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We’re on Our Way to the Atlanta Maker Faire
ROBLOX staff and members of our building/development community will, once again, be descending on a Maker Faire this weekend — this time in Atlanta. The event takes place on October 4th and 5th, and will feature such well known names as TheNickmaster
| September 30, 2014 -
Carthay’s Quest to Build Disneyland in ROBLOX
Carthay’s long-time quest to build Disneyland — including every single ride and attraction — is one of the most ambitious ROBLOX projects we’ve ever encountered.
| September 29, 2014 -
It’s the Final Stretch of the Game Creation Challenge
Happy Saturday, ROBLOXians. It’s the home stretch for the Game Creation Challenge, our quarterly contest where we give you a theme and you try to make the best game possible within those confines.
| September 27, 2014 -
Unlimited Player Points Available Soon to Developers
We’ve been experimenting with Player Points and Leaderboards for the past few months, and, in the process, learning a lot about what it takes to fuel a fun, platform-wide meta game.
| September 26, 2014 -
The Post-Summer Stats Wrapup
Summer, 2014 may be a distant memory today, but it was our biggest season yet — so we thought we’d take a fond look back at the numbers. Millions of players and developers enjoyed spending some of their free time hanging out on ROBLOX
| September 24, 2014 -
Mobile Video Ads Payout Rate Increases to 5:1
Early this month, we launched an in-game mobile advertising API, which allows game creators to show video ads to non-Builders Club mobile players in exchange for ROBUX payments.
| September 23, 2014 -
How You + Maker Faire Make ROBLOX Better
Since spring, ROBLOX has had a presence at more than 15 Maker Faires and similar science/technology events, and members of our staff have attended a good number of those.
| September 23, 2014 -
A Recap of Recent Developer Updates
We’re always rolling out improvements for gamers, builders, and developers on ROBLOX. In the last few weeks, we’ve introduced several minor features and organizational changes, including game revenue stats, cool social media sharing optimization
| September 22, 2014 -
Developers, Help Us Tell the World about Your Amazing Work
In the last year, ROBLOX has grown dramatically, thanks in part to DevEx — a program that allows our game developers to turn their virtual earnings into real-world cash.
| September 19, 2014 -
Dued1 Reignites the Oven at Work at a Pizza Place
We’ve written about Work at a Pizza Place before, but we decided to revisit the game after its recent meteoric rise from moderately popular to a super-smash-hit ROBLOX title. Why? Dued1 dramatically revamped his long-running fan favorite with a slew
| September 18, 2014 -
Join Us This Weekend at World Maker Faire New York!
Unless you’ve been basking in the shadow of a very large rock all year, you know we’ve been upping our real-world presence by appearing at Maker Faires around the country (plus England!) in order to spread awareness about ROBLOX
| September 17, 2014 -
Microsoft’s Mojang Acquisition Means More Than Just Money
Microsoft is buying Mojang, the makers of Minecraft, for $2.5 billion. That’s really impressive when you consider that Mojang has only been around since 2009. The deal is the latest step in a recent triumph of platform companies
| September 16, 2014 -
Two Weeks Remain in the Game Creation Challenge
We’re just 10 days into the Game Creation Challenge and already we’ve received dozens of entries — many more than we thought we’d have at this point. That’s awesome!
| September 15, 2014 -
Super Bomb Survival Explodes onto ROBLOX
If you’ve been on ROBLOX in the last few days, chances are you’ve noticed a game called Super Bomb Survival. Since emerging earlier this week, it has sat proudly at or near the top of the Popular games sort, and has been gaining massive popularity am
| September 12, 2014 -
The Top ROBLOX Twitch Streamers of August
img Summer is always a great time at ROBLOX — there’s more time to build, more time to play, and, as was the case this year, more time to do both of those things live on Twitch . While many of us are back in the school-year routine, we can still take a nostalgic and fond look back at the month of August — wherein we collectively set a new record, with 5,105,200 minutes (that’s 85,086 hours) of live ROBLOX action watched — to see which of the 1,900 ROBLOX streamers did it best.
| September 11, 2014 -
We’re Coming to Orlando, Portland and Maryland This Weekend
As we announced on the blog a few weeks ago , members of our community will be hosting ROBLOX booths this weekend at Maker Faires in Orlando, Portland and Maryland. Because all three events had more than 20 community volunteers (!), we’re also sending staff members to each of the three events. Whether you signed up to help run the booth or not, you can visit us at any of these locations — and pick up a card that you can redeem for an exclusive virtual Maker Faire top hat while you’re there!
| September 10, 2014 -
Berezaa Brings Co-op Gameplay to Tycoons — and Cashes In
Following yesterday’s exciting announcement that we have now paid more than $500,000 to ROBLOX game developers, we thought now would be a great time to highlight one of the top-earning game makers of the summer: berezaa. His game, 2-Player Gun Factory Tycoon , seemingly came out of nowhere and quickly shot (heh) to the top of our game charts, earning the once-unknown developer throngs of fans and several million ROBUX. With the success of the game, he’s converting his virtual earnings to cash to supplement his life and eventually pay for higher education.
| September 9, 2014