You’ve brought an incredible amount of creativity, innovation, and entrepreneurial spirit to the platform and as a result, we’ve seen explosive growth and breakthrough hits. We recently surpassed a new milestone together, hitting 111.8 million daily active users, a 41% year-over-year increase1. This is a direct result of your hard work and dedication. At RDC25, we celebrated your achievements and unveiled a roadmap that promises to take Roblox, the most powerful and flexible platform for you to create on, to new heights.
Increased opportunities
The platform’s growth over the last year has translated directly into more opportunities for our creators. Over the past year, the creator community has collectively earned more than $1 billion2. We launched Creator Rewards earlier this summer, and we now have more creators earning for driving engagement than ever before. In fact, the number of creators earning at least 5+ robux increased by 171%, and 73% of the experiences eligible for engagement-based payouts (EBP) or Creator Rewards earned more with Creator Rewards they would have with EBP3.
Increasing DevEx Rate
Starting today, we’re increasing the DevEx rate from $.0035/R$ to $0.0038/R$, for all creators, meaning creators will now earn 8.5% more when turning earned Robux into cash subject to compliance with the terms of our Developer Exchange Program.
A Rock-Solid Platform
Our commitment to you is to provide a more stable, reliable, and high-performance platform while reducing your friction. This past year, we’ve focused on improving the core of the platform so you can focus on building. Some of the areas we’ve improved:
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Stability and Reliability:
- Improved stability on mobile devices, with a 66% increase in playtime per crash on iOS and a 26% improvement on Android since last September4.
- Increased player availability uptime to 99.972%, saving more than 12 million engagement hours year over year5.
- Improving Studio Hours per Failure by 90% to keep creators in flow with less interruptions6.
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Performance:
- Improved GPU processing times for meshes leading to significantly improved times between when meshes are downloaded from CDN and when they are visible to players.
- Turned on our São Paulo data center, providing improved performance and reduced latency for millions of users in Brazil.
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Reducing Friction:
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Since January, we’ve closed more than >4,100 DevForum bugs, more than double the rate of last year7.
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Improvements to our anti-cheat detection and integration with our automated consequences system have reduced the playtime exposure of cheating by 84%8.
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Supercharging Your Creator Productivity
We’re dedicated to building tools to help you scale and make you more efficient.
- Avatars & Animations:
- Improved Avatar Auto Setup success rate from 47% to 90%9.
- Introducing an adaptive animation format, which will allow your animations to work across all humanoid rigs
- New tools for visual compositing and debugging of composed animations are coming soon to help you create rich, lifelike animations
Adaptive animation format works across diverse avatar types
- Workflow Enhancements:
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We showcased Data Stores Manager and announced that we were working on adding new capabilities including deletion workflows.
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We’re improving asset iteration with the following updates:
- glTF export, launched last week, which lets you export assets from Studio to Blender and other third party tools seamlessly, as models exported now retain more of their full details.
- One-click model re-import while editing experiences in Studio, is coming soon. Now you can rapidly iterate, non-destructively, without impacting content properties.
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Today, we shared a significant upgrade to Assistant in Roblox Studio, enabling it to take multi-step actions, and coming soon we’re adding the ability to integrate with third-party LLMs and applications via the Model Context Protocol (MCP).
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Coming soon: Assistant can integrate with MCP and integrate with tools like Figma
- Folder-level syncing for Script Sync beta is coming soon, allowing you to manage your codebase directly from your preferred code editor.
One-click model re-import coming soon
- Organize at Scale:
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The revamped Asset Manager is now in beta, with powerful search, sorting, and filtering to help you manage your assets at scale.
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Coming soon, we will roll out improving asset privacy and sharing, and are working on bringing versioning to meshes and images next year.
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We’re adding a more detailed place version history that allows you to provide more context about changes you make to your experience.
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- Collaboration:
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We showed off comments in the Studio 3D viewport, allowing for feedback and collaboration, and announced that deeplinking is coming soon.
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We also enhanced Creator Groups with experience-level permissions and shared that we would be launching an updated Activity Tracker.
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Tools and Insights to Help You Grow
To help you make smarter decisions, we’ve been focused on providing you with better data and tools. Today, over 93% of the top 1000 creators use analytics10.
