In this episode of Roblox Tech Talks, founder and CEO David Baszucki sits down with Nick Tornow, SVP of Engineering, and leading Roblox creator Jandel, behind the hit experience Grow a Garden, to discuss the future of creation on Roblox.

00:00 - Intro

04:42 - Grow a Garden overview

08:12 - Creator engineering at Roblox 

11:22 - Jandel’s vision for Grow a Garden with unlimited technology 

14:37 - Supporting massive scale 

20:20 - Developer tooling 

23:00 - How Jandel’s team works 

25:19 - High fidelity and the quest for photorealism 

30:03 - Removing toil for creator autonomy 

32:16 - Grow a Garden as an organic social experience

34:00 - AI applications in Roblox 

40:34 - Development velocity

44:28 - The tension between intuition and testing 

48:56 - The future of the platform