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Game Development Internship Available!
Are you an code monkey? You could be having as much fun as this guy, all summer long, with a game dev internship at ROBLOX HQ in Redwood City, CA. You’ll get a lot of great experience working at a small game studio. Your work will be shipped t...
| April 30, 2008 -
Spring Block Party Winners
This event was to celebrate Spring, parties, and fun. All the entries can be seen over at the But before we get to the good stuff… p Winners of the People’s Choice Prize These winners were picked by you, the players! They are the people’s choice for best entries. They each had more than 20 votes and were ranked by average vote. Each will receive the By Category… strong strong strong strong strong Winners of the Parade Prize Parade winners were chosen by the ROBLOX Staff. Each of these players will receive Everyone who entered and still has an entry on the Event Site will receive this stylish and pointy hat. We hope you enjoyed this ROBLOX event. So many of the entries were awesome and creative. It really was hard to pick between them. We can’t wait to bring you more fun and exciting events! -ReeseMcBlox a
| April 28, 2008 -
Spring Block Party Parade 3
The party is in full swing for Spring! You can check out all the fun stuff going on over at the event site Gallery . There is a lot of great stuff there! All the users who entered will receive the Party Hat. The voting is closed at the event site ...
| April 28, 2008 -
ROBLOX Brings You…
embed Being a real clothes horse myself, I recognize the hitherto unmentionable tragedy that is the ROBLOXian fashion scene. It’s dismal. I say to you now ROBLOXia, no more! ROBLOX brings you shiny new shirts and pants! But that’s not all! Look at this long list of improvements we’ve made to ROBLOX in the past two weeks… strong strong Anyone can purchase new shirts and pants in the There’s a more First go to your character customization page. You’ll notice that you now have a wardrobe that shows all of your clothes by type. Click the type of item you would like to create (Shirts or Pants). Then click "Create". Alright. Now you’ll see a screen that looks like this: First you need to download the shirt template to your computer. This is a picture that you draw on to create you own shirt. I personally use a very old version of Paint Shop Pro to create my shirts. You can use whichever image editing program you like. Once you’ve painted your shirt, click the "Browse" button to select your shirt file and click "Create Shirt". The shirt will show up in your wardrobe. Congrats! You’ve made your first new shirt! strong You’ll notice that the Shirt Template file you download looks crazy and has lots of pretty colors. Fear not — You are about to become a 3D graphics artist! The basic idea here is that the shirt template is "folded" up and wrapped around your character, like origami. If you were to print out the template below, you could cut out all the colored rectangles, tape them together, and create a real-life 3D shirt. That’s what ROBLOX does for you - once you upload your shirt template image. If you’re still confused, check out the strong Old shirts are now called "T-Shirts". You can still wear them. You can even wear a T-Shirt and a Shirt at the same time! At the moment T-Shirts are draw on top of regular shirts - this doesn’t make sense and will probably change in a future release. strong Another sweet feature we snuck in this release is Favorites. A Favorite is a way to bookmark places (and things) that you like so that you can easily find them in the future. Never again hunt for You can also delete favorites so that your list of bookmarks doesn’t get cluttered. Pretty cool. We are hoping that this feature will help promote levels that everyone knows are fun, but that don’t get played anymore because they can’t get to the top of the Most Popular Now page. We also think its fun to browse our friend’s pages and see what their favorite ROBLOX games are. So fav+ a few things and show off your good taste! strong In conclusion, ROBLOX has just gotten 37% more awesome. Enjoy! - Telamon a
| April 24, 2008 -
ROBLOX Brings You…
Being a real clothes horse myself, I recognize the hitherto unmentionable tragedy that is the ROBLOXian fashion scene. It’s dismal. I say to you now ROBLOXia, no more! ROBLOX brings you shiny new shirts and pants! But that’s not all! Look at t...
| April 24, 2008 -
Spring Block Party Parade 2
The party is in full swing for Spring! You can check out all the fun stuff going on over at the Be sure to go to the event site and VOTE on your favorite entries. The top entries of each category will receive a special hat. The categories are p These are just a few of the things we noticed at the Spring Block Party. There will be more parades. Each of these users will receive 200 Robux! Entries Videos News and Articles a a Special thanks to Wirodeu for managing the carrot project, which caused many people to dress up as carrots, create carrot models, and make carrot places for Spring! -ReeseMcBlox a
| April 23, 2008 -
Spring Block Party Parade 1
The party is in full swing for Spring! You can check out all the fun stuff going on over at the Be sure to go to the event site and VOTE on your favorite entries. The top entries of each category will receive a special hat. The categories are These are just a few of the things we noticed at the Spring Block Party. There will be more parades. Each of these users will receive 200 Robux! Entries Videos a p -ReeseMcBlox a
| April 20, 2008 -
Keep Your Password Safe
It’s super important that your password is a secret. It’s like the keys to your house, or in this case the keys to all your special ROBLOX stuff. What is a password scam? A password scam is when someone tries to get your password in a sneaky way. Usually try to be your friend and offer you help of some kind. Or maybe they threaten or bully you. People can also change your password if you stay logged in at your computer when you are not there. The person who gets your password may not be nice! They might… A password scammer is not a scary hacker. It doesn’t take any computer skills to do this crime. Most scammers look just like the other users so it’s best to be careful and not tell anyone your password, no matter what. em What can you do? Your password should not be one of the following things… your first name, last name, username, birthday, zip code, sisters name, brothers name, or just asdfg or 123456. It should be more like one of the following things… Then you memorize the password. If you need to write it down, give the paper to your parent to keep safe. -ReeseMcBlox a
| April 16, 2008 -
Spring Block Party
It’s time for another fun ROBLOX images event! Will there be prizes? Of course! ROBLOX is hosting an online Block Party – and everyone gets show pictures of something they have built for the party. What to Enter We’re looking for a screensho...
