Room Rewards - September 2023 — Rec Room

What is Room Rewards?

Room Rewards is our ongoing program to support the creators that bring Rec Room to life by focusing on room metrics. While other creator contests involve judges or voting - we crunch the numbers to reward creators whose rooms are performing the best in key areas that ultimately lead to more players enjoying more time in Rec Room. 

Each month we issue a challenge focused on certain metrics, and creators have the entire month to create or modify their rooms to address the challenge metrics. We'll update a weekly leaderboard showing the top rooms' progress throughout the month - so you can see how things are progressing and make adjustments to your rooms. 

What do you win? 

Glory - and tokens, of course! At the end of each month, we'll publish a list of all the winning rooms and distribute tokens to all the winning creators & co-owners.

We’re giving out over $75,000 worth of tokens this month - our largest Room Rewards pool ever - so it's a great time to submit a room. Don't forget that Partnered Creator program can cash out those tokens!

Program Rules

NEW!

This Month's Challenge:

The following 6 categories will be eligible for this month’s Room Rewards: art, quest, pvp, roleplay, hangout, and game. Rooms can participate for rewards under any of the categories above. 

Don’t forget - each room can only compete in one of the categories, so make sure to carefully select and tag your room with the category you’d like to compete in! Check the category definitions below under “What Are Room Categories?” if you need clarification on what category your room should fall under. 

NEW RULE! - Sometimes it can be difficult to decide which category your room best represents.  If you make a mistake, we will change the category tag for you!  By participating in the Room Rewards program, you agree to allow us to change your category tag to the proper one so it can continue competing as long as it is before the due date. This includes rooms that have more than 1 category tag applied to their room.

This month's goal metrics will be the Average Play Time AND the Number of Revisits in Rooms.

Rooms will be assigned to either tier below based on the number of users visiting the room. Your room will compete within the corresponding tier and earn respective rewards of that tier (if you win).

  1. Gold Tier: This tier consists of rooms with 10k+ unique and qualified user visits throughout the month. Based on the goal metrics, we will reward the top 5 rooms in each category by giving each winning room 3.75M tokens.

  2. Silver Tier: This tier consists of rooms with 5k - 10k unique and qualified user visits throughout the month. Based on the goal metrics, we will reward the top 5 rooms in each category by giving each winning room 1.25M tokens.

September: Bonus Challenge

NEW!

What is a Bonus Challenge?

The Bonus Challenge is an exciting addition to the Room Rewards program that offers the chance to earn extra tokens by outdoing your competitors in the bonus goal metrics. 

In September 2023, the bonus goal metric will be Average Play Time on Mobile Devices. Based on the goal metric,  we will reward the Top 20 rooms by giving each winning room an extra 1.875M tokens.

How Do I Sign Up?

No extra step is needed! You will automatically enroll in the bonus challenge once you become eligible for this month’s Room Rewards program.

Additional Information:

TRY OUT THE NEW ROOM REWARDS DISPLAY INVENTION

All you creative types out there - we have a new invention template, Room Rewards Display (built by @CrafySponge), ready to use! We welcome all creators to place it in your rooms to spread the word about the program.

  • “Do I need to tag my room tier?” - No tagging is needed to enter the correct tier. We’ll take care of it for you! 

  • “What if the room has multiple creators?”- As usual, we will split the tokens among creators and co-owners for each winning room based on the room’s earnings distribution on September 30th. 

  • Please keep in mind that the visit count displayed on rec.net does not determine your eligibility for the Room Rewards program. Our program utilizes a set of internal standards to assess only good and high-quality visits. To enhance transparency, our team is actively working on a Room Rewards creator dashboard that could provide you with quick access to the relevant information. Please stay tuned for the updates!

 
 

Monthly Challenge

UPDATED!

We rank Rooms based on a goal metric set at the start of the month and award those that place in the Top 5 for each Room Category.

MONTHLY METRIC

Total Play Time by Top Players AND the Number of Revisits in Rooms

Only time spent by the room’s top players will count toward the room average.

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Challenge tag

#sepRRMonthly

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ROOM CATEGORIES

#hangout | #pvp | #quest | #art | #game | #roleplay

Please choose the category your room falls under and tag it appropriately to submit your room for the rankings.

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Requirements

You must have a minimum of 5,000 users visit the Room during the month.

There is no requirement on when the room was created but a room must not be published after the due date.

Rooms must be tagged before the 15th of the month.

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REWARD

3,750,000 tokens per room in Gold Tier

1,250,000 tokens per room in Silver Tier

for Top 5 of each Category

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BONUS

1,875,000 tokens for Top 20 rooms in Average Play Time on Mobile Devices

Additional Details

Help

Please submit any questions you have through this Zendesk page.