Recently, Roblox announced a new conversational AI assistant at its Developer Conference (RDC): RobloxAssistant. The essence of this assistant is to simplify the difficulty of game production and replace programming with natural language. By entering text prompts, creators can generate game scenes, 3D models, and more. The tool is expected to be launched late this year or early next year.
Roblox Assistant currently only has basic functions, but according to the vision of Roblox Chief Technology Officer Sturman, in the future the AI assistant will have the ability to generate complex games and even create 3D models from scratch. This will reduce creators' reliance on specific technical skills and accelerate the explosion of game creation.
In the field of game creation, we have gone through the era of traditional programming, voxel programming and UGC, and have yet to break through the high threshold problem. Traditional game engine programming requires all professionals to complete it. Although voxel programming simplifies the process of game world modeling, it still requires programming professionals to complete basic creation work. In the UGC era, although a large amount of information can be automatically generated and the difficulty of creation is further reduced, a professional programming language foundation is still required.
Roblox Assistant breaks out of the rules of traditional game programming, allowing ordinary users to become creators and create basic game behaviors using natural language. On the one hand, this greatly reduces the complexity of game creation, allowing original creators to focus more on core creative inspiration; on the other hand, it also unprecedentedly lowers the threshold for game creation, and AI assists in answering questions related to game development. , provide more users with game creation opportunities, and bring about a transformation from games written by professionals to games written by everyone.
This trend will trigger a new round of computing power explosion, and AI applications are expected to be the first to achieve revolutionary applications in games. Different from the creation of short videos by everyone, the demand for computing power in game creation is more complex and diverse, and game production requires more computing resources and data processing technology. Therefore, Roblox Assistant not only needs to provide easy-to-use creation tools, but also ensures that there is powerful computing power behind its platform to support user-created games.
In addition, to realize the universal participation in game creation, due to the lowering of entry barriers, more potential creators are expected to flood into the industry, forming a new increase in computing power demand. Therefore, the launch of Roblox Assistant is expected to trigger a revolution in game creation and bring more innovation and development opportunities to the game industry.