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Return to Haunted Hill
ROBLOX veterans will remember Haunted Hill, the mansion I built last October for Halloween. This was before people got to run their own multiplayer games, so getting a new level was exciting back then. Yesterday, Haunted Hill was the site of a s...
| November 1, 2007 -
Costume Party A Go-Go!!!
Wow. We got a lot of people coming to the costume party now! I guess they heard it was THE place to be. Telamon’s been handing out hats at the door. We have so many people I’m going to have to break it down a little differently than before. T...
| October 23, 2007 -
Get The Party Started
Here are the partiers lined up next to their exciting door prizes! Telamon handed out some hats today based on what tickled his fancy. Thanks to all of you who have submitted Roblox related costumes so far! The party goes until noon on Nov 1, so f...
| October 16, 2007 -
Roblox Costume Party Oct 13
New to the party… zap123 as CPRULEZ – before he got a witch hat. Strongboy9 as JJ5x5. Thanks to everyone who’s sent in pictures. This party is going great! Let’s go ov...
| October 13, 2007 -
User Survey Closed
We had hundreds of people answer our user survey yesterday. It was cool to watch the answers come in. We learned a lot of valuable information that will go into sculpting the development of ROBLOX. Here are some interesting facts from the survey:...
| October 10, 2007 -
New Sheriff in Town
a ReeseMcBlox is our new Community Manager. The ROBLOX community has grown quite a bit in the past couple of months and it’s high time we got someone to help look after it. ReeseMcBlox is going to be heading up the moderation team, hanging out in the forums, answering questions that users might have, and possibly running some contests. She’s pretty friendly, so say “hi!” if you happen to see her around. - Telamon a
| September 4, 2007 -
A Farewell to Interns…
Stoecker and Clockwork both finished their interships with us this past Friday. Clockwork is returning to his senior year in high school. Stoecker is going to be a senior at Stanford, where he will be wrapping up his degree in Computer Science. Bo...
| August 22, 2007 -
August 2007 Paintball Tournament Results
First Place – Super Mario Strikers The Super Mario Strikers each take home 2500 R$, a year’s BC membership, and the August 2007 PBT Trophy! MetalMarioArthropodablXhdZonjiape911 Second Place – Rogues of Robloxia The Rogues of Robloxia eac...
| August 17, 2007 -
Paintball Tournament Updates!
Saturday, Saturday, Saturday! Incredible paintball action! Skilled atheletes, armed to the teeth, will compete for distinction! Eight teams enter the gauntlet. Only one can win! It’s all going down August 11th and 12th. Mark your calendars! Mi...
| August 9, 2007 -
1.47 Million ROBUX
We introduced currency into our game about 80 days ago. Since then, more than 1.47M ROBUX have been earned by players. This figure does not include admins and most of this money was earned via place visits.There are currently 741,990 ROBUX in ...
| July 27, 2007 -
Humorous Video Contest Results
The results are in from the Roblox 1st International Humorous Video Contest! The judges picked three very funny movies: 1st place: “Roblox Gone Crazy” by JJ5x5 Congratulations on winning R$1000 and a custom hat! We hope that singling you out ...
| July 25, 2007 -
Roblox Nation: 40,000 Strong
Great news! Yesterday a user named StickArena became our 40,000 th account. We’ve granted him a small bonus of 400 R$. Here’s an interesting fact: If Robloxia were a real country, we would rank 211th in population out of 238 countries that...
| July 23, 2007 -
Roblox Video Contest Judging Begins…
We should know the results of the video contest by Wednesday! Check out all the great contest submissions on YouTube. Stoecker has chosen 17 judges from everyone who applied to be a judge for this contest. The judges are: kjj86 ninetailfox jasmin...
| July 23, 2007 -
RocketPropulsion
There’s a new “RocketPropulsion†object in town. It works similarly to the BodyGyro and BodyPosition objects, but this one moves a part around in a manner not unlike a rocket. For a sample of this new feature, visit my place...
| June 28, 2007 -
Tips & Tricks: How to Get More Place Visits
As a builder, nothing is more satisfying to me than to see that a place of mine has been visited hundreds of times in the past day. Building a cool place takes a lot of time and effort, but the knowledge that hundreds of people are enjoying someth...
| June 20, 2007 -
DRBC Winners!
Ok, here’s the deal. Two unexpected things happened in this contest: there were more entrants that we anticipated, and there was quite a number of people visiting their own places to drive up visit counts (future contests will not be decided ...
| June 13, 2007 -
Hats Stats
Clockwork and I have been monitoring the Roblox economy since hats were released yesterday. There have been 1472 sales completed since the release. Not surprisingly, the top seller is the red hat. However, the most profitable item at the moment is...
| May 31, 2007