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Hack Week: Exploring a Crafting System in ROBLOX
During this year’s Hack Week, ROBLOX developers shifted gears, working tirelessly to devise and present ideas fueled more by creativity than priority. This week, we’ll be featuring some of the most innovative ideas to come out of Hack Week. Ou...
| July 30, 2012 -
Tech Demo: Video Thumbnails
Tim Brown’s Hack Week project would give ROBLOX developers a powerful tool for engaging players. ROBLOX is about user-created content, and our users have created a lot of content — so much that you’d be hard-pressed to experience all of i...
| January 26, 2012 -
Tech Demo: Dynamic Lighting Exploration
My hack week project was to explore rendering styles and visual effects that would take ROBLOX to the next level. The ROBLOX rendering engine works in a difficult environment compared to traditional games – ROBLOX places are made by our users (...
| January 20, 2012 -
Tech Demo: Water, Buoyancy and Ropes
Hack Week coverage continues with a unified tech demo by Dan Ignatoff, Erik Cassel and Tim Loduha showing water, buoyancy and ropes working together. Water and Buoyancy Dan and Erik teamed up on the water and buoyancy simulation shown in the v...
| January 18, 2012 -
iPad Tech Demo
This is a first look at the ROBLOX code stack running on an iPad. Product specs are in development and there is no announced ship date. The tap-to-move interface shown in the demo is a place holder for future thumb controls. Textures and skyboxes...
| January 14, 2012 -
Hack Week: The Series!
While many were enjoying chestnuts roasting on an open fire (well, not here in the Bay Area, thanks to the nightly Spare the Air alerts), our dev team took advantage of the Holiday break by participating in our first-ever Hack Week. What’s Hack ...
| January 13, 2012 -
Announcing the First Ever Rich Tester Day
ROBLOX is a game built by its players. Players help us test the game too – on our test sites such as gametest.roblox.com and sitetest.roblox.com . Many of the bugs our early testers find are fixed prior to release, so most ROBLOXians don’t ev...
| September 22, 2011 -
The Terrain Game
Hail ROBLOXians! Today has been an exciting week at ROBLOX HQ. The new terrain feature is 98% done; we did our first public test of terrain on gametest.roblox.com yesterday. What is terrain? I could tell you, but maybe you’d rather hear from the...
| August 26, 2011 -
Teleportation: The Art & The Science
It has been a long journey, people. A long journey. In the beginning, there was no notion of space (or spaces) in ROBLOX. When I joined the company in June 2006, the only playable place there was was Crossroads . Then we allowed the users to host ...
| July 22, 2011