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Preview the 2013 BLOXY Awards
With the excitement of the submission and voting periods now in the books, we have selected — with public opinion as a significant factor — the nominees for each category of the ROBLOX International Film Festival.
| June 14, 2013 -
Spotlight: FighterAce and the Kestrel Home Store
Every so often, we like to focus our attention on builders who are creating new and innovative things with our platform. This Spotlight is the first of its kind, as it focuses on a builder who has founded his own virtual clothing company, Kestrel ...
| June 14, 2013 -
Five Unique Answers to “How Do I Get a Job at ROBLOX?”
Our builders are passionate about creating top quality ROBLOX experiences, and many have asked us via Facebook, Twitter and ROBLOX games what it takes to secure a job here at ROBLOX HQ. The good news? This article will seek to answer that question...
| June 13, 2013 -
Feedback Loop: Game Discovery, Materials, Video Ads 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 an...
| June 12, 2013 -
Surfacing Quality Games with the Top Earning Sort
We have a vision of a Games page that’s populated with incredible games to play and places to explore. With content like Apocalypse Rising and ROBLOXity and Battlefield and Sword Fighting Tournament re-appearing week after week, we’re part...
| June 11, 2013 -
Surfacing Quality Games with the Top Earning Sort
We have a vision of a Games page that’s populated with incredible games to play and places to explore. With content like Apocalypse Rising and ROBLOXity and Battlefield and Sword Fighting Tournament re-appearing week after week, we’re partway there.
| June 11, 2013 -
Video How-To: Implementing a Store in Your Place
Last Saturday, we offered our builders a plugin in order to utilize our recently released in-game transaction API. The idea was to make it easier for builders to utilize the feature, as using the plugin removes the scripting aspect. We always kee...
| June 10, 2013 -
Weekly ROBLOX Roundup: June 9th, 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...
| June 9, 2013 -
This Plugin Makes Creating In-Game Stores Simple
Our in-game purchasing API has only been out for a few weeks and we’ve already seen builders use it to sell items in creative and effective ways. It’s not exactly beginner territory, though, so we decided to come up with a way to make in-game stores
| June 08, 2013 -
Presenting the Winners of the BLOXcon Poster Contest
In the ROBLOXian spirit of creativity and participation, we decided not to make our own posters for the fast-approaching BLOXcon , but leave it in the hands of our community. We received almost 300 (requirement-meeting) posters over the course of ...
| June 7, 2013 -
Presenting the Winners of the BLOXcon Poster Contest
In the ROBLOXian spirit of creativity and participation, we decided not to make our own posters for the fast-approaching BLOXcon, but leave it in the hands of our community.
| June 07, 2013 -
Scaling Thumbnail Dependencies with a Rapidly Growing User Base
ROBLOX allows users to upload images in order to create unique avatar clothing and environments. If you’ve ever uploaded a custom asset, you’ve undoubtedly come across a thumbnail image that says “Review Pending.” That’s because every si...
| June 6, 2013 -
Bay Area After School Initiative STEM Goes Behind the BLOX
When it comes to developing ROBLOX, we take to heart specific and constructive feedback from our community. That’s why we started Behind the BLOX, a chance for builders to come and play test with us every Friday right here at ROBLOX HQ. In our l...
| June 5, 2013 -
Get Summer Hats When You Redeem ROBLOX Cards in June
Every month, we release a new set of gear and hats you can only obtain by redeeming ROBLOX cards from particular retailers around the world. That means when you’re turning your prized red slice of ROBLOXia into a Builders Club subscription or Robux, you’re snagging yourself a stylish virtual good at no extra cost. With summer just around the corner, our latest round of hats lets you prepare for fun in the hot ROBLOXian sun. No, we’re not talking about virtual sunscreen; this is the hippest of eye protection.
| June 3, 2013 -
Weekly ROBLOX Roundup: June 2nd, 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 to hit our various avenues of publication in the last week. This time: Virtual BLOXcon this September, the creation of Apocalypse Rising’s v5.0 update, a spotlight on UlrichStern25′s impressive pirate ships, impending contest deadlines, a ROBLOX build of Minas Tirith, and other bits and pieces. Enjoy.
| June 2, 2013 -
Developer’s Journal: The Biggest Apocalypse Rising Update Yet
Hey guys, a here to talk about our most successful update yet, Apocalypse Rising v.5.0.0. a and I have been hard at work for the past 11 months, developing improvements for Apoc (sorry, I call it that in short) since its release in July, 2012. When I launched the game, I never thought I’d end up spending so much time on one ROBLOX project. I’m fascinated at Apoc’s popularity–why has this game maintained popularity for such a lengthy period of time? What are the most important factors in development of gameplay? What makes Apocalypse Rising special? With this Developer’s Journal article, I’ll answer these questions.
| May 31, 2013 -
Our Summer Interns Have Names You May Recognize
Last week, we brought on four up-and-coming engineers to join us in our never-ending quest to make ROBLOX better, faster, and more streamlined.
| May 30, 2013