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Character Explorations
We have been exploring new body, head and face components for ROBLOX characters. All of the mockups in this post are conceptual. We invite your feedback on everything here. When giving feedback, please refer to the sketch and image ID, as in...
| March 22, 2012 -
Getting That First Job
We finished a busy week at the Game Developer Conference, where we met many high caliber people looking for jobs. This made me reflect on how I found my first two jobs – which were both terrible – and how I would advise others to go about fi...
| March 20, 2012 -
How ROBLOX Is Improving Its Network Physics
If you drive a real-life car into a brick wall, the car doesn’t simply bounce back. With enough speed, it causes the brick wall to come crashing down in a destructive display of physics. (Just trust us on this.)
| March 19, 2012 -
ROBLOX: Built for Cross-Platform Play
Last weekend, a friend and I set aside a day to delve into the trenches of Civilization V’s multiplayer mode. She purchased her Mac copy via Steam, slogged through the two-gigabyte download and fired it up – only to find out it isn’t compati...
| March 16, 2012 -
Advertisements and Age Segmentation
We have started to track the click-through rate of user advertisements on ROBLOX. These are the ads on ROBLOX that are created by our ROBLOX entrepreneurs (not the commercial ads from companies like Cartoon Network or Nintendo). As you can see...
| March 14, 2012 -
The Best and Worst of GDC
After a big week at the 2012 Game Developer’s Conference in San Francisco, I thought I would share some of the collective wisdom of team ROBLOX. Here are our picks for thumbs-up and thumbs-down from the show.
| March 10, 2012 -
The Best and Worst of GDC
After a big week at the 2012 Game Developer’s Conference in San Francisco, I thought I would share some of the collective wisdom of team ROBLOX. Here are our picks for thumbs-up and thumbs-down from the show. Thumbs Up Speedtree Ultra-fast tree ...
| March 10, 2012 -
Simplifying ROBLOX
Two years ago, ROBLOX started the Ambassador Program, which was designed to encourage players to spread the word about ROBLOX. In the program, users would take HTML code (specific to that player), and then post those links on other active websites.
| March 6, 2012 -
Simplifying ROBLOX
Two years ago, ROBLOX started the Ambassador Program , which was designed to encourage players to spread the word about ROBLOX. In the program, users would take HTML code (specific to that player), and then post those links on other active websi...
| March 6, 2012 -
ROBLOX Recruiting at GDC
With GDC looming right around the corner, we decided to give you some insight as to what we’re planning. This year will be the first time that we have a booth at the conference, and we are excited to increase our presence at the world’s lon...
| March 2, 2012 -
ROBLOX Facebook Page Grows 3% Weekly
For the past few years, we’ve been quiet about what we are working on, but with the advent of social media channels such as Twitter, Facebook, Google+, YouTube and more, we’ve decided that it’s time to go social… after all, our games are s...
| March 1, 2012 -
An Optimization for Lua Scripts
Lua is a powerful, lightweight, scripting language, and is often used in video games due to fast execution and a short learning curve. World of Warcraft, Angry Birds and Mafia II all use Lua script. Today, Chief Scientist at ROBLOX, Erik Cassel
| February 29, 2012 -
An Optimization for Lua Scripts
Lua is a powerful, lightweight, scripting language, and is often used in video games due to fast execution and a short learning curve. World of Warcraft, Angry Birds and Mafia II all use Lua script. Today, Chief Scientist at ROBLOX, Erik Cassel, d...
| February 29, 2012 -
Emagination Hosts ROBLOX Computer Camp
Emagination Computer Camps, a summer camp for kids and teenagers, will be including a ROBLOX workshop this year to their existing curriculum. The camp has been hosting technology programs for 30 years at multiple locations around the US.
| February 28, 2012 -
5.4 Million Games Created in 2011
ROBLOX users created 5.4 million games in 2011. In addition to this, over 250 million hours of game-play were logged, and ROBLOX served over 9.6 billion page views. A couple of weeks ago, VentureBeat released an article about LittleBigPlanet...
| February 23, 2012 -
ROBLOX Game Conference 2012 Tickets on Sale
Last year’s ROBLOX Game Conference –Last year’s ROBLOX Game Conference – aa – had one thousand attendees. This year’s event will be similar in format to ROBLOX Rally 2011, with more of everything that was great – more demos, more computers, more learning, more ROBLOX. – had one thousand attendees. This year’s event will be similar in format to ROBLOX Rally 2011, with more of everything that was great – more demos, more computers, more learning, more ROBLOX. We are offering booth rental this year for use by vendors, exhibitors and ROBLOX groups. Options include 10×10 or 10×20 feet, complete with tables and chairs. You can reserve a booth via the We are offering booth rental this year for use by vendors, exhibitors and ROBLOX groups. Options include 10×10 or 10×20 feet, complete with tables and chairs. You can reserve a booth via the aa ..
| February 17, 2012 -
Where are people playing?
Some surprising conclusions jump out when comparing time spent playing online, mobile, and facebook games. People spend one hour playing ROBLOX for every 20 hours kids around the world play with physical LEGO bricks. Twice as much time is spent on...
| February 12, 2012