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: Water, ROBLOX Game Conference updates, potato cannons and more.

Water is running in ROBLOX

By a long shot, the talk of the week was water. We’ve already seen a number of interesting creations using ROBLOX’s physically simulated water, and we’re excited to see more users take advantage of it in the near future. Read on for ROBLOX users’ thoughts on the kinds of water-based creations they’d like to see in the future.

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Do you consider yourself an elite ROBLOX game designer? Do your friends secretly marvel at your architectural competence and scripting prowess? Can you produce under the pressure of limited time? If so, we invite you to bring your laptop to ROBLOX Game Conference 2012 and join us for a continuous, all-day Hackathon.

The ROBLOX Game Conference 2012 Hackathon will let attendees take a break from the festivities and enjoy a session of ROBLOX creation. Every 20 or so minutes, a ROBLOX developer will unveil a new puzzle, challenging users to complete it in a given period of time. While we can’t give away any specifics, we’ll be asking competitors to do things like create a new GUI (graphic user interface) or game effect, script a specific sequence of behaviors, solve programming and math puzzles, and take advantage of a ROBLOX feature that’s not commonly used.

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Water has arrived in ROBLOX. What many see as an essential, but essentially mundane part of life, we see as a game-changer.

That’s because it’s more than just a texture. ROBLOX’s water comes with comprehensive physics simulation, meaning your ROBLOX character and the physical objects in your ROBLOX world behave as realistically in water as they do on land. You can wade on the surface and dive to the depths, create boats and motorized propellers, design rivers and falls with flowing rapids, and more. We’ve opened the floodgates to new genres of games and given game designers a new dynamic that begs experimentation.

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By the time the ROBLOX Content Team finished developing ROBLOX Base Wars FPS, we had accumulated a number of powerful scripts that quickly turn a standard ROBLOX game into a class-based, first-person shooter (FPS). Recognizing the power of the scripts, we packaged them in a FPS plugin for ROBLOX Studio and put them to the test.

Do they make it possible to create an FPS in 15 minutes?

The answer is a resounding yes. If you don’t believe it, watch this video, in which ROBLOX’s own Luke Weber and Rohan Karnik go from nothing to a fully functioning FPS game in 15 minutes. (We’ve edited the video for brevity.)

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Ever since we made the request for your ROBLOX “Top Three,” we’ve been combing through the feedback and responding to your most insightful comments and pertinent questions. This week, John Shedletsky, ROBLOX’s Creative Director and Content Lead, elaborates on a variety of topics, including non-player character (NPC) functionality, scripting tutorials and environments, character “outfits,” particle effects and more.

madscientist42: More NPC functionality – walking destination, backpack, target, alliance – would allow games to always have enough players for a specific objective and/or make RPGs a whole lot more fun. (For example, instead of walking to a NPC that stands still, perhaps the NPC journeys with you.)

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With ROBLOX Game Conference 2012 44 days away, we’re working toward finalizing a schedule of events, presentations, feature demos, challenges and more. You can now buy a ticket for just $10; the sooner you buy, the more in-game gear you receive from ROBLOX. Here’s what your ticket gets you (subject to change) at the event:

On the Main Stage

Welcome from CEO and Founder David Baszucki, and the ROBLOX Team
Tons of Demos
New Product Sneak Peeks
Audience Participation Events
ROBLOX Hall of Fame 2012
David Baszucki’s Vision of ROBLOX in 2020

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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 week: ROBLOX Studio 2.0, why we slashed ROBLOX Game Conference ticket prices, our Maker Faire 2012 experience, a bonus trading system update and more.

ROBLOX Studio 2.0 is coming soon; beta test coming sooner

We made some big announcements this week, but ROBLOX Studio 2.0 was the one that resonated with readers the most. We’re excited to release it for its polished interface, perhaps more so for the framework on which it’s built. Keep an eye on our blog and Twitter account for more information about participating in a beta test.

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