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Game Settings
The Game Settings window contains all Studio-level settings and customization options for an experience.

The Game Settings window contains all Studio-level settings and customization options for Roblox experiences, including settings for permissions, monetization, security, and localization. You can access it from the Home tab of the toolbar.

Game Settings button indicated in Home tab

The **Game Settings** window is only available for experiences saved or [published](../production/publishing/publishing-experiences-and-places.md) to Roblox.

Basic Info

The Basic Info tab contains general settings for an experience, such as its name, description, and promotional images.

Setting Description
**Name** The experience's title.
**Description** A description of the experience that describes what a potential player should expect.
**Age Recommendation** [Experience Guidelines](../production/promotion/experience-guidelines.md) provide information on the experience's main page about what kind of content the experience contains.
**Game Icon** Lets you upload an [icon](../production/publishing/experience-icons.md) to represent your experience.
**Screenshots & Videos** Lets you upload [promotional thumbnails](../production/promotion/promotional-thumbnails.md).
**Genre** The genre that best describes your experience.
**Playable Devices** Lets you enable each applicable device that supports your experience.

Communication

Setting Description
**Enable Microphone** Enables voice-eligible users to use voice chat within your experience. See [Chat with Voice](../chat/voice-chat.md) for more information.
**Enable Camera** Enables eligible users to animate their avatar with their camera in your experience. See [Animate Your Avatar](https://en.help.roblox.com/hc/en-us/articles/17877687557396) for more information.

Permissions

The Permissions tab lets you control the audience for your experience.

Setting Description
**Playability** Sets which users can access the experience.

Monetization

The Monetization tab contains settings that let you monetize your experience.

Setting Description
**Badges** Lets you create and manage all [badges](../production/publishing/badges.md) for your experience.
**Paid Access** Lets you enable [paid access](../production/monetization/paid-access.md).
**Private Servers** Lets you enable [private servers](../production/monetization/private-servers.md).
**Developer Products** Lets you create and manage all [developer products](../production/monetization/developer-products.md) for your experience.

Security

The Security tab contains settings related to network communication, sales, and teleports.

You should only enable the following settings if you trust all assets from other users or groups within your experience, otherwise your experience is vulnerable to security risks.
Setting Description
**Allow HTTP Requests** Allows experiences' servers to issue requests to remote servers via `Class.HttpService`.
**Enable Studio Access to API Services** Lets Studio access API services. This setting is useful for testing the implementation of services like [data stores](../cloud-services/data-stores).
**Allow Third Party Sales** Lets players purchase items from third parties. When this setting is disabled, all purchase prompts from assets you own will continue to work while purchase prompts from assets published by other users or groups will fail.
**Allow Third Party Teleports** Lets players [teleport](../projects/teleporting.md) to other experiences.

Places

The Places tab contains place-specific settings.

Setting Description
**Create** Lets you create a new place within your experience.
**⋯** Opens a pop-up menu with options to **Configure Place** (edit place-specific settings such as the maximum number of players), or **Version History** to view, download, and open any previous version of the experience.

Localization

The Localization tab contains language settings related to localization both within the experience and in the cloud.

Setting Description
**Source Language** Lets you choose the language that you used to create the experience.
**Automatic Text Capture** Automatically captures text from the experience's UI while users are accessing the experience.
**Use Translated Content** Enables translated content within the experience.
**Automatic Translation** The languages for which you'd like to enable [automatic translation](../production/localization/automatic-translations.md).

Avatar

The Avatar tab includes global settings for all users' avatars while they are in the experience.

Setting Description
**Presets** Sets the options lower in the tab to presets for **Default**, **Classic Scale**, **Full Classic**, **Rthro**, or **Player Choice**.
**Avatar Type** Sets the default [avatar type](../characters/appearance.md#avatar-types) to either **R6**, **R15**, or **Player Choice**.
**Animation** Sets the default animation to either **Standard** or **Player Choice**.
**Collision** Sets the collision type to either the **Outer Box** or **Inner Box**.
**Scale** For **R15** avatars, options to customize body type, height, width, head size, and proportions.
**Body Parts** Lets you override a user's default body part type to a custom ID.
**Clothing** Lets you override a user's default classic clothing ID to a custom ID.

World

The World tab includes global settings for the experience, such as gravity, character jump behavior, and walk speed.

Setting Description
**Presets** Sets the options lower in the tab to presets for **Classic**, **Realistic**, or **Action**.
**Gravity** Sets the overall world gravity in studs per second² (note the meters per second² equivalent in parentheses).
**Jump** Sets either the humanoid **jump height** in studs or the **jump power** in studs per second. Note how adjusting this value changes the max jump distance in relation to the walk speed.
**Walk** Sets the humanoid walk speed in studs per second. Adjusting this value changes the **max jump distance** in relation to jump height or power.
**Slope** Determines the maximum slope angle that humanoids can climb. If the angle of a slope is greater than this value, the humanoids will slide down the slope.

Other

The Other tab includes settings that are typically reserved for special situations, such as collaborative scripting and shutting down all servers.

Setting Description
**Enable Drafts Mode** Enables asynchronous, drafts-based script editing in a [collaborative](../projects/collaboration.md) session.
**Shutdown All Servers** Shuts down all servers currently running the experience.