Gaming has always been a social activity. Recent excavations of an ancient house in Jordan uncovered an 8,000 year old limestone Mancala board. For more information on the history of games check out some even earlier Hunter / Gatherer games.
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I’ve been talking to a bunch of you and I know that everyone wants more performance. ROBLOX users will achieve ultimate happiness when we have a 1,000,000 block world with 1,000 players updating at 100 FPS (frames per second). No promises on when that day will be, but until then, here is what we are doing to improve performance. We just pushed a new release today that will allow us to measure many things that our users experience, such as…
Install Success Rate: We want to see how high we can push this (already pretty high)
Continue reading I’ve been talking to a bunch of you and I know that everyone wants more performance. ROBLOX users will achieve ultimate happiness when we have a 1,000,000 block world with 1,000 players updating at 100 FPS (frames per second). No promises on when that day will be, but until then, here is what we are doing to improve performance. We just pushed a new release today that will allow us to measure many things that our users experience, such as…
Install Success Rate: We want to see how high we can push this (already pretty high)
Continue reading We released a new game object today – the “Vehicle Seat”. Vehicle seats automate a bunch of things to create easily drivable, online multiplayer vehicles. We’ve also added some prototype vehicle chassis to the toolbox. You can get vehicle seats from the toolbox as well.
When you attach a vehicle seat to a model a bunch of things happen. All hinge joints in the model are detected. Joints that align with the forward/backward direction of the seat are automatically powered when a character sits in the seat. Vehicles are controlled with the arrow and asdw letter keys. To leave a vehicle – just jump with the space bar.
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Fast websites (and products in general) are a joy to use.  Great web sites offer response times of less than three seconds to keep usability liquid smooth. The release today is the culmination of many improvements to keep our website humming as we grow.  We haveÂ
Continue reading Kudos to Telamon for his nicely crafted ROBLOX April fools post. And congrats to “miso-ichy-san” for being our first user to recognize the spoof. Some hints for those of you who are Sherlock Holmes protégés:
We introduced phase one of ROBLOX character customization last night. Kudos to Erik and Matt for their heavy lifting on this. Can you identify the first six people to create their own custom shirts and characters on ROBLOX late last night?
