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A little help around here?
Please welcome our new A-team moderator PontifX! He’s local to the ROBLOX HQ area and is helping us with the increased traffic. PontifX has a banhammer and knows how to use it! He splits time between ROBLOX moderation and testing for another game company. I bet if you ask nicely he’ll tell you all that he can, you know, without breaking his non-disclosure agreements and stuff. -ReeseMcBlox a
| December 22, 2007 -
Use the Force… Fields.
We put out a new release yesterday. There’s a lot of updates in it: strong A ForceField is an object that makes all sibling and descendant objects in the Explorer invincible, drawing a pulsing boxy field around them. Invincible parts/models cannot be blown apart by explosions. Invincible humanoids do not take damage that is applied by the Humanoid:TakeDamage(amount) function. All official ROBLOX weapons have been updated to use TakeDamage rather than setting the Humanoid’s health directly (using Humanoid.Health = Humanoid.Health - damage). If you want your custom weapons to respect the ForceField, you will need to make this change in your scripts. Contrawise, you can make weapons that ignore ForceFields by continuing to set the Humanoid health property directly. The main purpose of ForceFields in this release is to prevent spawnkilling. By default, all SpawnLocations put a 10 second ForceField on any character who spawns there. SpawnLocations now have a ForceField Duration property, which you can use to tweak this number (or set it to 0 if you want to allow spawnkilling). The concept of Force Fields will be developed more fully in future releases and we will be adding properties to them so you can customize their look and behavoir more. strong We shipped Wookong’s brand new shadows in the last release but didn’t tell anyone about them. They are much more robust in this release, so we’ll tell you guys how to turn them on if you want to experiment. They’re still in development, so there may be some odd bugs. They work great for me. If you screw things up, you can always click the “Reset All Settings” button on this dialog box to put everything back the way it was before. You’ll need a decent graphics card to really enjoy shadows. Anything from past four years should probably work fine. Milage may vary. Some exclusions apply. See support forums for details. - Telamon a
| December 21, 2007 -
Winter Wonderland Parade 1
It’s time to start the parade of Winter Wonderland Showing entries. These are the entries that are Here are some of the entries. The rest will be shown in another parade. These were a lot of fun to visit! I hope other people will check them out as well and maybe get ideas and have a good time. Click on the picture to go to the place page. Entries will still be accepted until Jan 4. See the -ReeseMcBlox a
| December 19, 2007 -
Winter Wonderland Competitors
People have been wondering if we got the emails from competing players. Well, here are the names we have so far. Keep in mind these are the people competing for Fame, Rank, and Prizes. Not everyone will be a winner. The official contest post is The judges will be checking out these places over the next 2 weeks. If your place isn’t done yet say so in the description so they don’t waste time looking around. em -ReeseMcBlox a
| December 16, 2007 -
ROBLOX Winter Wonderland Contest
It’s a building contest. Hooray! The theme is wintery holiday type stuff, so get your creative wheels spinning and show us what you can do with the idea of a Winter Wonderland. Make a place that’s fun for you and your friends to play in!
| December 13, 2007 -
ROBLOX Winter Wonderland Contest
It’s a building contest. Hooray! The theme is wintery holiday type stuff, so get your creative wheels spinning and show us what you can do with the idea of a Winter Wonderland. Make a place that’s fun for you and your friends to play in! strong Each contestant will build a Winter Wonderland. What will go into your Wonderland? Here are some ideas: You can use existing models and anything published to the Toolbox in your creation. Entries will be judged according to: Judges will be pulled from the ROBLOX staff and possibly some of the mod team. strong We have something new for this contest… Two Entry Classes! strong strong All entries are judged by the ROBLOX Team. p Q: Will Builder’s Club be one of the prizes? Q: Can I enter more than once? Q: Can I enter the Competing and Showing class? Q: Can I use my other account? Q: Can we send you a PM instead of an email? Q: Do I have to use the previously published Stronghold? The contest starts now! It ends on January 4 at noon Pacific time. The results will be announced on Monday January 7. I can’t wait to start seeing what you guys come up with this time. Have fun! - ReeseMcBlox a
| December 13, 2007 -
ROBLOX Winter Wonderland Contest
It’s a building contest. Hooray! The theme is wintery holiday type stuff, so get your creative wheels spinning and show us what you can do with the idea of a Winter Wonderland. Make a place that’s fun for you and your friends to play in! Wint...
