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Smooth Terrain and New Horizons
We’ve got some new and exciting updates for you! Since Smooth Terrain’s release back in May, we’ve seen the quality and immersion of worlds on Roblox soar. To keep up with the overwhelming use of the tools, we’ve made a few upgrades. These updates give the tools new functionality, make them easier to use, and make them more fun to play with. Lets dive in! Something simple we added to help speed up workflow, is the material picker. When using any of the brush tools, you can easily select materials from the terrain itself by holding Alt and clicking on the terrain. This allows you to quickly sample different materials while staying in the flow of painting and shaping.
| December 10, 2015 -
Nominations for the 2015 BLOXY Awards are Open!
The 2015 BLOXY Awards , a celebration of the talented creators in our community, takes place on January 16, 2016. This livestreamed event honors and showcases the coolest ROBLOX games and places, the funniest videos, the most impressive groups, and more. In years past we’ve held separate awards for games and video content, but this year we decided to combine them, and expand them, making the 2015 BLOXYs the biggest award ceremony we’ve ever done. Nominations for this year’s awards are now officially open, and you can elect your favorite games, groups, videos and more. The link to the entry form is down below, and nominations are open until Sunday, December 13 . Two categories, Breakout Game and Best Update need to be for games that were either created/updated in 2015. This is also true for art and videos. For EVERY other award category, all games are eligible. To nominate a game, YouTube video, piece of art, or whatever, simply copy paste the URL into the entry form in the corresponding box. The image below provides a guideline. Got it? Pretty easy! You don’t need to nominate entries in every category, so no worries there. But you can only nominate once so make sure you fill in everything you want before you submit. Forgot the categories? Check the announcement blog for a refresher . And that’s about it. Have fun nominating entries, and if you’re a content creator we highly encourage you to promote yourself and your content (more nominations mean more likelihood you’ll be a finalist!) Use the hashtag #BLOXYAwards and join the discussion!
| December 8, 2015 -
Check Out The Winners of the ROBLOX T-Shirt Design Contest
The moment you’ve all been waiting for is here! We’re excited to announce the winners of our first every ROBLOX T-Shirt Design contest. The three lucky shirts chosen by you guys, the ROBLOX community, will become official shirts in our store that you can wear in real life! There were over 200,000 votes cast for the 15 shirts, and the competition was pretty intense across all three categories. We tallied up the votes, and here are your winners!
| December 7, 2015 -
New Humanoid Properties: Custom Jump Height and Climbing Angle
ROBLOX characters have super powers. They can jump higher than they are tall and can climb up any hill, no matter how steep. Up until now, game creators had no easy way to control these powers. While this may be appropriate for some games, many game creators have been asking for a way to let them set how humanoid characters behave in their worlds. Some creators looking to disable jumping all together, while others seek to simulate low gravity moon physics, some have expressed a desire to use unclimbable high hills to direct characters down certain paths.
| December 3, 2015 -
Giftsplosion 2015 is Upon Us!
The holidays are here, and ROBLOX is getting all festive with 12 days of awesome prizes! You may have noticed a mysterious gift appearing in your inventory and the catalog lately. These are the first prizes in the 12 Days of the 2015 “Giftsplosion.” Here’s how it works: for each of the first 12 days of December, a gift will appear in the ROBLOX inventory. Some gifts will be for meeting past requirements – such as playing ROBLOX a lot for the last 30 days – while others will contain clues on how you can earn them. If you complete the task, the gift box will be awarded to you (sometime after the deadline, usually a couple days). After the gift box is awarded, it goes on sale in the catalog, so everyone has the opportunity to snag it. A day or so after each gift box goes off sale, it opens, awarding you a special prize For those of you that remember last couple Giftsplosions, there will be not one, but TWO “badger” gift boxes, which will be attached to earning badges in different ROBLOX games. One of them is going to be really difficult though! Want a clue on the next gift? Maybe check your settings and see if your email is verified … We’ll be giving out clues for some of the other gifts here on the blog, as well as on our Twitter and Facebook pages , so now’s a good time to go follow them!
| December 1, 2015 -
New Shadows Bring More Realistic Effects to Humanoids
ROBLOX is all about iteration. Whenever we work on any features – including all rendering features – we usually have a vision for the future, like how ROBLOX games will look on different platforms in a few years – and then we take bite-sized pieces of this vision and execute it. Shadows are no exception. Since time immemorial, ROBLOX supported character shadows via a technique known as stencil shadows. This resulted in nice hard-edged shadows that followed the character geometry perfectly. However, the technique had several issues – it was not very fast, it was not very robust – on some character meshes you could see strange inverted shadows – and, most importantly, it was hard to integrate it with our lighting solution.
| November 24, 2015 -
Announcing the Finalists for the ROBLOX T-Shirt Design Contest!
