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Behind the Scenes of Behind the BLOX
Last Friday, we kicked off the first in a series of Behind the BLOX , opening the doors of ROBLOX HQ so users could take a tour of our office, test some exciting new features, and talk with our developers about all things ROBLOX. We invited six us...
| March 6, 2013 -
Redeem ROBLOX Cards in March and Get Free St. Paddy’s Gear!
You can buy ROBLOX cards – redeemable for Builders Club subscriptions and Robux – at retailers around the world. It pays to be strategic about where you buy them, though, as ROBLOX cards from specific retailers come bundled with stylish and/or esteemed virtual gear and hats. We recently swapped in a whole new selection of gear and hats for the month of March, and it’s sure to help you celebrate the fast-approaching St. Patrick’s Day!
| March 5, 2013 -
ROBLOX is Expanding to Continue Innovating
ROBLOX is one of the biggest gaming sites on the internet–we’ve logged 140,000 peak concurrent users and 393 million hours of gameplay in 2012. As we continue to steadily grow our userbase, we’re also looking to expand the size of our team....
| March 4, 2013 -
Weekly ROBLOX Roundup: March 3rd, 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 to hit our various avenues of publication in the last week. This time: contests, contests, contests, the venue for ROBLOX Game Conference in New York City, a Spotlight on the users who created a randomly generated obstacle course, cloud gaming vs. traditional game hosting, ensuring a quality Roblox.com through automated testing, how users are part of our development team, Pac-Man!! by PacManMan, and other bits and pieces. Enjoy.
| March 3, 2013 -
Calling All Artists! Three Design Contests Are Up and Running
If you’re the type of person who loves creating things and sharing them with the world, you’re in the right place – that spirit is what fuels ROBLOX. We recognize that not everyone is an aspiring builder or game designer, though, and we just launched three contests that give users who best express themselves through art and design a chance to make a significant mark on ROBLOX.
| March 1, 2013 -
ROBLOX: Gaming in the Cloud
A hot topic among game studios in recent years is the notion of “cloud-based gaming”–a tectonic shift in the infrastructure behind multiplayer online games. Gone are the days of hosting your own server, opening up your firewall, forwarding ports in your router, and sacrificing a goat in order to be able to host your own multiplayer environment. In a traditional solution, if you wanted to play game with friends on the internet, you’d set up a game server and have your friends connect to it. We decided early on that this was a method we wanted to avoid–encouraging users to set up local hosting often results in a plethora of problems that interfere with stable gameplay.A hot topic among game studios in recent years is the notion of “cloud-based gaming”–a tectonic shift in the infrastructure behind multiplayer online games. Gone are the days of hosting your own server, opening up your firewall, forwarding ports in your router, and sacrificing a goat in order to be able to host your own multiplayer environment. In a traditional solution, if you wanted to play game with friends on the internet, you’d set up a game server and have your friends connect to it. We decided early on that this was a method we wanted to avoid–encouraging users to set up local hosting often results in a plethora of problems that interfere with stable gameplay.
| February 28, 2013 -
Automated Web Testing: Where Quality and Efficiency Meet
In this article, web engineers Antoni Choudhuri and Brandon Chothia discuss ROBLOX’s commitment to quality via automated web testing, and what the future holds for our testing infrastructure.In this article, web engineers Antoni Choudhuri and Brandon Chothia discuss ROBLOX’s commitment to quality via automated web testing, and what the future holds for our testing infrastructure. ROBLOX is a growing company – just look at our ROBLOX is a growing company – just look at our aa to see the variety of positions we’re looking to fill – and our expansion is enabling us to develop and release features faster than ever before. While we’re producing a greater quantity of features, we’re just as importantly placing a greater emphasis on the quality of everything we do. One of the ways that has manifested itself is the expansion and improvement of our testing infrastructure for Roblox.com. to see the variety of positions we’re looking to fill – and our expansion is enabling us to develop and release features faster than ever before. While we’re producing a greater quantity of features, we’re just as importantly placing a greater emphasis on the quality of everything we do. One of the ways that has manifested itself is the expansion and improvement of our testing infrastructure for Roblox.com.
| February 27, 2013 -
Spotlight: Infinite Replayability With Obby Lobby 2.0
Users aand ahave created a game that is innovative, challenging, and most importantly, a heck of a lot of fun. a takes many familiar tropes about ROBLOX obstacle courses (or obbies for short) and flips them on their head. The result is a game with staggering amounts of replayability.
| February 26, 2013 -
Go Behind the BLOX Starting Next Friday!
We’re always focusing on new ways to strengthen the connection between our ourselves and our users–ROBLOX wouldn’t be the same without the feedback we receive from our passionate builders and gamers. Behind the BLOX is your unique opportun...
| February 22, 2013 -
Use Gamehero’s MIDI Player to Play Music in Your Game
Ever wonder what ROBLOX would be like with music? User Gamehero certainly has, and stepped outside of just “wondering” and actually created something that’s pretty innovative: a Musical Instrument Digital Interface (MIDI) player. Before we ...
| February 21, 2013 -
Responding to User Feedback, V14
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. We gathered questions in a totally different way this time; in-game! We’re always...
| February 20, 2013 -
Weekly ROBLOX Roundup: February 17, 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...
| February 17, 2013 -
Spotlight: Agent767′s Script for Fully Destructible Worlds
We like using our Spotlight articles to feature not just famous ROBLOXians, but those who are doing innovative things with our platform. If you pop over to Agent767′s profile , you’ll see different iterations of Crossroads, a map that has beco...
| February 16, 2013 -
Erik Cassel Apparel: Proceeds go to Cancer Research
In honor of ROBLOX co-founder Erik Cassel, we’re featuring some special clothing items until February 25. Longtime users know that Erik could often be found in ROBLOX wearing the “Well Worn Hat” – this hat meant a lot to Erik, and now that...
| February 15, 2013 -
RGC 2013: Announcing the London Venue and Third Location!
If you’ve been keeping up with our ROBLOX Game Conference announcements , you know that we’re taking RGC 2013 on the road, and will be stopping off at the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago on July 13, before traversing the Atlantic to ...
| February 15, 2013 -
The ROBLOX Presidents Day Sale Starts February 15th
Over the next seven days — Friday the 15th through Friday the 22nd — ROBLOX is playing host to a massive Presidents Day Sale. And when we say “massive,” we mean it. Not only are we discounting select hats and gear by 30-50%, we’re making...
| February 14, 2013 -
The ROBLOX Presidents Day Sale Starts February 15th
Over the next seven days — Friday the 15th through Friday the 22nd — ROBLOX is playing host to a massive Presidents Day Sale. And when we say “massive,” we mean it. Not only are we discounting select hats and gear by 30-50%
| February 14, 2013