Roblox morning briefing — October 22, 2026: Roblox takes over chat, and DOORS pushes its Hollow door to midnight
Roblox puts custom chat on a May 2027 deadline and stops message text reaching game code, The Hollow opens tonight with DOORS' card moved to midnight, and Ken Carson's The Mimic crossover lands next week.
Roblox published a plan last night for taking chat out of developers' hands. It comes with four dates, and a warning for games that have not moved yet.
The post went up on the Developer Forum at 19:05 and had 3,345 likes by this morning. 1
This edition covers the 24 hours to 08:00 CEST on Thursday 22 October.
Chat is becoming Roblox's, and message text is going away
Any chat between players already has to run through TextChatService. The new part is that Roblox now controls how each message is delivered and drawn. 1
So message text stops reaching your code.
TextChatMessage.Text and .Translation return an empty string instead of the words. 1Channel membership, sender identity, timestamps and delivery status still work. Only the content of the message goes dark. 1
Roblox's own summary of what replaces what is short:
TextChannelWindow for custom chat windows, TextChatCommands for commands, Quick Words for presets, and a native prefix system early next year. 1Four dates carry the migration. Test now by setting
TextChatService.PlatformIntegratedChat to Enabled in Studio. Opting in returns empty strings rather than nothing, so old scripts warn instead of crashing. 2February 2027 is when every game is opted in automatically, with a way out. May 2027 is when the new service is the only way left to have custom chat. 1
Phase 0 is the part that bites sooner. Signs, bulletin boards, pet names, licence plates, trading, announcement systems and admin tools must all either route through a
TextChannel or allow at least a minute between submissions. 1Games that are not compliant will hear from Roblox "in the upcoming weeks", the post says. Continued violations may end in suspension or removal. 1
The roadmap adds emojis, voice typing, translations and AI rephrases in November, then avatars, name colours and bubbles later this year. Typing indicators and a quick-action menu arrive in 2027. 1
One thing the post does not do is explain the takedowns. The thread that has tracked games removed over chat since 10 October is now at 494 posts and 10,316 views, and the announcement does not mention it. 3
Shorts angle: open on a game with a hand-built chat UI and the two lines of code that read messages, then show the same scene after opting in, with the messages gone. The date at the end is the hook.
The Hollow opens tonight, and DOORS moved its door four hours
The event runs across nine games from today: DOORS, Demonology, Animal Hospital, Scary Shawarma Kiosk, Warden, Piggy, Dandy's World, 99 Nights in the Forest and The Mimic. 4
Roblox's own account named one time last night, and it was for subscribers. Plus members get into the event hub two hours before everyone else today. 5
They also get a launcher that throws items at other players, an exclusive avatar background, a profile frame, and the crimson theme kept after the event ends. 5
The countdown post before it was blunter: "some nights are longer than others. nine of them start October 22." 6
Then the schedule moved. DOORS' THE CANDY VAULT card now reads Thu, Oct 22, 10:00 PM, which is midnight tonight here. 7
It read 6:00 PM on each of the three previous mornings, which this briefing reported as 20:00. The card's button still says Notify Me, so nothing has opened yet. 7
The cards beside it did not move, which is how you can tell this is a decision rather than a rendering quirk. Dandy's World still reads Fri, Oct 23, 7:00 PM and Animal Hospital Tue, Oct 27, 7:00 PM. 89
Here is what the nine games were doing before the doors open, read at 08:10:
- 99 Nights in the Forest — 106,663 players. 10
- Dandy's World — 46,617 players. 10
- Animal Hospital — 17,378 players. 10
- DOORS — 14,599 players. 10
- Piggy — 5,568 players. 10
- Demonology — 2,421 players. 10
- The Mimic — 1,824 players. 10
- Warden — 542 players. 10
Roblox's own feed is already selling the mood rather than the schedule. The post at 20:00 last night carried the line "screaming room only" and no other text, and it has 252,404 views. 11
Shorts angle: film each lobby today at its quietest, then the same camera position after midnight. Seven games give you seven before-and-afters, and the DOORS one gets the time shift as a story of its own.
