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ROBLOX Game Spotlight: Monstrum
When something creeps, lurking around the corner, are you prepared? When a monster leaps, chomping your buddies, are you ready? In this week’s spotlight you had better be–your team needs you in Atlaz Games’ Monstrum .
| January 2, 2016 -
ROBLOX Game Spotlight: Stealth
Are you itching for a fighting game that is more than just hack and slash? Looking for a good parkour game to satisfy your obstacle-jumping urges? Feel like sneaking up for that surprise kill? You won’t have to look far, because in this week’s game you’ll have to sneak your way to victory. You guessed it, this week we are spotlighting a new wonderful game from Mailbox Games: Stealth .
| December 30, 2015 -
ROBLOX Holiday is Finally Here!
We are pleased to announce that the Holiday season can officially commence in ROBLOX. Bust out the nog and get ready for a grand ol’ time. A time involving gaming, prizes, and singing chipmunks. That is right, we got Alvin and the Chipmunks on board to make our Holiday that much more jolly! They decided to stop by ROBLOX on their road trip – excuse me I meant to say, “Road Chip.” But then they accidentally got themselves lost in our Thought school was out? Think again! Alvin got himself lost in An Island of Bunnies, and one chipmunk. That’s what How does one improve upon something as epic as
| December 10, 2015 -
Giftsplosion 2015 is Upon Us!
The holidays are here, and ROBLOX is getting all festive with 12 days of awesome prizes! You may have noticed a mysterious gift appearing in your inventory and the catalog lately. These are the first prizes in the 12 Days of the 2015 “Giftsplosion.” Here’s how it works: for each of the first 12 days of December, a gift will appear in the ROBLOX inventory. Some gifts will be for meeting past requirements – such as playing ROBLOX a lot for the last 30 days – while others will contain clues on how you can earn them. If you complete the task, the gift box will be awarded to you (sometime after the deadline, usually a couple days). After the gift box is awarded, it goes on sale in the catalog, so everyone has the opportunity to snag it. A day or so after each gift box goes off sale, it opens, awarding you a special prize For those of you that remember last couple Giftsplosions, there will be not one, but TWO “badger” gift boxes, which will be attached to earning badges in different ROBLOX games. One of them is going to be really difficult though! Want a clue on the next gift? Maybe check your settings and see if your email is verified … We’ll be giving out clues for some of the other gifts here on the blog, as well as on our Twitter and Facebook pages , so now’s a good time to go follow them!
| December 1, 2015 -
New Shadows Bring More Realistic Effects to Humanoids
ROBLOX is all about iteration. Whenever we work on any features – including all rendering features – we usually have a vision for the future, like how ROBLOX games will look on different platforms in a few years – and then we take bite-sized pieces of this vision and execute it. Shadows are no exception. Since time immemorial, ROBLOX supported character shadows via a technique known as stencil shadows. This resulted in nice hard-edged shadows that followed the character geometry perfectly. However, the technique had several issues – it was not very fast, it was not very robust – on some character meshes you could see strange inverted shadows – and, most importantly, it was hard to integrate it with our lighting solution.
| November 24, 2015 -
BLOXgiving Has Arrived!
ROBLOX is pleased to announce this year’s The Good Dinosaur to bring some thunderous prehistoric fun to this year’s event! Why? Because, who doesn’t love dinosaurs, that’s why. Search throughout our Bloxgiving themed games, and try to find The Good Dinosaur inspired item hidden in each game. Find them and you’ll have awesome new clothes to rock during Bloxgiving! Head into the mines of The Good Dinosaur and you’ll have a stylish headpiece for all future Bloxgivings. Build your own banquet hall to house your Bloxgiving festivities in Celebrate Bloxgiving the way our Robloxian forefathers would have wanted –
| November 17, 2015 -
ROBLOX Game Spotlight: Blocked Out
Sound the alarms, ready your towers, and prepare to get blocked out! This week I’m bringing you the ultimate in tower defense games. Created by ScriptOn, this is Blocked Out ! Keep reading this spotlight for all the highlights of the game and to hear my insights on what makes this game a must play on ROBLOX!
| November 14, 2015 -
The ROBLOX Shop & T-Shirt Design Contest!
