Weekly Roundup: December 22nd, 2013 [Bonus: Contest Winners]

By Andrew Haak - December 22, 2013

Every week, we’re busy telling the stories behind our community, our technology and our place in the gaming and technology industries. For those of you who catch up with us over the weekend, the Weekly Roundup collects the best stuff to hit our various avenues of publication in the last week. This time: another four fan art contest winners, an inside look at ROBLOX’s 2013 Hack Week, game universes and massive scale, our 2013 holiday game, ROBLOX Survivor 2.0, two game recommendations, and other bits and pieces. Enjoy.

Fan art contest winners, round 4

Looking at this week’s selection of winners, it really hit home just how many amazing and talented artists there are in the ROBLOX community. Keep honing your craft!

Weekly Roundup: December 15th, 2013 [Bonus: Contest Winners]

By Andrew Haak - December 15, 2013

Every week, we’re busy telling the stories behind our community, our technology and our place in the gaming and technology industries. For those of you who catch up with us over the weekend, the Weekly Roundup collects the best stuff to hit our various avenues of publication in the last week. This time: three more fan art contest winners, the 2013 ROBLOX Winter Games, game servers can now send HTTP requests, the launch of SurfaceGUIs, last-minute merchandise orders for the holidays, Unclear’s Crystal Raider, two games of the week, and other bits and pieces. Enjoy.

Fan art contest winners, round 3

This week, we have three more fan art contest winners!

Weekly Roundup: December 8th, 2013 [Bonus: Contest Winners!]

By Andrew Haak - December 8, 2013

Every week, we’re busy telling the stories behind our community, our technology and our place in the gaming and technology industries. For those of you who catch up with us over the weekend, the Weekly Roundup collects the best stuff to hit our various avenues of publication in the last week. This time: four more fan art contest winners, the first BLOXcast, vastly expanded terrain building, Giftsplosion 2013 updates, the $29,000+ we’ve paid to developers so far, a Spotlight on treyreynolds, two game recommendations, and other bits and pieces. Enjoy.

Fan art contest winners, round 2

This week, we have four more fan art contest winners!

Weekly Roundup: December 1st, 2013 [Bonus: Contest Winners!]

By Andrew Haak - December 1, 2013

Every week, we’re busy telling the stories behind our community, our technology and our place in the gaming and technology industries. For those of you who catch up with us over the weekend, the Weekly Roundup collects the best stuff to hit our various avenues of publication in the last week. This time: the first three fan art contest winners, new building and scripting tutorials, what games we’re playing this Thanksgiving break, a movie-series-inspired Crossfire, tips for marketing your game, the end of the Black Friday weekend sale, two games you should play, a video corner, and other bits and pieces. Enjoy.

Fan art contest winners, round 1

I know, I’m a week late. You guys submitted a lot of entries — more than I had anticipated — and I simply ran out of time in getting through them all and organizing them into buckets. However, I did finally succeed in the grand review, and we’ve selected our first three of many (on the order of 25 or so) winners!