Overview
Roblox is well known for Groups, Team Create and Developers working in and off platform to bring high quality experiences to light. In this article I write to inform you all about scaling studios from onboarding to god forbid firing.
We will cover applications, automations, and enterprising. In it also remote working, the implications as well as creating a Studio website on Wix, to reach more talent and convince players to play other studio ran games.
Before we dive in, I just want to say how excited I am to share this vision. It entails scaling to other Developers to enable them the same scalability and function I've found with these methods and skills.
To get there though requires knowledge of programming and with it conceptual mastery.
Applications
Roblox Client
Experiences require design and integration from a player's perspective that spark interest from the first glance to well into gameplay.
Badges in Roblox have long been used to provide a sense of achievement. Roblox Badges can be used for more using APIs written to conditional statements in code, enabling possibilities like special areas for achieved players.
Roblox Studio
Groups or solo development is the core of the Roblox Platform. Everyone has a chance to be a Developer if they set their mind towards the scope of work and the jest of the game's experience.
Setting permissions and synchronizing everything can be a hassle. Not anymore, now with APIs from Open Cloud we can finally connect to services like Noblox.js to listen to event changes to run code to complete these tedious actions ourselves.
Wix
Using Wix can be incredibly useful as a Studio for reasons including management to marketing. I recommend Wix for Studios looking to train staff or even bring on board moderators.
Wix Badges similar to Roblox Badges allow for permission based conditions to be applied off platform to services like Discord and Monday. These application bridges are complicated and require knowledge of internal development environments (IDE) and servers.
Imagine completing a program and attributing it to a badge that grants you permission to view a member's only page. Where this badge can also be used to synchronize up with labels and details on Monday, indicating employment training status.
We also use wix to host downloadable content such as NDAs, and mutual agreements.
Firebase realtime databases can be used on Roblox with a wrapper called Robase. This enables realtime data to be synchronized for database queries from other services like Node.js.
X
Development on X is proving to open quite the door for integrations in and outside the social media giant. Links, payment and more are on the way.
Gusto
Payment portal used for wages, salaries, health insurance, dental and the vision of Summit Studios.
Discord
The Discord environment is one of the best for development with contacts near or far. Summit Studios utilizes Discord for its development. With bots Discord can be used to create automations via APIs. From inviting you after signup to managing permissions to synchronize your role, this bot can improve your workflow.
Guilded
Guilded is a great Roblox in-house application with lots of resources such as voice chat and permission settings similar to Discord. This alternative we believe is important for players to have a smooth experience.
Reddit forums are a great way to chat in an old fashioned forum post blog. Comments and upvotes in the Summit Studios Reddit is perfect for seeing what's most prevalent.
Monday
Monday boards are a great way to organize lots of clientele data. Summit Studios hosts a Monday for everyone who participates in Development, and does so with automations that fulfill all the bureaucracy. What's moreover is Monday dashboards and user input can register as event changes with APIs and can be transitioned across the data bridge to update profiles across the board, such as Wix customer data.
Automations
When you think of high tech studios that have it figured out, you might imagine easy to use technology that works across devices, mobile and desktop. Remote working is all the buzz, however how many companies are built to be fully remote?
Summit Studios was started in a bedroom by a bedside computer desk and we believe this philosophy to be the most productive and effective. Create your own hours, work as much as you'd like and get paid for it. With the clock wage system, Gusto portal, Monday boards and two servers hosting communities of players, moderators and developers, what becomes impressive is the fact that all of this is managed by an incredibly small but powerful team.
Zapier
Wether it's copying data across from one application to another Zapier is incredible for piecing together complicated workflow procedures.
Summit Studios utilizes Zapier for several Google Drive related Activities as well as automations on the applications listed above.
Make
Think of this service as the step up from Zapier. Completed with custom JavaScript support, it takes the crown for automation software and has an easy to use drag and drop interface.
Startups and Enterprising
The hardest part in all of this is cloning and scaling the features to work for other studios, essentially horizontal scaling. Horizontal scaling is when a vertically scaled workflow is replicated to repeat in a similar or identical function.
Summit Studios is a startup enterprising this type of functionality to other Studios. The vision is to scale multiple Studios to handle multiple Developers coming in or out daily.
To request enterprise services please do not hesitate to reach out.
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