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This Old House
Soon all new Roblox users will start with a house instead of a cruddy 32×32 baseplate with only a table and a bed on it. The first time they visit their new place, they will see something like the image above. An empty house, teeming with possibilities. Thanks to the 9 players who participated in our little building contest, new players will have a choice of 46 items of furniture to place in their dwelling from the Toolbox. Of course, everyone playing now benefits too. Check out the new Furniture catagory in the toolbox the next time you need stuff to put in your house. We were surprised with the tremendous quality of the submissions. My personal favorite is If we were giving a prize for the most awesome scripted model, miked would take home everything. Incredible stuff. Let’s check out some of the other winning submissions, shall we? Bunk Bed Country-Style Dining Room Table Subwoofer 3000 Stereo System Racecar Bed Home Entertainment System Canopy Bed Retro-style Arcade Machine Other creative entries that we saw we a soda machine, a bouncy castle, a ceiling fan, and inflatable furniture. Yes, Robloxians will be living in style for months to come. strong When I started this contest I really was planning to pick just one grand prize winner. I was not anticipating the submission of so many high-quality models. You guys have saved me a lot of time creating all this furniture from scratch, so it seems like the only fair thing to do is to give a customized character to everyone who submitted a model that we actually used. The winners are: Incidentally, this is everyone who entered the contest. Guess the rest of you should have jumped on this, huh? I may be less generous in future building contests — you guys just saved me a lot of time and I’m grateful. strong Ok, we have a lot of winners, and customizing your avatar involves some work on my part, so everyone needs to read these instructions carefully and follow them so that I don’t go crazy. If you try any funny business like making an invisible character with transparent parts or setting the Humanoid MaxHealth to a billion, you will forfeit your prize. Please do not modify the actual model by adding, removing, or resizing parts. Make sure you get the model looking the way you like before you message me. I don’t want to change your character more than once. If you use decals in your model, remember that we still don’t support decals well in multiplayer. They may or may not be visible to other users. We are working to fix this in the near future. If you have questions or need help with any of this, message me. I’m shooting to get the new characters up by Monday. If you did not win, do not message me asking for a customized character. It takes time to set up and I need to spend that time developing Roblox. Everyone will get one eventually. strong I had fun runnnig this contest, but managing it was more time-consuming than I had expected. Should we continue to have building contests in the future? We’ve tried to have building contests in the past, but this was the first successful one. I imagine this is either because: 1) making a piece of furniture is a 5-10 minute job, so anyone can get involved without a large time investment or 2) people really want customizable characters and this was the only way to get one for now. Would anyone be interested in a building contest where you had to make something bigger? Like a house? Or an entire level? Or would that be too much? - Telamon
| January 20, 2007 -
Homestead Contest Update
Progress 8 users have submitted 38 models. 30 winning models have been added to the Furniture tab in the Roblox Toolbox. The Homestead Contest Level has been updated to include all entries submitted so far. Contest Ending Date We have received...
| January 18, 2007 -
Homestead Furniture Making Contest
All Winners: All winning models get immortalized in the Roblox Toolbox. Thousands will see your work and hundreds will make use of it.
| January 17, 2007 -
Awesome Contest Entries
Keep them coming guys! I’ve added all contestants’ furniture submissions to the Homestead Contest Level , so everyone can go check them out. Submissions are grouped by author in the level. I’ve gotten some awesome stuff so far! I’ve gotten...
| January 17, 2007 -
Luck, Skill, and Chaos
The other day a player, gameshark, complained to me that he did not like the new Rocket Arena map because it required no skill to play.
| January 15, 2007 -
Blox. James Blox.
Roblox is currently in alpha online testing. This means that we don't consider Roblox to
| January 12, 2007 -
Kicking off the New Year with Style!
A little over a week into the brand new year, and already we have a fresh update for all you nice people.
| January 09, 2007 -
Kicking off the New Year with Style!
A little over a week into the brand new year, and already we have a fresh update for all you nice people. Here are a few things to be on the lookout for as you explore the web site: Administrator Badges: It’s a violation of our Terms of Ser...
| January 9, 2007 -
The Bloxxers Club
As of this afternoon, there are 44 people on Roblox who have earned the prestigious Bloxxer badge.
| January 8, 2007 -
Combat Rankings
I want to discuss something that I've been thinking about for two months now - a problem that all of us at Roblox have been anticipating even before we started tracking combat statistics. Actually there are several problems...
| January 03, 2007 -
2006 in Review
Happy New Years, people!
| January 01, 2007 -
ROBLOX Badges
Those of you who were online this Thursday evening and Friday morning had a sneak peak of our ROBLOX badges feature. We have had heavy traffic this Friday morning.
| December 22, 2006 -
Santa’s Winter Stronghold Revealed
When I was in school, my teachers would sometimes comment that I had a warped sense of humor. Anyone who has played the new Christmas level will probably agree.
| December 21, 2006 -
The evils of optimizing too early…
I write the physics code in ROBLOX and have just finished a major re-write to add articulated characters.
| December 18, 2006 -
Now We Are 10,000
Sometime over the weekend we reached a milestone: our 10,000th Roblox user account was registered by
| December 11, 2006 -
Welcome!
Welcome one and all to the Roblox Developer's Journal.
| December 6, 2006