow your experience
- In Game Economy and Funnel Tracking (formerly Standard Event Schema)
Collaborate more effectively as a team
- Overhauled Group Revenue
See the full Creator Roadmap here.