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Category Archives: Bits and bytes
New Contest System Updates Coming…
RobloTim and I have been double-teaming the ROBLOX building contest system for the past couple of days, trying to get it into a reasonable state. Those long-time ROBLOX players out there know that the ROBLOX team prefers to get new features out into the wild early, get them in the hands of players, and then slowly refine them. The new contest system is still a work in progress, but it has been fun to watch it evolve.
Continue reading Social Feature Bonanza!
GROUPS!!!!!
Ever wanted to have your OWN forum for just you and your friends? Your own hang out spot? A place to talk about how much cooler pirates are than ninjas? Have you ever had the desire to show everyone where your allegiance lies? Well now you can. Groups are here!
Status Updates, Best Friends, and Feeds, oh my
We were feeling social these last few weeks, so we’ve brought you a whole bunch of new social features to enjoy on Roblox.com.
Status Updates
Now you can update your status on Roblox, and tell all your friends what you’re doing right now. You can update your status by clicking on My Roblox or by viewing your own profile page while logged in. All status updates will be visble to all of your friends, and will show up in the feeds of those who have you as a best friend. Tell them how you’re pwning the opposition… then shamefully admit how you got pwned 5 minutes in.
Continue reading Focusing on Performance
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 Performance Testing for Ads
It’s been several months since we released our exciting feature that allows users to run ads on our website for places, models, and clothing that they have made. It has been a huge success and the quality of our users’ ads continues to improve over time as people figure out what works and what doesn’t.
There’s a lot of information in the wiki to help you get started making your own ads.
Continue reading Scripting With Telamon: Debugging
Howdy! Today’s article is for Roblox power users who want to learn how to develop scripts in Roblox. This is not a programming language tutorial – I will assume you know enough about Lua to look at a piece of code and guess at what it does. Rather I am going to teach you how to deal with buggy scripts and show how to debug them. Debugging in general is a mystical art – I use the word "art", which is the product of innate creative forces, in contrast to "science", which can be dissected, reduced, and taught. We’ve built some tools into Roblox Studio to help you though.
Part 1 – Mission Statement
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