Safety
Trust & Safety Team
Rec Room Joins The Tech Coalition and Lantern

Today, we’re announcing that Rec Room has joined the Tech Coalition. Through this partnership, we will contribute to and build upon the best practices for keeping children safe online. Read more in this post.

Rec Room Joins The Tech Coalition and Lantern
Community
Coach
Voice Privacy Settings Update

We are updating our voice privacy settings, which will give you more control over who you hear, but also who hears YOU in the Room.

Voice Privacy Settings Update
Safety, Community
Coach
Cheating & Hacking Prevention in Rec Room

We are soon releasing new updates to address hacking issues quicker and more effectively. Read more about it in this post.

Cheating & Hacking Prevention in Rec Room
Safety, Creator
Coach
Tee-rific Moderation Update

Learn about how we do Custom Shirt moderation, our new appeal system and how we're applying these lessons to Avatar Studio in this blog!

Tee-rific Moderation Update
Safety, Community
Coach
New Direct Message Settings

We’re launching new player chat settings that give you more control over who can directly message you.

New Direct Message Settings

Creator Portfolios and Announcements

It’s 10 PM. Do you know where your inventions are?

The line between playing and creating in Rec Room is often blurry, something that we think makes us special as a user-generated content platform. Becoming a creator is as easy as taking out your Maker Pen and drawing some new shapes or placing new inventions. However, managing your created content can get a little messy. You can find your rooms in your watch menu, but you can’t view your inventions unless you’re holding your Maker Pen. If you are a creator with a large number of published rooms, it can be a hassle to find the one you want to work on without sifting through all of them. You can see other players' rooms and inventions in their player details, but you can’t see your creations from your profile. As part of our Audience Connection work, we wanted to greatly simplify the work of viewing a player’s created content and offer easier methods of sorting and searching through it.

Introducing Circuits V2

A long time ago, in a Rec Room far far away, when Sandbox Machines roamed custom rooms, the first version of Circuits was conceived. We wanted a way for players to add logic to their rooms, a way to allow rooms to be dynamic, more alive, and hopefully, more fun. Thus, Circuits were born, the “logic” system in Rec Room, used to drive everything from game rules, to player spawning, to Gizmos and sound effects…

Earn Tokens by Selling Inventions

Today we want to talk about the Selling Inventions Beta we just kicked off, and the other features we’re planning that will enable players to earn more tokens. We’ll get into what’s going on now, what we’re planning Kinda SoonTM (in the next 1-3 months), and what we’re excited about in the longer term. As with everything we do, we want to remain flexible here to adapt to how you are using the features, so the farther out the planning gets the looser it gets.

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Room Comments

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Last week we released a new feature called Room Comments, and this week we wanted to take a deep dive into why and what this means for Rec Room.

We thrive off of community feedback at Rec Room and we want to give creators a chance to engage in deeper collaboration within their communities. Internally we’ve talked about this as “audience connection” - we want creators to feel as connected to their audiences as we feel to our player community...

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Creator Roadmap

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And we’re back! Our second edition of the developer blog gives you a sneak peak at our roadmap for creator-facing features. We have some powerful new tools for creators in the pipeline, and we’re excited to share a little bit of our plan. Creator tools aren’t the only thing we have cooking, it’s just our focus for today. Other plans will have to wait for their own time to shine [|=)]

Room Playlists

Hey folks and welcome to the inaugural developer blog post from Rec Room! The dev team wanted the opportunity to talk about some of the technical and design challenges we face. We’ve heard that many of you are interested in having more info about the Rec Room development process and this is our chance to give you a peak behind the curtain. We’re going to be putting these out about once a month, in parallel with feature releases.

And now without further ado, the first of hopefully many topics, Room Playlists!