At its core, Roblox is a values-driven firm. Our values decide how we work collectively, discover and develop the proper expertise, and outline our personal imaginative and prescient of success. A kind of values is to Respect the Group: we think about our influence on the world, try to respect everybody’s greatest pursuits, and talk authentically. Our neighborhood consists of Roblox creators, builders, customers, and staff.
Zooming In: Roblox’s Developer and Creator Group
Builders and creators are integral components of the Roblox neighborhood. We wouldn’t have a product with out them, so understanding their wants, minimizing their overhead, and making their expertise each seamless and productive are all key priorities.
A technique we do that is by means of our communications touchpoints: holding an open dialogue with our creators and builders by means of focus teams and our DevForum. However we additionally imagine in understanding the product through the use of it ourselves. Our inner Sport Jams provide one instance of how we get in contact with our developer neighborhood’s workflow by means of direct, hands-on expertise.
Supporting Builders and Creators with Sport Jams
“Sport Jams” are a long-standing trade custom that’s been part of Roblox’s tradition because the starting. One in all our most well-known Sport Jams is held yearly, normally at the side of the Roblox Builders Convention, and challenges groups of builders to point out off their expertise and win awards by creating superb Roblox experiences in a brief window of time.
Internally, we use Sport Jams as a chance to work throughout the product beneath stress. This helps us admire the strengths of Roblox Studio and different instruments we offer, but it surely additionally serves to spotlight areas the place we are able to make enhancements and try for an much more seamless expertise.
Many teams inside Roblox maintain Sport Jams all year long. A current Jam held by our Creator Group helped us determine a whole lot of small points, a lot of which have now been addressed to considerably enhance the expertise of each creators and devs.
Final December, we held a Sport Jam the place our CTO and the VPs of our main Product and Engineering teams squared off with creations of their very own. By together with even our most senior leaders within the Sport Jams, we make sure that everyone at Roblox is ready to empathize with our builders and creators and to grasp their each day workflow.
As a result of the extra we perceive our neighborhood, the extra we are able to assist them—and the extra we assist their imaginative and prescient, innovation, and bold targets, the additional we’ll go collectively.
Take a Peek Behind-the-Scenes of Our Engineering and Product VP Sport Jam
“[Game Jams] enable our Engineering and Product results in actually perceive what our product is like at the moment, in order that they’ll information our Teams to enhance instruments and know-how and make sure that sooner or later our builders have an excellent higher expertise on the platform.”
– Brad Johanson, Chief of Employees to the CTO
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