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Robloxian Lottery (Current Pot: R$2500)
The Roblox team will be hosting a lottery over the next week. At 4:00 PM (Pacific) on Tuesday, July 10th, one lucky winner will be chosen to receive a prize of at least R$2500.
| July 03, 2007 -
User Marketplace, Capture the Flag, and Heat Seeking Rockets
We put a new release of Roblox online around 2pm yesterday. After making sure everything was running fine, we went to our design meeting without telling anyone what we had done.
| June 29, 2007 -
RocketPropulsion
There’s a new “RocketPropulsion†object in town. It works similarly to the BodyGyro and BodyPosition objects, but this one moves a part around in a manner not unlike a rocket. For a sample of this new feature, visit my place...
| June 28, 2007 -
New Offices
Today we’ve made the switch to larger office accomodations. Once we’ve settled in, we’ll be pushing out a new release. We will also be upgrading a select few additional accounts to Builder’s Club status, as per miked’s formula
| June 27, 2007 -
Tips & Tricks: How to Get More Place Visits
As a builder, nothing is more satisfying to me than to see that a place of mine has been visited hundreds of times in the past day. Building a cool place takes a lot of time and effort, but the knowledge that hundreds of people are enjoying someth...
| June 20, 2007 -
Roblox Market Report
Time for another report on Robloxia’s developing economy.
| June 18, 2007 -
The Builder’s Club Formula Contest Results!
Well, we have finally chosen a formula: Miked’s.
| June 18, 2007 -
The Builder’s Club Formula Contest
I’m kickin’ it back at Roblox Central, writing some C++ code, minding my own business, when all of a sudden Matt announces he’s ready to demo the new feature he’s been working on for the past week or so.
| June 15, 2007 -
Robloxia: 30,000 Strong And Growing
Roblox added it’s 30,000th user on June 13. We’ve awarded this user, dazoingoz, a 500 Ro$ prize for this because the Roblox Team is feeling pretty good about having 30,000 users.
| June 14, 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 -
The Roblox Team Grows
Everyone welcome Wookong to the Roblox team! He’s a 3D graphics guru and is going to help us take our graphics system to the next level (yay!) If you see him around, say “Hi!” Don’t bother him with tech support questions, though.
| June 13, 2007 -
Domino Building Contest Updates
104 accounts have entered the Domino Rally Building Contest, roughly twice the number of contestants we had in our last serious building contest. The Domino contest will run until midnight this Sunday.
| June 05, 2007 -
Domino Rally Building Contest
Hio! A new building contest is upon us!
| June 2, 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 -
Robloxian Hat Dance!
Rejoice! A new release is upon us! What’s new?
| May 30, 2007 -
Sneak Peek: Hats
Straight from my debug build of Roblox to your browser...
| May 23, 2007 -
ROBLOX ROBUX REDUX
ROBUX were released last Monday and as I write this an incredible 96,251 RO$ are in circulation. The Roblox tycoons on the top 20 list control 21,480 RO$, or 22.3% of all currency. There are 140 Robloxians who have more than 100 RO$.
| May 21, 2007