July 17, 2026 at 14:22
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VINCENT LAUTIER/2 MIN READ/Related categories
Roblox is about to let its users build an entire game just by describing it, straight from a smartphone. The feature is called Build and hits public alpha on July 28, first limited to New Zealand before expanding to other countries in the months ahead.
To put it very simply, you type what you want in plain language – something like “an obstacle course in a haunted castle” – and BAM, a generative AI takes care of building the scenery, objects, and a good chunk of the code for you.
This is the first time Roblox, the massive platform where games are created by players themselves rather than by a studio, allows creation directly from a phone or tablet, instead of only from a PC.
Under the hood, Roblox blends in-house and open-ative system that recently gained the ability to produce 4D objects, meaning objects that actually react within the game instead of just sitting there as static scenery
The long-term idea is that a creator could generate a complete scene – scenery, environments, animations, and code included – with just a few sentences typed out.
That said, the downside is pretty obvious. Opening up game creation to millions of teenagers armed with nothing but a prompt also promises a flood of broken, incoherent titles – what observers are already calling slop, content churned out at scale that sometimes makes absolutely no sense.
And then there’s the thorny question of child safety. You need to be 9 to use Build and 16 to access games published by others – except Roblox has a heavy track record of age verification failures, long considered catastrophic.
The platform has since split its accounts by age group, with Roblox Kids for under-9s, Select for 9- to 15-year-olds, and plain Roblox for 16 and up.
Putting a game studio in a 9-year-old’s pocket sounds great on paper, but it’s all going to come down to moderation.
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