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We need to talk about Roblox's AI NPCs
Season 3 · Episode 1
Wednesday, October 1, 2025 • Duration 48:11
This week we're diving into Roblox's new AI text generation for NPCs, voice chat finally hitting PlayStation, improved lighting ranges, and a bunch of quality-of-life updates for developers.
With recent dissatisfaction around Roblox's chat and safety changes, Adam and Fedor explore if alternatives like Fortnite's UEFN or Polytoria could ever take its crown. They break down the "identity crisis" holding UEFN back and the chicken-and-egg problem facing smaller nostalgic platforms.
Roblox is changing how physics work with Server Authority. We built billiards and bowling demos to test if this new rollback netcode is ready to replace client-sided simulation for competitive games.
Roblox is using AI face scans to split chat by age
Episode 9
Wednesday, November 26, 2025 • Duration 44:41
This week is a deep dive special into safety on Roblox and the recent features rolling out to combat bad actors: age estimation, chat segregation, social links ban and developer restrictions in Studio.
We talk through the background context on the tough safety challenges Roblox faces; the added pressure from media and lawsuits; and what we think of the platform changes.
All three of us are Roblox developers, over 18 years old. You might have a different perspective or opinion on the topics covered - let us know in the comments to continue the discussion.
Chapters:
(00:00) Intro
(01:38) Main Challenges - Text, voice & rated content
(08:00) Pressure - News media & lawsuits
(12:40) CHANGE #1 - Chat segregation by age group
(19:24) CHANGE #2 - AI age estimation
(28:08) Combining signals - Possible future changes
(30:03) CHANGE #3 - Social links removed in-game
(35:34) Preventing off-platform chat - Discord
(40:04) CHANGE #4 - Studio restriction by age group
Can Roblox players unlock paid items for free now?
Season 1 · Episode 8
Wednesday, November 19, 2025 • Duration 45:38
This week Rewarded Video Ads rolled out to everyone, developers got better tools to reimport meshes, content sharing APIs were released to make our own versions of Roblox Moments, Today’s Picks in the avatar marketplace is going festive, Studio Script Sync is in beta, game page videos got an upgrade and Roblox have opened up the ability to opt-in game passes for Robux purchases.
Roblox pushed AI into the 4th dimension?! "4D Generation"
Season 2 · Episode 7
Wednesday, November 12, 2025 • Duration 01:02:20
Over the past week we saw Roblox's "4D Generation" early access, which lets users create custom objects with AI, Speech-to-Text beta went live, server CPU allocation became dynamic, and we got Roblox's solution to A/B testing. Plus, custom matchmaking is now available for all developers with configurable signals and experiment testing.
Will emissive maps finally put an end to lighting hacks?
Episode 6
Wednesday, November 5, 2025 • Duration 34:11
We cover the new Emissive Maps in Studio Beta, which ensure consistent glow and material effects across all quality settings, plus the SLIM (Scalable, Lightweight, Interactive Models) system for auto-optimizing large worlds. On the platform side, we examine the new Safety Analytics dashboard for tracking player reports and the ongoing Testing Age Estimation feature requiring new users to submit verification. Finally, we look ahead to the community event EuroJam 2025.
This week we deep-dive into Roblox's Halloween Spotlight event running from 23 October to 3 November where 31 well-known experiences have quests to unlock Runes and Keys. These give access to trials where players can be rewarded with exclusive Avatar Items. But have smaller devs been excluded as Today's Picks curated sort is replaced with participating experiences only. We also touch on a few quality of life improvements rolling out for Roblox developers in the last week.
Roblox launches on ROG Xbox Ally and Samsung Galaxy Store as part of their ambitious goal to capture 10% of the gaming market, but simultaneously buries the “Continue” sort on the homepage. Developers also get access to new Lionsgate horror franchises with an improved pitch system, plus custom flipbook layouts that make particle animations more efficient and flexible.
Let us know in the comments if you'd like to see a particular guest or have an idea for a deep dive topic.
The Avatar Makeup Beta showed us tech that Roblox developers can use for many other purposes than just makeup, Text to Speech was fully released and we got early access to Server Authority.
