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Rooms 2.0 are an experimental version of Custom Rooms in Rec Room, which support many new features. (Rec Room provides a comparison with the original custom rooms.) See Rec Room's instructions on how to enable Rooms 2.0. ^1stRooms2_Template is a copyable Rooms 2.0 template room demonstrating many Rooms 2.0 features with in-game tutorials.
Timeline[]
10 Oct 2023
- Rooms 2.0 was first announced during the Rec Con 2023 Keynote with Gribbly & Crashfaster (13:10). This is where Compound Objects, Room Inventory & Offers were given their first introduction.
14 Dec 2023
- Rooms 2.0 Alpha was launched. This closed alpha period was available to 200(?) random creators.
15 Dec 2023
- Any creator may apply for Rooms 2.0 access. All who apply will be granted access. A clone of this form can be found here
- An additional 1000 creators were given auto-access. A total of 1200 creators were given auto-access, determined by the number of rooms they published and the time that creator spent creating within those rooms.
- Incentive announced: A reward of 25,000 tokens and a Rooms 2.0 hat would be given to creators who spent 8+ hours creating within rooms 2.0 and completed a 12-page survey detailing each aspect of Rooms 2.0, the creation experience (including on different platforms), and thoughts on how Rooms 2.0 might be used. Both the 8+ hours and Survey must be completed before 1 Jan 2024. A clone of this survey can be found here
1 Jan 2024
- Survey Incentive event ends. But the survey remains open.
9 Jan 2024
- 25,000 tokens are sent out to all who qualified. A vast majority of players did not qualify, thus becoming upset.
16 Jan 2024
- 5,000 tokens are sent to all who took the survey, this includes those who already received the 25k. The original requirements behind the hat remain the same; only those who received the 25k tokens would receive the hat.
2 Feb 2024
- Open Alpha begins. Everyone has access to Rooms 2.0 now! It is still in Alpha testing
- New Incentives announced: By publishing a Rooms 2.0 room and getting 100+ visits from now until 31 Mar 2024, anyone may earn the Rooms 2.0 hat (this is the same hat as the last incentive). Hoodie is announced to be coming in a future incentive event within Room Rewards.
26 Feb 2024
- Rooms 2.0 Hat and Hoodie leaked/added to game files
1 Mar 2024
- Room Rewards April is announced, giving double token rewards for S tier Room 2.0 maps. Rooms 2.0 Hoodie given out to any room creators who make a 2.0 room that qualifies for C tier or higher (April Room Rewards). Rooms 2.0 Engagement and Commerce categories would replace Mobile category.
13 Mar 2024
- New Rooms 2.0 Hat and Hoodie designs leaked/added to game files. According to a staff member, a survey was sent out asking which design was liked more, this design won and thus was used. However many community members say they never saw the survey.
19 Mar 2024
- Incentive Hat for the 8+ hour creation and Survey given out. Standard lowered to 7+ hours (All who spent 7+ hours creating in the original allotted time received the hat)
20 Mar 2024
- Inventions are now transferable between Rooms 1.0 and Rooms 2.0. This would be turned off two days later on 22 Mar 2024, before being fixed and reintroduced on 3 April 2024.
16 April 2024
- Open-Alpha incentive hat sent out to qualifying creators. Over 500 rooms were eligible, rewarding about 1400 creators in total with the Rooms 2.0 cap.
- Open-Alpha incentive extended until 1 June 2024 (same rules; 100+ unique visitors in a published Rooms 2.0 map will reward the R2.0 Cap)
17 April 2024
- Highly requested feature added; Room Offers can now be priced with Inventory Items rather than just tokens.
1 May 2024
- May Room Rewards also involves Rooms 2.0 categories, this time adding tokens as rewards for each tier, not just S tier. Double token rewards is still going, but only for S tier.
3 May 2024
- Rooms 2.0 Hoodie is given out for the first time alongside April's Room Rewards.