Roblox Sees Generative AI As The ‘Future of Creation’

Roblox was designed to be composable, with shape primitives imitating lego blocks and a simpler scripting language in Lua. In comparison, Minecraft drew players into its creator loop through its core building and survival gameplay. Minecraft started in 2009 as a simple indie game called “Cave Game,” created by Swedish programmer Markus “Notch” Persson, who drew inspiration from base-building and block-mining games. As the Minecraft tooling became more powerful, players created grand cityscapes like this one of Minas Tirith from The Lord of the Rings. Roblox, an online gaming platform that enables users to create and play games constructed by other players, has become increasingly popular in recent years.

One of the key aspects of Roblox is that it offers a robust development platform that even beginners can pick up, and generative AI tools could make certain areas of game development even more approachable for creators. The more approachable Roblox’s tools are, the more people might use the platform to create hit games — and that all creates more opportunities for Roblox to make money off Robux, the platform’s currency. Roblox created Code Assist to help users turn their concepts into code they can embed within a metaverse space or object. Corazza demonstrated how natural language gets translated into code by using Code Assist to change the color of an orb to red and then destroy it 0.3 seconds after a player touches it and surround the first orb with a grid of other orbs. Referencing earlier code describing the first orb, Code Assist wrote code to add new orbs and adjust how it reacts to player interaction. The tool doesn’t work without other code to call on but can aid in filling in the details or at least more repetitive aspects of coding.

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Whether you read our articles, listen to our podcasts, or watch our videos, GamesBeat will help you learn about the industry and enjoy engaging with it. Roblox says the code-making AI it uses relies on a combination of in-house technology and capabilities from outside sources, although it is not disclosing where from. Currently the company is Yakov Livshits only training its AI using game content that is in the public domain. Sturman says Roblox will tread carefully to ensure that users do not object to having their creations fed into generative AI algorithms. From gleaming metal swords to altering sports car appearances, Roblox’s new AI tools lets users create and modify textures with ease.

This not only accelerates development but also ensures a consistent flow of new experiences for players. The launch of the Material Generator and Code Assist tools is part of Roblox’s vision for AI-assisted content creation, which aims to help users create code, 3D models, and more with little more than text prompts. While the engine is an underlying portion of the platform, it is up to the creator to build or otherwise acquire everything in the experience. We see generative AI tools being applicable to each of these different creative processes. What we have already started to see through internal prototypes is that specialized generative AI tools can not only accelerate creator productivity, but can significantly drop the technical skill needed to bring ideas to life. We think for developers, this is going to accelerate quality up and down the stack.

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Dollars can be quickly transferred to a bank account, but Robux must be converted via DevEx, and can only be converted after creators earn enough of them. Audio chatting on Roblox has been scrutinized by outlets like People Make Games and More Perfect Union as a potential way for adults to inappropriately interact with minors. Sturman mentioned in our conversation that Roblox Corp. intends to roll out AI-assisted voice moderation to better combat bad behavior on the platform. Roblox Connect was one of the odder additions in the bundle of announcements the company sent over, but its purpose became more clear as Sturman put it in context.

Metaverse platform Roblox has introduced two new generative AI tools for game developers in beta called Code Assist and Material Generator. The new features follow Roblox’s generative AI strategy that the company recently outlined, aiming at accelerating and streamlining object design and deployment in its digital universe. In other words, Roblox players will be able to create worlds and games by typing what they want to see, and then letting generative AI tools take it from there.

Yakov Livshits
Founder of the DevEducation project
A prolific businessman and investor, and the founder of several large companies in Israel, the USA and the UAE, Yakov’s corporation comprises over 2,000 employees all over the world. He graduated from the University of Oxford in the UK and Technion in Israel, before moving on to study complex systems science at NECSI in the USA. Yakov has a Masters in Software Development.