The holiday season is fast approaching, and you’re likely already making your wish list, or thinking about what to get for a loved one or friend. ROBLOX has always offered a seasonal store around the holidays, but this year we’re going all out. We’re pleased to announce the brand new Check out
| November 11, 2015 -
Announcing New Physical Material Properties
Materials on parts have always been a part of ROBLOX, but short of changing appearance of the parts these materials provided little influence to actual gameplay. When the update rolls out, users using the new system will find that picking a PartMaterial now affects the elasticity, friction, and density of objects to better match the real-life material! Fear not, those of you that like to customize every facet of their game will still be able to customize Friction and Elasticity of their parts, with the added ability to customize Density as well!
| November 10, 2015 -
New Chats and Parties Make Playing With Friends Easier Than Ever
Today we’re testing out a brand new site feature on ROBLOX that will make it easier for you to chat and play games with your friends. The new chats and parties system is a complete overhaul, adding new functionality and a slick new design. We’ve turned on our new chat and party system, and will be testing it for the rest of the week. You can expect this feature to become permanent after we finish the testing. If you find any issues or bugs, let us know in the comments!
| October 15, 2015 -
Creator Showcase: Mountebank Draws Inspiration from Japanese Architecture and Disney Films
Creator Showcases are a series of blog posts highlighting the works of some of ROBLOX’s best showcase artists. If you know of builders out there who deserve recognition, link us to one of their places in the comments below! Often times on ROBLOX we tend to focus on the awesome games that players participate in daily (I mean who doesn’t love a good round of Twisted Murder, am I right?). However, there are amazing developers who create worlds of their own which aren’t related to games at all. Mountebank’s showcase
| September 29, 2015 -
ROBLOX Game Review: Lumber Tycoon 2
How much wood could a woodchuck chuck? I don’t know, I’m not a woodchuck. However, I am a RO-Lumberjack, and you can be one too! At Defaultio’s “
| September 25, 2015 -
ROBLOX Coming to Xbox One
From our beginnings on PC, ROBLOX and our creators have pushed the boundaries of Community Created Gaming. We’ve expanded to Mac, iOS, Android and other mobile platforms. Each time we added a platform, more players from all over the world were able to join the ROBLOX community and play together. And for years, we’ve been looking forward to making the leap to a major console… Well, that day is now just around the corner.
| September 24, 2015 -
New Profile Pages Add New Features for Interacting With Friends
You may have noticed something very different when you went to a friend’s profile page on ROBLOX.com. That’s right, we’ve completely redesigned the profile page, as part of our ongoing makeover to make ROBLOX easier to use, and nicer to look...
| September 3, 2015 -
Get a head start on your ROBLOX Halloween costume with the help of Hotel Transylvania 2
This week, walk the runway in ROBLOX Top Model or chill at the beach in Beach House Roleplay and you may find Drac Bat or a Vampire collar. Find both to alternate between these two perfectly ghoulish items. Plus you can be like Dennis in the m...
| August 31, 2015 -
Meet the Creators of ROBLOX Deathrun
Have you ever wondered who made your favorite games on ROBLOX, and how they got their ideas? We want to know too, which is why we host a bi-weekly show on Twitch dedicated to interviewing the developers of awesome ROBLOX games, and playing with them. It’s called The Creator Show and it airs every other Friday at 2 p.m. Pacific on twitch.tv/ROBLOX . This episode featured two of the guys behind the hugely popular Deathrun series, Wsly and Zomebody . With the launch of their third entry into the series, ROBLOX Deathrun , we brought them on the show to talk about what it’s like working as a team, and what challenges go into making a game like Deathrun.
| August 23, 2015 -
The 2015 BLOXY Awards Are Coming!
UPDATE: In our excitement to announce the BLOXY Awards, we accidentally left off a couple of important awards from our list, namely Best Action Video, Best Music Video, and Video of the Year! Check the list for the new, updated category list! The ...
| July 22, 2015