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Watch Our SXSW Panel Featuring Minecraft and Project Spark
For multiple weeks in March, SXSW, one of the world’s biggest festivals for film, music, and technology, takes over the city of Austin, Texas. Last weekend was the Interactive portion of the festival, which spanned gaming and tech. ROBLOX was...
| March 19, 2015 -
A Newschool Guide to Promoting Your Indie Game
Part of being an indie game developer is doing your own promotion. Sure, you can leverage ROBLOX’s advertising system to get your game in front of lots of players quickly (we’ll have more on that soon), but let’s think bigger and broader.
| March 14, 2015 -
ROBLOX’s SXSW Panel Features Us, Microsoft, and Mojang
As we announced last week , ROBLOX is teaming up with some big names in gaming to talk about user-generated content and how gamers like you are shaping the gaming industry as we know it! We’re extremely thrilled to be able to showcase ROBLOX at ...
| March 13, 2015 -
Meet the Creator of Reason 2 Die
PlaceRebuilder is best known for creating the smash hit zombie multiplayer game Reason 2 Die. Reason 2 Die has been played more than 17 million times and pits a team of survivors against an undead horde of respawning zombies
| March 12, 2015 -
See the Awesome Game Creation Features Coming to ROBLOX in 2015
The ROBLOX team unveiled an array of improvements and tools coming soon to our platform at ROBLOX Developers Conference West (RDC West) last weekend. The event was the first of its kind, attracting about 75 of the top game creators from our community and more than 40,000 Twitch viewers. Today, we’re going to recap the most anticipated announcements, as presented by Simon “gemlocker” Kozlov and Adam “rbadam” Miller. Consider this an easily digestible version of the giant box of awesome that was opened at the event!
| March 10, 2015 -
Watch the RDC West Livestream!
This weekend, we’re hosting the first ever ROBLOX Developers Conference (RDC) in San Francisco, California. To kick off the event, our staff is revealing exciting announcements about the future of the ROBLOX game engine and ROBLOX Studio, from physics and terrain to multi-builder Studio and the Developer Exchange. We recognize that not every game creator could take a weekend trip to California for RDC West. So, we’re bringing the event’s big reveals to you by streaming them LIVE on the ROBLOX Twitch channel — and you can watch it here.
| March 7, 2015 -
Watch the RDC West Livestream!
This weekend, we’re hosting the first ever ROBLOX Developers Conference (RDC) in San Francisco, California. To kick off the event, our staff is revealing exciting announcements about the future of the ROBLOX game engine and ROBLOX Studio
| March 7, 2015 -
How Ripull Minigames Dominated ROBLOX This Winter
There’s a long and storied history of minigame collections on ROBLOX. Looking back as far as 2008, long-tenured ROBLOX players might remember such titles as Minigame Mania by ICE128, Person299’s Minigames , Multi Minigames , Havemeat’s Minigames , and Minigame World . Now, with four solid months of top-10 performance, it’s safe to say there’s a new title that’ll one day be mentioned among the classics. That game is Ripull Minigames .
| March 6, 2015 -
The Top Games of February, 2015
We see a lot of ROBLOX games shoot up into the Top 20 list in the first few weeks of life. The community loves new games, and so do we. But only a select few manage to stay at the top, pulling in players month after month. February mostly saw long-time favorites dominating the list. Can some of the newcomers stay popular? Will we see some of the juggernaut titles slip a few places in the coming months? That all depends on where you, the gamers of the ROBLOX community, decide to spend your time.
| March 5, 2015 -
ROBLOX Is Coming to SXSW — And You Can Attend!
