User Feedback v1

By John Shedletsky - April 20, 2012

In order to prioritize our development pipeline, we posted a blog two weeks ago opening the discussion to our users about their top three requests for ROBLOX. While we are still carefully reading each reply, we wanted to point out a few exceptional responses, along with our developer feedback, so you can see what we are working on. Below we have selected several great comments from our players. John Shedletsky, ROBLOX’s Creative and Content Lead, provides his response in italics.

User Feedback v1

By John Shedletsky - April 20, 2012

Some of These Eggs Hunt You

By John Shedletsky - April 6, 2012

Ghostly apparitions. Bloodsucking fiends. Quantum vacuum collapse. Terrordactyls. At least one of the doomsday scenarios featured in Engines of Creation. Make no mistake. This is not a ROBLOX “egg hunt.” This is psycho-killer eggs hunting you for sport.

The ROBLOX Content Team has built a deadly arena where intrepid players can venture in hopes of securing fragile and high-cholesterol treasures of great value. Stop reading and play it now. This level will be live for a limited time only.

ROBLOX: Built for Cross-Platform Play

By John Shedletsky - March 16, 2012

Last weekend, a friend and I set aside a day to delve into the trenches of Civilization V’s multiplayer mode. She purchased her Mac copy via Steam, slogged through the two-gigabyte download and fired it up – only to find out it isn’t compatible with Mac OSX 10.5. Making matters worse, our plans were destined to fail, as Aspyr’s Mac port doesn’t allow Mac and PC players to join the same online game.

ROBLOX Studio for MAC–The BETA is Live!

By John Shedletsky - January 6, 2012

We’re almost finished porting ROBLOX Studio to the Mac! ROBLOX has had Mac player support now for several months, but up until now, Mac users haven’t been able to leverage ROBLOX Studio, our professional place and model building tool, to create high quality ROBLOX games. This is about to change…

Material Evidence

By John Shedletsky - December 19, 2011

Asphalt. Iron plate. Gravel. Concrete. Cinderblocks. Gold. These are the materials I’m using to construct the new underground mansion-bunker in my personal build server today. If having a solid gold blast shield in your underground mansion-bunker is wrong, I don’t want to be right.

ROBLOX Secrets Revealed: Fog Blog

By John Shedletsky - December 9, 2011

A new ROBLOX release went out late last night. It contained a lot of important performance improvements, but it also included a secret feature that some ROBLOXians have already discovered… atmospheric fog!