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Disney XD Lab Rats Games on ROBLOX
ROBLOX has partnered with Disney XD to promote their new show, Lab Rats. ROBLOX developer Luke Weber and level designer Tara Byars have teamed up to create challenging timed missions in three classic ROBLOX levels. In order to complete the missions successfully, you will need to use the Lab Rats bionic super powers. If you are successful in completing all three missions, you will earn the a. Play the missions a. Be sure to tune in for the premiere of the all new original series Lab Rats on Monday, February 27 at 8:30/7:30c on Disney XD. You can check out new episodes every Monday night at 8:30/7:30c.
| February 10, 2012 -
ROBLOX cards available at F.Y.E. and EB Games
ROBLOX is pleased to announce that you can now find our cards at F.Y.E. stores in the US and EB Games stores across Canada. For more on how ROBLOX game cards work and a full list of retailers visit our game card page .
| February 8, 2012 -
Tech Note: Scripted tools and weapons
Our head gear programmer Deepak Chandrasekaran explains the steps that went into creating The Dagger of Shattered Dimensions . The ROBLOX creative team meets regularly to plan new items for publication in the Catalog . Recently they were inspi...
| February 7, 2012 -
Tech Demo: Video Thumbnails
Tim Brown’s Hack Week project would give ROBLOX developers a powerful tool for engaging players. ROBLOX is about user-created content, and our users have created a lot of content — so much that you’d be hard-pressed to experience all of i...
| January 26, 2012 -
Expanded Browser Compatibility
We are pleased to announce compatibility with all leading browsers. ROBLOX games can now be launched from Internet Explorer, Firefox, Chrome, Opera and Safari on both PC’s and Macintosh (Internet Explorer is not available on Macintosh).
| January 21, 2012 -
Tech Demo: Dynamic Lighting Exploration
My hack week project was to explore rendering styles and visual effects that would take ROBLOX to the next level. The ROBLOX rendering engine works in a difficult environment compared to traditional games – ROBLOX places are made by our users (...
| January 20, 2012 -
Tech Demo: Water, Buoyancy and Ropes
Hack Week coverage continues with a unified tech demo by Dan Ignatoff, Erik Cassel and Tim Loduha showing water, buoyancy and ropes working together. Water and Buoyancy Dan and Erik teamed up on the water and buoyancy simulation shown in the v...
| January 18, 2012 -
Tech Demo: Water, Buoyancy and Ropes
Hack Week coverage continues with a unified tech demo by Dan Ignatoff, Erik Cassel and Tim Loduha showing water, buoyancy and ropes working together.
| January 18, 2012 -
iPad Tech Demo
This is a first look at the ROBLOX code stack running on an iPad. Product specs are in development and there is no announced ship date. The tap-to-move interface shown in the demo is a place holder for future thumb controls. Textures and skyboxes...
| January 14, 2012 -
The Big Bang at ROBLOX: Universe Creation
How will our users create bigger and better games? Navin Lal’s Hack Week project presents his vision of the future.
| January 13, 2012 -
Hack Week: The Series!
While many were enjoying chestnuts roasting on an open fire (well, not here in the Bay Area, thanks to the nightly Spare the Air alerts), our dev team took advantage of the Holiday break by participating in our first-ever Hack Week. What’s Hack ...
| January 13, 2012 -
A new beginning
In the not too distant future, a war is looming over ROBLOXia. The arrival of the Ne’Kotikoz has brought trouble to the land. Both sides are racing to create the best weapons for their soldiers. Lets see what they have achieved so far!
| January 9, 2012 -
ROBLOX Studio for MAC–The BETA is Live!
We’re almost finished porting ROBLOX Studio to the Mac! ROBLOX has had Mac player support now for several months, but up until now, Mac users haven’t been able to leverage ROBLOX Studio , our professional place and model building tool, to crea...
| January 6, 2012 -
ROBLOX Studio for MAC–The BETA is Live!
We’re almost finished porting ROBLOX Studio to the Mac! ROBLOX has had Mac player support now for several months, but up until now, Mac users haven’t been able to leverage ROBLOX Studio, our professional place and model building tool
| January 6, 2012 -
Big Bang!
2011 is over, but our end of the year sale on awesome gear isn’t! strongstrong Remote Controlled Plane – Remote Controlled Plane – Check out the techiest toy in town, the Remote Controlled Plane. Launch the plane and brag to your friends how you control it like a boss. Check out the techiest toy in town, the Remote Controlled Plane. Launch the plane and brag to your friends how you control it like a boss. aa
| January 3, 2012 -
Game Review: Stranded by Crazyman32
Stranded by Crazyman32 is one of the most advanced adventure games on ROBLOX today. Even in its alpha stages this game is a pinnacle of game design and scripting. Be sure to check it out .
| December 28, 2011 -
The Evolution of Voxels in Video Games
How do you represent objects and terrain in a 3D video game? A partial list includes triangle-meshes (very common), geometric primitives (ROBLOX), and height maps (terrain). Today I’m going to talk about another way of modeling objects and t...
| December 27, 2011