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Gamers and Developers Get New VIP Server Features
By popular demand, we launched VIP Servers in late 2014 to give you an easy way to play games privately with your friends. Since then, we’ve been listening to your feedback and making updates to improve the VIP Server experience. These incremental changes include the ability to invite all your friends with one click, quickly set up competitive (and presumably epic) clan-versus-clan battles, and automatically renew your VIP Server, as well as revenue sharing for developers who enable the feature. Let’s dig into the updates.
| April 9, 2015 -
ROBLOX Heads to Seattle for Power Up! Gaming Days
If you’re in the Seattle area, and are looking for something to do during spring break, why not hang out with ROBLOX and Nintendo? The Power Up!
| April 06, 2015 -
Meet the Creator of Deathrun 2, and Learn About Deathrun 3
Those of you who watch our Twitch channel regularly may have seen us testing out a new show, where we interview people who are creating cool stuff on and for ROBLOX. We’re happy to announce we’ve officially launched the show as a permanent addition to our Twitch lineup! The Creator Show is a bi-weekly (that’s every other week) behind-the-scenes look at the talented individuals that make ROBLOX awesome. Developers, artists, builders, video makers; we’re celebrating ROBLOX talent in all fields. For the first official episode under its new official name, The Creator Show, we invited Wsly , developer behind the hugely popular Deathrun 2 . You can watch the video below. We chat about how Deathrun 2 was made, delicious Dutch food, Wsly’s new game, Crystal Cave Sledding , and his plans for the upcoming and highly anticipated Deathrun 3.
| April 3, 2015 -
ROBLOX and Maker Faire Team Up for 2015 Events
Last year we tried something new: we had ROBLOXians like you host events all over the world. As part of Maker Faires, players and developers from the community got to show off their skills and tell the world about ROBLOX while helping run our booth. Even better, it allowed us to host in-person events multiple times a year and in multiple countries, and lots of ROBLOX fans to participate. It was a huge success, and we’re gearing up to do the same this year! We’re thrilled to announce that ROBLOX will have a booth at a dozen Maker Faires in 2015, in three different countries, starting this month. If you’re interested in attending any of these Maker Faire events, you can fill out this form on our Events page . You’ll get alerts for the Maker Faire you pick, with news on whether we need participants, who will be attending, and any updates that might pop up.
| April 1, 2015 -
How to Stream ROBLOX on Twitch (2015 Edition)
Streaming to Twitch is a great way for you to participate in and contribute to the ROBLOX community. You can broadcast the creation of a game so others can see how you do what you do, build a channel and audience of your own, and help spread the word about ROBLOX. We’re really happy to have seen thousands of ROBLOX gamers and developers get started on Twitch in the last year, and, now that one of the top streaming applications is available for Mac, we hope this guide will help even more of you start your own channels. Ready? Here’s a weekend project.
| March 28, 2015 -
Merely Explains How to Prepare for a Silicon Valley Internship
We’re often asked by our smart and passionate community of creators how one lands a summer internship at ROBLOX. While there’s no formal application process, there are things you can do to get a leg up on the competition
| March 26, 2015 -
Everything You Need to Know for Egg Hunt 2015
It’s officially spring, which means it’s almost time for ROBLOX’s annual Egg Hunt event! This year’s Egg Hunt is bigger than ever and features three games with three unique ways to earn eggs. We know a lot of you have been eagerly awaiti...
| March 20, 2015 -
Watch Our SXSW Panel Featuring Minecraft and Project Spark
For multiple weeks in March, SXSW, one of the world’s biggest festivals for film, music, and technology, takes over the city of Austin, Texas. Last weekend was the Interactive portion of the festival, which spanned gaming and tech. ROBLOX was...
| March 19, 2015 -
A Newschool Guide to Promoting Your Indie Game
Part of being an indie game developer is doing your own promotion. Sure, you can leverage ROBLOX’s advertising system to get your game in front of lots of players quickly (we’ll have more on that soon), but let’s think bigger and broader.
| March 14, 2015 -
ROBLOX’s SXSW Panel Features Us, Microsoft, and Mojang
As we announced last week , ROBLOX is teaming up with some big names in gaming to talk about user-generated content and how gamers like you are shaping the gaming industry as we know it! We’re extremely thrilled to be able to showcase ROBLOX at ...
| March 13, 2015 -
Meet the Creator of Reason 2 Die
PlaceRebuilder is best known for creating the smash hit zombie multiplayer game Reason 2 Die. Reason 2 Die has been played more than 17 million times and pits a team of survivors against an undead horde of respawning zombies
| March 12, 2015 -
See the Awesome Game Creation Features Coming to ROBLOX in 2015
The ROBLOX team unveiled an array of improvements and tools coming soon to our platform at ROBLOX Developers Conference West (RDC West) last weekend. The event was the first of its kind, attracting about 75 of the top game creators from our community and more than 40,000 Twitch viewers. Today, we’re going to recap the most anticipated announcements, as presented by Simon “gemlocker” Kozlov and Adam “rbadam” Miller. Consider this an easily digestible version of the giant box of awesome that was opened at the event!
| March 10, 2015 -
Watch the RDC West Livestream!
This weekend, we’re hosting the first ever ROBLOX Developers Conference (RDC) in San Francisco, California. To kick off the event, our staff is revealing exciting announcements about the future of the ROBLOX game engine and ROBLOX Studio, from physics and terrain to multi-builder Studio and the Developer Exchange. We recognize that not every game creator could take a weekend trip to California for RDC West. So, we’re bringing the event’s big reveals to you by streaming them LIVE on the ROBLOX Twitch channel — and you can watch it here.
| March 7, 2015 -
Watch the RDC West Livestream!
This weekend, we’re hosting the first ever ROBLOX Developers Conference (RDC) in San Francisco, California. To kick off the event, our staff is revealing exciting announcements about the future of the ROBLOX game engine and ROBLOX Studio
| March 7, 2015 -
How Ripull Minigames Dominated ROBLOX This Winter
There’s a long and storied history of minigame collections on ROBLOX. Looking back as far as 2008, long-tenured ROBLOX players might remember such titles as Minigame Mania by ICE128, Person299’s Minigames , Multi Minigames , Havemeat’s Minigames , and Minigame World . Now, with four solid months of top-10 performance, it’s safe to say there’s a new title that’ll one day be mentioned among the classics. That game is Ripull Minigames .
| March 6, 2015 -
The Top Games of February, 2015
We see a lot of ROBLOX games shoot up into the Top 20 list in the first few weeks of life. The community loves new games, and so do we. But only a select few manage to stay at the top, pulling in players month after month. February mostly saw long-time favorites dominating the list. Can some of the newcomers stay popular? Will we see some of the juggernaut titles slip a few places in the coming months? That all depends on where you, the gamers of the ROBLOX community, decide to spend your time.
| March 5, 2015 -
ROBLOX Is Coming to SXSW — And You Can Attend!
Back in summer, 2014, we asked the ROBLOX community to cast their vote to get ROBLOX on a panel at SXSW Interactive, one of the biggest tech and gaming conferences on the planet. You guys totally came through and ROBLOX was one of the companies chosen to speak at the event. Thanks! March 2015 has come quickly, and we’re excited to share details about our first ever appearance at SXSW Interactive.
| March 3, 2015