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Preview ROBLOX Studio’s Better, Faster Dragger Tool
It’s been a while since we told you anything new about ROBLOX Studio, but it’s a constant work in progress and a focus of our engineering core.
| August 27, 2013 -
Exploring the Possibilities of Articulated Physics in ROBLOX
We’ve been working on testing and implementing a new articulated physics engine, which will offer more robust support for joints and motors, and more accuracy.
| August 27, 2013 -
Six Awesome Builds You Need to See to Believe
If it seems like we’re featuring more community-created games and worlds lately, it’s because we are — with your help, we’re finding more incredible uses of ROBLOX’s tools and becoming more connected with the building and development communities.
| August 26, 2013 -
Weekly ROBLOX Roundup: August 25th, 2013
Every week, we’re busy telling the stories behind our platform, our technology and our place in the gaming and technology industries. For those of you who catch up with ROBLOX over the weekend, the Weekly ROBLOX Roundup collects the best stuff t...
| August 25, 2013 -
Spotlight: REDALERT2, Creator of Sandbox
Sandbox is a truly unique title on ROBLOX–and as evidenced by its over 10 million plays, gamers and builders alike tend to agree. The goal of the game runs parallel to our foundation: build awesome things, and share them with your friends. RED...
| August 24, 2013 -
Your Creation Could Be Featured at the Virtual BLOXcon on 9/21
As you probably know by now, we’re hosting a Virtual BLOXcon less than one month from today. Roughly 0.1% of ROBLOX’s population could actually attend one of this summer’s in-person BLOXcons, so this online event will give everyone a chance...
| August 23, 2013 -
Outlines: Simple Appearance, Complex Technology
Last month, ROBLOX launched a new rendering feature known as “outlines.” Outlines essentially draw a black border around all the edges you see in ROBLOX worlds; helping to establish a more unified aesthetic between the vast array of creations...
| August 22, 2013 -
Binary File Format Cuts Studio Load, Save and Upload Times
Three months back, we announced our transition toward a binary file format and explained how the technology has achieved a 100x reduction in the file size of ROBLOX places and a 5-10x reduction in load/save time.
| August 21, 2013 -
Feedback Loop: Sounds & Music, Group Ranks, Badges and More
99% of the content available on ROBLOX is created by our passionate community of builders. In Feedback Loop – the spiritual successor to the long-running Responding to User Feedback series – we respond to builders’ grand ideas for ROBLOX and question
| August 20, 2013 -
Building ROBLOX Battle, Part 3: Metrics and the Big Picture
Our Games Team has been spending significant time making ROBLOX Battle as robust and feature-rich as it can be. We’ve already covered some of the more interesting updates, including the core gameplay mechanics that have been introduced recently and l
| August 19, 2013 -
Weekly ROBLOX Roundup: August 18th, 2013
Every week, we’re busy telling the stories behind our platform, our technology and our place in the gaming and technology industries. For those of you who catch up with ROBLOX over the weekend, the Weekly ROBLOX Roundup collects the best stuff t...
| August 18, 2013 -
BLOXcon Hackathon Winners Share Tips and Experiences
Now that all three BLOXcons have wrapped (and we’re hard at work creating our Virtual BLOXcon for September, in case you were wondering), we thought we’d take some time to talk with two top Hackathon performers (NickPatella and Ethancomputerm...
| August 17, 2013 -
BLOXcon Hackathon Winners Share Tips and Experiences
Now that all three BLOXcons have wrapped (and we’re hard at work creating our Virtual BLOXcon for September, in case you were wondering), we thought we’d take some time to talk with two top Hackathon performers (NickPatella and Ethancomputermad)
| August 17, 2013 -
We Bid Our Summer Interns Farewell
It seems like just yesterday that we created a post talking with our eager Summer interns about their plans for their tenure here at ROBLOX. Alas, time flies, and Merely, Seranok, MrDoomBringer and Stravant have completed their internships
| August 16, 2013 -
Presenting the Third Set of BLOXY, Hall of Fame, Hackathon Winners
After a busy month and a half, the ROBLOX team has successfully taken BLOXcon around the world. Another completed BLOXcon also means another list of BLOXY, Hall of Fame , and Hackathon winners. Though this takes us closer to the end of our annual ...
| August 14, 2013 -
You Can Now Toggle Outlines
As announced at BLOXcon London and shortly thereafter in a Comments on Comments article , we’ve decided to make the recently launched outlines feature optional for all ROBLOX builders and game developers. While we do see outlines as part of ou...
| August 13, 2013 -
BLOXcon New York in Retrospect
We hosted three separate BLOXcons in three separate sprawling cities around the world – all in the space of five weeks. We interacted with thousands of our intrepid gamers, builders and fans, in-person. We laughed with you.
| August 12, 2013