
Pipkin describes this as one of Roblox Studio’s “weird edges.”Ĭone’s maker, Josh Sheldon, known on Roblox as Defaultio, has been developing games for the platform since 2007 when he was 12 years old. The dialogue UI Roblox comes with is locked so the artist had to hardcode their own. Pipkin explains that achieving the pencil aesthetic wasn’t all that difficult - illustrations can be imported straightforwardly enough - but creating a dialogue tree to fit the aesthetic was more challenging. It turns out that you and this creature are in a relationship and that your partner doesn’t have much longer to live the game involves spending a final few minutes together. Pipkin’s “It’s Time” is about conversing with a hand-drawn mythological creature in a garden overgrown with pink cherry blossoms. They’re explicitly poetic, a tonal far cry from Cavanagh’s Climb the Giant Man Obby, which leans into the silliness found on much of the platform.

Having been updated incrementally over the years, Roblox Studio has become a robust piece of software in its own right, stacked with enough features for Pipkin to render these whimsical nighttime visions.
