Leveling Up Together: Fostering Positive Growth and Safe Online Spaces for Teen Roblox Developers

要旨

Creating games together is both a playful and effective way to develop skills in computational thinking, collaboration, and more. However, game development can be challenging for younger developers who lack formal training. While teenage developers frequently turn to online communities for peer support, their experiences may vary. To better understand the benefits and challenges teens face within online developer communities, we conducted interviews with 18 teenagers who created games or elements in Roblox and received peer support from one or more online Roblox developer communities. Our findings show that developer communities provide teens with valuable resources for technical, social, and career growth. However, teenagers also struggle with inter-user conflicts and a lack of community structure, leading to difficulties in handling complex issues that may arise, such as financial scams. Based on these insights, we propose takeaways for creating positive and safe online spaces for teenage game creators.

著者
Yubin Choi
KAIST, Daejeon, Korea, Republic of
Jeanne Choi
KAIST, Daejeon, Korea, Republic of
Joseph Seering
KAIST, Daejeon, Korea, Republic of
DOI

10.1145/3706598.3713969

論文URL

https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3706598.3713969

動画

会議: CHI 2025

The ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (https://chi2025.acm.org/)

セッション: Mediated Social Interactions

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