The Spooky Gift of Halloween

The Spooky Gift of Halloween recently appeared in the ROBLOX Catalog. What’s inside?! There’s a small clue in the description. Sometime between now and October 31 the Spooky Gift will be taken off sale, and soon after will open!

Yorick’s Resting Place

Thousands of players have successfully completed our Halloween treasure hunt and found The Riddling Skull. To get your own Riddling Skull, start your hunt in Yorick’s Resting Place today! Treasure seekers must explore this haunted area and answer riddles to advance. If you get stuck, ask for hints on the forums. The treasure hunt will only run for a limited time, so get to it.

Secret Contest

Close to 100 players have found and entered the secret contest advertised in a special hidden section of Yorick’s level. Congrats to those adventurous elite! Judging will occur on October 31.

ROBLOX Halloween Wallpaper

Get in the spirit of the season with ROBLOX Halloween Wallpaper – 1920 x 1200 is for "wide" monitors, 1600 x 1200 is for "normal" monitors. If you have a lower resolution screen, you can tell Windows to "stretch" it to fit.

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There were just so many cool entries from the recent contest we can’t resist posting some more to the blog. Check these out!

Social Studies

The subject was Social Studies. The project was to create a Sumerian village and include a Ziggurat, Low Class, Middle Class, and High Class homes, a market, public buildings, a meeting place, and artifacts.

ROBLOX helped us with this project, because it made it easy, and very fun! We enjoying making this project, and had a good time. It also helped us get a very good grade and we didn’t have to make a poster or 3-D model. The class enjoyed watching our video presentation, and so did the teacher! It was hard at times, but we eventually solved the problems. Everyone thought we did a great job. – Piecrust & Just3542

Teacher: It was very interesting and a first for the school!
Parents: It was a really good idea to use ROBLOX!

Art

The assignment was to make a poet with a sculpture that fit well together. I had the choice to draw a sculpture or to use something else. I can’t draw at all and I don’t have much experience with 3D modeling programs, so I decided to use Roblox to create a sculpture.

The sculpture is based on a shower where water streams out of it. The meaning of it is that we sometimes waste so much water that the people, that don’t have clean water, actually could live from it.

My parents were astonished of how good the sculpture was that I’ve made. The teacher was also astonished by it. I got a 9,5 for it. In the USA it is a A- and / or a 95%. A good grade. -Whacka

Weather

This is a tornado project for science. I used black holes to simulate the sucking in of the bricks, and it looks great. It caused a lot of lag, but it was worth it. ROBLOX helped me out a lot with my project. I don’t think that I would have been able to make something so realistic without a photo. This gave me a chance to introduce all of my friends to ROBLOX. It also allowed me understand black holes and the effects of tornadoes. When I explained to them how I made the tornadoes, they seemed amazed that you could do it. I also learned how to put buildings together and enhance my building skills. My teacher gave me a great grade and a high score in creativity. -GamerElite

World History

In my world history class, each of us was given a certain time from the rise of Rome to the end of the Hundred Years War, and tasked with doing a slideshow on this period. Points were given for facts, organization, and a large part to presentation (aka style, creativity). I wanted to do well in all 3 areas, so I was thinking of ways to fit the creativity portion (the area I was most worried about). All clip art had been used to death, so as I was playing ROBLOX I decided to use the game’s bright graphics and extensive building tools to craft images for my slideshow.

I was pleased with the results far more than any other slide show I had done before, and I Aced the creativity portion (the teacher said it was very original). It also allowed me to have fun with the entire process. Overall it shined over all of the basic bullet point slideshows.- saveaseal13

Meteorology

I know I am going to show my teacher this video whenever we get to that part in science. Because the school year just started. But I know I will, but I just hope that the Internet at school  will open by that time. I showed my mom and she was Amazed! She would have never thought that I’m so good at making videos like this. -Crazy3101

History

The project was to make a presentation about the plague in 1666. Roblox was helpful as our history teacher likes us to  be creative when doing projects and to not just write loads of paragraphs on what happened.

Lots of my classmates play ROBLOX and I thought making the presentation here would be fun and entertaining for my mates. The teacher liked it just as much as my mates as it was the only video presentation. I sent the video to my teachers e-mail and she showed it in class using the projector.

Roblox helped further more as I could ‘show’ what happened instead of having just read out what happened. I really enjoyed using ROBLOX to make the presentation and I am very happy with it. It was awarded a 5A by my teacher! – frillydilly

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Dare you visit Yorick’s Resting Place in an attempt to locate The Riddling Skull?

