Roblox Innovation Awards 2025: Nominations are now open!

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Guess what? It’s that time of the year again – the Roblox Innovation Awards (RIAs) are making a grand return! :rocket: The RIAs will take place on Saturday, September 6, 2025 in San Jose, California.

Calling all developers, creators, video creators, players, and art enthusiasts alike – your voice matters! We want to hear from YOU as we honor the best and brightest in our community.

It’s your chance to shine the spotlight on the most innovative developers, creators, video stars, and experiences of the year!

To get involved, simply fill out our nomination form and cast your nomination.

Here are the awards you can nominate for:

  • Best New Experience
  • People’s Choice
  • Best Collaboration
  • Best Use of IP
  • Best Use of Immersive Marketing
  • Best Adventure Experience
  • Best Party & Casual Experience
  • Best Obby & Platformer Experience
  • Best Survival Experience
  • Best Roleplay & Avatar Sim Experience
  • Best Simulation Experience
  • Best Puzzle Experience
  • Best Racing Experience
  • Best Sports Experience
  • Best Strategy Experience
  • Best Action Experience
  • Best Shooter Experience
  • Best RPG Experience
  • Best UGC Creator
  • Best Video Star

Nominations will close on June 16th at 5pm PST.

After nominations close, stay tuned for the chance to vote for winners in select categories. More details on that are coming your way soon.

Get ready to witness a celebration of passion, talent, and creativity within the Roblox community – both virtually and in person. Let’s make this year’s awards truly unforgettable!

In the meantime, want to relive last year’s award ceremony?

See you in a few months!

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Lesgo 2025, always look forward to the RIA Bloxy Awards :tada:

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I know this may be criticism, but I think the nominations in overall of categories will be “Grow a Garden” entirely cause of the major difference in player count.

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  • best new experience, Grow a garden.
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Fire. Was worried that the annual Innovation Awards were forgot about already

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This is gonna be skewed to grow a garden and infection gunfight isn’t it? (and we don’t talk about the genres that are straight up missing now because this is modern roblox)

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I mean, if people enjoy it, I don’t really see the problem.

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Gogithyy for best ugc creator…

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vote duckxander for best ugc creator of 2025 for a cookie

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i’m gonna vote for block tales!!! who’s with me?

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All these categories are mostly experience related. What happened to developer use case awards :face_with_spiral_eyes:

Plugins? Trends? Groups/Communities? Best use of new features? These would be :fire: categories if they existed.

This is the Innovation Awards, not Popularity Awards…

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Hi hello! Got some questions as the specified terms for nominating an experience (none) could do with some clarification, and since the nominees of our category got burned last year to a game that still hasn’t been meaningfully updated since early 2023, I would like to ask on behalf of the upcoming nominees as I would love for the playing field to be fair for all.

  • What are the terms for an experience to qualify for nomination?

  • Does the experience require any notable updates from September 2024 (Previous nomination awards) onwards in order to warrant being part of the yearly awards?

  • Will there be a panel of judges evaluating the experiences critically based on merit that can’t be reasonably expected from a predominantly-child demographic?

  • If ‘no’ to the point above, what will you be doing this year to avoid it being a popularity contest where the developer with the biggest Roblox and Discord community spamming announcements everywhere wins?

Given that it has been a year since, I’m sure that these situations have been carefully considered, and so I’m looking forward for your clarification on behalf of the community and future nominees :smile:

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I know, it’s just that I think Roblox will not entirely avoid the fault problem of making it that all categories would only be towards Grow a Garden’s victory considering how much attention Dress to Impress had just because it grew up during the Innovation Awards.

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id like to nominate myself because im so awesome

edit: does best collaboration mean a game with collabs, or a game about cooperation?

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It’ll just be a lot of GaG spam :sob:

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Exciting! Good luck to everyone that gets nominated!

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collaboration by definition is working or uniting together to “make something”! so i’m certain it refers to games that have had developer collaborations in them! otherwise, if it was about cooperation, you’d think they would call it “Best Teamwork” instead

pretty good examples are Pilgrammed x Fantastic Frontier, PHIGHTING with Block Tales, Pressure with Decaying Winter, and so on!

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Oh boy, I hope some overrated cough cough “Grow a Garden” doesn’t get all the nominations due to botting.

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Looking forward to it!

Hope that great experiences will receive the nominations.