Maker AI: Early Insights & What’s Next

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Huge thanks to everyone who jumped in and tested out Maker AI so far. Every prompt, success, and failure is helping us better understand how people want to interact with Maker AI. With an experimental feature like this, it’s helpful to understand where it’s hitting the mark (or missing it).

One of the clearest takeaways so far? Engagement is very high, even with its current limited functionality and confinement to the dorm. We expected interest—but have been surprised by the overall level of use.

Here’s what the average player is doing right now:

  • Spending over 35 minutes with Maker AI
  • Issuing over 300 prompts
  • Generating more than 20 textures or canvases

These numbers are pretty surprising for a feature that’s still so early.

Cost & Sustainability

With great usage comes… great costs. The level of engagement is helping us get a handle on the resource demands of supporting AI-driven tools for creators. No one else has a feature quite like this, so there’s no template to follow. We’re learning by doing.

We launched Maker AI as an experimental feature for RR+ users to try out in their dorm. We wanted to get some real data on how people would use Maker AI. Right now, it looks like the money we’d spend to support a month of Maker AI for an individual is way higher than the RR+ net revenue we get from that subscription. RR+ players will continue to be able to use Maker AI in their dorm for the next month or so as we add new features, but we don’t plan to link Maker AI to RR+ when it’s fully released outside the Dorm. Doing so would leave us financially upside down on each player using Maker AI.

We want Maker AI to be accessible to everyone - whether you’re a new player who just wants to check it out or a pro who is looking for a consistent speed boost, and we need to find a business model that lets us offer that.

Additionally, over the coming months, we have a lot of optimization to do to bring down the costs of popular AI requests. As an example, texture generation is one of the most popular features but also one of the most expensive. If we can bring down the cost of that feature and others, we can bring down the overall cost of Maker AI for players when it releases as a standalone feature.

What’s Coming Next

Keep using Maker AI and keep giving us feedback. That usage is really valuable in helping us improve Maker AI. And we expect usage to ramp up even further as we roll out Maker AI’s new capability - circuit graph generation.

While it won’t be able to generate every circuit under the sun, it’s already surprising us with the quality and complexity of what it can build. As with all generative tools, there will be some trial and error—debugging, re-prompting, refinement.

Out of the gate, we think this capability will be most useful if you’re already a circuits pro. We believe it’s going to significantly accelerate your ability to write large circuit graphs. And you probably will have the best intuition about how to prompt the AI to generate useful circuits and debug any errors.

Still, if you’ve never touched circuits before, this feature could be your on-ramp. The AI doesn’t just generate the circuit—it lays it out on a tidy grid for readability. It’s actually a great learning tool.

We feel it’s important to note that this feature was not trained on any in-game circuit graphs. Instead, we’re able to leverage the fact that LLMs are already very good at writing code without any training data from us. We’re asking Maker AI to write code (which it knows) then we translate that code into circuits (which it doesn’t). No code is ever pushed to the client, just circuits. And no circuits data is used for training Maker AI.

Let Us Know What You Think

If you haven’t checked out Maker AI yet, give it a shot. It will stay Dorm room only for RR+ players for the next few weeks (just be warned, RR+ can trial this feature out before everyone else, but Maker AI will not be a RR+ feature upon full release), until we build a plan for Maker AI to be available everywhere.

So whether you’re an experienced builder or just starting out, it’s already proving to be a surprisingly fun and interesting tool for creativity. We especially enjoyed BearDaBear’s “Change something in the room and I’ll guess what you changed” game. Not what we were expecting…

Jump in, experiment, and let us know what you think. Your feedback is shaping the future of this feature, and we’re just getting started. If you’ve got any thoughts, please go here to let us know.

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Probably super controversial BUT…
I think another subscription is the way to go… for now like I know AI is expensive and I do like maker AI I think it can be fun to mess around with and stuff but … I also kind want you to make money so!

A second subscription option or a Recroom plus. Add on

If you add a second subscription ELUSIVELY for maker ai for like… $10?? Players who wanted it to like… mess around with and not be limited on everything could buy that if they wanted

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if you add an option for EXISTING Rec Room+ players to add… 3$?? To their monthly subscription to have unlimited access to maker AI you could

Also idk what kind of prices you would need to make money off maker ai I just know that if you do the add on subscription if it’s over $5 ppl will be mad

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I am glad to see changes I like the see the way with Maker Ai

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Why are you guys so insistent on Maker AI?
I’d be more than fine with it if it was an assistant or a helper but generative AI features?
Are you guys trying to lose all respect from creators and drive your creator community into a grave?

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If it’s using GPT then it could really cut down on resources by switching to deepseek. Which is open source to boot.

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The insistence is a little bit suspect, considering how large of the community seems to outright hate it, and it’s going to be a really expensive feature when they are already struggling with money.

To top it all off, they seem to refuse to respond to any player concerns regarding Makers AI at all. Rec Room needs to stop being so damn cryptic with their community.

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They must have a reason for doing the things they do, otherwise they wouldn’t invest so much money into it.

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Yeah I know, I just wish they were more transparent with creators on those reasons.

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I believe it not that bad you still have to do something for your self and with circus being in the mix Of course there’s going to be some bugs in the circuits because AI is not perfect Plus I think this will help new builders The building rooms that they wanted as well as import rec room studio objects Will be even better because some of us don’t even have access to Rec Room studio due to some of us not having a PC

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It could be very confusing on why they’re adding AI to build things FOR you… but true, it should just be a helper for stuff like difficult Circuits, but it could also (somewhat) help inexperienced players make some things… they should add a thing to rooms saying if they used AI to make it or not, but my opinion is that it stays an RR+ Feature.

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I don’t think I’ll like Maker AI. Remember that time when half the rooms were like “How Far Can You Jump?” I feel like it’ll be exactly like that. I think a subscription or a way for players to check who cares about there game and who just wanted a cash-grab by using MAI. Either additional pay on RR+ or a new subscription for only MAI could work well.

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i dont think thats a good idea alot of people will be mad that cant buy subscriptions they should keep it as it is early acces for rr+ and then free for everybody

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if thats a china version of chatgpt i don’t trust it

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i think it should be unlimited but it should only be used for what your not good at so it could make game ideas become a reality in rec room not to replace the sandbox developers in the platform itself working themselves off and once maker ai gets out there just misses the credit and the ones using maker ai have the credit so if it does become public i think it should be unlimited but should be there for helping players with things they are struggling to do and i think it should explain how it did it for example if i was maker ai and someone said make a volume with a subtitle saying hi i would do it and then i would explain how i did it and then for the for the people without a mic have it run through the chat as well but for the ones with the maker pen in the room has access to it only but i would love it to be used to make an anti cheating ai system that updates to every rec room update and spots the cheaters and hackers in a second and bans/kicks them from the room and i would love it to see it being used to make fair stuff in games and do what rec room+ players can do in games like make currency that cost tokens and stuff that cost tokens except make shirts and stuff but i think a VIP Version which can do that and more would be a better idea… :grinning_face: