Roblox Recap: September 2024
Catch up on the latest and greatest Roblox platform news, updates, and announcements for the month of September 2024.
Hello, Robloxians! Thanks for tuning in to the Roblox Recap monthly newsletter, a quick and easy way to get caught up on everything happening each month on the Roblox platform. Here’s a summary of the latest and greatest news, updates, and announcements for September 2024…
New Features
- Adjust position, rotation, and size of avatar accessories ↗️
- Proactive Marketplace Archive initiative ↗️
- Creator Affiliate Program ↗️
- Age Correction for Users Under 13 ↗️
- New Audio Filters and DistroKid artists on Creator Store ↗️
- Activity History in Studio ↗️
- View all open/closed Creator programs and opportunities ↗️
- New in Analytics: Track any custom event you want and use custom fields for segmentation ↗️
- New in Analytics: Optimize low-end Android crash rates, troubleshoot server memory and CPU performance ↗️
- Open Cloud Engine API for Executing Luau ↗️
Updates
- Improvements to publishing and selling on the Avatar Marketplace ↗️
- Updated Studio landing interface ↗️
- Audio API full release ↗️
- Material Generator full release in Studio ↗️
- Improvements to Constraint Tool in Studio ↗️
- Import multiple FBX, OBJ, or gLTF files at once with the 3D Importer in Studio ↗️
- Upload Videos in Spanish ↗️
- Update on Paid Random Items Restriction for Australian Users ↗️
- Localization Table updates ↗️
Coming Soon
- Coming soon: New genres and subgenres for categorizing experiences (October) ↗️
- Coming Soon: Full release of updated experience controls (October 15) ↗️
- Coming Soon: Updating Friends API & Deprecating IsOnline property from GetFriendsAsync (October 21) ↗️
- Experiment: Highlighting experience events higher on experience details pages ↗️
Events
- RDC 2024 - Keynote ↗️ | Playlist ↗️ | Highlights ↗️
- 2024 Innovation Awards ↗️
- Creator AMA (RDC 2024) ↗️
Free Items
- PlayStation Plus subscribers: Powered Up Platamech ↗️
Corporate
- Roblox celebrates 18 years since public launch
- Roblox to move headquarters by 2025 ↗️
- New peak for concurrent users (10,323,773) ↗️
- Apply for the 2025 Community Apprenticeship - Software Engineering program at Roblox ↗️
- Roblox’s vision for an Open Platform, where 3rd party tools, workflows and code work harmoniously with Roblox systems ↗️
In case you missed it…
Catch up on the August 2024 Recap for a full list of news, updates, and announcements released last month:
Tune in to the latest episode of Bloxy News: LIVE today (October 1, 2024) at 12:00PM PT where everything in this Blog post was showcased in detail live on stream:
🌟 NEW: Are you a Roblox creator who wants to share a little about yourself to the community and showcase your work? Apply to be a guest star on Bloxy News: LIVE! ↗️
That’s a wrap! Check back next month for a new Roblox Recap, and follow Bloxy News on social media to keep up to date with the latest and greatest Roblox news! Whatever’s happening on Roblox, it’s all here.
