Happy December everyone!
Hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving weekend and is staying warm during these snowy nights… Unless you’re on the other side of the world and enjoying the summer sun (I’m jealous rn 
).
Just a heads up, we have a code freeze in December… which means next week will be the last week teams will publish announcements for the year (not including the 2024 Year in Review) so expect one more recap.
But for now, there’s a lot to get through as this weekly recap gathers everything from the last 2 weeks… so let’s dive in! 
Remember - we keep information at a high level within these posts. For more information or to leave feedback, please comment on their official announcements linked below.
Betas & Updates
[Beta] Lua Asset Creation for Creator Tooling with CreateAssetAsync
- We’re introducing two new APIs:
AssetService:CreateAssetAsyncandAssetService:CreateAssetVersionAsyncto enable third-party Lua tooling to programmatically create and upload assets to your inventories.
Announcements & Updates
Testing Improvements to the “Recommended For You” Algorithms
- We’re excited to share our progress in identifying additional user behaviors that indicate long-term retention and help more creations get the opportunity to succeed on Roblox.
- We’ve found that the frequency with which users return to play, spend, and interact with friends in your experiences are strong indicators, so we’re now testing these in our recommendations.
Users can enjoy up to 25% more Robux on computer, web and gift cards
- Users can now receive up to 25% more Robux when purchasing through gift cards, computer, or web.
- This new pricing will be available for all global users moving forward.
Update to TouchSwipe & Introducing TouchDrag
- We have fully released updates to the TouchSwipe API, as well as our new TouchDrag API! These are now both available on Studio & client.
Paid Access Experiences Will Be Eligible for Engagement Based Payouts
- Paid access experiences are now eligible for engagement based payouts.
- This change impacts all paid access experiences, both in Robux and local currency.
Party Is Here! Unlock a New Level of Engagement
- We’re rolling out Party, a seamless way for friends to group up with up to six friends and jump into an experience together, all without leaving Roblox.
- We want Party to help you provide a whole new level of engagement for your users.
- In early 2025, the Party API will be available and provide information on which users are in a Party together.
New Audio API Features: Directional Audio, AudioLimiter and More
- Updates to the Audio API including:
- AngleAttenuation (Beta)
- AudioLimiter
- AudioPlayer:GetWaveformAsync
- AudioEcho.RampTime
- SoundService.DefaultListenerLocation
Data Stores Get Version at Time Live in Engine and Open Cloud
- This is a follow-up to the Upcoming Changes to Data Stores Versioning announcement. Methods to retrieve data store versions by timestamp are now live in Engine and Open Cloud. As a reminder, the other announced changes went live earlier this year.
Updating Experience Guideline Policies to Keep Our Younger Users Safe
- On December 3, we started enforcing policy changes we previously announced: users under age 13 are not able to play experiences that don’t have content maturity labels.
- We highly recommend filling out the experience questionnaire by going to: Creator Hub > Creations > Select an experience > Audience > Maturity & Compliance.
- We have now increased the amount of RAM we give per player to 100MB. This means the new scaling formula for server memory is: 6.4GB + 100MB * (Peak Number of Players). We’ve also optimized our CPU resource allocation systems to improve the p05 server heartbeat (frame rate) for some experiences.
Earn a Higher Revenue Share for $9.99+ Paid Access Experiences
- You can now publish paid access experiences at three price points in a user’s local currency:
- $9.99 USD: You earn $4.99 (50%) per sale.
- $29.99 USD: You earn $17.99 (60%) per sale.
- $49.99 USD: You earn $34.99 (70%) per sale.
- You can change between price points at any time, for instance to test different price points to see what resonates most with your audience.
Avatar Auto-Setup Production Release
- Avatar Auto-Setup is no longer in beta!
- You need to restart Studio to use the production release of Auto-Setup.
[Full Release] Use Assistant to Boost Your Productivity
- Assistant is now out of beta and has four new capabilities that increase its effectiveness:
- Script iteration: You can ask Assistant to modify your existing scripts as well as iterate on scripts that it generates for you.
- Multi-script insertion: From a single prompt, Assistant will insert multiple types of scripts into your experience to help achieve your objective.
- Insertion from Creator Store: Assistant can insert 3D models from Creator Store.
- Deeper understanding of DataModel context: Assistant has a better understanding of your full data model and can take action.
Introducing the New WrapDeformer Instance
- We’re introducing a new
WrapDeformerinstance and associated APIs so you can modify 3D meshes with skinning, joints, and FACS data more easily in your published experiences.
Turkish, Polish, Thai, and Indonesian now Available in Studio
- Today we are happy to share four new languages available in Studio. To select any of these new options, open Roblox Studio, go to File > Studio Settings and search for the Language setting.
- We’ve updated our Terms of Use to reflect some of the recent updates and features that we’ve released. This includes renaming ‘Group’ to ‘Community’, renaming ‘age guidelines’ to ‘content maturity’, and adding a paragraph allowing Paid Access experiences to be purchased in real currency as an option for creators.
Release Notes
Deprecated Web Endpoints
Develop API Asset Endpoints Deprecation
- To streamline our API offerings and provide a smoother developer experience, we will be deprecating several asset-related endpoints in the Develop API on July 1, 2025. These endpoints are being replaced by their equivalents in the Assets API, which offer enhanced functionality and a more consistent design.
Community
Submit to Our 2024 Year in Review!
- We want to feature your amazing accomplishments here on the Developer Forum. Show us what you created using any product or feature that we launched in 2024 by submitting here.
- Reminder that submissions are due next Monday, Dec 9 at 12PM PT.
Join us: We’ve updated our event promotion system
- We’re launching new features this week that have increased user participation in experience events by 266% in our experiment period. Join us for a live stream on Thursday, December 5, at 1 PM PST to find out what the new features are.
Holiday Takeover: Today’s Picks on Marketplace
- Starting December 20, we will be celebrating the holiday season by showcasing your festive fashions in Today’s Picks!
- To be featured in Marketplace’s Today’s Picks Holiday Takeover, submit your items using this by December 16.
