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ROBLOX Halloween Treasure Hunt!
Dare you visit Yorick’s Resting Place in an attempt to locate The Riddling Skull ? In this spooky forest you will contend with a poisonous river of purple goo, black caves with mysterious paintings, dark hallways, a tree with claws, an ancien...
| October 11, 2008 -
ROBLOX Halloween Treasure Hunt!
Dare you visit Yorick’s Resting Place in an attempt to locate The Riddling Skull?
| October 11, 2008 -
ROBLOX Halloween Treasure Hunt!
a Dare you visit In this spooky forest you will contend with a poisonous river of purple goo, black caves with mysterious paintings, dark hallways, a tree with claws, an ancient graveyard, an abandoned mansion, secret plans, and, oh yes, riddles. Complete the level to attain your own copy of The Riddling Skull! - Telamon a
| October 11, 2008 -
Introducing: The Riddling Skull
A mysterious skull has appeared in the ROBLOX Catalog… No one has yet figured out how to obtain this rare item, however, serious investigation is under way. Very obtuse clues are all the community has to go on right now. However, more clues wil...
| October 10, 2008 -
Introducing: The Riddling Skull
a A No one has yet figured out how to obtain this rare item, however, serious investigation is under way. Very obtuse clues are all the community has to go on right now. However, more clues will be forthcoming over the next several days - so keep a look out! - Telamon a
| October 10, 2008 -
School Project Contest Winners!
The School Project judging is over and the winners have received their prizes. Hooray! There are 106 Grand Prize winners - users who sent in projects that used ROBLOX in inspiring and clever ways. The users on this list received 500 R$ and all the book hats currently in the Catalog… em There were another 225 user who received the book hat This event really shows that ROBLOX can be used to help with school projects, at school or at home. There were so many entries we will not be able to showcase them all on the News. We would like to show a few more though! Here are a few and hopefully soon we can put others soon. Check these out! Motion - Friction and Energy Assignment- Give an example of Friction and Energy Roblox helped me with this project because it displayed the properties of Friction and Energy and it was easy to use. -mythicman95 embed Life Science I used Roblox to create the carbon cycle. My class had to create a cycle on the environment. Since some one had already done a water cycle, I decided to make a carbon cycle. I created a carbon cycle on Roblox. After I finished I edited with Photoshop. Roblox helped so much with this. The next day I gave it to my teacher and I received an A. -Daniel9107 Art In Art Class I was required to construct a three dimensional Project for the end of the year. I was stumped on how I should complete the project. I decided I’d make some form of Abstract or Modern art. I realized I could use the computer for my project. I tried designing my model on paint, but I just wasn’t good at it. I got bored and decided to play a little bit of my favorite game, Roblox. After a bit of building I noticed that I could design my project on Roblox. I successfully made the models my teacher was asking for and I got an A+. - StoneBlood Direct quote from the teacher: “Great Work! Your models contain lots of texture and are very Abstract!” Newtonian Physics Assignment: Show that in the absence of air, ALL objects, regardless of weight or shape, fall at the same rate. I learned that Sir Isaac Newton was the first to use experiments to show that there is something called air resistance. Air actually slows an object down when it falls. The heavier the object is, the less it is affected by air resistance. So if there was no air they would all fall at the same speed! Since I am home schooled I was able to get on Roblox and show that since there is no air on Roblox a small brick and a large brick fall at the same speed! This was great because one, I got an A and two, I had a chance to participate in a Roblox contest! YAY! - ryno1o1 embed Math We were looking at Simple Harmonic Motion. We’d been spending a few lessons looking at simple harmonic motion in a spring, we’d been having to look at a spring because it’s hard to look at the displacement, acceleration and velocity or a pendulum. So I went into Roblox and made a pendulum, and made it print off the position of the pendulum over a course of 10 seconds, every 0.05 seconds. I then put this into excel to get a graph. Later I made a script to actually plot a graph in game. You can talk more about this contest on -ReeseMcBlox a
| October 5, 2008 -
School Project Contest Winners!
The School Project judging is over and the winners have received their prizes. Hooray! There are 106 Grand Prize winners – users who sent in projects that used ROBLOX in inspiring and clever ways. The users on this list received 500 R$ and all t...
| October 5, 2008 -
School Project Contest Winners!
