I completely agree. It is all dependent on the developer.
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This is amazing. I canāt wait to see how developers will use that funding on their project
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I agree with your opinion, but once again. Only like one in 10 million could get at this point. Doing such a big project isnāt really easy. There must be really popular people with good ideas of games. Even if you have a great idea of a game, but no popularity. Your game will likely get declined. So once again, this is almost an impossible way to achieve a project this big. Like what are we thinking of? An insane and huge free world game?
Considering this is roblox I doubt thereāll be any indie devs to trust 500k with unless theyāve already made a super popular game like adopt me before
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Can it, though? Look at Hellreaver. This game canāt run at more than 20FPS on my GTX 1060, and Iām on a mid end build. A shooter equivalent to this, with the same amount of detail, such as CS:GO or Apex Legends, can run at a much higher framerate for me.
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This will be really good for talented developers that arent known in the community yet 
events like this make me feel like one day Roblox games will have the capabilities of being successfull AAA games.
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i accidentally submitted before i could finish 
There are of course work arounds to these, both can be avoided by simply slicing models/UVs in half, the measure is only there so that no amateur developer accidentally creates a 1.5 million triangle beast and actually considers optimization, if you know what youāre doing this isnāt an issue. And who cares for realism to begin with, much lies on your art style and hell, with a social experience designed for a large age range youāre unlikely to see a realistic art direction, rather a cartoonish and fun one, or a uniquely stylized one.
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I agree with this. Seems strange for Roblox to be selectively giving out money to developers. If itās anything like what Iāve seen from the accelerator program, I suspect they will likely only choose those who are well known internally as solid developers and not take chances, which seems to be that this is designed to encourage.
If Roblox has money to be throwing around to improve their platform I think it would be more beneficial for the market to decide where that money is allocated rather than the staff who have biases baked in to who they will eventually choose.
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Indeed, this is what i though of. Here comes popularity. No one will really support some random person. Even tho he had great ideas!
This is not allowed as all team members must be 18+.
I donāt know what happened for you but I can run Room 2 at 60FPS on my GTX 1070 and on my RTX 2060.
Edit: Even in Noahās own demos did he state that he could run the game at full detail at a good speed while using a rather dated mobile device.
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Mind giving a link? It may just be my own PC. I havenāt seen this.
What if youāre working for a legally established studio owned by a 18+ member, but you run the groups? How would someone be able to apply under these conditions?
This sounds like great news for innovating on the Roblox platform, but this scenario needs to be considered in order to allow a larger range of innovative and great ideas to make its way into the platform.
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I mean you can split up the meshes, nobody can stop you in that regard so you can make literally each individual part REALLYdetailed.
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500,000 robux is alot when put into games. However why canāt apply if you are under 18. Is there contracts involved?
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Can we possibly get more clarification as to what happens if weāre selected? $500K USD is a lot of money. I canāt imagine youād be given that without having to pay it back or take some level of cut from your gameās income for x-amount of time.
I personally think that this is a bit misplaced. Roblox isnāt at the level where most high quality games are at. Even with that budget, I donāt think you can make up the downsides of the engine at its current state. If I recall correctly, I believe that Vesteria (@berezaa) tried to do this and ended up throwing a lot of money into something that could barely break even whilst under the accelerator program.
The premise of this is cool but, I am iffy about how far you can really take this engine before the engine becomes too limiting and starts to be the reason why said idea canāt exist the way that you want. Otherwise, throwing $500K at a metaverse pitch seems a bit odd.
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How interesting Iām looking forward to the future of Roblox!
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I canāt imagine what roblox will become and what games developers will be churning out with 500,000 USD!
I imagine too many things.
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