Blog
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Explore the Creative Freedom of User-Uploaded Sounds
Get your headphones ready. We are always listening to the ROBLOX community and taking your ideas to heart as we prioritize projects in our development pipeline. One of the top requests we’ve heard from builders and developers over the years is t...
| September 25, 2013 -
Virtual BLOXcon Is Live!
Virtual BLOXcon is now live! To join the fun, don’t delay; go to ROBLOX.com/bloxcon . The event consists of three “stages.” There’s the Livestream Stage (roughly 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.), where we’re streaming gameplay, Q&A sessions, product d...
| September 21, 2013 -
Building Virtual BLOXcon, from Schedule to Stage
Fresh off our BLOXcon “world tour,” we’re taking our annual fan convention online for the first time with the Virtual BLOXcon! The event takes place this Saturday at ROBLOX.com/bloxcon , starting at 9 a.m. Pacific Time. We’re hard at work ...
| September 18, 2013 -
Behind the Scenes with the Games Team: The Making of Gear
The ROBLOX Games Team is in a constant race against time–it’s their job to ensure that our builders have more gear to browse through in the Catalog each and every week, among other things. This is an extremely organized, frantic, and often fun...
| September 17, 2013 -
Comments on Comments: Fonts, Streaming, Physics & More!
Many readers pour significant time into writing thoughtful replies to our blog articles, and we want to make sure we address them. Comments on Comments exists so you get answers, straight from a ROBLOX developer, to your questions. For this post,...
| September 16, 2013 -
Weekly ROBLOX Roundup: September 15th, 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...
| September 15, 2013 -
With Streaming Join, Levels Load as You Play
Our Client Network Team is focused on getting players into games as quickly and efficiently as possible. Their top three goals: decrease join times, allow builders to make more complex places and creations, and offer support for all types of legac...
| September 11, 2013 -
Weekly ROBLOX Roundup: September 8th, 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...
| September 8, 2013 -
Last Chance to Enter the Virtual BLOXcon Game Contest
This is it, folks: your last opportunity to enter your BLOXcon-themed place or game in the Virtual BLOXcon Game Contest. Whether you’ve got a work in progress or are going to challenge yourself to build something from scratch in roughly 32 hours...
| September 7, 2013 -
Spotlight: Oysi’s Wild ROBLOX Experiments
We knew when we first experienced Galaxy Wars that developer Oysi had something going, but that turned out to only be the tip of the iceberg that is his backlog of projects. Oysi is an interesting developer because he’s created several sort of ...
| September 6, 2013 -
Get Ninja Items for Redeeming ROBLOX Cards in September
Every month, we release a new set of exclusive virtual goods you can only obtain by redeeming ROBLOX cards from particular retailers around the world. That means when you’re turning your prized red slice of ROBLOXia into a Builders Club subscrip...
| September 3, 2013 -
Vote for the Final ROBLOX Hall of Fame 2013 Winners
We’ve already announced a whopping 16 Hall of Fame 2013 winners, but there’s so much fantastic stuff being built on ROBLOX that we’re going to announce another six winners (in six new categories) at the Virtual BLOXcon later this month. The ...
| September 2, 2013 -
Nine Days Remain to Enter the Virtual BLOXcon Game Contest
Last week, we kicked off a Virtual BLOXcon Game Contest, giving you the opportunity to have your BLOXcon-themed game featured at the big event on Saturday, September 21st. We know making a game and building a place are both time-consuming process...
| August 31, 2013 -
Weekly ROBLOX Roundup: August 25th, 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...
| August 25, 2013 -
Spotlight: REDALERT2, Creator of Sandbox
Sandbox is a truly unique title on ROBLOX–and as evidenced by its over 10 million plays, gamers and builders alike tend to agree. The goal of the game runs parallel to our foundation: build awesome things, and share them with your friends. RED...
| August 24, 2013 -
Your Creation Could Be Featured at the Virtual BLOXcon on 9/21
As you probably know by now, we’re hosting a Virtual BLOXcon less than one month from today. Roughly 0.1% of ROBLOX’s population could actually attend one of this summer’s in-person BLOXcons, so this online event will give everyone a chance...
| August 23, 2013 -
Outlines: Simple Appearance, Complex Technology
Last month, ROBLOX launched a new rendering feature known as “outlines.” Outlines essentially draw a black border around all the edges you see in ROBLOX worlds; helping to establish a more unified aesthetic between the vast array of creations...
| August 22, 2013