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Weekly ROBLOX Roundup: March 17th, 2013
Every week, we’re busy telling the stories behind our platform, our technology and our place in the gaming and technology industries.
| March 17, 2013 -
Celebrate St. Patrick’s Day With a Sale and New Gear
Happy St. Patrick’s Day weekend! In the spirit of the holiday, we’ve created some exclusive St. Patrick’s Day gear for you, and put several of our, how should we say this, greener items on sale. You don’t have to be a leprechaun to score ...
| March 16, 2013 -
Get Your BLOXcon Pass Today!
Did you spend a long, grueling week watching our countdown clock? The hour of BLOXcon ticket sales has finally arrived! You can now purchase passes to all three events: BLOXcon Chicago (7/13), BLOXcon London (7/27) and BLOXcon New York City (8/10)...
| March 15, 2013 -
Play Nerf Battle: Double Your Blasting Target Challenge Today
ROBLOX and Nerf have teamed up to make Nerf Battle: Double Your Blasting Target Challenge! The game launched earlier this week, and has picked up some serious traffic. At the time of this writing, over 250,000 people have played it! In case you ha...
| March 15, 2013 -
Pushing ROBLOX Place Data Faster Than Ever Before
Have you noticed that you’ve been jumping into ROBLOX games quicker? That’s because our networking team has been hard at work exploring ways to make our network more stable, secure, and most importantly, fast. After a ton of experimenting, we�...
| March 14, 2013 -
Six Awesome ROBLOX Places You’ve Never Seen Before
Every time I page through the creations of ROBLOX users, I find something I have to photograph, add to my favorites or somehow etch into memory. It speaks not only to the volume of content, but the quality.
| March 13, 2013 -
Spotlight: Nexx Launches Crowd-Sourced ROBLOXReviews.com
Long time ROBLOX user Nexx recently launched ROBLOXReviews.com , a website that compiles and sorts user-based reviews of ROBLOX games. Riffing off of ROBLOXHQ.com, a legacy ROBLOX game reviews site that is no longer running, ROBLOX Reviews feat...
| March 12, 2013 -
ROBLOX: Helping Cultivate the Next Generation of Entrepreneurs
In late February, Code.org published a video , in which several tech-industry luminaries – from Bill Gates and Gabe Newell to Mark Zuckerberg and Jack Dorsey – extol the values of being able to write code. While the video has an underlying go...
| March 11, 2013 -
Spotlight: Nexx Launches Crowd-Sourced ROBLOXReviews.com
Long time ROBLOX user Nexx recently launched ROBLOXReviews.com, a website that compiles and sorts user-based reviews of ROBLOX games. Riffing off of ROBLOXHQ.com, a legacy ROBLOX game reviews site that is no longer running
| March 11, 2013 -
ROBLOX: Helping Cultivate the Next Generation of Entrepreneurs
In late February, Code.org published a video, in which several tech-industry luminaries – from Bill Gates and Gabe Newell to Mark Zuckerberg and Jack Dorsey – extol the values of being able to write code.
| March 11, 2013 -
Weekly ROBLOX Roundup: March 10th, 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 10, 2013 -
Our Content Team Critiques Your Works in Progress
About a week ago, we asked users to submit their best and most creative places via the ROBLOX Game Design forum. We told them that the top picks of the litter would receive critiques by our very own ROBLOX developers, and we’re here to do just that.
| March 09, 2013 -
Our Content Team Critiques Your Works in Progress
About a week ago, we asked users to submit their best and most creative places via the ROBLOX Game Design forum . We told them that the top picks of the litter would receive critiques by our very own ROBLOX developers, and we’re here to do just ...
| March 9, 2013 -
BLOXcon Is the New RGC 2013
If you’ve been around ROBLOX for a while, you might know a thing or two about our annual fan convention. First, it was the ROBLOX Rally. Then it was the ROBLOX Game Conference. For 2013, we’ve decided to debut a new name: BLOXcon! This year, ...
| March 8, 2013 -
Comments on Comments: Physics, Character Animation and More
Many readers pour significant time into writing thoughtful replies to our blog articles, and we want to do a better job of addressing them. We’re introducing Comments on Comments as a monthly series that will focus on responding to great questions and feedback. Each segment, we’ll delve into recent blog comments to find relevant questions, concerns, and feedback, and have the most qualified members of the ROBLOX team respond. For our first post, we’ve tapped ROBLOX Creative Director John Shedletsky and ROBLOX physics guru Kevin He to respond to comments covering Each segment, we’ll delve into recent blog comments to find relevant questions, concerns, and feedback, and have the most qualified members of the ROBLOX team respond. For our first post, we’ve tapped ROBLOX Creative Director John Shedletsky and ROBLOX physics guru Kevin He to respond to comments covering character animationcharacter animation , , locally hosted serverslocally hosted servers , recent , recent updates to ROBLOX’s physicsupdates to ROBLOX’s physics , , custom gravitycustom gravity , , John’s bizarre sense of humorJohn’s bizarre sense of humor , and more!, and more! aa
| March 7, 2013 -
Behind the Scenes of Behind the BLOX
Last Friday, we kicked off the first in a series of Behind the BLOX , opening the doors of ROBLOX HQ so users could take a tour of our office, test some exciting new features, and talk with our developers about all things ROBLOX. We invited six us...
| March 6, 2013 -
Redeem ROBLOX Cards in March and Get Free St. Paddy’s Gear!
You can buy ROBLOX cards – redeemable for Builders Club subscriptions and Robux – at retailers around the world. It pays to be strategic about where you buy them, though, as ROBLOX cards from specific retailers come bundled with stylish and/or esteemed virtual gear and hats. We recently swapped in a whole new selection of gear and hats for the month of March, and it’s sure to help you celebrate the fast-approaching St. Patrick’s Day!
| March 5, 2013