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Weekly ROBLOX Roundup: March 31st, 2013 (GDC 2013 Edition)
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...
| March 31, 2013 -
Weekly ROBLOX Roundup: March 31st, 2013 (GDC 2013 Edition)
Every week, we’re busy telling the stories behind our platform, our technology and our place in the gaming and technology industries.
| March 31, 2013 -
Spotlight: Juliane14 and Group ITA Recreate Rome
As soon as I spawn into City of Rome, Italia , there’s a person waiting for me in some sort of militaristic get up. The stranger walks up to me and says, “where can I take you sir?” I’ve never been called “sir” in ROBLOX before, but I ...
| March 30, 2013 -
Removing “Tool Lag” from ROBLOX’s First-Person Camera
We’re constantly striving to perfect the feel of building and playing in ROBLOX. To that end, we recently addressed “tool lag” — a delay seen from the first-person perspective between the view of the camera and the tool or weapon in the player’s hand
| March 29, 2013 -
Get a Stylishly Local ROBLOX Fedora with Your BLOXcon Pass
BLOXcon passes have been on sale for about two weeks now and in that time we’ve sold almost 50% of them across all three events. The early-afternoon Main Stage Presentation slots for BLOXcon London and New York City are already booked solid
| March 28, 2013 -
Get a Stylishly Local ROBLOX Fedora with Your BLOXcon Pass
BLOXcon passes have been on sale for about two weeks now and in that time we’ve sold almost 50% of them across all three events. The early-afternoon Main Stage Presentation slots for BLOXcon London and New York City are already booked solid, an...
| March 28, 2013 -
Rendering Changes and Improved Performance Are Coming Soon
Next week, we’ll be releasing new rendering code that will boost performance by up to 3X, enabling more people to play games that have tens of thousands of parts. Part of the performance boost will stem from turning off bevels, which round the c...
| March 27, 2013 -
Play the One and Only ROBLOX Egg Hunt 2013 Today
Welcome to the 2013 ROBLOX Egg Hunt! Are you ready for a challenge? We hope so, because collecting each and every one of these eggs will be no small feat — they all behave in very distinct (and sometimes dangerous) manners.
| March 26, 2013 -
Play the One and Only ROBLOX Egg Hunt 2013 Today
Welcome to the 2013 ROBLOX Egg Hunt ! Are you ready for a challenge? We hope so, because collecting each and every one of these eggs will be no small feat — they all behave in very distinct (and sometimes dangerous) manners. Click here to start...
| March 26, 2013 -
Come Meet ROBLOX at GDC 2013
There’s been a buzz within the game industry — ROBLOX HQ included — over the past few days’ lead-up to Game Developers Conference 2013 , which kicked off today in San Francisco. The self-proclaimed largest and longest-running professionals...
| March 25, 2013 -
Weekly ROBLOX Roundup: March 24th, 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...
| March 24, 2013 -
Weekly ROBLOX Roundup: March 24th, 2013
Every week, we’re busy telling the stories behind our platform, our technology and our place in the gaming and technology industries.
| March 24, 2013 -
Presenting The Winners of the Egg and Face Design Contests
A few weeks ago we launched several fan art contests, where we asked our artistically inclined users to submit egg textures for the upcoming and wildly popular ROBLOX Egg Hunt, and users to create their own ROBLOX faces–the prize being a 2,500 Robux
| March 22, 2013 -
Beta Testing Now: Own and Trade Multiple Copies of Limited Items
We’re always looking for ways to make the ROBLOX economy more flexible and dynamic. In the past year, we’ve introduced and enhanced our trading system, added affiliate gear sales and game passes, and created a group treasury, among other thing...
| March 21, 2013 -
Physics Performance Demo: Domino Stress Test
As you may recall, we recently published an in-depth article about how we’ve sped up ROBLOX’s physics by 2-4x as a result of modeling collisions using impulses rather than springs.
| March 20, 2013 -
Spotlight: Unprecedented Place Detail With TacoConsumer
Every now and again, we like to show you some awesome places in ROBLOX you’ve probably never seen before. It’s a joy jumping into these virtual worlds, and bearing witness to stunning vistas and huge castles and…a busted up office building?...
| March 19, 2013 -
The 2013 ROBLOX Egg Hunt Approaches!
Every year we work to make our annual Egg Hunt bigger and more creative than the year before. This year, we’re pulling out all the stops, debuting a massive custom-created level with 20+ different eggs, each of which has different attributes
| March 18, 2013