This week, we focused on testing Rec Room’s features and understanding its constraints through hands-on exploration.
Rec Room Feature Testing
We explored core functions that support social interaction:
- Showing name tags
- Seeing who is in the room
- Adding friends and inviting them
- Private voice chat
- Moving between rooms through doors
We also identified several limitations:
- Cannot embed or play videos
- Cannot automatically send content to users
- Cannot increase room capacity
- Cannot create a collection-style page to organize multiple rooms
Development Progress
Testing custom clothing → avatar pipeline
Testing Drawing Board Functionality
Lobby Sketch Built
Poster in Progress
Challenges
Platform limitations are a key challenge. Some ideas, such as using video or more flexible content organization, need to be adjusted.
We are also still learning the asset pipeline, which adds extra steps to importing and testing custom content.
Plan for Next Week
- Continue refining the asset import workflow
- Develop the lobby environment further
- Start connecting spaces based on the experience flow
- Explore more interaction possibilities within rooms