Dimas Ibnu10/11/2026
4 min read
Roblox CEO David Baszucki plays Roblox every day, using a secret username that other players don’t know belongs to him. The Roblox founder revealed it during an October interview with Bloxz of Bloxy News, telling the host, “My play right now is under a different username, so you don’t know who I am.”
Much of that playtime goes into games made with Roblox Build, the company’s AI-assisted creation tool, which Baszucki said he is “heavily playing” to check their quality. Roblox posted the interview transcript on its newsroom on 9 November, with Bloxz’s permission, after a problem with the recording.
How Often David Baszucki Plays Roblox
The admission came in the community round, where Bloxz put viewer questions to Baszucki after more than 1,000 were submitted. Roblox user Dilbertron asked how often he plays, and his first answer was “not enough”.
That’s a big drop from the founding years. Baszucki said he, co-founder Erik Cassel, John Shedletsky, and Matt Dusack used to be on Roblox from 2pm to 5pm every afternoon. These days he plays daily, but in what he called “snippets”.
Earlier in the interview, Baszucki walked through a typical day. It started at 4:45am with email, followed by a 6:30am workout, morning meetings with engineering leaders about planned game engine accelerations, and a lunch meeting with another CEO. He said he’d work until around 6pm, go home, and probably head back online from 7pm to 8:30pm before putting on blue-light-blocking glasses and winding down until 9pm or 9:30pm.
Baszucki’s public Roblox account, builderman, is well known to longtime players. Playing on a different username means he gets the same experience as anyone else, without creators or a full server reacting to the CEO showing up.
Shaders, Trading, and Other Community Questions
Baszucki took several other community questions in the same round, though most of his answers stopped short of dates.
- Shaders: Baszucki confirmed shader support is coming, with no date. He said it will follow Roblox’s build-once approach, running at high performance and quality across all devices.
- Trading: Asked whether trading would return to the spotlight and whether limiteds could be officially converted into real-world currency, he said Roblox has “a lot of thoughts on trading coming” but gave no details.
- Profile customisation: He pointed to the 3D backgrounds and frames Roblox has started adding to profiles and said more customisation is on the way.
- Community event funding: On funding community events such as RB Battles and past Egg Hunts, he said he would “never say never”, adding that any funding would be systemic, so anyone running an event could potentially qualify.
- Roblox Studio vs Unity and Unreal Engine: He declined to share daily Roblox Studio usage figures, but suggested that if Roblox did, the comparison question might not even make sense.
Why Baszucki Is Testing Roblox Build Games
Roblox Build is the company’s AI-accelerated creation tool. Baszucki said in October that it was being tested in Serbia, Singapore, Thailand, and New Zealand, and was “doing incredibly well”. Roblox is also merging Build into Roblox Studio, pairing the same AI acceleration with Studio’s traditional tools and MCP (Model Context Protocol, a standard that lets external AI tools work directly inside Studio). Baszucki called the goal “the ultimate game-creation harness for both humans and AI working together.”
Because Build is being tested in only four countries, New Zealand creators are part of a small test group, and a Build game made here could end up in front of the CEO without anyone knowing.
The quality checks also tie back to a concern Baszucki raised earlier in the interview. He said MCP usage in Roblox Studio is going up and acknowledged worries about AI slop (low-effort, mass-produced AI content), including whether people are setting up automated farms to publish hundreds of Roblox games. Roblox’s discovery team, he said, is building for a future with 100 times more games published than today, and has to surface the authentic content that carries “human spark”. Since Build is an AI-assisted tool, his daily sessions put him in front of exactly the kind of games that concern is about.
Baszucki didn’t give a date for Build to expand beyond its four test countries.
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