The School Project judging is over and the winners have received their prizes. Hooray! There are 106 Grand Prize winners – users who sent in projects that used ROBLOX in inspiring and clever ways.
| October 05, 2008 -
ROBLOX School Project Contest Update
The contest mailbox is closed and we’re working like mad to finish sorting through all the entries. We got a lot more entries for this contest than we expected. That’s great! We’re going to announce the winners as soon as we can. There will ...
| October 3, 2008 -
ROBLOX School Project Contest Update
The contest mailbox is closed and we’re working like mad to finish sorting through all the entries. We got a lot more entries for this contest than we expected. That’s great!
| October 3, 2008 -
ROBLOX School Project Contest Update
The contest mailbox is closed and we’re working like mad to finish sorting through all the entries. We got a lot more entries for this contest than we expected. That’s great! We’re going to announce the winners as soon as we can. There will be a lot of winners. All the entries must be looked over by ROBLOX staff. It’s a fun job actually, since we get to learn new things at the same time. To make this post more interesting we will show a few more entries. We only have time right now to show three - but there will be another post in the future showing off tons of great entries. So for now check these out. Ancient Cultures ROBLOX gave me a better chance to get a better grade on my model and also made it more fun! It gave me the chance to be free and express my self as I made this wonderful world of Mesopotamia. We should be able to make a place where we can imagine AS MUCH AS ARE LITTLE HEARTS CAN! And ROBLOX helped me because it is a very compatible and safe way to let teachers know that we can make projects with just about anything. - Ronat Teacher comment: Good work. This is one astounding idea and helps with our budget! embed Scripting Languages I had a project recently about programming at my school! My project was about all of the types of programming, and what they do. Roblox helped me in this project by showing me ways of scripting techniques and things like, lua, and all kinds of scripting in the lua language. Also roblox helped me because it made it easier because I already knew about Lua very well. Another thing is that I made a PowerPoint for this project. One thing that helped me with this project was the scripting language of lua, like the “game.Workspace.etc.etc” because a lot of scripting engines handle things similar to that type of scripting. In Roblox the scripting engine: LUA, helped me again by showing me ways of boolean values in it, which we are talking a lot about in class! Parent comment: This is a great way to learn and help you with scripting and it would help you with the project! Biology Roblox helped me on this project by letting me show cool models to the class, but also show the sharks in a gentle way. Other pictures I looked for in this projects showed some of the creatures as killers. They wouldn’t have helped to show sharks aren’t all bad as most people say. The saying, “the only good shark is a dead shark” really gets to me and I couldn’t not show these sleek and amazing creatures gently, yet still cool looking, other wise. The pictures got the classes attention. P.S. I got an A. You can comment and chat about this contest on -ReeseMcBlox a
| October 3, 2008 -
Be Our Guest; Buy Our ROBUX
We’ve got two big features to announce in this release: guest mode and the ability to strong Some people want to try out ROBLOX to see if it’s any good before they take the time to make an account. A lot of game websites force you to create an account before you can even play their games to see if they are worth your time. strong We think anyone who gets in-game and plays ROBLOX for 10 minutes is probably going to want to create a full account (especially since it is free), in order to get the benefits of membership, such as having your own place, collecting the daily login bonus, and being able to customize the look of their ROBLOXian. Guest mode players appear in-game with the name "Guest ####". They’re just like normal users, except they can only use Super Safe chat and their stats don’t get logged from game to game. We don’t log stats because Guest users don’t have a "My ROBLOX" page to display them on… strong We’ve heard stories of people buying Builders Club on four accounts, just so they can get more ROBUX. We’re making things easier now for those people by allowing players to purchase ROBUX directly from the ROBLOX Central Bank. You do not need to be in Builders Club to Buying 8 out of 10 economists we surveyed expect that the ROBUK will rise strongly against the dollar in the near term, making it an excellent inflation hedge in these troubled financial times! - Telamon a
| September 26, 2008 -
Some Awesome School Project Entries
We’ve received a ton of awesome entries to the School Project contest. The last day to enter is Wednesday Oct 1 at midnight Pacific time. Read how to enter It looks like our users are finding a lot of different ways to mix ROBLOX and learning. That’s great! We’d like to show off some of the entries and encourage people to keep sending in great stuff like this. Physics I had to build a Rube Goldberg. Using ROBLOX really took away the material limitation factor. I used ROBLOX’ immense open-source to mimic what my group had to do: Pull a light switch. A little night to day script helped make it look very real. Using ROBLOX’ physics helped make the Rube Goldberg look like it was real, and using Lua gave any mis-haps a nice little patch. It helped give my group an A. -briguy9876 embed Programming ROBLOX helped me with this presentation because it showed the I could give a 3D presentation without using real life things. First, I had some