Over the past few weeks, we have shown the ROBLOX community various character explorations that include new head, body, arm and hand shapes for both male and female characters. We have a few examples of what these renderings would look like in ROBLOX. Check out the video of some new characters, and let us know what you think.
For previous examples, you can learn more in our first and second character exploration post.
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Many scripts want to run little bits of code at frequent intervals. For example, a script might update the behavior of a zombie. It needs to update conditions repeatedly, like checking the location of the nearest player.
Today, ROBLOX’s Chief Scientist, Erik Cassel, discusses proper use of the wait function.
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As the 2012 ROBLOX Game Conference comes closer, we have been nailing down the agenda and details for the event. This year, we are hosting the second annual RGC at the Santa Clara Convention Center on Saturday, July 14, 2012. Be sure to purchase your tickets before our first registration date of May 14th. If you purchase your tickets before this date, you will also receive a complimentary ROBLOX Game Conference T-shirt, water bottle, virtual visor and virtual gear.
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.
ROBLOX is working on a new feature that lets players change their character’s clothes and preview their appearance in-game. User Experience Engineer Ben Tkacheff is here today to demonstrate the interface he developed and offer some insider information on how he used ROBLOX’s tools to create it.
Part of the fun of ROBLOX is creating a persistent avatar and making it your own with the finest, most stylish ROBLOX attire. Traditionally, that customization happens on the ROBLOX website – outside the game engine – and requires you to enter a game to see whether the new look suits your fancy. Now, we’re polishing an interface that lets you change and preview your look in-game.
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At ROBLOX, we believe user experience is of the utmost importance. Today, ROBLOX Software Engineer, Navin Lal, tells us about how ROBLOX is building a faster, more responsive website with the help of MVC and a new pagelet architecture.
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This week in our user feedback post, we have more great requests from ROBLOX players that we want to highlight and discuss. As a reminder, we asked users for their top three ROBLOX feature requests a few weeks ago. Each week, we will address player feedback, and how we are prioritizing our development pipeline around your responses. Similar to the User Feedback v1 post, John Shedletsky, ROBLOX’s Creative and Content Lead, has provided his insight to the following user requests in italics.