Comments on Comments: Physics, Character Animation and More

By Alan Fackler - March 7, 2013

Many readers pour significant time into writing thoughtful replies to our blog articles, and we want to do a better job of addressing them. We’re introducing Comments on Comments as a monthly series that will focus on responding to great questions and feedback.

Each segment, we’ll delve into recent blog comments to find relevant questions, concerns, and feedback, and have the most qualified members of the ROBLOX team respond. For our first post, we’ve tapped ROBLOX Creative Director John Shedletsky and ROBLOX physics guru Kevin He to respond to comments covering character animation, locally hosted servers, recent updates to ROBLOX’s physics, custom gravity, John’s bizarre sense of humor, and more!

Behind the Scenes of Behind the BLOX

By Alan Fackler - March 6, 2013

Last Friday, we kicked off the first in a series of Behind the BLOX, opening the doors of ROBLOX HQ so users could take a tour of our office, test some exciting new features, and talk with our developers about all things ROBLOX. We invited six users from our submission pool—and will be inviting more so we can hold a Behind the BLOX event each week for the foreseeable future!

Redeem ROBLOX Cards in March and Get Free St. Paddy’s Gear!

By Christina McGrath - March 5, 2013

You can buy ROBLOX cards – redeemable for Builders Club subscriptions and Robux – at retailers around the world. It pays to be strategic about where you buy them, though, as ROBLOX cards from specific retailers come bundled with stylish and/or esteemed virtual gear and hats. We recently swapped in a whole new selection of gear and hats for the month of March, and it’s sure to help you celebrate the fast-approaching St. Patrick’s Day!

ROBLOX is Expanding to Continue Innovating

By Alan Fackler - March 4, 2013

ROBLOX is one of the biggest gaming sites on the internet–we’ve logged 140,000 peak concurrent users and 393 million hours of gameplay in 2012. As we continue to steadily grow our userbase, we’re also looking to expand the size of our team. That’s right folks, ROBLOX is hiring. The current version of ROBLOX represents less than 10% of what we envision for the future–come help us build that future today!

Weekly ROBLOX Roundup: March 3rd, 2013

By Andrew Haak - March 3, 2013

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: contests, contests, contests, the venue for ROBLOX Game Conference in New York City, a Spotlight on the users who created a randomly generated obstacle course, cloud gaming vs. traditional game hosting, ensuring a quality Roblox.com through automated testing, how users are part of our development team, Pac-Man!! by PacManMan, and other bits and pieces. Enjoy.

Seven-day Blog Recap

Apparently, March is the month of contests!

We recently launched a bunch of contests on ROBLOX, all of which happen to test your art and design skills. Right now, we’re running a Fan Art contest, a Face contest and an Egg retexture contest. That ought to keep you busy, right? If you’ve got a knack for art, you have a chance to gain some serious community fame this month! To learn more about each contest and how you can enter, check out the blog post, Calling All Artists! And, of course, best of luck to all you participants.

RGC 2013: Announcing the Awesome Venue for New York City

By Becky Lee Herndon - March 2, 2013

At long last, we’re ready to announce the venue for the third ROBLOX Game Conference of the summer, which is taking place on August 10, 2013, in bustling New York City.

Or should we say just off the piers of New York City?

Calling All Artists! Three Design Contests Are Up and Running

By Andrew Haak - March 1, 2013

If you’re the type of person who loves creating things and sharing them with the world, you’re in the right place – that spirit is what fuels ROBLOX. We recognize that not everyone is an aspiring builder or game designer, though, and we just launched three contests that give users who best express themselves through art and design a chance to make a significant mark on ROBLOX.

1. Fan Art Contest (now through March 10th)