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Developer’s Journal: Using Lights and Sounds to Create Tension
Hello everyone! Dapale here. Ever since I began my ROBLOX journey two years ago, I have always wanted to create a game where players could experience fear in a chilling atmosphere. With the recent advents of dynamic lighting and user-uploaded soun...
| November 8, 2013 -
Do You Use ROBLOX for School?
That’s the question we asked our Twitter followers a week ago. We encouraged them to take a survey about how they’ve used ROBLOX for school assignments and projects.
| November 07, 2013 -
Getting You Into Games More Efficiently Than Ever
Game instances started per second over a 24 hour period. A little over a year ago, we took an in-depth look at what happens every time you hit the “Play” button. Fact is, a lot goes on behind the scenes when you start a new instance of ROBLOX...
| November 6, 2013 -
RaceToTheBottom Races to the Top with Space Knights
Space Knights marks the single biggest gaming experiment we’ve ever attempted on ROBLOX. Now that the experiment is over, we want to tell you about it.
| November 05, 2013 -
ROBLOX’s Niche of the Mobile Gaming Market
Last week, Gartner, an IT research and advisory company, released a report predicting the video game market will reach $93 billion when all is said and done in 2013 and $111 billion by 2015.
| November 4, 2013 -
Developers Share Their DevEx Success Stories
At ROBLOX, we’re working hard to build a haven for up-and-coming game developers. A place where it’s not only easy to get started with building and scripting fantastic 3D worlds, but possible to get those creations in front of an audience of m...
| November 4, 2013 -
Weekly ROBLOX Roundup: November 3rd, 2013
Every week, we’re busy telling the stories behind our community, our technology and our place in the gaming and technology industries.
| November 3, 2013 -
Spotlight: Taking Flight with BuilderAtWork
When you first join Avionic by BuilderAtWork, the chats you see are much more professional than what you probably expect from a multiplayer game. The majority of the people inside the game are communicating simple orders with one another. “Clea...
| November 2, 2013 -
Redeem ROBLOX Cards in November and Get Sci-Fi Items
Every month, we release a new set of exclusive virtual goods you can only obtain by redeeming ROBLOX cards from particular retailers around the world. That means when you’re turning your prized red slice of ROBLOXia into a Builders Club subscrip...
| November 1, 2013 -
Happy Halloween from the ROBLOX Staff!
Happy Halloween! What a month it’s been. We figured there would no better way to celebrate the end of BLOXtober than to show a little holiday spirit, and come to work dressed in the duds we’ll be wearing tonight! We had ourselves quite the par...
| October 31, 2013 -
Feedback Loop: This Month’s Big Features
99% of the content available on ROBLOX is created by our passionate community of builders. In Feedback Loop – the spiritual successor to the long-running Responding to User Feedback series – we respond to builders’ grand ideas for ROBLOX and question
| October 30, 2013 -
Economic Ideas: Scarcity, Popularity, Liquidity, and Volatility
The ROBLOX economy is in constant motion, and many entrepreneurial-minded users have found methods to leverage it in order to turn significant profits. ROBLOX Creative Director John Shedletsky keeps a close eye on the economy
| October 29, 2013 -
New Material Textures Are Now Live
ROBLOX’s streak of fantastic rendering updates goes yet another step further today with the release of updated material textures and a starter-pack of brand new options.
| October 28, 2013 -
Weekly ROBLOX Roundup: October 27th, 2013
Every week, we’re busy telling the stories behind our community, our technology and our place in the gaming and technology industries.
| October 27, 2013 -
Crossfire: Clonetrooper1019 and Loleris Avoid the Light
Creativity and sharing are two qualities that fuel ROBLOX, and it’s in that spirit we created Crossfire, a series where we chat with ROBLOX game developers about their game design choices. For this outing, we interviewed loleris and CloneTrooper...
| October 25, 2013 -
More Quests and Prizes Coming to The Witching Hour
There are still more BLOXikins to collect, and companions to aid you on your quest! The horizon and scope of ROBLOX games are constantly expanding. Though our platform is shaped 99% by our user base of builders and game creators, our very own Game...
| October 25, 2013 -
Lightning Fast Loads: Streaming Is Enabled!
Last month, we talked with ROBLOX Engineer Yunpeng Zhu about prototyping and testing our new streaming parts system in our test environment. After gathering a ton of useful feedback we’re proud to announce that this new feature has been impleme...
| October 24, 2013