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
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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
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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
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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
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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

All About Ink

If you’re a creator in Rec Room, and have spent some time making custom Rooms, you’ll have noticed that everything you create in a Room has an Ink cost and there’s an Ink limit in each Room that determines the amount of stuff you can put inside it. If you’ve noticed this, it’s probably because you’ve “run out of Ink” and asked yourself something along the lines of “why can’t I have more?”, and then subsequently things like “why does this or that cost so much!?” or “why does Rec Room hate my creativity??”

I will try to explain a little bit about why the Ink system exists, how it works, and hopefully answer some of these questions.

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Rec Room on Xbox!

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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! 

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Celebrating the launch of Rec Room on Xbox! We are proud to welcome Xbox to Rec Room! Join the room ^WelcomeXbox and receive a promotional item on all platfo...

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

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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!

Directional Voice Chat

The Problem

In Rec Room we’ve had a problem for a while that if you’re near a group of players all talking, trying to talk to someone else can be a pretty annoying ordeal. All the voices intermingle and appear too close and loud to be able to tune them out of your own conversation, so it’s hard for anyone to focus on what anyone else is saying.

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.

Maker Pen Workshop #1: Tomb Heist! Release

Note: this is the end of 4-part series on Tomb Heist that started with costumes++ and continued with AI features and doors++.

Maker Pen Experiment #1 Recap

Tomb Heist! is the name of the current Maker Pen Experiment we are building internally at Rec Room using only the maker pen. Unlike previous #RRO rooms, Tomb Heist will be released as a community room. As we build it, we’ll be creating and releasing new creative tools.

Maker Pen Workshop #1: Tomb Heist! & Room Doors++

Note: this is part 3 of a 4-part series on Tomb Heist that started with costumes++ and continued with AI features.

Tomb Heist!

It’s been a while, but just to recap what Tomb Heist! is all about:

Tomb Heist! is the name of the current Maker Pen Experiment we are building internally at Rec Room using only the maker pen. At the end of the project, this would not be released as an #RRO, but rather a community room. As we build it, we’ll be creating and releasing new creative tools.

Rec.Net Room Showcase

In the coming months, we will be making improvements to rec.net centered around creators. Specifically, we want to make it easy for you to showcase all of your Rec Room creativity. We want to allow you to transform your rec.net profile into a full-fledged creator portfolio, akin to other creative portfolio websites such as artstation.com. For creators with a lot of content, we also want to make it possible for you to choose what content visitors see first on your profile.

Tomb Heist! & AI in Circuits V2

To focus the Circuits V2 efforts in the Tomb Heist! Project we decided we wanted the AIs in this mini quest to behave fundamentally different from the regular AIs that we have in the rest of our RRO quests. We wanted to use existing enemies that players could already spawn in their rooms, but have them do something beyond just rushing at players and attacking blindly. We wanted them to be more akin to tactical adventure games like Metal Gear or Tomb Raider, but most importantly, all the new behavior had to be completely done in Circuits V2.

FNAF Hoodie Gift Drop! (this weekend only)

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Special delivery from the FNAF crew! Log into Rec Room this weekend and visit the Rec Center to pick up your free FNAF hoodie. The hoodie will be dropped to everyone who enters the Rec Center from 1pm PT Friday July 3rd until 11:59pm PT Sunday July 5th. This is a limited time gift drop so be sure to let all of your friends know about the event this weekend! The hoodie will drop for anyone entering the Rec Center on any platform so you can grab your gift on iPhone, iPad, PS4, PSVR, PC, Oculus Quest, and any other Rec Room supported platforms. 

For a real world version of the hoodie check out the FNAF AR shop and check out their FNAF AR app on iOS and Android.

We look forward to seeing you in Rec Room and hope everyone has an amazing July 4th weekend ✨

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.