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An Optimization for Lua Scripts
Lua is a powerful, lightweight, scripting language, and is often used in video games due to fast execution and a short learning curve. World of Warcraft, Angry Birds and Mafia II all use Lua script. Today, Chief Scientist at ROBLOX, Erik Cassel
| February 29, 2012 -
Halloween: It Ain’t Easy Being Orange
A werewolf howls. A skeleton skitters to claim the graveyard capture point. Somewhere, a zombie is moaning brainlessly. The pumpkin people shoulder their paintball guns. It’s go time. ROBLOX Halloween Paintball is here ! It’s a 15 vs. 15 playe...
| October 26, 2011 -
Welcome to Pwnsville: Master Swordsman Contest
Are you an epic bloxxer? Are you welcoming people to Pwnsville daily? Yes? That’s what we thought! We know that most Robloxians are awesome at bloxxing and want to capture video footage of the most epic blox by sword in ROBLOX history! We want...
| May 19, 2011 -
Retro ROBLOXian Gift of Yesteryore
UPDATE: It is now too late to get this gift for free. It has already gone out. If you’re quick, you may be able to buy a copy . — A mysterious time-traveling alien is visiting famous places from ROBLOXia’s deep past! If you find all the plac...
| December 6, 2010 -
Decorate the ROBLOX Office Contest
Dear ROBLOXians, The ROBLOX team has moved into new digs. As you can see by the photos, the walls are quite bare! We want to decorate our offices with posters showing creations m...
| November 29, 2010 -
Halloween Capture the Flag: Vampires vs. Werewolves vs. Townsfolk
This year’s Halloween level is a classic game of capture the flag between two rival teams – vampires vs. werewolves. Caught in the middle of it all is an unfortunate band of townsfolk who are just trying to survive the night! The ultimate goa...
| October 23, 2010 -
Gear Contest Results
Hi everyone, As you may already know, we had a gear contest posted on strong Congratulations to our winners! They will each receive their idea, in gear form, for free. All three pieces of gear will be available in the catalog soon. a strong strong strong Talk about the gear contest This is also a good time for me to say hello to all of you. I’m one of the newer members on staff here at Roblox, and I’ll be making lots of gear! Feel free to pm me with gear ideas, as you never know what you might see in the catalog next. Thanks to everyone that has already contacted me, I feel welcome! -jeditkacheff a
| April 16, 2010 -
Gear Contest Results
Hi everyone, As you may already know, we had a gear contest posted on our Facebook page last week. There were a lot of good ideas! It was really hard to choose a particular item. So hard, in fact, that we chose three different ideas. Without ...
| April 16, 2010 -
ROBLOX Contests
Hello All, Tonight we introduce ROBLOX Contests, a new way to share the stuff you build and win cool prizes while doing it. Just click on the Contests link on the main menu to get started. How it Works Each contest has an entry type, such as a pl...
| February 9, 2010 -
ROBLOX Halloween Treasure Hunt
Find the treasure and solve the mysteries of the ROBLOX Halloween Treasure Hunt ! Use your cleverness to solve the puzzles of this spooky landscape. The prizes are the Halloween 2009 Treasure Hunt Insane Uber Win Badge , Ruby Serpent M...
| October 30, 2009 -
Worlds of Wood Winners!
Hi everyone! We’ve counted up the visits for the entries and here are the winners! Top 10 Winners in order of visits! dennisvdz SinisterAlex Underworldruler Havemeat undertaker49 Darkrai980 zshakoblah ...
| April 17, 2009 -
Roblox Rox Video Contest Winners!
The video contest has come to a close and it’s time to announce the winners. We worked extra hard to make it so everyone who entered could get a prize! Yep, every entrant is getting a hat. Here are the hats and winners! Every entrant gets the ...
| March 14, 2009 -
ROBLOX Rox Contest Updates
Wow! There are tons of videos uploaded already. That’s great! It’s even more impressive considering the hurdles that the users are facing as they try to get their entries uploaded at YouTube. I’ll go into that more in a bit.First I wanted to...
| March 4, 2009 -
ROBLOX Lookin’ Good Top 100!
The voting has been tallied to find the 100 top rated best looking Robloxians. Here are some of them showing off their stylin’ looks! There are even more Robloxians and the list of winners below! ...
| February 20, 2009 -
ROBLOX Lookin’ Good Parade
Hey, guess what? Robloxians look good! Check it out. It’s time to go vote on the looks you think are best. Head over to the event site and browse through voting on the entries. You can also search for your friends to see their look, or p...
| February 10, 2009 -
I am Supa Fly
The Supa Fly Fly cap has been awarded to everyone who entered the Lookin’ Good Contest . In total, 9949 caps were awarded. Thanks to everyone who entered! The contest is now closed. If you didn’t receive a Supa Fly cap, you spelt your usern...
| February 10, 2009 -
ROBLOX Lookin’ Good Contest
At ROBLOX we have a near infinite supply of awesome looks for your avatar. Now that we’ve added head shapes and faces the possibilities are off the charts! We want to see what sorts of creative things you all are doing with the Stuff you can get...
| February 6, 2009