Hi Creators,
Nick and Tian here. We’ve been hard at work making Roblox better all summer and are excited today to share the latest edition of the Creator Roadmap, showcasing the progress made on launches that shipped last Spring and new projects that we’ve added to the roadmap. Just a few things you may have already seen live:
- New Ban API and alt-account detection to help moderate repeat offenders within your experiences
- Additional transparency into your earnings through a view of your eligible DevEx balance
- Groups are more powerful and customizable than ever — you can manage them directly from Creator Hub and control revenue splits
Of course, we’re also doing more, including continuing to invest in Creator Analytics to help you grow your experiences faster, including new economy and funnel reporting, which we released with a new livestream that included examples on how to integrate and best practices for what to measure. You can find more Staff Streams here. Let us know if there are any topics you really want to see!
We’re working to help you better understand Discovery on Roblox and provide you with new ways to boost your visibility. You can now get more transparency about Discovery with qualified play-through rate reporting. With the launch of Today’s Picks, we’re creating a new way to feature compelling experiences, especially those updating content regularly. And, with the launch of enhanced capabilities for experience events, you can tell users what is happening within your experience. Adding these elements will also make it easier for your experience event to be featured in Today’s Picks.
For a complete list of launched features, click here.
Driving Quality, Performance, and Bug Fixes
Our top priority is to deliver a stable platform that constantly improves quality and performance. Since our last update on April 26th, we have closed or responded to 899 bugs and counting — one of our key focus areas.
We’re working on a next-generation Studio and rolled out a beta designed to be extendable and customizable for your new use cases. We launched the ability to set your maximum framerate, and have been hard at work optimizing and improving framerate and jitter on all client platforms. We’re also shipping quality-of-life improvements like Path2D, roll-off curve editing for the Audio API, and shipping grass length into production.
Upcoming roadmap
We’ve updated the Creator Roadmap with several new capabilities designed to help you be more productive. One notable addition is Engine Open Cloud API for Running Tasks, which allows you to run automated tests. Other areas of focus include a major overhaul planned for Asset Management and Explorer, working on new capabilities like text-to-speech and speech-to-text to enable more interactive NPCs and add voice commands to experiences, and a number of updates to Marketplace planned including improved analytics, ability to sell avatar bodies and clothing together, and archiving old avatar items.
For a complete list of newly added features, click here.
Happy creating! 
Nick & Tian
Features launched since last roadmap update
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Create however you want
Easy creation, optimized for your ideal workflows
Create rich and lifelike worlds
Engine can support any type of experience
Benefit from a growing creator ecosystem
Roblox Cloud helps you scale
- Memory Stores Enhancement: HashMap and Open Cloud APIs for Memory Stores
More ways to earn and advertise
- Immersive Ads video ad format and reporting
- Ads targeting genre improvements
- Subscribe within experiences with Roblox Credit
Balanced safety and moderation
Creator Hub is your key to success
Actionable insights to grow your experience
Collaborate more efficiently as a team
Learn, connect, and create with one another
- New experience templates including FPS and LaserTag and Platformer
New roadmap items
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Create however you want
Easy creation, optimized for your ideal workflows
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Engine Open Cloud API for Running Tasks: Run Luau code in RCC via Open Cloud so that creators can run automated Luau tests. (Late 2024)
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Terrain Creation Improvements: Create large geographic features (e.g., mountains, lakes, hills) quickly with customizable parameters. (Late 2024)
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Avatar Setup Editing Tools: Edit attachment points and cage of an Avatar directly in the Avatar Setup tool. (Late 2024)
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Viewport Settings: Modify viewport settings quickly and easily in the viewport. (Mid 2024)
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Explorer Revamp: Significantly improve the performance of the Explorer widget, especially in large, complex places. Introduce better organizational and editing tools to make quick changes directly from the explorer, increasing creator velocity. (Early 2025)
Cloud creation improves collaboration and reliability
- Comments and Annotations inside Studio: Annotate and leave comments in Studio for your collaborators. (Late 2024)
Create rich and lifelike worlds
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Speech-to-text API: Takes in audio dialogue and outputs text. Can specify input and output language, but output language defaults to the user’s account language. Allows creators to create diverse experiences that use voice commands. (Late 2024)
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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 create diverse experiences with more speaking NPCs, narrators, etc. (2025)
Avatar creation and Marketplace
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Archiving Avatar Items: Allows creators to archive avatar items themselves, without reaching out to Roblox. (Late 2024)
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Marketplace Analytics: We are expanding Creator Analytics for Avatar Items to include item-level insights, such as buyer demographics, publishing advance rebates recouped, item sales location breakdown, and more. (Late 2024)
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Community Avatars: We are opening up the community’s ability to create and share full Avatars to Marketplace, by combining existing bodies, accessories, and clothing. (Mid 2024)
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Avatar Item Thumbnail Improvements: We are making a series of thumbnail improvements to improve the Marketplace user experience and make it easier for users to find items they love. We will begin with lighting improvements and providing tools to creators to control how their items are displayed in Marketplace. (Late 2024)
Grow and engage your audience
Break down language barriers
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Support for Language Variants: Localization support for variants within languages, such as English (US) and English (UK). (Late 2024)
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Real-Time Translation API: Creators can call Roblox’s automatic translation API to translate UGC and dynamic content in real-time. (Late 2024)
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Voice chat captioning and translations: All users can see captions of any voice chat happening via spatial voice. The captions will go through the text filter and also be translated into your account language if possible. (Late 2024)