| December 13, 2007 -
Wrapping Up the Gifts
Now that all the ROBLOX holiday gifts have gone out, it’s time to clue you in on what the gifts are and how they work. Over the past two weeks, people have randomly been finding gifts in their Stuff collection. You got a gift if you met a certain condition at the time when the gift was being given out. The condition was different for every gift. Each gift will be on sale in the Catalog for a couple more days. Then they will be removed from the Catalog. Each gift will open sometime after that and reveal what is inside. Due to popular demand, you will be able to keep the boxes (some might even argue that the boxes are the real collector’s item). Here’s a list of all the gifts. “Number awarded” is the total number of people who got the gift for free. For the most part, “dead” accounts were not issued gifts. a strong Number awarded: 48454 Who got it: All accounts that never had a 3 day ban or worse placed on their account. a strong Number awarded: 2766 Who got it: All accounts with the Bloxxer Badge (KOs > 250 and KOs > WOs). a strong Number awared: 1521 Who got it: All accounts that owned a pink hat. These were all hats that were pink or hot pink or purplish-pink, but not the Music Theory book, which is purple and not pink. You didn’t need to be wearing it. a strong Number awared: 174 Who got it: All accounts that messaged JohnCarmack prior to the cutoff time. The content of the message did not matter, you just had to send one. How were you supposed to figure that out? You weren’t. Not really. It’s surprising so many people did. They saw the a strong Number awared: 367 Who got it: All accounts that owned a place, model, or shirt with the word “tree” in either the description or the title. This was the first gift that people had trouble figuring out the condition for. a strong Number awarded: 601 Who got it: All accounts with an elite number of profile views - that is to say 1337 or more profile views. Har har. a strong Number awared: 5051 Who got it: All accounts whose user number was prime. Interestingly, due to the distribution of prime numbers, the earlier you joined ROBLOX, the higher your odds of receiving this gift were. Using the a strong Number awared: 710 Who got it: All accounts with more than 100 messages sitting in their inbox. It didn’t matter if they were read or unread. Messages to yourself were not counted, nor were friend requests. a strong Number awarded: 3348 Who got it: All accounts with the Homestead Badge (100 or more visits to your place total). a strong Number awarded: 1774 Who got it: All accounts that had ever used the word “awesome” on the site. This included account names/descriptions, shirt names/descriptions, place names/descriptions, comments, and forum posts. Correct spelling was a must. So basically anyone who said they wanted the awesome gift got one :-) The idea behind the gifts was not that people would collect them all - I don’t think anyone got them all for free. Some of them were meant to be easy to get, others hard. Some were meant to be obvious, others cryptic. I tried to make most gifts the sort that new players had just as good of a chance of getting as veterans. At the end of the day, who can argue with getting free stuff? - Telamon a
| December 12, 2007 -
Need More ROBLOX News?
a Check out ROBLOX News is a professional-looking site that features interviews with players, updates on contests, reviews of places, and commentary on daily comings and goings inside of Robloxia. We like it so much, we’ve added ROBLOX News to our blog roll. - Telamon a
| December 11, 2007 -
Welcome Aboard!
It’s a time of great excitement and change here at ROBLOX. We’re proud to introduce a new Developer to the team, noob007. He’s a .NET and C# programmer who is moving with his family from Boston to come work at ROBLOX HQ.
| December 8, 2007 -
World’s Fair Winners – Lands of Tomorrow
These are the winners of the Lands of Tomorrow category – places people would like to see in the future of ROBLOX. These entries were judged for the idea, the construction, and the writing of how it would work.
| December 7, 2007 -
World’s Fair Winners – Dogs of War
These are the winners of the Dogs of War category – Tools, Armor and Weapons people would like to see in the future of ROBLOX. These entries were judged for the idea, the construction, and the writing of how it would work.
| December 7, 2007 -
World’s Fair Winners – Captains of Industry
These are the winners of the Captains of Industry category – Vehicles (including Watercraft, Aircraft and Spacecraft) people would like to see in the future of ROBLOX.
| December 07, 2007 -
World’s Fair Winners – Tests of Bravado
These are the winners of the Test of Bravado – Obstacles, Rides and Traps that people would like to see in the future of ROBLOX. These entries were judged for the idea, the construction, and the writing of how it would work.
| December 07, 2007 -
World’s Fair Winners – Bizarre Bestiary
These are the winners of the Bizarre Bestiary category – Creatures, Robots and Monsters people would like to see in the future of ROBLOX. These entries were judged for the idea, the construction, and the writing of how it would work.
| December 7, 2007 -
World’s Fair Closed for Judging
The bad news is that no more entries will be accepted. The good news is that over 100 players entered the ROBLOX Better Tomorrow World’s Fair. It’s amazing! I think you’ll all be surprised how many entries there are for certain categories.
| December 05, 2007 -
World’s Fair Closed for Judging
The bad news is that no more entries will be accepted. The good news is that over 100 players entered the ROBLOX Better Tomorrow World’s Fair. It’s amazing! I think you’ll all be surprised how many entries there are for certain categories. The results of the contest will be posted by Category within a couple days. The Robux prize will be delivered a few days after the winners are announced. Don’t ask me how many Robux it is ‘cuz I’m not gonna tell you yet. Remember, it’s only one prize per player no matter how many entries, and they don’t stack. -ReeseMcBlox a
| December 5, 2007