Every week, we’re busy telling the stories behind our community, our technology and our place in the gaming and technology industries. For those of you who catch up with us over the weekend, the Weekly Roundup collects the best stuff to hit our various avenues of publication in the last week. This time: another four fan art contest winners, an inside look at ROBLOX’s 2013 Hack Week, game universes and massive scale, our 2013 holiday game, ROBLOX Survivor 2.0, two game recommendations, and other bits and pieces. Enjoy.

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Fan art contest winners, round 4

Looking at this week’s selection of winners, it really hit home just how many amazing and talented artists there are in the ROBLOX community. Keep honing your craft!

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Imagine this: there’s a ROBLOX game that’s built out of 10 levels. Thousands of people are playing it and teleporting between environments at the drop of a hat. As they move from place to place, their character statistics and ever-growing in-game inventory move with them. They’re all exploring a cohesive world with impressive scale and interacting with one another as they make chance encounters on their journeys. They’re in an immersive world.

This is the impending future of ROBLOX games. Our Client, Networking, Services and Web teams are making it happen by building a robust framework of teleports, game universes and data persistence.

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Every week, we’re busy telling the stories behind our community, our technology and our place in the gaming and technology industries. For those of you who catch up with us over the weekend, the Weekly Roundup collects the best stuff to hit our various avenues of publication in the last week. This time: three more fan art contest winners, the 2013 ROBLOX Winter Games, game servers can now send HTTP requests, the launch of SurfaceGUIs, last-minute merchandise orders for the holidays, Unclear’s Crystal Raider, two games of the week, and other bits and pieces. Enjoy.

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Fan art contest winners, round 3

This week, we have three more fan art contest winners!

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Every week, we’re busy telling the stories behind our community, our technology and our place in the gaming and technology industries. For those of you who catch up with us over the weekend, the Weekly Roundup collects the best stuff to hit our various avenues of publication in the last week. This time: four more fan art contest winners, the first BLOXcast, vastly expanded terrain building, Giftsplosion 2013 updates, the $29,000+ we’ve paid to developers so far, a Spotlight on treyreynolds, two game recommendations, and other bits and pieces. Enjoy.

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Fan art contest winners, round 2

This week, we have four more fan art contest winners!

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The inaugural BLOXcast livestream is set to begin tomorrow morning at 10 a.m. Pacific Time on the ROBLOX YouTube channel. We’ll be doing an interactive Q&A session, making a few exciting announcements, and streaming gameplay, so subscribe to our channel and bookmark the live event now to make sure you don’t miss this event while it’s live!

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Every week, we’re busy telling the stories behind our community, our technology and our place in the gaming and technology industries. For those of you who catch up with us over the weekend, the Weekly Roundup collects the best stuff to hit our various avenues of publication in the last week. This time: the first three fan art contest winners, new building and scripting tutorials, what games we’re playing this Thanksgiving break, a movie-series-inspired Crossfire, tips for marketing your game, the end of the Black Friday weekend sale, two games you should play, a video corner, and other bits and pieces. Enjoy.

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Fan art contest winners, round 1

I know, I’m a week late. You guys submitted a lot of entries — more than I had anticipated — and I simply ran out of time in getting through them all and organizing them into buckets. However, I did finally succeed in the grand review, and we’ve selected our first three of many (on the order of 25 or so) winners!

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So, you’ve made a game. Maybe it’s your first attempt. Maybe it’s the first thing you’ve created that you’d deem “acceptable for public consumption.” Maybe it’s the next big thing. Whatever the case, you need to get it in front of people – real, authentic gamers – and, at the very least, collect some feedback. You’re in the right place: ROBLOX has millions of active members, many of which are happy to try something new and eager to discover something great. You just need to capture their attention.

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These things won’t make or break you, but they will make a difference when it comes to attracting the casual passer-by.

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