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Real-time voice chat translation: Real-time speech translation for voice chat. (2025)
Powerful search and browse capabilities
- Improved Experience Genres: Improved experience genre taxonomy and way for creators to select their genre. (Late 2024)
Benefit from a growing creator ecosystem
Roblox Cloud helps you scale
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Improved Data Stores (Beta): Adding easy-to-use schematized user profile management and platform support for session locking and retry logic. (Late 2024)
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Badges Enhancements: Privacy options for badges and the ability to reorder. (Late 2024)
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Data Stores Versioning Update: Optimize number of versions stored, versions available longer, and support snapshots. (Late 2024)
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Game Server Performance Dashboards: New dashboards to see Server CPU and Memory Usage Breakdowns. (Late 2024)
Accelerate creation through community-generated assets
- Improved Asset Previews and Social Links on Creator Store: We will enable social links (including GitHub, YouTube, etc.) for Creator Store Assets. We will also add additional images for Models & MeshParts, and we will enable the presentation of higher-resolution images. (Mid 2024)
Creator Hub is your key to success
Actionable insights to grow your experience
- Custom Analytics Events: Track custom analytics events in your experience. (Late 2024)
Delayed roadmap features
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Easy creation, optimized for your ideal workflows
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Studio Luau File Sync Beta: Export and import scripts between Studio and disk, so that you can use any IDE or version control system. (Late 2024)
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Gamepad and VR support in Studio Emulator: Platform-specific gamepads (e.g., Xbox, PlayStation) and Touch can be emulated. (Late 2024)
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Dragger Improvements: Improved controls, guides, and measurements for draggers. (Late 2024)
Cloud creation improves collaboration and reliability
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Team Create Assets: Access newly uploaded assets without needing to restart Team Create. (Late 2024)
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Granular Collaborator Permissions: Give collaborators defined roles and set abilities for contributing to experiences in Team Create. (Early 2025)
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Experience Activity History: View the history of collaboration activities and configuration changes in your experiences. This is already live on Creator Hub and will be coming to Studio in Mid 2024.
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Enhance Drafts: Focusing on live scripting and performance improvement. We’re putting this on hold to address later as part of a broader project. (On Hold)
Generative AI accelerates creation
- Material Generator Full Release: Quickly generate visually compelling materials using natural language. (Mid 2024)
Avatar creation and Marketplace
- Improved Avatar Face and Body Tooling: Enhancing how you can import, create, and publish avatar assets. (Late 2024)
Engine can support any type of experience
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UI styling: Stylesheets make it possible to change the look and feel of your UI and 3D content with one click. (Late 2024)
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Custom Logging: Allowing you to pass error locations through pcalls. (On Hold)
Create rich and lifelike worlds
- Aerodynamic Forces: Fully releasing Aerodynamic properties, such as air density, to better simulate flight for objects like wingsuits. (Mid 2024)
Grow and engage your audience
Break down language barriers
- New Regions: Shipped support for four new regions on platform by the end of 2023: Indonesian, Thai, Turkish, and Vietnamese. Shipped support for Polish in Feb 2024. Arabic support will come in the second half of 2024.
Re-engage your community through notifications
- Notification Insights: Automated suggestions to help improve the efficiency of your messages. (Mid 2024)
Empower immersive communication and expression
- Updated in experience controls: Consistent and adaptive experience controls that make it easier for users to find their most frequently used action. (Late 2024)
Benefit from a growing creator ecosystem
Accelerate creation through community-generated assets
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List View Beta: Making it easier to browse large asset collections in Toolbox. (We’ve put this project on hold and it will be replaced by improvements to asset management and toolbox.)
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Additional Spam and Plagiarism Protections: More rigorous plagiarism detection and punishments for repeat offenders. (Mid 2024)
More ways to earn and advertise
- Subscription Promotions: Enabling devs to run promotions on subscriptions (e.g. free trial or discounted first month). (Late 2024)
Creator Hub is your key to success
Learn, connect, and create with one another
- Docs Available in Studio: Access advice and code samples directly from Studio. (Late 2024)
Actionable insights to grow your experience
- Data Export API: Export raw analytics data for your experiences. (On hold to prioritize custom events first based on creator feedback.)
Collaborate more efficiently as a team
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Asset Privacy and Permissions for Animations: Sharing animations with friends and groups. (Mid 2025)
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Asset Privacy and Permissions for Meshes, Images, Models and Packages: Privacy and sharing with friends & groups for meshes, mesh parts, decals, images, models and packages. (Early 2025)
Grow and engage your audience
Roblox Home page connects you to your ideal audience
- Social and Contextual Descriptors: Labels like Friend presence in the experience, Genre and additional insights to distinguish different types of experiences on the Home page. (Late 2024)
See the full Creator Roadmap here.
FAQs
What does Early/Mid/Late mean?
- Early: January - April
- Mid: May-August
- Late: September - December
Why did you launch something that wasn’t on the roadmap?
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The Creator Roadmap is not a comprehensive list of everything Roblox is doing (it’s hard to summarize what 2000+ people are working on!). Some examples of reasons why products may not show up on the roadmap are:
- User-facing products that require no action from creators
- Products that require us to coordinate or integrate with third parties, for example, Meta Quest and 17+ experiences; This can result in uncertainty in our ship dates or we may not be able to
communicate in advance until the other party is ready - Products we’re holding to announce at RDC
- Products we aren’t sure are going to be impactful or have enough funding to hit their dates
Why did a feature slip past its target date?
- We do our best to forecast realistically, but sometimes, features take longer to ship than anticipated, or other features take precedence. As some of you may know, software scheduling estimation is an imprecise art.
