We are soon releasing new updates to address hacking issues quicker and more effectively. Read more about it in this post.
Updates to Ranking Algorithms and Fighting Spam
New Direct Message Settings
A Look Under the Hoodie - A Technical Deep Dive on Full Body Avatars
State of Voice Moderation
Avatar Movement & Gameplay
Avatar Faces
Quest 1 Support
Avatar Embodiment
Welcome to the third dev blog about the next evolution of Rec Room avatars. In the last blogs we talked about the optional full-body avatar and how clothes will work with it. Here we’ll look at another benefit you’ll get with the full-body option - enhanced embodiment leading to greater self expression.
Dressing the Full-Body Avatar
The Future of Avatars in Rec Room
Making Mobile Launch Speedy
Rec Room Plus: Now on Oculus Quest!
Haberdashing in the Digital Era
2020 Rec Room Wrap Up
Rec Room on Xbox!
We’ve teased it, we’ve talked about it in AMAs…
Today Rec Room is launching on Xbox! Please join us in welcoming a whole new group of players, family, and friends to the Rec Room universe 🌌 We’ve got a few events and surprises that should make the launch even more exciting:
When you invite an Xbox player to try out Rec Room using your Friend Code you’ll both earn a free bottle of bubbly at the end of the event!
We also built an awesome ^WelcomeXbox room where everyone (all platforms) can visit to meet all of the new players and earn a new limited time gift drop - the Space Soldier Helmet! Xbox players can also earn the gift drop by visiting the Rec Center. Be sure to visit the room before December 17th to grab the limited time gift drop!
Bringing Rec Room to Xbox has been a ton of hard work and we couldn’t be prouder of the folks that made this happen. For us, Rec Room has always been about creating a fun and welcoming community for as many people as possible. That means making Rec Room the best place for you and your friends to hang out, regardless of location or device.
Please help us welcome all of the new Xbox players in whatever way best suits your personality. If you’re a quest fanatic, party up with some Xbox players and show them the ropes on your favorite quest. If you’re a paintball fan show them your favorite map. If you’ve got a favorite batch of custom rooms, give them a tour!
If you see players hitting any issues or having questions about Rec Room remember to let them know about our HappyFox support site. From there they can browse the knowledgebase or get in touch with the support team via a new ticket. We also have a very helpful and active player community on our discord for any quick questions.
New players can also find a lot of How To videos on our YouTube Channel or answered questions on our subreddit. You can find links to both of those and all of our other social channels and tutorials here.
And a reminder for all players that your Rec Room account allows you to log into Rec Room across ALL supported devices! Your login works across everything: iPhone, iPad, PS4, PS5, Xbox, Steam, and Oculus. Every time we launch on a new platform we see a big wave of excitement hit the community as more people are able to have their first Rec Room experience. The community has been awesome at welcoming new players in each time this happens and we just want to say a huge thank you to everyone for that in the past and for all of that help going forward. Cheers!
PS. If you capture a great Rec Room photo or video moment be sure to share it with us by tagging us in your post or using the #RecRoom tag. You can find us at:
@RecRoom on TikTok
@RecRoom on Instagram
@RecRoom on Twitter
Rec Room on YouTube
More Rewarding Rewards
Our main focus this year on the Econ Team is compensating creators for their contribution to Rec Room. Part of the problem with exchanging tokens for real money is potential “botting”, aka farming, of tokens. Besides giving people a way to essentially steal tokens, it creates instability in the economy, and prohibits us from compensating creators. To solve this problem, and to spice up our reward system, we’re introducing/re-introducing a new/old way of rewarding players for playing the game: Items!
ILS on Quest 2
Today is a very exciting day with the new Oculus Quest 2 coming out, and we’ve got a special surprise to share with you. We’ve done a lot of work to optimize Isle of Lost Skulls, and have set it live for Quest 2 players! With this release, we wanted to take the opportunity to answer a common question we get from users:
Why isn’t some content available on all devices?
The Making of Cakes
This week we want to take you behind the scenes of Rec Room’s bakery and give you some back story on how we made the cakes!
Cake has been a long-requested food item so we were excited to bring out a variety of them for our players to enjoy! Last month, we added chocolate and red velvet cakes for the first taste test. However, some cakes are just incomplete without candles. That is why we just added two brand new ones - the celebration cake and the 87 flavor cake, both with candles that can be blown out with your microphone. They are great to share with friends to celebrate special occasions together.