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The User-Generated Content Landscape (and What Drives It)
Successful user-generated content platforms have long tails. Not literally. Statistically. Take a look at the concept illustration to the right. There are a few big-budget content creators, and many more content creators with relatively low budge...
| September 13, 2012 -
Spotlight: Mechs, Motors and More With TakeoverTom
It’s rare that we have the opportunity to spotlight a user who lives in our immediate area. So we jumped at the opportunity to meet TakeoverTom, who lives only minutes from our offices in San Mateo, CA. He swung by our offices with a green box i...
| September 12, 2012 -
Spotlight: Mechs, Motors and More With TakeoverTom
It’s rare that we have the opportunity to spotlight a user who lives in our immediate area. So we jumped at the opportunity to meet TakeoverTom, who lives only minutes from our offices in San Mateo, CA.
| September 12, 2012 -
Responding to User Feedback, V8
Every so often, we ask our users to let us know what they’d like to see in ROBLOX, then respond to some of the most insightful comments and pertinent questions. This time, John Shedletsky, ROBLOX’s Creative Director, solicited feedback via Tw...
| September 11, 2012 -
Weekly ROBLOX Roundup: September 9, 2012
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 ...
| September 9, 2012 -
User Ads On ROBLOX: How They Work
1.98 billion. That’s a big number. That’s the amount of tickets spent on running user ads since January of 2010. Creating and deploying an ad for a game is a tricky proposition–we plan on writing articles in the future that show you how to ...
| September 8, 2012 -
ROBLOX Discontinuing Support for Mac OS X 10.5
ROBLOX puts great effort into developing unified code that runs across multiple platforms – PC, Mac and soon iPad – on a wide variety of hardware and software configurations. This summer, as we ratcheted up development efforts for ROBLOX o...
| September 7, 2012 -
ROBLOX Game Trailer Contest Showcase
On August 31st we launched a game trailer video contest (it’s not too late to enter – the submission deadline is Monday Sept 10th). There have been more than 200 entries so far, and many of them are fantastic. The staff is still going through...
| September 7, 2012 -
ROBLOX Seeking SF Bay Area Studio 2.0 Testers
Let’s make a deal: if you live within 100 miles of the San Francisco Bay Area, we’ll trade you an hour of your time and your ROBLOX expertise for 4,000 Robux, a ROBLOX water bottle, and the intangible opportunity to come hang out with us and g...
| September 6, 2012 -
The Stories Behind the Jobs at ROBLOX
Here at ROBLOX, we love our jobs. Starting as a team of two people in 2005, ROBLOX has since become a haven of web developers, engineers, infrastructure experts, and more, from all walks of life. Since the school season is just beginning, we thoug...
| September 5, 2012 -
ROBLOX’s Encounter with a One-in-Four-Billion .NET Bug
On July 28, 2012, user Yaman100 did something thousands of users do without a second thought every day: put a new t-shirt on his ROBLOX character. Only, this time it was special. It set off a bug, with approximately one-in-four-billion chances ...
| September 4, 2012 -
The Mobile-Friendly ROBLOX Blog
The ROBLOX blog is now mobile-friendly. Load up blog.roblox.com on your preferred mobile device and you’ll be able to breeze through the latest posts, no matter where you are. Gone are the days of slow loading, fumbling to click microscopic lin...
| September 4, 2012 -
Weekly ROBLOX Roundup: September 2, 2012
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 ...
| September 2, 2012 -
How To Make Your Games Popular On ROBLOX
Though ROBLOX makes publishing a game easy, getting people to play it is another matter entirely. A myriad of factors will determine the popularity of your game, and we’re here to share a few of the quickest and most effective to attract players...
| September 1, 2012 -
Game Trailer Video Contest
Directors! ROBLOX is hosting a game trailer video contest. For the next 10 days, uploading a video trailer to your game page is 50% off. Furthermore, all new trailers added to ROBLOX games in the next 10 days will automatically be entered into a ...
| August 31, 2012 -
Spotlight: Jake Evans’ Fort Borealis
At ROBLOX, we continue to take notice of those who are tackling new and different challenges within our platform. On this edition of “Spotlight”, we’re checking out Jake Evans’ Fort Borealis, an ambitious, popular and innovative shooter. J...
| August 30, 2012 -
Website Navigation Refreshed
The ROBLOX website is a constant work in progress, as evidenced in the last week alone by launches of a mobile site (at m.roblox.com) and a new and improved ROBLOX Catalog.
| August 29, 2012