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Twitch April Leaderboards Are Here, and the Numbers Keep Rising
Another month has passed, which means we have new numbers to report from the wacky world of Twitch.tv. All of you are doing a fantastic job capturing your ROBLOX moments on Twitch, and we’re thrilled to see increased activity and involvement —...
| May 6, 2014 -
The Apocalypse Games: Gusmanak’s Beta Experiment
Apocalypse Games has just been released and is already taking the Games page by storm. The highly anticipated unofficial sequel to Gusmanak’s smash hit Apocalypse Rising isn’t quite what you’d expect — this is a much more goal oriented, f...
| May 5, 2014 -
ROBLOX Just Got Prettier: New Textures Unify Terrain and Parts
See terrain with a new set of eyes. Pictured here? The KlamKnights HQ , a part of their universe of games. In an effort to unify the visual aesthetic of ROBLOX, we’ve revamped all of our terrain textures. That means grass, sand, bricks, stone a...
| April 24, 2014 -
The Point of Points: Here Come the Clans… and More
Last week, we unveiled Player Points, a platform-wide score that every gamer on ROBLOX can improve by achieving certain objectives in games. This is an exciting addition to ROBLOX, in that it creates a competitive, platform-wide meta game
| April 22, 2014 -
Why Daxter33’s Paintball! Is the Biggest ROBLOX FPS Yet
Paintball! is far and away one of the biggest titles ever to hit ROBLOX, and for good reason. The game features a competitive and addicting style of first-person warfare that is unlike any other game on our platform, and the core gameplay mechani...
| April 19, 2014 -
Live This Week: The Next Level (4/9) and BLOXcast (4/12)
This week, we’re broadcasting two live shows on our Twitch channel: an episode of The Next Level on Wednesday, April 9th (starting at roughly 2 p.m. Pacific Time), and the April edition of our monthly BLOXcast on Saturday, April 12th (starting...
| April 8, 2014 -
Rukiryo’s Game-Dev Experiments Pay Off
Skies of Steam by Rukiryo. Fueled by ROBLOX. If you’ve spent time on ROBLOX, Rukiryo is a name you’ve probably seen before. He’s the mastermind behind several very different games that have each attracted a following — and well over 6.5 m...
| April 7, 2014 -
Devs Can Now Double Their Earnings with DevEx
Since the launch of our Developer Exchange late last year, both the number of creators participating and the payouts have been increasing every month.
| April 03, 2014 -
Find Us at the USA Science & Engineering Festival in April
In addition to having a booth at the largest science and engineering festival later this month, our first player-organized BLOX Faire is happening this weekend in Greenbelt, Maryland. Keep reading for more information on both events. We’re just...
| April 2, 2014 -
10K/100K Live Giveaway Coming Soon (With Your Help)
Where much of the magic happens. [Update: we’ve hit our marks of 10,000 Twitch followers and 100,000 YouTube subscribers. Giveaway coming soon. Thanks!] We’re close to reaching a couple big milestones – 10,000 followers on Twitch and 100,0...
| March 25, 2014 -
Who’s Ruling the Twitch Streaming Leaderboards (So Far)?
As announced two weeks ago today, we’ve launched Twitch broadcaster leaderboards, giving ROBLOX players an opportunity to earn cash and prizes for streaming their gameplay to Twitch. (Yes, cash for playing video games. We live in good times.) W...
| March 15, 2014 -
Tools for Creating Multi-place Games, Developer Products
In the last month, our teams have released a series of features that amplify the power ROBLOX developers have to make great games and profit off their success . While we’ve provided cursory instruction and responded to a number of your high-le...
| March 14, 2014 -
The Doors to Massive, Multi-Place, Ever-Expanding Games Are Open
With an integrated development environment, multi-platform support, and a global cloud of multiplayer game servers that auto-scales to hundreds of thousands of concurrent players, ROBLOX is one of the easiest and most opportunity-rich platforms on...
| March 3, 2014 -
Mad Studio: A Small Team Making Massive Waves
Game development is becoming increasingly democratized, seemingly by the day. While the industry was once dominated by large studios with limited throughput of blockbuster titles, today we see small studios and even single individuals developing
| February 19, 2014 -
The Making of the Winter Games
As you’ve no doubt heard, the official ROBLOX Winter Games have begun. This is a first for ROBLOX in many regards — this marks the first official demo of our new Game Universe technology
| February 02, 2014 -
Starting February, We’ll Pay You $2,000/Month to Make Great Games
If you’ve been following any of the stories about ROBLOX in the press this week, you’ve no doubt heard rumblings and rumors of a potential increase in the maximum monthly payout from our Developer Exchange program. Let it be known that the...
| January 29, 2014 -
Using Plugins Just Got 10x Easier
If you’ve spent a considerable amount of time using ROBLOX Studio, there’s a good chance you’ve used plugins to expedite certain processes. Many plugins are made right here at HQ and are bundled into Studio (e.g., the terrain stamper), while...
| January 16, 2014