| April 9, 2008 -
Verified Sparkle Places - Fantastic Release
Another great ROBLOX release is upon us! What’s new? strong Places and models now work a lot more like our other asset types. They appear on the catalog, they appear in your My Stuff section of your profile, and users can comment on them. There will be additional improvements in these areas in future releases. strong Users now have the option to verify their email addresses. You can do this by clicking the “Verify Email” link on your Edit Profile page. A message will be sent to your account’s current email address. Clicking on the link in the email will let you verify your email address. Email verification is completely optional - you don’t need to give us a real email address in order to play ROBLOX. However, there are some good reasons to verify your email: strong We’ve added two experimental objects to ROBLOX that you might have some fun playing with. These objects are still under development and will probably change in the future. The The I’ve thrown together - Telamon a
| April 2, 2008 -
ROBLOX Direct
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| March 24, 2008 -
User Twenty-two
You can send him ideas - but don’t make demands! He’s already just as busy as the rest of the team. Keith was formerly an Aeronautics and Astronautics engineer. He has a family and lives locally to ROBLOX. He also likes Batman the original TV show! We hope you’ll make him feel welcome! -ReeseMcBlox a
| March 24, 2008 -
More Egg Hunt Hints
Our last scheduled Roblox egg hunt is running right now! Eggs will be raining from the sky until approximately 3pm PST, 6pm EST. At this point, everyone has figured out how most of the eggs work. Here’s some hints for capturing some of the harder ones: strong This haughty egg won’t let you pick it up unless you look like royalty. That means you need to be wearing a crown of some sort. You can use the strong This giant egg falls from the sky, crushing anything it lands on. The trick to getting this egg is to have patience. Every 30 seconds or so the egg will diminish in size. When it gets to be the same size as the other eggs, it is safe to pick up. Trying to pick it up before it gets small is not recommended. strong This egg flies around and shoots homing rockets at random players. Sometimes it will fade out of existence briefly, create a huge explosion, then pop back. This egg can either be very easy or very hard to get, depending where you are. If it is on the ground, or if you are in a level with jetboots or teleporting tools, it’s easy. If it’s hovering 50 studs above the baseplate and you have no way of reaching it, it’s hard. strong Ok, so it doesn’t really look like an egg. It’s actually a 20-sided die. If you check out the - Telamon a
| March 23, 2008 -
Egg Madness!
Here’s a scorecard for our egg hunt thus far. Over 7000 players have successfully located at least one egg. The next egg hunt will take place tomorrow. Check out my previous post to see the schedule. strong strong The above eggs appear in the “Recently Updated” section of the Catalog, but don’t actually exist. I put them in to fake out people who were watching my every move as I was setting up the Egg Hunt contest. This contest goes to 11. strong The Touching the egg makes it turn red, and then it drops a chessboard on you. The board shows a position where white can force a win in 2 moves. Say the winning move aloud, and the board and egg will turn green. Now you can pick up the egg. There are a couple of different chess puzzles, but each user will always see the same one. So if you can’t figure it out in-game, you can think about it for a while and be ready when it appears again. strong a The best way to get this egg is to be in a map with some friendly people who will help you out. You can also look for groups of them, that way everyone in your posse can touch each of the sharing eggs and everyone can get one. - Telamon a
| March 21, 2008 -
Eggstravaganza!
ROBLOX is hosting an egg hunt! strong The egg hunt will be happening strong strong strong Eggs may show up intermittently at other times, but the above times are the scheduled egg hunt hours. At these times, there will be lots of eggs to be found. We apologize ahead of time to serious bloxxers and miked paintball fanatics for egging your game. strong Now for the twist… There are Some of them, like the Other eggs, like the mysterious - Telamon a
| March 20, 2008 -
Sneak Peek?
embed Here’s a video showcasing one of the many exciting things that we are currently working on. Coming to you in an upcoming release! - Telamon a
| March 17, 2008 -
Mt. ROBLOX Diaries
Travelogue to strong It’s getting late; we should take one picture then turn in. Let me climb up there now. strong strong strong strong strong strong And directly after this picture of us on top of the mountain was taken, a stray teapot injured our photographer, Masterchiefy, and he had to be airlifted to Chel’s Seattle Grace Hospital. The paramedic said he will make a full recovery, and was lucky to have been with other people when this happened. We are going to head down now, and we will visit Masterchiefy at the hospital. We have to rush, so I’m going to end here for today. strong If I were to rate the time I had at Mt. Roblox, forgetting the tragic event that occurred, I would give it a 7 out of 10, because although I had a great time, the idea got boring quickly, and took a very long time to do. All and all, I may visit again, but not very often. I’ll stop writing now, before I fall asleep. em -ReeseMcBlox a
| March 17, 2008