Back in summer, 2014, we asked the ROBLOX community to cast their vote to get ROBLOX on a panel at SXSW Interactive, one of the biggest tech and gaming conferences on the planet. You guys totally came through and ROBLOX was one of the companies chosen to speak at the event. Thanks! March 2015 has come quickly, and we’re excited to share details about our first ever appearance at SXSW Interactive.
| March 3, 2015 -
See Exciting Announcements Live from RDC West Next Saturday
One week from today marks the end of the Game Developers Conference (GDC) and the beginning of the ROBLOX Developers Conference West (RDC West). ROBLOX staff and creators from our community will be participating in both of these events, and, for those of you who can’t be there, we’re planning to bring you coverage here on the ROBLOX blog. Of particular note to the ROBLOX community is our RDC West livestream, which starts next Saturday at roughly 10 a.m. Pacific Time (12 p.m. CT / 1 p.m. ET / 6 p.m. GMT). The livestream will feature big announcements about the ROBLOX engine, Studio, and more, plus some other assorted fun. We expect that the stream will run for approximately two hours. You’ll be able to watch it in an embedded player at blog.roblox.com or, if you want to participate in the chat and get hyped up with other viewers, at twitch.tv/roblox . We hope to see a lot of you there!
| February 28, 2015 -
Light Your World with New Surface Lights
Lighting is one of the most important parts of designing a game. Low light and heavy shadows create tension. Bright lights and vibrant colors bring out the cheer in players. ROBLOX’s dynamic lighting engine allows you to achieve these effects – and everything in between – and we have now updated it to include the Surface Light . This new type of light complements the existing Point Light and Spot Light, and gives you an easy way to illuminate large surfaces and vast spaces.
| February 25, 2015 -
The ROBLOX Team “Game Jams” in Just Three Hours
Game jams are events that bring developers together to design and create a game, typically within a ridiculously short amount of time (somewhere between a day and a weekend). We recently held one of our own at ROBLOX HQ – both as a fun evening event for our crew and to experience the product we’re creating just as our community does. We gave it our own unique spin: two or three people per team, three hours only. Turns out, even with such a severe resource constraint, ROBLOX remains a really good platform to create something substantial. ROBLOX lets individuals and small teams turn ideas into working prototypes fast , in no small part because multiplayer networking, physics, hosting, and other such engine-level features are built in. While not every team in our game jam finished a working game, we thought it would be cool to show you what some of the groups accomplished in the mere three hours they were allotted.
| February 21, 2015 -
The ROBLOX Team “Game Jams” in Just Three Hours
Game jams are events that bring developers together to design and create a game, typically within a ridiculously short amount of time (somewhere between a day and a weekend). We recently held one of our own at ROBLOX HQ – both as a fun evening event
| February 21, 2015 -
Secure Your Ticket for ROBLOX Developers Conference West
The first ROBLOX Developers Conference, known as RDC West, is less than three weeks away. We have a small number of tickets remaining, and we’re looking for a final round of creators – either proven or aspiring – to join us for the event in downtown San Francisco from Friday, March 6th through Sunday, March 8th. If you’re available at least part of that weekend (the main event is Saturday) and interested in purchasing a ticket to attend, fill out this survey so we can learn a little more about you !
| February 17, 2015 -
Meet Berezaa, the Creator of 2-Player Gun Factory Tycoon
Berezaa is well known for creating 2-Player Gun Factory Tycoon , a game with classic ROBLOX style but modern twists in its cooperative play and emphasis on combat. He’s also known for laying the foundation for many of today’s most popular tycoon-style games with his free tycoon kit . The kit, which takes the form of a ROBLOX model, has been downloaded from our shared asset library more than 40,000 times and has been used as the building blocks for such games as the newly popular Mars Invasion Tycoon. Needless to say, Berezaa works hard to support his game’s community, the tycoon-developer community, and the deep well of content in 2-Player Gun Factory Tycoon. We hosted Berezaa on the third pilot episode of our new Developer Showcase series and had a great time learning more about him and his games. If you missed the stream on Friday the 13th, we recommend you watch this highlight and, after you’re done, let us know what you think!
| February 14, 2015 -
The Top Games of January, 2015
The sheer variety of ROBLOX games is pretty astounding. If you look at the most popular games on Steam, or in terms of retail sales, the genres and themes are similar across the board. But the diverse community of ROBLOX players and creators makes the popular games list the most varied collection of games around. The top games of January feature everything from murder mystery games, tycoons, and first-person shooters to roleplaying games, survival games, and the ROBLOX exclusive genre: making a bunch of pizzas.
| February 12, 2015