Roblox Releases Beta for its First Generative AI Game Creation Materials

Roblox is taking its first step to allow every user to be a creator as it launched its first generative AI game creation materials, including Code Assist and Material Generator, which are both in beta. This beta aims to make game creation more improved and less uninteresting.

First Generative AI Game Creation Tools

As the company presented its vision for AI-assisted content creation, Roblox has launched two new generative AI tools that will let millions of player-creators develop usable game code and in-game 2D surfaces using simple text descriptions. Engadget reported that Code Assist and Material Generator are launched both in beta.

Creators will be able to express their ideas without highly specialized skills. Roblox Studio Head Stefano Corazza stated, "We can help automate basic coding tasks so you can focus on creative work," specifically made for both people who do have a great idea but do not know the technology that much, and developers with coding experience.

Material Generator

Material Generator can be used by creators for creating high-quality textures to apply in-game towards objects. If you have experienced using other image generators, this will be very similar where users can select from a number of options and the AI will apply texture to the material by making it more realistic.

This is part of the company's AI asset-generation plans and its next step is an AI system that can go beyond flat surfaces and create an entire specific geometry that can improve a full 3D model from scratch. Game Beat reported that achieving this is very challenging as it needed more assistance but the team has seen early breakthroughs and become confident to launch.

Code Assist

Meanwhile, AI Code Assist allows users to create code through natural language prompts and automatically summarize code to create comments. Corazza stated during Game Developers Conference 2023 last Monday, this is similar to ChatGPT-3 Code Pilot, which also creates function code snippets based on prompts.

Just four months ago, ArsTechnica reported that the company was not that clear if these tools would work enough for a public release. But Roblox took the advantage of advances in natural language code generation they have rolled a few weeks ago.

Corazza stated that while the company does not always suggest a perfect code, the environment that the platform created is a natural place to play around, discover new things, and produce imperfect, generative test cases.

Compared to other sectors like self-drive cars, the bar is a little lower for these AI tools' consequences. "No catastrophic events will happen if the generation isn't good-just click the button and create another one," he added.