At its core, Roblox is a values-driven firm. Our values decide how we work collectively, discover and develop the appropriate expertise, and outline our personal imaginative and prescient of success. A type of values is to Respect the Group: we take into account our impression on the world, try to respect everybody’s greatest pursuits, and talk authentically. Our neighborhood contains Roblox creators, builders, customers, and workers.
Zooming In: Roblox’s Developer and Creator Group
Builders and creators are integral elements 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 way of our communications touchpoints: holding an open dialogue with our creators and builders by way of focus teams and our DevForum. However we additionally consider in understanding the product by utilizing it ourselves. Our inner Sport Jams supply one instance of how we get in contact with our developer neighborhood’s workflow by way 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. Certainly one of our most well-known Sport Jams is held yearly, normally together with the Roblox Builders Convention, and challenges groups of builders to indicate off their expertise and win awards by creating superb Roblox experiences in a brief window of time.
Internally, we use Sport Jams as a possibility to work inside the product beneath strain. This helps us recognize the strengths of Roblox Studio and different instruments we offer, nevertheless it additionally serves to focus on areas the place we will make enhancements and try for an much more seamless expertise.
Many teams inside Roblox maintain Sport Jams all year long. A latest Jam held by our Creator Group helped us determine a whole bunch of small points, lots 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 be 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 will 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] permit our Engineering and Product results in actually perceive what our product is like at present, in order that they will information our Teams to enhance instruments and expertise and be sure that sooner or later our builders have a good higher expertise on the platform.”
– Brad Johanson, Chief of Employees to the CTO
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