Gear on Fire!

By John Shedletsky - July 23, 2010

Happy weekend everybody! I’m really excited about the gear coming out soon, two of our items feature fire! If you haven’t heard, fire is a new feature we released, and works similar to the way smoke and sparkles work currently. I can’t wait to see what all you creative Robloxians do with it!

US Military Top Secret Experimental Jetpack- Reach all new heights with JetPack! Simply point the camera up to reach the heavens, or down to plant your feet back on the Earth. You can also move around while flying like you normally would (WASD keys). Be careful to watch your fuel gauge however, as you might fly too close to the Sun and run out of juice!

Epic Sauce – While on the topic of liquid, we have concocted a special sauce that only one word can describe: Epic. The Surgeon General of Robloxia does warn however that it may be too hot for some Robloxians, well actually all Robloxians.

Barrel O’ Monkeys – Free the Mad Maroon Monkeys from the Big Blue Barrel! Just don’t be around when they do get free, just trust me on that…

Talk about the gear in the forums.

New Privacy Features

By Becky Lee Herndon - July 23, 2010

We know it’s important that every player feels safe. So with our new social features we’re also adding some new privacy features! The new privacy features affect four areas of the ROBLOX social scene:

Chat – for website chat
Party – for the new Party group chat feature coming
Private Message – for private messages
Follow – for the feature to follow friends into Games

Account To change your settings go to the Account section of your profile. At the bottom of the page you will see the Privacy Matrix! It’s not actually a matrix but that sounded kind of cool. You can set each feature to your most comfortable setting of privacy.

ROBLOX Summer Egg Hunt

By John Shedletsky - July 21, 2010

NewEggs

ROBLOX is eggcited to invite our users to Eggstravaganza 2010! Eggstravaganza is an exciting egg hunt that will be going on for the next couple of days – beginning at 3:00PM (PDT) on Wednesday, July 21st. At predetermined times – eggs will rain from the sky in every ROBLOX game. Once it starts raining eggs – the hunt is on! Get in game and start trying to get the eggs before other players do. Each type of egg behaves differently, so you’ll have to figure out how to earn each one.

Gear Goes Green!

By John Shedletsky - July 16, 2010

This week we have some interesting new gear, mostly all user generated ideas. I hope everyone has as much fun using it as I did creating it!

Vine Staff – For those of you with green thumbs, protect yourself from your enemies with Mother Nature. Creates a shield of vines, which are impenetrable.

Blunderbuss – Too many Robloxians coming at you in all directions? The blunderbuss randomly fires projectiles in all directions of the target direction, insuring that even if you aren’t a good shot, you’ll hit something.

Terrible Trident – Coming straight from Poseidon, this trident will strike fear in the hearts of it’s victims. But seriously, it will literally go through Robloxians. Click once to thrust the trident forward, double-click to launch it!

Ninja Plushie – He may look cute, but this ninja is full of surprises. Simply throw at any object and instantly camouflage yourself.

Talk about the new gear in the forums.

-jeditkacheff

Intern Roll Call!

By Becky Lee Herndon - July 12, 2010

We have four great interns at ROBLOX this summer. They are working on all sorts of zany projects. Welcome them on our forums!

-ReeseMcBlox

Grapple to your Musical Decoy

By John Shedletsky - July 9, 2010

Hello fellow Robloxians, I hope those of us in the United States had a great patriotic weekend! And the rest of us, well I hope you had a good weekend too! Moving on, here is the gear for the upcoming weekend:

Decoy Deploy – Ever wanted to be in two places at once? Well now you can, thanks to Decoy Deploy! Simply drink the potion and viola! A second you appears! Be careful though, as decoys tend to be highly volatile…

Saxophone – Become the next John Coltrane as you wail away into hearts and souls of Robloxian jazz lovers. It’s not just music, man.

Grapple Hook – Plan a daring escape, or break into a high security area with Grapple Hook. Simply launch in the direction you would like to be whisked away to and press ‘q’ to retract the cable.

Talk about the new gear in the forums.

Happy 4th of July!

By John Shedletsky - July 2, 2010

ROBLOX wishes you a Happy 4th of July! Here are some fun items to celebrate with!