At its core, Roblox is a values-driven firm. Our values decide how we work collectively, discover and develop the suitable expertise, and outline our personal imaginative and prescient of success. A type of values is to Respect the Group: we think about our impression on the world, attempt to respect everybody’s finest pursuits, and talk authentically. Our neighborhood consists of 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 via our communications touchpoints: preserving an open dialogue with our creators and builders via focus teams and our DevForum. However we additionally imagine in understanding the product through the use of it ourselves. Our inside Sport Jams provide one instance of how we get in contact with our developer neighborhood’s workflow via direct, hands-on expertise.
Supporting Builders and Creators with Sport Jams
“Sport Jams” are a long-standing business custom that’s been part of Roblox’s tradition because the starting. Considered one of our most well-known Sport Jams is held yearly, often along side the Roblox Builders Convention, and challenges groups of builders to indicate off their abilities and win awards by creating wonderful Roblox experiences in a brief window of time.
Internally, we use Sport Jams as a possibility to work inside the product beneath stress. This helps us respect the strengths of Roblox Studio and different instruments we offer, however it additionally serves to focus on areas the place we will make enhancements and attempt 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 establish lots of 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 day by 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 impressive 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 right now, in order that they will information our Teams to enhance instruments and expertise and make 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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