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Weekly ROBLOX Roundup: June 23rd, 2013
Every week, we’re busy telling the stories behind our platform, our technology and our place in the gaming and technology industries. For those of you who catch up with ROBLOX over the weekend, the Weekly ROBLOX Roundup collects the best stuff t...
| June 23, 2013 -
Crossfire: A Tale of Two Cities
Creativity and sharing are two qualities that fuel ROBLOX. It’s in that spirit that we created Crossfire, a series where we chat with ROBLOX game developers about their game design choices.
| June 21, 2013 -
A Mid-Summer Night’s Sale Starts Friday
For those living in the northern hemisphere, June 21st is the summer solstice and longest day of the year. If you happen to be waaaay up in the northern hemisphere’s Arctic Circle, this day is so long that the sun lights the sky for a full 24 hours.
| June 20, 2013 -
Dungeon Delver Creators Bring New Life to an Old Formula
Dungeon Delver is somewhat of an anomaly within the context of ROBLOX. While it’s a re-imagining of the brand of RPG made popular by Diablo, Everquest and the like, it features things we don’t often see: a fixed camera system, a click-to-walk...
| June 19, 2013 -
Thumbs Up to Game Ratings
Just last week, we described our vision for a Games page that’s loaded with fantastic games to play and worlds to explore. One piece of that puzzle is improving and adding alternative methods of sorting games, an effort we recently bolstered by ...
| June 18, 2013 -
A Look at the BLOXcon Main Stage Presentation
It’s been a little while since we revealed any details about our fast-approaching BLOXcons – so today, we’re going to reveal the projected program for our Main Stage Presentation.
| June 17, 2013 -
Weekly ROBLOX Roundup: June 16th, 2013
Every week, we’re busy telling the stories behind our platform, our technology and our place in the gaming and technology industries. For those of you who catch up with ROBLOX over the weekend, the Weekly ROBLOX Roundup collects the best stuff t...
| June 16, 2013 -
Preview the 2013 BLOXY Awards
With the excitement of the submission and voting periods now in the books, we have selected — with public opinion as a significant factor — the nominees for each category of the ROBLOX International Film Festival.
| June 14, 2013 -
Spotlight: FighterAce and the Kestrel Home Store
Every so often, we like to focus our attention on builders who are creating new and innovative things with our platform. This Spotlight is the first of its kind, as it focuses on a builder who has founded his own virtual clothing company, Kestrel ...
| June 14, 2013 -
Five Unique Answers to “How Do I Get a Job at ROBLOX?”
Our builders are passionate about creating top quality ROBLOX experiences, and many have asked us via Facebook, Twitter and ROBLOX games what it takes to secure a job here at ROBLOX HQ. The good news? This article will seek to answer that question...
| June 13, 2013 -
Feedback Loop: Game Discovery, Materials, Video Ads and More
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 an...
| June 12, 2013 -
Surfacing Quality Games with the Top Earning Sort
We have a vision of a Games page that’s populated with incredible games to play and places to explore. With content like Apocalypse Rising and ROBLOXity and Battlefield and Sword Fighting Tournament re-appearing week after week, we’re part...
| June 11, 2013 -
Surfacing Quality Games with the Top Earning Sort
We have a vision of a Games page that’s populated with incredible games to play and places to explore. With content like Apocalypse Rising and ROBLOXity and Battlefield and Sword Fighting Tournament re-appearing week after week, we’re partway there.
| June 11, 2013 -
Video How-To: Implementing a Store in Your Place
Last Saturday, we offered our builders a plugin in order to utilize our recently released in-game transaction API. The idea was to make it easier for builders to utilize the feature, as using the plugin removes the scripting aspect. We always kee...
| June 10, 2013 -
Weekly ROBLOX Roundup: June 9th, 2013
Every week, we’re busy telling the stories behind our platform, our technology and our place in the gaming and technology industries. For those of you who catch up with ROBLOX over the weekend, the Weekly ROBLOX Roundup collects the best stuff t...
| June 9, 2013 -
This Plugin Makes Creating In-Game Stores Simple
Our in-game purchasing API has only been out for a few weeks and we’ve already seen builders use it to sell items in creative and effective ways. It’s not exactly beginner territory, though, so we decided to come up with a way to make in-game stores
| June 08, 2013 -
Presenting the Winners of the BLOXcon Poster Contest
In the ROBLOXian spirit of creativity and participation, we decided not to make our own posters for the fast-approaching BLOXcon , but leave it in the hands of our community. We received almost 300 (requirement-meeting) posters over the course of ...
| June 7, 2013