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Experience Betas, Configs, Experimentation:
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We’ve announced Experience Betas, coming soon, allowing you to test gameplay with smaller audiences and catch issues early without being included in search and discovery. Request access to Experience Betas today.
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Later this year, we’ll be shipping Configs, a real-time on/off switch and way to launch live updates without deploying code or restarting game servers. We’re also working on Experiments to let you test and measure the impact of features and matchmaking setups on key metrics. If you’d like to be Please fill out this application form if you want to test configs and experiments early in Q4.
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Natural Language and Translation Capabilities:
- We showcased demos of new audio and voice features including:
- The Text-to-Speech API, which uses up to 10 preset voices in English, and has customization options like pitch and speed.
- The Speech-to-Text API, which is coming later this year and allows for voice-based interactions that enable game mechanics via voice commands, like firing a ship’s cannon when a user says “fire!”
- These natural language capabilities along with Text Generation can be combined to build compelling experiences featuring smart NPCs and voice commands.
- We also showcased our Real-Time Translation capability that automatically translates text chat interactions into a user’s language, and we do this for all 17 languages we support on the platform.
- Additionally, we announced that Real-Time Voice Chat Translation is coming next year. This capability will instantly translate voice chat and connect users around the world speaking different languages, starting with English, Spanish, French, and German.
- We showcased demos of new audio and voice features including:
Creating an NPC that responds to voice input with natural language APIs
- 4D Objects
- Today we announced a new way for you to generate fully functional 3D objects, coming soon with select vehicles and weapons categories.
- You can provide the prompt (“a sleek, red futuristic sports car”), and our API provides a functional, interactive car that can be driven.
- You will be able to customize and extend the base functionality provided by the 4D Object API, for instance adding logic like cars with doors that open and wheels that turn.
- This technology will be available in-experience and will allow you and your users to co-create incredible new things together.
Creating interactive 4D objects
- Roblox Moments
- Launching today in beta, Roblox Moments, a new way for users to discover your experiences through short-form video of exciting gameplay moments.
- Users can capture, edit, and share moments, while others can click “Join” to instantly try out the experience.
- Soon, we’ll release Moments APIs, so you can build your own sharing and discovery systems, which will help you attract new audiences and drive stronger engagement.
- We’re also sharing the source code used for our own Roblox Moments experience so you can start building and customizing right away.
Roblox Moments launching in beta today
- New IPs available and more coming soon:
- We have introduced new partners and IPs coming to our Licenses catalog, including:
- Kodansha’s “Blue Lock” and “That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime” available now.
- Lionsgate’s “The Strangers,” “Blair Witch,” and “Fall” coming soon and perfect for Halloween.
- Mattel’s “Polly Pocket,” “Street Sharks,” “Rock 'Em Sock 'Em Robots,” and “Matchbox” are coming soon.
- Invisible Narratives is bringing the Skibidi franchise.
- We have introduced new partners and IPs coming to our Licenses catalog, including:
- Improvements to Ads Manager and Earning tools:
- We announced more upgrades to Ads Manager, building on the 40+ improvements that have already launched this year.
- Soon, you will benefit from enhanced reporting and improvements to search advertising.
- Early next year, we’ll launch our Maximize Spend objective which optimizes your campaigns towards users most likely to spend time and money within your experience.
- This year, we’ve expanded the ways creators can earn within their experiences while also increasing engagement, by launching Regional Pricing, Creator Rewards, and Rewarded Video Ads.
- In the coming months, we’ll also expand Regional Pricing, which offers users prices more reflective of their local economy, to all types of in-experience items.
- We announced more upgrades to Ads Manager, building on the 40+ improvements that have already launched this year.
Powerful Engine to Unleash Your Vision
Our engine is evolving to give you complete freedom to bring your vision to life.
- Revamped Asset Pipeline and Improved Texture Quality:
- We are completely revamping how your assets are prepared and rendered, including a significantly improved mesh simplification algorithm. Our new cloud transcoding pipeline and Harmony on client devices allowing your assets to be optimized for every device, from low-end phones to high-end PCs, eliminating memory spikes and improving performance, rolling out to all platforms throughout the rest of the year.
