If it seems like we’re featuring more community-created games and worlds lately, it’s because we are — with your help, we’re finding more incredible uses of ROBLOX’s tools and becoming more connected with the building and development communities. As usual, this gallery features a variety of places that have a criminally small number of visits. You should join us in remedying that today by paying a visit to these six places you have to see to believe.
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 Battle goes open source, a Virtual BLOXcon contest (and other news), the binary file format rollout, the technology behind outlines, a great new Feedback Loop article, a Spotlight on the creator of Sandbox, Coastline Highway and Sea Breeze Home, and other bits and pieces. Enjoy.
Over the past couple months, we’ve been covering the development of ROBLOX Battle, which has transitioned from a classic deathmatch arena to a game loaded with play modes, tactical choices, social spaces and more. Most recently, Sorcus — who’s been leading the charge on the game’s overhaul — explained how everything the Game Team did to the game has been informed by player metrics. In particular, the team used an in-game statistics GUI, which tracks player behaviors and is now available for you to try as part of the entire ROBLOX Battle now-open-source code base.
As you probably know by now, we’re hosting a Virtual BLOXcon less than one month from today. Roughly 0.1% of ROBLOX’s population could actually attend one of this summer’s in-person BLOXcons, so this online event will give everyone a chance to experience some of the magic. The following is a tentative overview of what the Virtual BLOXcon will offer — including some of your creations.
Live streaming video from ROBLOX HQ. We’ll do live Q&A sessions, give away additional awards, talk about new ROBLOX product development, stream gameplay, and more. Think of it like the Main Stage Presentation we held at each BLOXcon, but a little more laid back and broken into separate segments.
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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: BLOXcon New York City media and awards, the upcoming Virtual BLOXcon, complete control over outlines, two game designers talk about creating dynamic obstacle courses, what’s working for Paid Access, a goodbye to our summer interns, a guided tour of New Hellenic Republic: City of Naxos, a pile of videos and art, and other bits and pieces. Enjoy.
We skipped last Sunday’s Weekly Roundup in light of BLOXcon New York City. Now that it’s done, we should be back on an actual weekly schedule! Here’s what’s gone on in the last couple weeks.
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BLOXcon New York City is winding down as I write, but Alan and I spent a healthy portion of the day running around and documenting it via photographs and video as best as we could. After all, only 1,000 lucky ROBLOXians could actually attend the event in person, and we want the whole community to know what it was like to be here, on a boat, filled with fighter jets (seriously, the event was at the Intrepid Sea, Air and Space Museum), for BLOXcon NYC. Check out the following image gallery for a taste.
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 ton of BLOXcon media and BLOXcon New York City news, a Spotlight on 3D artist Zelios, the making of the new ROBLOX Battle, increased participation for all users, a gallery of must-see builds, in-depth raycasting feature, ClashBLOX Battle Cards, and other bits and pieces. Enjoy.
As noted in the last issue of the Weekly Roundup, we’re currently on an every-other-week publishing schedule due to Sunday travel from BLOXcon. We’ll resume normal, weekly publication after the events have wrapped up and things have settled down at HQ!
Continue reading New York City, it’s your turn. We’ve been practicing our BLOXcon game over the last month in Chicago and London, and it’s all been in anticipation of making this final in-person event of the summer as epic as it can possibly be.
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