Last week we launched the first ever ROBLOX T-Shirt Design Contest, and the response was incredible. We got 600 some entries into the contest, awesome! Everything from imaginative and abstract to humorous text-based shirts. We’ve whittled the hundreds of entries down to these 15 finalists, and YOU guys, the ROBLOX community will get to decide which shirts ultimately win! Tomorrow we’ll be uploading these shirts to the ROBLOX catalog for 10 TIX each. To cast your vote all you have to do is buy the shirt. Buy one, buy them all, it’s up to you! Voting will be open until next Friday, December 4, and the winners will be announced the week after that. The winning shirts will be the first entries into wave two of our official merchandise store in 2016! So without further ado, here are the finalists for the ROBLOX T-Shirt Creation Contest.
| November 23, 2015 -
ROBLOX Game Spotlight: Fisticuffs!
Pow! Smack! Wham! After this week’s review all I could hear in my mind were those comic book punch noises. In this post, we look at brawling and mayhem, fighting and powering up, taking the high ground and remembering to block. This week’s spotlight: Fisticuffs! by Ozzypig!
| November 21, 2015 -
BLOXgiving Has Arrived!
ROBLOX is pleased to announce this year’s The Good Dinosaur to bring some thunderous prehistoric fun to this year’s event! Why? Because, who doesn’t love dinosaurs, that’s why. Search throughout our Bloxgiving themed games, and try to find The Good Dinosaur inspired item hidden in each game. Find them and you’ll have awesome new clothes to rock during Bloxgiving! Head into the mines of The Good Dinosaur and you’ll have a stylish headpiece for all future Bloxgivings. Build your own banquet hall to house your Bloxgiving festivities in Celebrate Bloxgiving the way our Robloxian forefathers would have wanted –
| November 17, 2015 -
ROBLOX Game Spotlight: Blocked Out
Sound the alarms, ready your towers, and prepare to get blocked out! This week I’m bringing you the ultimate in tower defense games. Created by ScriptOn, this is Blocked Out ! Keep reading this spotlight for all the highlights of the game and to hear my insights on what makes this game a must play on ROBLOX!
| November 14, 2015 -
The ROBLOX Shop & T-Shirt Design Contest!
The holiday season is fast approaching, and you’re likely already making your wish list, or thinking about what to get for a loved one or friend. ROBLOX has always offered a seasonal store around the holidays, but this year we’re going all out. We’re pleased to announce the brand new Check out
| November 11, 2015 -
Announcing New Physical Material Properties
Materials on parts have always been a part of ROBLOX, but short of changing appearance of the parts these materials provided little influence to actual gameplay. When the update rolls out, users using the new system will find that picking a PartMaterial now affects the elasticity, friction, and density of objects to better match the real-life material! Fear not, those of you that like to customize every facet of their game will still be able to customize Friction and Elasticity of their parts, with the added ability to customize Density as well!
| November 10, 2015 -
ROBLOX Game Spotlight: Mashables
I am Frankenstein, this is my monster. An abomination made by my friends and I, a pickle-headed ROBLOX R with skeleton legs and giant hands…this is the monster we made. In Tinarg’s Mashables , you too can create such a horrid creature, then run in fear from it, or maybe even control it…
| November 8, 2015 -
How to Get an Advertiser to Sponsor Your Game and Earn ROBUX
Have you played some of ROBLOX’s events, such as Hallow’s Eve, Jurassic World, Summer Games or Hotel Transylvania 2? Ever wondered how the games included were chosen and if you can get a cut of the action too? Our advertisers are always looking for cool games that they can sponsor in an event, and your game could be one of them! Not only do the developers involved in these events make ROBUX for their time and work, it’s also a huge opportunity to promote their game to the ROBLOX community and get a ton of gameplays for free! So how can you get involved? Your game doesn’t have to be #1 on the Games Page to be considered. We’re always looking for new “rising star” games that we can include in events. There are just a few specific things that we look for:
| November 5, 2015 -
Search for Hidden Items in View-Master Games on ROBLOX
ROBLOX and View-Master are teaming up to bring a new perspective to some classic games. Keep an eye out for the hidden items in each game and collect them to earn some awesome badges that show just what a master of viewing things you are! And if you collect all three badges you’ll be rewarded a really cool (but really secret) grand prize!
| November 4, 2015 -
ROBLOX Game Spotlight: The Stalker Reborn
There’s so much to love about The Stalker: Reborn that I hardly know where to begin: the gameplay, the user interface, or the brilliant level design. Seriously, this game is beautiful and it’s a lot of fun to play. So stay tuned as I present to you The Stalker: Reborn by Casual Hat Games.
| October 31, 2015 -
Hallow’s Eve 2015 – Last Chance to Win!
You guys have been doing an excellent job finding all of the awesome Zombies we’ve hidden across all three of our Halloween games. If you haven’t already – check out your favorites rethemed for this spooktacular season. In addition to Halloween versions of your favorite game, we’ve also got a brand new Halloween Game. Play This is advertising.
| October 30, 2015