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ROBLOX and Hasbro Present KRE-O BATTLESHIP Games
ROBLOX has teamed up with Hasbro to bring you two new games, KRE-O BATTLESHIP Showdown and KRE-O BATTLESHIP Scavenger Hunt , both based on the KRE-O BATTLESHIP playsets. While the BATTLESHIP movie releases in theatres on May 18th, the KRE-O BAT...
| May 16, 2012 -
Character Explorations v3
Over the past few weeks, we have shown the ROBLOX community various character explorations that include new head, body, arm and hand shapes for both male and female characters. We have a few examples of what these renderings would look like in ROB...
| May 15, 2012 -
ROBLOX Game Conference Update
As the 2012 ROBLOX Game Conference comes closer, we have been nailing down the agenda and details for the event. This year, we are hosting the second annual RGC at the Santa Clara Convention Center on Saturday, July 14, 2012. Be sure to purchas...
| May 9, 2012 -
Preview Our In-Game Wardrobe Change Interface
ROBLOX is working on a new feature that lets players change their character’s clothes and preview their appearance in-game . User Experience Engineer Ben Tkacheff is here today to demonstrate the interface he developed and offer some insider inf...
| May 4, 2012 -
Weekly ROBLOX Roundup: April 29, 2012
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 ...
| April 29, 2012 -
Emergence in ROBLOX: Hard to Define, Easy to See
In gaming, emergence happens when players use a game’s basic systems in a way that is unexpected, unpredicted and unique. It’s built into the entire ROBLOX platform; users have the freedom to create almost any type of game, experience games,...
| April 28, 2012 -
ROBLOX Users Can Now “Age Up”
You asked and we delivered: ROBLOX users can now set their date of birth on the ROBLOX website. This is an important feature because it allows users to take advantage of social features when they turn 13, while still keeping us in compliance with ...
| April 27, 2012 -
Character Explorations v2
Last month, ROBLOX released a preview of potential body, head and face components for new ROBLOX characters . Today, we will show you the 3D renderings of heads, bodies, arms and hands that we have been exploring. Because we want to know what...
| April 26, 2012 -
A Deep Look at ROBLOX’s Buoyancy and Water Physics
Boats. Waterfalls and geysers. Swimming and diving. Flowing rivers and deep pools. With version 1.0 of ROBLOX’s buoyancy and water physics, carefully crafted and researched by our Physics Team, these things are not only possible, but also realis...
| April 24, 2012 -
Weekly ROBLOX Roundup: April 21, 2012
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 ...
| April 21, 2012 -
ROBLOX Users: An Essential Part of Our Development Team
We recently a our extensive testing infrastructure and showed how various systems are checking ROBLOX’s code for errors and regressions at just about all hours of every day. But get this: But get this: that wasn’t the full picturethat wasn’t the full picture .. ROBLOX also has an experienced community of user testers, who round out our otherwise mechanized testing platform with good, old-fashioned – but no less vital – human interaction, and usually learn a few things in the process.ROBLOX also has an experienced community of user testers, who round out our otherwise mechanized testing platform with good, old-fashioned – but no less vital – human interaction, and usually learn a few things in the process.
| April 19, 2012 -
ROBLOX Takes on Phishing Sites
Phishing has been a problem since the inception of the internet, and in 1995 the term was first coined in a README doc for a popular hacking tool targeting AOL users. Recently, ROBLOX has seen an increase in phishing sites, and we wanted to communicate how we approach these sites. Phishing is a common method of online identity theft, and in our continued effort to make ROBLOX as safe as possible, we will be taking serious measures to ensure the security of our players. ROBLOX will press charges and utilize law enforcement to take down any phishing sites that threaten our site’s security.
| April 16, 2012 -
Picking Up the Pieces: April 14, 2012
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, Picking Up the Pieces collects the best stuff to h...
| April 14, 2012 -
Promote Your Game with Video
Tim Brown’s Hack Week project has been finished and released, giving ROBLOX users a powerful tool to engage players. Back in January, we introduced you to a feature that would let you add a rich media gallery, including videos and images, to yo...
| April 11, 2012 -
Interpo-what? Smoothing the Motion of Networked Objects
Dictionary.com defines “interpolate,” in mathematical terms, as inserting, estimating, or finding an intermediate term in a sequence. As dry as it sounds, it’s the reason objects are moving more smoothly in ROBLOX. Software Engineer Yunpen...
| April 8, 2012 -
Your ROBLOX Top-Three List
Today we are giving everyone the chance to submit a personal ROBLOX “Top-Three” list. Please be as specific as possible and limit your reply to three short items. If you have additional comments, place them after your three items. This will ma...
| April 7, 2012 -
Some of These Eggs Hunt You
Ghostly apparitions. Bloodsucking fiends. Quantum vacuum collapse . Terrordactyls. At least one of the doomsday scenarios featured in Engines of Creation . Make no mistake. This is not a ROBLOX “egg hunt.” This is psycho-killer eggs hunting yo...
| April 6, 2012