Roblox Weekly: August 6–12, 2023

Additional Audio instances coming soon, new Audience analytics in the Creator Dashboard, and Q2 2023 financial results!

Welcome to Roblox Weekly, a newsletter series covering the latest and greatest news, announcements, and events that happen on the Roblox platform. Let’s recap everything that happened for the week of August 6–12, 2023…

New Audio Instances Coming Soon

The newest Roblox Studio release (v588) adds tons of new Audio instances, however none of them are functional as of now. These new instances will help creators add more immersion to their experiences with brand new ways to customize how audio sounds.

Public UGC Publishing Requirements

Roblox has plans to make the UGC Avatar Marketplace open to the public later this year. Thanks to some new strings discovered in the backend, we now know what the publishing requirements are for uploading and selling items. You will need to verify your ID to unlock the ability to save 3D UGC from Studio, and subscribe to either Premium 1000 or Premium 2200 to put it on Sale.

Larger Rollout of New In-Experience Menu

A few months ago, Roblox started testing another new in-experience menu that more closely resembles the UI of the older menu. This new menu is available on desktop and mobile devices, and has only rolled out to a percentage of users on the platform.

This week, Roblox has started rolling out this new menu to more users across the platform. It still has yet to roll out to everyone. A few new notable changes include a more transparent background, and larger Leave, Reset, and Resume buttons to more closely resemble the current menu.

Audience Analytics

With the new Audience Analytics page on the Creator Dashboard, Roblox creators can break down an experience’s monthly active users (MAU) by country, language, age, and gender.

With the Country chart, you can see a world map that includes all countries. You can also view the top 10 countries by percent of total MAU.

The Gender and Age charts the age and (for the first time) gender distribution of your players.

The Language chart tracks the language distribution of your players.

Rig Visualization in 3D Importer

Rig Visualization, now available in the 3D Importer in Roblox Studio, creates a skeleton highlighting attachments and their relationships to each other in the importer’s 3D preview, helping you ensure that your rigs are properly interpreted before committing to an upload.

This feature can be toggled on and off from the root node of a model either through the rig settings panel or through a button in the corner of the preview window. Rig Visualization will also surface after selecting any joint within the model hierarchy and highlight the selected joint within custom rigs.

Introducing the Roblox Career Center

This week, Roblox announced the launch of the Roblox Career Center — an experience directly on Roblox where early career candidates can dive into the platform firsthand and learn what it’s like to be a part of Roblox as a company.

In this experience, you can explore an immersive environment showcasing what working at Roblox has to offer, plus complete quests to earn some exclusive items for your avatar.

Roblox Week: Summer 2023

Last month, Roblox held their 3rd semi-annual Roblox Week, an in-person event that brings Roblox employees together to connect and learn how Roblox is working to drive innovation. During the Town Hall, Roblox leaders shared some of the cutting-edge technical challenges they’re solving, and the creative inventions being built to realize a future where Roblox is the place you go to find others who are interested in both what you are and who you are. You can watch the highlights in the sizzle reel below:

On Wednesday, Roblox Corporation (NYSE: RBLX) released its second quarter 2023 financial and operational results today. Separately, Roblox posted a letter to shareholders and supplemental materials on the Roblox investor relations website at ir.roblox.com.

Second Quarter 2023 Financial and Operational Highlights

• Revenue was $680.8 million, up 15% year-over-year, and up 17% year-over-year on a constant currency basis.
• Bookings were $780.7 million, up 22% year-over-year, and also up 22% year-over-year on a constant currency basis.
• Net loss attributable to common stockholders was $282.8 million.
• Net cash provided by operating activities was $28.4 million.
• Average Daily Active Users (“DAUs”) were 65.5 million, up 25% year-over-year.
• Average monthly unique payers were 13.5 million, up 19% year-over-year.
• Hours engaged were 14.0 billion, up 24%year-over-year.
• Average bookings per DAU (“ABPDAU”) was $11.92, down 3% year-over-year, and down 2% year-over-year on a constant currency basis. Average bookings per monthly unique payer was $19.32, up 3% year-over-year, and also up 3% year-over-year on a constant currency basis.

Tech Talks Podcast - Episode 18: Real-Time Simulation Vision with John Stauffer

Join Roblox founder and CEO David Baszucki and VP of Engineering for the Engine Group John Stauffer as they discuss engine innovations and real-time simulation solutions on the latest episode of the Tech Talks podcast, available for the first time in video form.

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