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Live This Week: The Next Level (4/9) and BLOXcast (4/12)
This week, we’re broadcasting two live shows on our Twitch channel: an episode of The Next Level on Wednesday, April 9th (starting at roughly 2 p.m. Pacific Time), and the April edition of our monthly BLOXcast on Saturday, April 12th (starting...
| April 8, 2014 -
Rukiryo’s Game-Dev Experiments Pay Off
Skies of Steam by Rukiryo. Fueled by ROBLOX. If you’ve spent time on ROBLOX, Rukiryo is a name you’ve probably seen before. He’s the mastermind behind several very different games that have each attracted a following — and well over 6.5 m...
| April 7, 2014 -
The BLOXY Awards Are Back
This June, ROBLOX will be hosting Virtual BLOXcon 2014, a live online event that promises to attract tens of thousands of people from all corners of the gaming world. While we’re not giving away too many specifics at present
| April 04, 2014 -
Devs Can Now Double Their Earnings with DevEx
Since the launch of our Developer Exchange late last year, both the number of creators participating and the payouts have been increasing every month.
| April 03, 2014 -
“Create Your Own Superhero” Costume Contest
If you’ve ever stumbled upon a comic book, played video games, or watched action movies, chances are you’ve dreamed of yourself as a superhero — saving the world from evil villains with your one-of-a-kind superpower. Now, it’s time to put your vision
| April 02, 2014 -
Find Us at the USA Science & Engineering Festival in April
In addition to having a booth at the largest science and engineering festival later this month, our first player-organized BLOX Faire is happening this weekend in Greenbelt, Maryland. Keep reading for more information on both events. We’re just...
| April 2, 2014 -
Next-Generation ROBLOX Bodies Are Arriving Soon
We’re three months into 2014 and, with the launch of new game-development features and the addition of powerful opportunities to earn money, it’s safe to say this has already become the Year of the Developer.
| April 01, 2014 -
The Tech That Fuels Developer Success
With an integrated development environment, multi-platform support, and a global cloud of multiplayer game servers that auto-scales to hundreds of thousands of concurrent players, ROBLOX is one of the easiest and most opportunity-rich platforms
| March 29, 2014 -
Farewell to the OGRE: The New ROBLOX Rendering Engine is Here
We’re proud to announce the full-blown release of a custom-built rendering engine, now powering games across ROBLOX. The creation of this engine is the culmination of all we’ve learned from features released in the past year
| March 28, 2014 -
New Sound Engine Brings Better Audio Playback to Games
Our new sound engine has shipped, giving game developers a more robust system for playing in-game sounds and laying the groundwork for exciting updates and features that are on their way. Building this new sound engine was an arduous process
| March 25, 2014 -
10K/100K Live Giveaway Coming Soon (With Your Help)
Where much of the magic happens. [Update: we’ve hit our marks of 10,000 Twitch followers and 100,000 YouTube subscribers. Giveaway coming soon. Thanks!] We’re close to reaching a couple big milestones – 10,000 followers on Twitch and 100,0...
| March 25, 2014 -
Live This Week: The Next Level (3/19) and BLOXcast (3/22)
This week, we’re broadcasting two live shows on our Twitch channel: an episode of The Next Level on Wednesday, March 19th (starting at roughly 2 p.m. Pacific Time), and the March edition of our monthly BLOXcast on Saturday, March 22nd
| March 17, 2014 -
Who’s Ruling the Twitch Streaming Leaderboards (So Far)?
As announced two weeks ago today, we’ve launched Twitch broadcaster leaderboards, giving ROBLOX players an opportunity to earn cash and prizes for streaming their gameplay to Twitch. (Yes, cash for playing video games. We live in good times.) W...
| March 15, 2014 -
Tools for Creating Multi-place Games, Developer Products
In the last month, our teams have released a series of features that amplify the power ROBLOX developers have to make great games and profit off their success.
| March 14, 2014 -
Tools for Creating Multi-place Games, Developer Products
In the last month, our teams have released a series of features that amplify the power ROBLOX developers have to make great games and profit off their success . While we’ve provided cursory instruction and responded to a number of your high-le...
| March 14, 2014 -
A Behind the Scenes Look at the Making of The Next Level
The Next Level is our weekly show that is approaching its fifth episode tomorrow (it usually airs on Wednesdays, but someone had to go on vacation), and we’ve recently been gearing ourselves up to give our weekly experience the highest production
| March 12, 2014 -
Fueled by ROBLOX: We Answer Questions About Recent Updates
Fueled by ROBLOX. It’s the foundation behind all of the updates you’ve undoubtedly noticed in the past few weeks and months. Developer Products, massive games composed of multiple places, Data Persistence, the Developer Exchange program
| March 11, 2014