different functions of Lua, and described them to the class. Next, I used a more complex script to demonstrate how Lua makes a ROBLOX fountain work. After that, I asked Pyro if he would let me film his suits, he said yes. So then I showed the class how Lua could be used to create very complex things without using up memory space. That?s how ROBLOX helped me in class this time, I?m sure it will help me again. My mom was very excited to see I was doing Lua programming, as it is something she didn’t learn until about a week ago. My teacher was happy with the presentation and I got a 100% on it. -Antartikid Meteorology I used ROBLOX to demonstrate the water cycle. This helped me a lot because I wanted to do something special to wow my class, and it sure did! We were on the last chapter of the year when we were asked to do a project on the water cycle. We were allowed to do anything as long as it demonstrated the water cycle. Then I discovered ROBLOX. It was by far THE BEST GAME EVER! Then I thought to myself, “What if I used this for my project?” -techno802 a Biology Assignment: Make a model of the urinary system, and describe functions. ROBLOX helped me a lot on this project because it was easy to construct and it was an easier alternative rather than using a big expensive 3d modeling program. I wasn’t really good with clay, so I requested permission from my teacher to make a video of a ROBLOX model. She agreed and allowed me to show it to the class with my partner. I enjoy the easy ROBLOX interface, as well as the fast upload times. ROBLOX was a huge help, and I am thankful it even exists. -maxxz em embed Architecture My project was to demonstrate how structural differences in bridges alters their stability. I constructed several bridges and demonstrated how they withstand weight. For example, I used body velocity/rotation to show how a bridge can withstand an Earthquake. I just have to say that ROBLOX is fantastic. As a game, and as a learning tool. It’s because of ROBLOX that I got an “A+” on my project and am now really quite popular in my class. I will always use ROBLOX! -Derthmonuter Art For my ASE Art class I was required for my final project to make some form of three dimensional art. I decided to make a piece of abstract art for my project, but I had no idea what exactly it should look like. Four days into the project week long project I had come up with nothing. So I decided to take a break from the little work I had done and play in ROBLOX studio. After fiddling around on ROBLOX for a while, I realized that I could use my favorite game to do my homework. After a few failed attempts, I came up with the model shown above. I immediately set out and made a scaled down version of the model after I finished. Had it not been for ROBLOX I never would have been able to come up with a passable figure-let alone the masterpiece I made- in time for the project’s due date on the second to last day of school. -Samacado Well that’s all we have for right now. We are still sorting through all the email entries. All the users mention in this blog will receive the prizes by Oct 7. I know it’s a long wait but please be patient. Talk more about this News on our -ReeseMcBlox a
| September 22, 2008 -
Some Awesome School Project Entries
We’ve received a ton of awesome entries to the School Project contest. The last day to enter is Wednesday Oct 1 at midnight Pacific time. Read how to enter here . It looks like our users are finding a lot of different ways to mix ROBLOX and lear...
| September 22, 2008 -
ROBLOX School Project Contest
We’re curious to know how ROBLOX is helping students with school and learning. ROBLOXians are very clever and creative! We know several educators and students who are using ROBLOX for projects at school - we want to reward all the educational users of ROBLOX with prizes! So what we’d like you to do is send us your project or homework where ROBLOX was helpful! Example subjects could include… Programming, Design, Architecture (Building), Art, History, Science, Physics and more! Send your entry to 1. Username Bonus: Include any comments your teacher or parent said about the project. strong strong The winners will be chosen by the ROBLOX staff. We do not have a set number of winners but be assured our standards are high. Not every one can win this contest. The prize is R$ 500 and all the Book hats in the catalog. All valid entries will receive a secret runner-up prize. b I can’t wait to see what you all have been up to. Start sending in those creative school projects! strong -ReeseMcBlox em a
| September 13, 2008 -
Playing ROBLOX at School
There are a lot of users who play ROBLOX at school. We think it’s great! It’s supported and encouraged by many teachers and computer lab managers. We’d like to take a moment to talk about playing ROBLOX at computer labs. Do you remember the What he would do at school is watch you log in and memorize your password. Or, more likely, just get on the computer after you. If you didn’t log out then your account is wide open for someone to make changes. We’re not trying to be scary. We just want to make sure no one takes your hard earned ROBLOX Stuff. Here’s what you can do: strong 2. Don’t use your ROBLOX password for anything at school, like even for your school email or school accounts. 3. Make sure no one is watching your hands when you type in your password. 4. Don’t tell anyone your password. em Keeping your account safe at school is a great way to keep having fun with ROBLOX! -ReeseMcBlox a
| September 6, 2008 -
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Maybe you’ve been coding video games since you were 8. Maybe you’re a battle-hardened veteran of the games industry. Or perhaps you’ve spent the past 10 years of your life writing office software and now it is time for a change. This is yo...
| September 3, 2008