Bouyer

Bouyer

@bouyer.bsky.social

https://bird.games

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Bouyer
@bouyer.bsky.social

I cancelled my Cursor and GPT subscriptions. Their company incentives are becoming less aligned with end users and more with advertisers and other parties. I still use Claude. It works well. Anthropic is keeping their incentive to sell more of their product to more users

Bouyer
@bouyer.bsky.social

BIRD creators have made a few models that kick players from the game. These got popular and kicked many players Now we have tech that automatically identifies these models and decreases their rank in the model browser #ROBLOX #RobloxDev #Mods #UGC

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Bouyer
@bouyer.bsky.social

Derivations benefit - The person making the derivation, who may be new to creation and need an interesting base idea or implementation to start from - Players, who get more content to play with - The original creator, who gets credit (via back-link on derived model page) and now robux

Bouyer
@bouyer.bsky.social

I also remember 2007 Roblox was heavily focused on remixing content. That worked great, and most people loved it. Stealth Pilot was famous for creating the best planes, and they proliferated as Free Models enabling tons of interesting places

Bouyer
@bouyer.bsky.social

You can also request copies of your model be taken down. However, we added revenue share as an alternative option because derivations can actually benefit everyone.

Bouyer
@bouyer.bsky.social

I'm glad to see BIRD's trend of distributing more robux to more creators while also distributing it more evenly! This is happening automatically as more birds are getting better at making models

Bouyer
@bouyer.bsky.social

It feels like BIRD is stuck in a local maxima. It has 100 CCU. Optimizations to the Models system alone won’t impact regular players that much, so can’t grow the game more than 2x…

Bouyer
@bouyer.bsky.social

Yet there are plenty of similar games with 1k CCU. There must be a way to grow BIRD 10x and give the Model makers a bigger audience and earnings

Bouyer
@bouyer.bsky.social

Currently BIRD and BIRD Sandbox are rated 9+, “Mild Violence and Fear” on Roblox. We’ve marked 41 out of 4,582 models as too mature for our current games. We might allow them in a 13+ game some day

Bouyer
@bouyer.bsky.social

Here are the rankings of the current top 10 bird models over time. (#1 most sessions that week, etc) Kick All (No Jokes) has risen to be the 4th most popular model

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ScriptOn
@scripton.bsky.social

Been thinking if we did a community challenge where we come together for a week for a big push.. it could consist of: - Leaving a tweet mentioning that you're out for a week participating in the Roblox Dev Bluesky movement - Deleting twitter on your phone, signing out of it on PC - Using Bluesky

ScriptOn@scripton.bsky.social

I love it here, it feels so wholesome. I am going to try to enjoy it as much as I can before the adult entertainer spammers, crypto bots, marketing bots, and politics enter. Side note: I wonder if there's something we can do as a community to encourage even more of RTC to migrate over?

Bouyer
@bouyer.bsky.social

Here are the rankings of the current top 10 bird models over time. (#1 most sessions that week, etc) Kick All (No Jokes) has risen to be the 4th most popular model

Bouyer
@bouyer.bsky.social

Of course Kick All is also one of the most disruptive and most hated models. So this is not good. It started rising late November when we launched BIRD Sandbox, where it only costs R$ 10 for an insert session. In other words, R$ 10 to ruin someone else's insert session.

Bouyer
@bouyer.bsky.social

Months ago, the BIRD community model makers outside the top 50 each week silently stopped getting paid. I started automatically send 2SV codes to the Roblox group payout API. I didn’t check this response 🤦‍♂️, and thus didn’t realize one 2SV code can only be used for 5 one-time payout requests

Bouyer
@bouyer.bsky.social

Luckily, we started recording detailed payout records in our system some time ago. I’m optimistic we can use these to get the long tail of model markers most of the Robux they’re owed

Bouyer
@bouyer.bsky.social

Each BIRD Model's like ratio vs how popular it is. You need to pay robux to insert models. You can rate a model even if you've never used it. Some players like to buy Kick All (No Jokes) by MRLaunhr. Other players dislike it

Bouyer
@bouyer.bsky.social

Which kinds of items have the best ratings? - Proximity Prompts are the worst - Humanoids are mixed - Models with BIRD-specific interactions (SquawkEvent, GrabUpdate) are the best

Bouyer
@bouyer.bsky.social

Couldn’t Godot prompt the user for permission if a game tries to access files outside its directory?

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