- We’re also excited to announce that 4K texture rendering is coming to Roblox later this year.
4k texture rendering coming later this year
- Building More Expansive Worlds:
- We’ve been working on making large worlds easier for you to build and populate, including massively increasing the size of terrain that you can create and the amount of objects you can place in your worlds.
- Additionally, we are working on enabling Instance Streaming in Studio, empowering you to work on a massive world without loading the entire map.
- We’re also introducing SLIM (Scalable Lightweight Interactive Models), a new system that will automatically generate high-quality, lightweight representations of your models. You can request early access to SLIM today.
- Compared to Model LOD, SLIM will enable higher quality and more expansive worlds even on lower end devices.
- We will be replacing Model LOD with SLIM by the end of year for experiences that have instance streaming on.
- In the image below, you can see a comparison of how SLIM can provide better quality and higher performance than the existing Model LOD system while preserving the desired look and feel of the source material.
SLIM provides better quality at higher performance
- Expressive Avatars:
- Our engine is being optimized to support higher-fidelity avatars without a resource tax on you.
- Early next year, we’re planning to release new default abilities like crouch, sprint, and strafe while supporting more joints for more detailed movements.
- We’re also expanding in-experience creation to include clothing and accessories, allowing players to customize and purchase items right within your experiences.
- We announced that we’re bringing Makeup to avatars as a Studio Beta this year and are looking for it to be available in-experience and Marketplace next year.
Avatar makeup coming this year as a Studio Beta
- Powerful new capabilities:
- We announced that Acoustic Simulation is now in Studio Beta, allowing sounds to reflect and bend around corners.
- We’re also revamping hydrodynamics to allow parts to react realistically to buoyancy, lift, and drag forces in water, rolling out later this year.
- Finally, later this year, we’re adding support for in-experience constructive solid geometry (CSG) on meshes, to perform complex geometry operations on fully textured meshes. Request early access for In-experience constructive solid geometry (CSG) on meshes
- Emissive Maps: You’ve been asking for it, and we’re enabling emissive maps for you by the end of this year. This will enable you to add impressive glowing effects to your models, environments, and - in the future - avatars.
Emissive Maps coming end of year
- Unlocking Competitive Gaming
- We’re working on a native server authority system to help prevent cheating and allow for more realistic physics interactions. Request early access to server authority starting today.
- Earlier this year, we rolled out Avatar Settings to give you greater control over the sizing and behavior of player avatars in your experiences
- Additionally, we’re going to be rolling out Custom Matchmaking more broadly to enable additional options like skills-based matchmaking. You can request access today.
Server authority coming to early access
Early Access to New Products
We highlighted a number of products at RDC. We’re also working hard to get those products into your hands faster for feedback. With that aim, we’re launching Early Access Programs! You now have the control to try out different experimental features and explore various Roblox builds. New products like SLIM and server authority will be available through our early access program.
A Safe and Civil Foundation
All of this is built on a foundation that promotes safety for everyone on Roblox. We’re constantly improving our moderation systems and policies. On Wednesday this week, we announced our plan to expand age estimation to all Roblox users who access our on-platform communication features by the end of this year. And this is just one of the initiatives that we’re supporting this year; since January 2025, we’ve shipped over 100 safety products, features, and policy updates combined.
We want to ensure we are continually getting feedback from you, and striking the right balance between keeping the community safe and imposing limitations that could unfairly take down a creator’s experience.
Today, we’re opening up applications for creators to participate in our Community Safety Council. We want to actively engage with trusted members of the community around their feedback and concerns so that we can incorporate learnings into our plans for the future. If you are interested in participating, you can see the eligibility requirements here. We’re committed to providing periodic updates on what we learn from the council and engaging with the broader community through activities like the Creator Roadmap and AMAs.
The Future We Build Together
We want to reiterate that the tools and features we’ve shared are the building blocks of the future, a future that you will create. We provide the platform, but you provide the passion, the creativity, and the vision. The future is something we’ll build together.
Please let us know your thoughts and we’ll be updating our Creator Roadmap shortly to reflect the updated roadmap.
