It’s so cool seeing Roblox is giving such an opeertunity to their developers!
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As I understood, it’s something like platform-only items. Xbox-only for example.
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The tree models are free, it’s an asset pack that Roblox gave away themselves. We have some other asset packs as well that are both free and paid for though. I don’t really see how using an asset pack isn’t making a game though… It would be very unwise to not utilize such good packs 
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It is very limited however, I wish they’d explain a little more, of course, you’d need a studio to make a big amazing game, especially with that type of funding. I don’t know if they’re only looking for ideas or the actual developers. But all I can say is that for 500k USD, you can get the best of the best no doubt about it.
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500k can not afford the best of the best.
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It will probably have zoom calls. Why are people against talking to roblox with face cam anyways? Theyre not gonna post ur face everywhere lol.
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Our studio kind of started on Unity and Unreal, we spent awhile fighting back and forth between the two trying to figure out which one we would want to use. Not really saying that Roblox is the best studio out there, but I do think you’re saying it’s worse than what it actually is. Also, the type of AIs that we use, are all customly scripted, they do however, use pathfinding to return to their aggro positions and to wander/patrol. While chasing etc they don’t rely on the pathfinding. Not all of the zones use the Roblox terrain, but there’s also no issue with using it as it doesn’t look bad if you can fit it in the style. There’s no merit or benefit to building all the assets yourself if you can simply use ones that are already created and make them mesh well together. Saves tons of time, and tons of money. Most of our asset packs were purchased for Unity use anyway, so we figured we could just port them over to Roblox and it worked like a charm 
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Exactly, I personally know plenty of people earning $50k a year or more on Roblox and high quality games are likely to not only take more than a year but also require more than 10 people. So I really don’t understand where people are coming from when say $500k is too much.
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Likely as they are under 18 and haven’t quite seen that side of the platform, or they’ve not the experience to know that.
All in all, I think this program is a great opportunity for everyone.
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I wasn’t referring to hiring a whole team I was referring to 1 person, I thought that was clear.
I also wasn’t commenting on your game engine, I was referring to other engines such as unity, core, and UE4 and I was referring to the 5% you said should be added to the 20% because earlier you said this:
Iirc 25% goes to developers, whilst the remainder goes to the platform for a variety of reasons.
I’d like to know more about how you’ll add color blindness support since I haven’t found a nice way yet. How much of your list do you actually plan on doing with your budget?
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Happening more than once, recurring like accelerator
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i thought the same thing its too much because here is all the robux can mainly be used on
paying your developers
uploading audio
uploading shirts
advertising
and thats all im probably wrong but thats all i can think of
im not saying im against this i quite like its nice seeing roblox help its developers rather than the last time were the reward were literally that nobody could get a pair of socks is just that this is too much we could literally use this money on moderation and its way better than 500,000 being sendt to someone who might not even use it and just use dev ex
im just hoping it goes to good use
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I mean, cool, but what would a robox development team spend 500k on lol. Builders and scripters are like 1/500th of the price, at max.
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All of that costs at max 3,000 dollars.
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Are we allowed to have character customization or custom player rigs?
I’m assuming we aren’t allowed to modify the hats or clothes of a player due to these points:
- In-game avatars that reflect elements of the user’s platform avatar identity
- Ability to leverage ‘Metaverse’ items (i.e., that can be equipped on platform avatars, like the ones you buy in marketplace)
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i know but your going a little bit over the scale with just its half of 1 million
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I still clarified within that post that people will still deny you for 500,000 as it would not be enough for them. The 5 percent is premium payouts, paid by premium users in your game, added to the 20% from Robux gain in general.
Google color blindness support for games and look at some resources.
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That’s likely to occur if this run is a success for the platform.
Exactly, way too much. I wish they would put it into something else.
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My thoughts on this program are that they are spending way too much for something way too mysterious. I have been under the impression that games on Roblox have been increasing in technology very gradually but the curation of these games is incredibly off. Let me take one game for example: Apocalypse Rising 2. Great technology, cross platform, affordable to play, and great content. Yet it has 200 concurrent players. Now let me take another example of a game: Brookhaven RP. 100k concurrent players and they still have the default Roblox UI, little to no technological improvements, and relies heavily on already existing systems within Roblox.
My point here is why incentivize AAA devs to come onto the platform in the first place if this is the reality they face. Improvements in game content and technology do not directly effect the population of those games. This is entirely the fault of Roblox. Instead, I feel like this money could be better allocated towards teams that are already on the platform with incentives to change the narrative of the current scope of games. We have enough simulators but that will never change if it is the most profitable thing to do. It is entirely within the power of Roblox to create better curation and to spread their player base across more games. This alone is enough to bring more talented developers to the platform, as they will see hard work is rewarded.
Final thoughts: 500k is way too much, give 10-20k to teams for equipment and commissions and empower the community you already have, not the outside world.
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