We’ve just pushed a major release out the door! What’s in it?

• Tools. These are items that can be picked up, dropped (press backspace), and appear in your hand when you use them. They use Meshes and look cool.
• Teams. Team games now have engine support. This means a custom leaderboard and player names are printed in team colors above the chacter.
• New map. The team map BrickBattle: Glass Houses.
• Website made faster.
• Stats now appear in drop-down panel.
• New default starting place for new users.
• A large number of crash bugs fixed.
• A number of Studio annoyances fixed.

Tools and Teams are both highly experimental and have only been minimally tested. In addition, we may be changing how Tools and Teams work from Lua. Scripts written against Tools or Teams will probably break in a future release. So if you are thinking about adding them to your map, you have been warned.

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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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Reports From Robloxia #2

This week we reprise our Reports From Robloxia column, written by you, the citizens of Robloxia. This week’s article is written by RobloxPolice, one of our most accomplished builders and owner of the current #1 all-time most popular place on Roblox. Due to his skills and possibly his account name, people often assume that RobloxPolice is an official Roblox moderator or admin. To set the record straight: this is not the case. Rest assured, the Roblox Team has strong libertarian leanings; we would never set up a police state in Robloxia. Enough introduction, let’s see what RP has to say…

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… and the secrets of the universe would be enscribed in an arcane language, spoken of only in hushed tones, and known simply as ‘Lua’ – the tongue of the gods; the vital force underlying all creation. One day it was told that a prophet would come and write a tome that would relate the cryptic ways of Lua to man, that man might learn it and bask in the reflected glory of Two-by-Two.

The Chronicles of Roblox, VIII.512

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Every regular Robloxian has by now noticed the ubiquitous “Report Abuse” button.  As of this week it has crept into the game itself in the guise of a rather surprised looking yellow smiley.

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Last week the Roblox team decided we would like to experiment with a “Reports From Robloxia” column written directly by our players for the Roblog. I solicited articles from a few of Robloxia’s finest builders and brick warriors, offering them the chance to write about whatever they like. Koopa was the first person to get back to me with an article. Koopa is a winner of our recent Homestead Contest, an expert builder, and one of only three Robloxians with a 4:1 KO/WO ratio.

– Telamon

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What a fatuous thing to say. When it comes to motivational sentiments about teams, I prefer the following:

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