Ultimately, Roblox positions itself as the most complete and vertically integrated game development solution. To Corazza, its data center, building tools, publishing platform and marketplace to monetize content make Roblox the shortest path to making a game. Baszucki also highlighted how generative AI could be used within a game experience with the fashion design example. If you consider that generative AI may be adopted for both game development and to support real-time in-game features, the obvious conclusion is that gaming may become a large market for AI inference jobs. Generative AI has seemingly endless potential when it comes to game development. As the frontrunner of such character engines for 3D experiences, Inworld has built player and contextually aware AI NPCs that are able to mimic the full range of human expression and emotions.

The company previously deployed Code Assist, an “AI assistant” in Studio Script Editor that helps autocomplete code as you’re programming, and Material Generator, a tool that lets developers automatically swap the materials of 3D objects. (Interestingly, Roblox Corp. also announced today that creating and selling items on the user-generated content marketplace is now available to anyone over the age of 13 who passes an ID verification check). Roblox’s generative AI tools are far cry from the tools the company wants its users to utilize and enjoy. Corazza revealed that the tools could still generate “incorrect” or “misleading” information that users should review, test, and determine if the generated content is “contextually appropriate.” The tool could also generate realistic textures for the materials users have in mind, including those for a “bright red rock cnayon” and “stained glass.” According to the company, this generative AI tool will help automate basic coding tasks for a user through a description of what an object should do in their game, per Ars Technica.

These “Limiteds” collectibles share similarities to NFTs but aren’t based on blockchain technology and can’t be used or resold outside of the Roblox ecosystem. Baszucki said that Roblox has a significant AI team managing 70 distinct training models, adding that the team has made significant advances in trust and safety technology. This website is using a security service to protect itself from online attacks.

Its new AI tool hypothetically lets developers roll out new games at a faster pace. Its new policies for the Creator Marketplace are aimed at bolstering resources for developers making said games, and an in-app voice and video calling system nudges Roblox players to stick on the platform. On top of that, purchases on the Creator Marketplace will be made in US dollars instead of Robux. PixelVibe AI Game Assets Generator is designed to help indie game developers and creatives speed up their game asset creation process.

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Electronic Arts is using AI to previsualize game concepts using digital sketches, complete with rough ideas for levels and challenges, as well as environmental features. On Wednesday, Morgan Stanley is hosting Roblox CFO Michael Guthrie and CTO Dan Sturman to discuss artificial intelligence. Goals and actions give NPCs defined goals that they then work to execute dynamically therefore moving the narrative forward or changing game play. For example, if a character is from one faction, an NPC from another faction will respond to them rudely but if they choose to play as another faction when they play next, the NPC would respond to them in a more friendly way. For example, a character might be programmed to move toward a specific location, such as how the Goombas in The Super Mario Bros. games walk along a defined route.

Tools like Move.ai, Latent Technology, and others accelerate the most time-consuming and expensive aspects of motion capture, animation and rigging. UGC games have their roots in modding culture, which has always been integral to game fandom among technically-capable and deeply dedicated fans. Experimentation with mods has led to popular games like Dota 2 (Warcraft III) and Counterstrike (Half-Life) that developed gameplay and mechanics reused in other games (e.g. League of Legends and Valorant). Similarly, we expect that the continued growth of UGC is leading to a flood of new game concepts and mechanics that can be leveraged on or off those platforms. Inevitably, the AI platform shift will accelerate the velocity of game creation in ways that are likely hard to conceive today.

• We think for developers, this is going to accelerate quality up and down the stack.
• Sturman said the company built Assistant off of open-source models, and he explained that it sees text-based tools assembled off such models as “not generally controversial.”
• We are on the brink of a major evolution in how we build and manage our games”.
• Roblox’s vision for AI-assisted content creation is ambitious, but it has the potential to revolutionize the way users create content on the platform.
• “Grounded in real-world economics, these systems are intended to help creators sustainably earn income,” stated the company.

Last month, the company laid out its vision for ways generative AI can support user generated content (UGC). Roblox also aims to integrate external AI services to attract more developers to the platform. Other major companies looking to leverage generative AI in video games include NVIDIA, Ubisoft, and Blizzard Entertainment. Meanwhile, AI Code Assist allows users to create code through natural language prompts and automatically summarize code to create comments.