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Building ROBLOX Battle, Part 1: Core Gameplay Mechanics
We’ve made some drastic improvements to every facet of ROBLOX Battle, our flagship internally developed combat title, over the last several weeks. New game modes, maps, character animations
| July 22, 2013 -
New “White List” System Gives Everyone a Voice
We’ve overhauled our chatting system in order to allow those who are under 13 to speak freely and safely using a new chat filtering “white list” system. We tapped ROBLOX Web Engineer Allen Liu to explain the implementation
| July 22, 2013 -
Weekly ROBLOX Roundup: July 21st, 2013
Every week, we’re busy telling the stories behind our platform, our technology and our place in the gaming and technology industries.
| July 21, 2013 -
Let the Countdown to BLOXcon London Commence!
If you’ve been paying attention, you know the countdown to BLOXcon London actually commenced when there were more than 100 days to go. But now it feels real. T-minus seven days and counting. We’ve updated the BLOXcon London website in antic...
| July 20, 2013 -
Play SFOTH: Percy Jackson Sea of Monsters Edition Today
ROBLOX has teamed with Fox Pictures to present Sword Fight on the Heights: Percy Jackson Sea of Monsters Edition . The ever-famous Sword Fight on the Heights level has gotten a watery facelift, as well as some brand new water and ice-themed weapon...
| July 19, 2013 -
Play SFOTH: Percy Jackson Sea of Monsters Edition Today
ROBLOX has teamed with Fox Pictures to present Sword Fight on the Heights: Percy Jackson Sea of Monsters Edition. The ever-famous Sword Fight on the Heights level has gotten a watery facelift, as well as some brand new water and ice-themed weapons
| July 19, 2013 -
Presenting the First BLOXY, Hall of Fame 2013 and Hackathon Winners
Last weekend at BLOXcon Chicago, we announced the winners of a bunch of prestigious awards. BLOXY Awards go to ROBLOX filmmakers, who crafted films for five unique categories in the ROBLOX Film Festival. The Hall of Fame Awards were designed to hi...
| July 17, 2013 -
Everyone Can Experiment with Paid Game Access
A couple weeks ago, we launched a beta test for Paid Access – an experimental configuration setting that allows builders and game developers to charge players once for permanent access to their places and games.
| July 16, 2013 -
A Retrospective Look at BLOXcon Chicago
I imagine I’ll update this article sporadically as I write it. Right now, I’m hovering at 40,000 feet in the air between time zones, making it impossible to know exactly what time it actually is.
| July 15, 2013 -
BLOXcon Chicago: The Day in Pictures
Greetings from BLOXcon Chicago! It’s been a huge day for the ROBLOX staff — whether we were manning booths, running contests, giving keynote presentations on stage or running the Hackathon.
| July 13, 2013 -
BLOXcon Chicago: The Day in Pictures
Greetings from BLOXcon Chicago! It’s been a huge day for the ROBLOX staff — whether we were manning booths, running contests, giving keynote presentations on stage or running the Hackathon. Now, as the event slowly draws to an end, we wanted t...
| July 13, 2013 -
Become a More Efficient Builder with These Studio Tricks
After mentioning the ability to select individual parts from a model in last week’s Feedback Loop , we were surprised to find how many of our builders were enthralled with, and grateful for, what we thought was a relatively minor suggestion. Ala...
| July 10, 2013 -
How the Top-Rated Games Earn Your “Thumbs Up”
Various changes have hit the ROBLOX Games page in the past couple of weeks. The “Top Earning” sort allows users to see which games are able to rake in the most amount of Robux. The thumbs up/thumbs down rating system gives you the power to v...
| July 9, 2013 -
Spotlight: Chadthedestroyer2 and After the Flash: Darkness
Inspired by other builds he had enjoyed playing on ROBLOX, chadthedestroyer2 decided to give “post-apocalyptic survival” games a shot. The result was a series of popular ROBLOX titles called After the Flash . Though each game looks radically ...
| July 8, 2013 -
Weekly ROBLOX Roundup: July 7th, 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...
| July 7, 2013 -
A Look at BLOXcon Chicago’s Community-run Booths
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| July 6, 2013 -
New “Liquid” Games Page Makes Blank Margins a Thing of the Past
The ROBLOX Web Team is always looking to update and improve ROBLOX.com to further empower our builders, developers and gamers. We are on a never-ending quest to ensure that great games and content get as much visibility as possible.
| July 05, 2013