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 to hit our various avenues of publication in the last week. This time: a ROBLOX Game Conference 2013 location survey, chat and vehicle support in ROBLOX Mobile, the development of first-person shooter Borderline, ROBLOX’s 2012 in numbers, games making big money, The Stalker, your ideas for gear and other bits and pieces.

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Seven-day Blog Recap

We want to know where we should host ROBLOX Game Conference 2013!

In our unofficial announcement that ROBLOX Game Conference 2013 is official, we asked you to help us choose a location for this year’s edition of the annual meetup. We’re not ready to reveal any results just yet, but you can take a look at the comments of the blog post to get a feel for some of the more popular locations. And, if you haven’t already taken the survey, please do so today! The more responses we get, the easier it is for us to make the right decision.

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They say it’s roughly 10% finished. It might see the light of day this spring. It’s already been scrapped and restarted a few times. The quality standard is insanely high. They call it Borderline, an upcoming ROBLOX first-person shooter, and you wouldn’t be wrong for thinking, “I’ll believe it when I see it.”

Yet, after talking with two of the game’s three developers, it’s clear they have their ducks in a row. The team, known as StudioMM, uses a Skype hub to discuss and review building progress – everything from altering the engine to creating a new logo – and has clear direction: a balanced play experience where the user controls their game experience. There is reason to believe one day, you’ll be playing this.

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We’ve published a number of articles that look back at 2012: a letter from our Founder and CEO David Baszucki, a recap of the hottest blog articles of the year, and a who’s-who of popular games and catalog items. There’s just one left, and it illustrates not only ROBLOX’s annual growth as a unified platform, but your collective passion for creation and exploration. Let’s draw some conclusions.

1. It’s hard not to spend time on ROBLOX.

There’s just so much to see and do, as evidenced by these stats:

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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 to hit our various avenues of publication in the last week. This time: our spotlight on GollyGreg, multiplayer script debugging, top ROBLOX fan sites (and resources for starting your own), fast moving-parts rendering, an update on our splash screen contest, ROBLOX Hiking, and a few other bits and pieces.

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Seven-day Blog Recap

GollyGreg and the importance of Choices

You can tell by the tone and feel of Choices that user GollyGreg has interesting thoughts floating around in his head. That was enough for us to reach out to him for a chat, which became the foundation for our latest Spotlight article. He talks about the motivation behind his game, Choices, his fascination with technology and his lengthy ROBLOX “career.” Read it in full here.

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If you love ROBLOX, there’s a plethora of ways you can express your love: rock a Builders Club badge; make a great game, model or clothing set; print your own “I heart ROBLOX” t-shirt (then proceed to wear it everywhere); build a real-world replica of your ROBLOX character and display it proudly in your room; or just never stop talking about it to your friends. The possibilities are endless.

Of course, some dedicated fans choose to do something more formal and functional. They create their own ROBLOX websites, generally specializing in some niche of the ROBLOX experience. Here are some of the best fan sites out there.

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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 to hit our various avenues of publication in the last week. This time: a fancy new logo, our CEO’s look back at 2012 and forward to the new year, ROBLOX Mobile in the press, Nytraulics’ development of a top-down shooter, blog stories of the year, the Elite Builders of ROBLOXia, Choices by GollyGreg and more. Welcome to 2013.

Seven-day Blog Recap

Since we skipped last week’s roundup in lieu of the holidays, this recap covers a little more than seven days. On the bright side, things were relatively quiet at ROBLOX HQ during the break, so we don’t have too much catching up to do.

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The Elite Builders of ROBLOXia have been around since the advent of ROBLOX groups in 2009. Almost four years later, they boast a member count of … 93. In a virtual world where membership volume is often the sign of a group’s power and success, the Elite Builders of ROBLOXia appear to be a failure. But they measure success using a different metric: membership quality. Only the best of the best builders make it into the group’s ranks, and members have produced some of the finest worlds on ROBLOX. That’s the principle on which the group was founded and on which it exists today.

The group has changed hands several times since its inception. The Elite Builders of ROBLOXia (EBR) was started by Bloxmin as an invitation-based building group and initially gained traction via the high profiles of members like Altair7, Jardicel and Constructor. Months later, Bloxmin passed the reigns to owen0202, who helped increase the size of the group from roughly 25 to 50+ members before handing his duties over to SilentSwords for a short stint as leader.

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