Take a walk through ROBLOX’s headquarters in downtown San Mateo, Calif., and you’ll see collaborative, open workspaces, desks littered with computer hardware and gadgets, multiple kitchens stocked with snacks, and a lot of coffee. In other words, you’ll see the tropes of a modern-day technology startup.
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ROBLOX is proud to have been named one of TIME Magazine’s 50 Best Websites of 2012. The annual list recognizes websites in a variety of categories, including web tools, games, education, news and information, shopping, productivity, social and more.
The 50 best websites are those that TIME editors “find to be useful, entertaining, innovative or just plain addictive — and, in some cases, all of the above,” according to the article. We think we’re all of the above.
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ROBLOX game developers have the ability to create VIP shirts, which give players special perks and abilities in games. These added abilities can be anything, from super strength or speed, to a special item—the benefits are up to the game creator.
Originally an ingenious ROBLOX user idea, we’re simplifying the VIP t-shirt process with a new feature: Game Passes. A Game Pass essentially does the same thing a VIP shirt does–if you purchase a Game Pass for any particular game, you’ll have access to perks and abilities that others don’t.
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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: talking mechs, motors and invention with user TakeoverTom, we respond your ideas for things like a leveling-up/reputation system and investing in ROBLOX games, the user-generated content landscape, advanced FPS creation and more.
TakeoverTom has created some of the most complex models you’ll see on ROBLOX. We had the chance to talk to him in person about his creations, all of which operate on real-world physical principles and revolve around suspension and steering. From mechs to motorcycles, TakeoverTom is taking advantage of some of ROBLOX’s deepest intricacies, and I think you’ll find his point of view fascinating. You can read the full story here. Recommended reading.
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ROBLOX’s Content Team has been hard at work as of late creating Game Templates, which are freely available starter levels with the nuts and bolts of a specific genre already in place. Our first template gives you the basic elements you need to build a game of the popular multiplayer shooter variety, Capture the Flag. You can find the template — and more in the near future — from the “Templates” ROBLOX user profile.
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Successful user-generated content platforms have long tails.
Not literally. Statistically.
