Tech Talks Episode 29: Creator

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