Weekly ROBLOX Roundup: January 6, 2013 (New Year Edition)

By Andrew Haak - January 6, 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: a fancy new logo, our CEO’s look back at 2012 and forward to the new year, ROBLOX Mobile in the press, Nytraulics’ development of a top-down shooter, blog stories of the year, the Elite Builders of ROBLOXia, Choices by GollyGreg and more. Welcome to 2013.

Seven-day Blog Recap

Since we skipped last week’s roundup in lieu of the holidays, this recap covers a little more than seven days. On the bright side, things were relatively quiet at ROBLOX HQ during the break, so we don’t have too much catching up to do.

Weekly ROBLOX Roundup: December 23, 2012

By Andrew Haak - December 23, 2012

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 Mobile games now available to all users, featherweight parts open up a world of building possibilities, we look at the games proving popular on mobile, GUI design and best practices, gifts, Medieval Warfare, and other bits and pieces.

Seven-day Blog Recap

Mobile gaming now available to everyone

Last week we decided to open all games to all users on ROBLOX Mobile, partly because the app is performing well and partly because of your passionate feedback. Now, whether you’re a Builders Club member or not, you can log into ROBLOX Mobile and play all of our millions of games. Check out this blog post on the big change for more information about ROBLOX Mobile and how you can get it on your iOS device!

Weekly ROBLOX Roundup: December 16, 2012

By Andrew Haak - December 16, 2012

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: the official ROBLOX Mobile launch, John Shedletsky addresses your mobile gaming questions, tips for building mobile-friendly ROBLOX games and places, the great-looking Timeless by Unclear and more.

Seven-day Blog Recap

ROBLOX Mobile is available and ready for play

This week, we officially released ROBLOX Mobile, with gaming unlocked for iPad 2+, iPhone 4+ and iPod touch 5th Generation. If you download the app today, you can grab a free pair of White Earbuds for your ROBLOX character from the mobile catalog. We’ll also be releasing some additional iOS-exclusive items in the near future. For more information on them, visit our blog story about the launch of ROBLOX Mobile. If you want to skip straight to the goods, click here to download ROBLOX Mobile.

Weekly ROBLOX Roundup: December 9, 2012

By Andrew Haak - December 9, 2012

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: our chat with the owner of the LuaLearners group and website, supplementing your trades with Robux, useful ROBLOX Studio plug-ins, our web developers’ gaming tastes, ROBLOX Tablets moving through the economy, your characters in one word, and top-down shooter Underscore.

Seven-day Blog Recap

LuaLearners.org: a scripting haven

We’re often asked, “How can I learn how to script in ROBLOX?” We have a couple go-to resources — the ROBLOX Wiki and user cowbear16′s “Basic ROBLOX Lua Programming” book — but now we can add LuaLearners.org and the LuaLearners ROBLOX group to the list. The site/group exists for the sole purpose of helping ROBLOX users of all levels learn to write in Lua and enhance their creations with scripts. We talked with the group’s leader, Coolbob44, about the LuaLearners site and community and put together a blog feature to increase exposure of the great work happening in both.

Weekly ROBLOX Roundup: December 2, 2012

By Andrew Haak - December 2, 2012

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: our visit to a Bay Area school, updates to the ROBLOX UI, user Ajedi32 and the ROBLOX Wikia, a preview of upcoming Apocalypse Rising updates, Giftsplosion, another must-see place in Block Town, the stories behind your usernames and more.

Seven-day Blog Recap

ROBLOX visits Bay Area student-gamers

A couple weeks ago, ROBLOX Founder and CEO David Baszucki, Senior Software Developer Robert Morgan and Studio Engineering Director Tim Brown headed to a Bay Area school to meet with students and game enthusiasts. The trio answered questions and took a little time to find out how members of the community build with ROBLOX. You can read a full report of the mini-event in our blog post.

Weekly ROBLOX Roundup: November 24, 2012

By Andrew Haak - November 25, 2012

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: Black Friday deals, ROBLOX’s touch-screen control design, a Spotlight on super-builder Geico480, protecting your account, epic ship battles in Galleons, Thanksgiving in ROBLOX and more.

Seven-day Blog Recap

Still going strong: Black Friday deals

ROBLOX’s Black Friday Sale has been running since the crack of almost-midnight on Friday and, if you haven’t snatched up some low-priced gear, there’s still time. (That is, the rest of the day today.) You can check out our guide to Black Friday deals here on the blog for a detailed listing or consider some of these popular options:

Weekly ROBLOX Roundup: November 18, 2012

By Andrew Haak - November 18, 2012

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.