ROBLOX’s Black Friday Sale starts now! A blend of new gear, users’ choices and some picks of our own, our weekend sale is a perfect opportunity to deck your character out and become one of the most stylish and envied ROBLOXians this side of the internet. If you’re in the market for great gear at reduced prices or want to pick up classic ROBLOX gear that’s only available on the rarest of occasions, use the below guide to our Black Friday Sale. This list is not exhaustive and we’ll be rolling out additional deals throughout the weekend, so keep your eye on the ROBLOX Catalog for more.

Available now: New gear and a new character body at discount prices

Rapid Launch Laser Blaster: Now 900 Robux (1,250 Robux starting 11/26)

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In a couple days, you’re going to be hearing news stories about shoppers lining up in the mid-night cold to stake out deals on hot Black Friday items. For some, it’s an exciting event. But if you’re the type of person who would rather do your Black Friday shopping from the comfort and safety of your own home, you’re going to love ROBLOX’s Black Friday Sale. It starts this Friday at the stroke of midnight in the ROBLOX Catalog.

Much of our Black Friday Sale was determined by the majority opinion of ROBLOX users. A couple weeks ago, we released a community survey that allowed users to vote on the gear they’d like to see discounted. The survey is now closed; the results have been tallied. While we’re not going to take all the suspense out of Black Friday shopping, we have a preview of four exciting items that will be on sale – and in two cases brought back from the depths of unavailability by your vote.

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Let’s face it, when you run a website or gaming service that is used by millions of people each day, there are going to be a few bad eggs. It’s an unfortunate truth. Scammers, especially around the holidays, are looking to steal account information through various schemes and tricks. We’re not writing this to scare you; we’re writing this to prepare you. With common sense and some of the suggestions in this article, you can make your ROBLOX account hack-proof.

Never give out your account information
This may sound obvious, but you’d be amazed how many users are tricked into giving up their account details. Often, ROBLOX scammers make false promises to get you to divulge your account details. Here’s a checklist of requests to think twice about.

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Thus far, our Engineering ROBLOX for the iPad series has focused on iPad development through a performance-optimization lens. It has seen us go into the trenches with several ROBLOX developers to learn about and document their roles in building a stable, smooth mobile gaming experience with the unique challenge of user-generated content as the centerpiece. In the final installments of the series, we’ll stray from the path and look at the development of interactive components, starting with control design.

ROBLOX Game Engineer Ben Tkacheff is an expert when it comes to iOS controls. He’s played a lot of iOS games and cites Gameloft’s titles as examples of consistently good, mobile-optimized controls. First-person shooter N.O.V.A. stands out to Ben; the game is unabashedly reminiscent of the Halo series, but it isn’t just a console game ported to iOS – it’s a mobile game, in large part due to great controls. For example, players can execute a 180-degree turn quickly – that is, without having to flick across the screen more than once – and camera movement is free-form, rather than tied to a virtual joystick that mimics an analog stick. These are both examples of controls that work with touch screens, rather than around them. That was the kind of approach Ben took to designing a mobile control scheme for ROBLOX.

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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: ROBLOX Tablets in the Catalog, unlocking the 100,000 concurrent users achievement, must-see feats of ROBLOX building, Sorcus’ ultimate sword series, ROBLOX in the press and more.

Seven-day Blog Recap

Purchase a ROBLOX Tablet, get a real iPad

ROBLOX kicked off an iPad promotion this week. Each day, a ROBLOX Tablet will be released in the Catalog. Each one will be more expensive than the last. Once the ROBLOX iPad app is officially released, all users with a ROBLOX Tablet in their inventory will receive a physical iPad from ROBLOX. The first few have already been snatched up by the quickest of ROBLOX users, but we’ll be releasing more. Find all the details in our blog post about the promotion.

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ROBLOX Developer Lead Deepak Chandrasekeran (Sorcus) is in the process developing a series of swords on ROBLOX that will give users powers they may not have ever believed possible. His first sword, Telamonster: The Chaos Edge, sold out in two days, but it was the first in a series of ultimate weapons that will eventually include a roster of seven customized swords with unique and varying abilities. Sorcus runs through the features of these two extremely limited items, and talks a bit about what inspired him to create these swords. 

Crescendo the Soul Stealer, our second release in our Ultimate Weapon series, does things that no other swords on ROBLOX can do. First off, it dramatically hastens your walking speed and increases your overall health by 35%. It also leaves trace images of itself as it’s swung; this isn’t just a cool aesthetic–the trails do damage to enemies who come into contact with them. The Crescendo also features a lunge attack that blasts your character forward across terrain at a rapid speed, leaving a light-trail that can damage other players.

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We go out of our way to keep our users in tune with all of the changes happening in the world of ROBLOX. In the last couple of months, various national publications have begun to notice that ROBLOX is a huge user-generated content site with millions of active players. As the press begins to catch wind of who we are and the mark we’re leaving on the gaming industry, we think our platform will spread to an even larger demographic. Check out some of the articles written about ROBLOX in the past three months, starting most recently with an article published today on the New York Times’ “Motherlode” blog.

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