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Roblox CEO: AI makes 'literally anyone' a game maker via Roblox Build

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Roblox CEO: AI makes 'literally anyone' a game maker via Roblox Build

3 Key Points

  1. What happened

    In a Stratechery interview, CEO David Baszucki said AI is transforming Roblox into a platform where 'literally anyone can make a game.' He revealed thousands of games have been published using Roblox Build, an AI tool that creates playable games from a phone description, now testing in Canada, Serbia, and New Zealand.

  2. Why it matters

    If game creation becomes as easy as describing an idea on a phone, the bottleneck shifts from building games to helping people find them, which Baszucki argues makes distribution platforms like Roblox more valuable, not less.

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Baszucki framed the shift against Roblox's long-standing slogan, 'You Make the Game.' Historically, making a game meant using Roblox Studio, 3D editing, and writing script, which limited the pool of creators. He said the ratio of people who want to play games to those who want to make them had drifted toward players, but AI is now narrowing that gap.

The company is assembling what Baszucki calls a game creation harness, which routes multiple models across different tasks — scenes, 3D objects, code, and non-player characters. That includes the Cube model, trained on opted-in 3D objects inside Roblox, which runs on Roblox's own hardware. Baszucki compared the ambition to short-form video, which became something people create and share directly from their phones.

With more games being made, Baszucki argued that discovery and distribution become more important, not less. He said Roblox optimizes for long-term retention rather than short-term retention, and because games run in the cloud, the platform can examine content to help surface novel games. He also described a Universal Player vision, where games from other platforms could be converted to run on Roblox, with single-player PC games becoming multiplayer by default through what he called 'Robloxification.'

FAQ
What is Roblox Build?
Roblox Build is a new way to make a Roblox game right from your phone by describing what you want in your own words. Build's AI creates a playable game in real time, and you can tell it what to adjust.
Is Roblox Build available in the U.S.?
Not yet. Baszucki said it is not live in the U.S. and is being tested in Canada, Serbia, and New Zealand, with the goal of making it available for everyone.
How much will Roblox Build cost?
Baszucki said Roblox is optimistic Build will be free for everyone, though users who want to do hundreds of iterations can buy tokens.
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