It’s now been a couple weeks since the official launch of ROBLOX Mobile gaming. Since then, several gaming and technology media outlets have taken notice of our unique mobile experience, where your content takes center stage. We’ve rounded up a few of the great articles that have been authored since ROBLOX Mobile’s release and pulled excerpts from each below.

Forbes writer Alex Konrad had the benefit of meeting in person with ROBLOX CEO David Baszucki, who demonstrated the app just before its launch. In his article, The World’s Most Popular Kids Site Takes Its Games Mobile, he said:

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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: ROBLOX Mobile games now available to all users, featherweight parts open up a world of building possibilities, we look at the games proving popular on mobile, GUI design and best practices, gifts, Medieval Warfare, and other bits and pieces.

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Mobile gaming now available to everyone

Last week we decided to open all games to all users on ROBLOX Mobile, partly because the app is performing well and partly because of your passionate feedback. Now, whether you’re a Builders Club member or not, you can log into ROBLOX Mobile and play all of our millions of games. Check out this blog post on the big change for more information about ROBLOX Mobile and how you can get it on your iOS device!

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Part of our performance and memory optimization for ROBLOX Mobile was a transition from drawing graphic user interface (GUI) elements individually to in batches (read the details in this previous article). This change dramatically reduced the number of rendering commands sent from ROBLOX to your graphics chip, but in a small fraction of ROBLOX games it caused user-created menus to render in an undesired order. Today, Game Engineer Ben Tkacheff and Content Team Lead Deepak Chandrasekaran (Sorcus) help owners of existing games fix their menus, in the rare instance it’s necessary, and provide useful guidance and best practices for new GUI designers.

What changed?

In the past, we rendered user-created GUIs according to the hierarchy of individual elements in your ScreenGui object. It often worked out that the order you built each piece of your GUI was the same order ROBLOX rendered it, and your layers of buttons and text just fell into place.

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Giftsplosion 2012 is in full swing! We’ve released all the gifts for the year and they’re now sitting in the catalog, beckoning you to do whatever it takes to win them (or spend some hard-earned Robux on them). This article rounds up all the gifts and offers some hints on how to qualify for the last three.

If you’re not familiar with the Giftsplosion, here’s a brief overview: throughout the month of December, we’ve been placing mystery gift boxes in the ROBLOX catalog and awarding them to users who either meet certain criteria or have the wit to crack their riddle. Eventually, they’ll open and reveal a new addition to your inventory of goods. While those who meet the criteria get the gifts for free, they also go on sale in the catalog for a limited time before opening.

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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: the official ROBLOX Mobile launch, John Shedletsky addresses your mobile gaming questions, tips for building mobile-friendly ROBLOX games and places, the great-looking Timeless by Unclear and more.

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ROBLOX Mobile is available and ready for play

This week, we officially released ROBLOX Mobile, with gaming unlocked for iPad 2+, iPhone 4+ and iPod touch 5th Generation. If you download the app today, you can grab a free pair of White Earbuds for your ROBLOX character from the mobile catalog. We’ll also be releasing some additional iOS-exclusive items in the near future. For more information on them, visit our blog story about the launch of ROBLOX Mobile. If you want to skip straight to the goods, click here to download ROBLOX Mobile.

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With the release of ROBLOX Mobile, you have the power to distribute your creations – whether character clothing, models, virtual worlds or hardcore games – on a new platform and potentially to a new audience. We’re only a few days into the release and, at the moment, the mobile ROBLOX gaming and game development scene is a bit like the Wild West. Everyone is still observing and learning about what makes a game work on mobile, and there’s an opportunity for you to help define those qualities.

What we do know is that what works on a desktop computer doesn’t necessarily translate one-to-one to a touch screen device. That’s the nature of different screen sizes and input methods. Still, there are a few things you can do today, in addition to your own experimentation, to design your game to adapt to multiple devices.

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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 chat with the owner of the LuaLearners group and website, supplementing your trades with Robux, useful ROBLOX Studio plug-ins, our web developers’ gaming tastes, ROBLOX Tablets moving through the economy, your characters in one word, and top-down shooter Underscore.

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LuaLearners.org: a scripting haven

We’re often asked, “How can I learn how to script in ROBLOX?” We have a couple go-to resources — the ROBLOX Wiki and user cowbear16′s “Basic ROBLOX Lua Programming” book — but now we can add LuaLearners.org and the LuaLearners ROBLOX group to the list. The site/group exists for the sole purpose of helping ROBLOX users of all levels learn to write in Lua and enhance their creations with scripts. We talked with the group’s leader, Coolbob44, about the LuaLearners site and community and put together a blog feature to increase exposure of the great work happening in both.

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