Ken Carson is coming to The Mimic on 26 October
A trailer went out overnight for a collaboration between the rapper Ken Carson and Roblox, landing inside The Mimic. It puts the date at 26 October. 12
The creature is the pitch. The trailer describes an anomaly called GATA-0, "born from exposure to Ken's music", as the newest threat in the game, alongside a new lab, a hidden USB drive and his soundtrack across the experience. 12
It travelled fast for a game announcement. The same clip on Instagram had 14,000 likes about six hours after it appeared, and one post about it on X drew 93,222 views. 1314
The Mimic is one of the nine games in The Hollow, built by CTStudio, and it has 1.26 billion visits behind it. 15
Its own listing carries one dated card, and the card falls on the same day: NIGHTMARE CIRCUS RETURNS, subtitled "it's back and better", dated Mon, Oct 26, 2:00 AM. That is 03:00 here. 15
The card does not carry Ken Carson's name, and Roblox's own accounts have not mentioned the collaboration. 15
Shorts angle: the hook writes itself — a rapper becomes a monster. Cut the trailer's audio under your own footage of the game's first minutes, then end on the date.
Top Fall Games to Watch
Every date below was read this morning of 22 October from the game's own Roblox listing. Times are Central European, CEST until Sunday 25 October and CET after.
- The Hollow — opens today across nine games. Plus subscribers enter the hub two hours early; DOORS' THE CANDY VAULT now opens at midnight. 57 Pitch: the two-hour head start is the story, so film the hub while it is still Plus-only and nobody else has seen it.
- Tower Defense Simulator — Solar Requiem Night II is live, and Night III opens Friday 23 October at 18:00. 16 Pitch: film the last wave of Night II today, so Friday's viewers arrive knowing what Night III has to beat.
- Adopt Me! — Halloween Week 3 is live. Week 4 opens Friday 23 October at 17:05, and an Admin Abuse round follows Saturday 24 October at 18:00. 17 Pitch: the admin round hands out freebies, so film what a new player can walk away with in ten minutes.
- Dandy's World — Halloween is live, and its next dated card, "2 More Weeks of Halloween!", lands Friday 23 October at 21:00. 8 Pitch: with a closing date posted, film the deepest floors, which most players will not reach before it shuts.
- Dress To Impress — HALLOWEEN! is live. Tales of the Dark King opens Saturday 24 October at 17:00. 18 Pitch: film a winning outfit tonight, then the same brief on Saturday, and set the two runs side by side.
- Animal Hospital — Halloween is live. Halloween Part 2 opens Tuesday 27 October at 20:00 CET. 9 Pitch: record one clean shift now as a baseline, so Part 2 lands as a visible change to a place the audience knows.
Closing notes
Live counts read at 08:10 CEST: Steal An Egg 933,274; Murder Mystery 2 519,417; Brookhaven 191,859; Adopt Me! 114,441; Break and Steal an Egg 113,500; Blox Fruits 111,310; 99 Nights in the Forest 106,663; RIVALS 85,864; Fish It! 75,094; Fisch 49,542; Dandy's World 46,617; Dress To Impress 40,397; Forsaken 25,887; Cat Battles 19,713; Animal Hospital 17,378; DOORS 14,599; Tower Defense Simulator 7,894; Piggy 5,568; Duck Duck 4,446; Demonology 2,421; The Mimic 1,824; Caramel 1,823; BOMBANANA! 867; WARDEN 542; Total Drama Island 291. 10
Murder Mystery 2 gave back 100,707 of the players it gained the day before. Steal An Egg fell 69,448 over the same night. 10
Roblox's status page reports every system operational, with the newest incident still the site issue of 5 October. 19
The newsroom site still carries the Brazil tournament announcement as its newest item. 20
Last night's chat post was the first thing on the announcements board since Monday evening. It carried 3,345 likes, against 261 for the thumbnail post of 19 October. 1
Today's lead comes from Roblox's own announcement and its documentation. The schedule rests on each game's listing and Roblox's own posts, and the Ken Carson item rests on a trailer that names both parties but has not yet been confirmed on Roblox's accounts.
References
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- 2Roblox documentation — platform-integrated chat
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- 7DOORS on Roblox
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- 8Dandy's World on Roblox
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- 9Animal Hospital on Roblox
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- 10Roblox games API — live player counts
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- 13Instagram — the Ken Carson x Roblox trailer
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- 15The Mimic on Roblox
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- 16Tower Defense Simulator on Roblox
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- 17Adopt Me! on Roblox
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- 18Dress To Impress on Roblox
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- 19Roblox Status
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- 20Roblox Newsroom
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