In this spooky forest you will contend with a poisonous river of purple goo, black caves with mysterious paintings, dark hallways, a tree with claws, an ancient graveyard, an abandoned mansion, secret plans, and, oh yes, riddles.

Complete the level to attain your own copy of The Riddling Skull!

- Telamon

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A mysterious skull has appeared in the ROBLOX Catalog…

No one has yet figured out how to obtain this rare item, however, serious investigation is under way.

Very obtuse clues are all the community has to go on right now. However, more clues will be forthcoming over the next several days – so keep a look out!

- Telamon

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The School Project judging is over and the winners have received their prizes. Hooray!

There are 106 Grand Prize winners – users who sent in projects that used ROBLOX in inspiring and clever ways. The users on this list received 500 R$ and all the book hats currently in the Catalog…

Biology Textbook, Chemistry Textbook, Economics Textbook, Fait Lux: The Life and Times of a Builderman, Finnegan’s Wake, Geography Textbook, I, LOLRUS, Learn to Program C++, Math Textbook, Music Theory Textbook, Quantum Chromodynamics For Dummies, Reading Textbook, Teapot Tome, The Lolcat Bible, The Necrobloxicon, The Nethack Man Pages, The Recess Codex
and… ROBUK: How Education Determines Future Success

There were another 225 user who received the book hat ROBUK: How Education Determines Future Success as an entry prize. We liked their work a lot and wanted to reward them for trying. Many of the entries showed a lot of scholastic skill but were not really using ROBLOX as an aid to learning.

This event really shows that ROBLOX can be used to help with school projects, at school or at home. There were so many entries we will not be able to showcase them all on the News. We would like to show a few more though! Here are a few and hopefully soon we can put others soon.

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Motion – Friction and Energy

Assignment- Give an example of Friction and Energy

Roblox helped me with this project because it displayed the properties of Friction and Energy and it was easy to use. -mythicman95

Life Science

I used Roblox to create the carbon cycle. My class had to create a cycle on the environment. Since some one had already done a water cycle, I decided to make a carbon cycle. I created a carbon cycle on Roblox. After I finished I edited with Photoshop. Roblox helped so much with this. The next day I gave it to my teacher and I received an A. -Daniel9107

Art

In Art Class I was required to construct a three dimensional Project for the end of the year. I was stumped on how I should complete the project. I decided I’d make some form of Abstract or Modern art. I realized I could use the computer for my project. I tried designing my model on paint, but I just wasn’t good at it. I got bored and decided to play a little bit of my favorite game, Roblox. After a bit of building I noticed that I could design my project on Roblox. I successfully made the models my teacher was asking for and I got an A+. – StoneBlood

Direct quote from the teacher: “Great Work! Your models contain lots of texture and are very Abstract!”

Newtonian Physics

Assignment: Show that in the absence of air, ALL objects, regardless of weight or shape, fall at the same rate. I learned that Sir Isaac Newton was the first to use experiments to show that there is something called air resistance. Air actually slows an object down when it falls. The heavier the object is, the less it is affected by air resistance. So if there was no air they would all fall at the same speed! Since I am home schooled I was able to get on Roblox and show that since there is no air on Roblox a small brick and a large brick fall at the same speed! This was great because one, I got an A and two, I had a chance to participate in a Roblox contest! YAY! – ryno1o1

Math

We were looking at Simple Harmonic Motion. We’d been spending a few lessons looking at simple harmonic motion in a spring, we’d been having to look at a spring because it’s hard to look at the displacement, acceleration and velocity or a pendulum. So I went into Roblox and made a pendulum, and made it print off the position of the pendulum over a course of 10 seconds, every 0.05 seconds. I then put this into excel to get a graph. Later I made a script to actually plot a graph in game.
My physics teacher was impressed by the application of Roblox for motion physics experiments. -Articerile

You can talk more about this contest on our forums!

-ReeseMcBlox

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The contest mailbox is closed and we’re working like mad to finish sorting through all the entries. We got a lot more entries for this contest than we expected. That’s great!

We’re going to announce the winners as soon as we can. There will be a lot of winners. All the entries must be looked over by ROBLOX staff. It’s a fun job actually, since we get to learn new things at the same time.

To make this post more interesting we will show a few more entries. We only have time right now to show three – but there will be another post in the future showing off tons of great entries.

So for now check these out.

Ancient Cultures

ROBLOX gave me a better chance to get a better grade on my model and also made it more fun! It gave me the chance to be free and express my self as I made this wonderful world of Mesopotamia. We should be able to make a place where we can imagine AS MUCH AS ARE LITTLE HEARTS CAN! And ROBLOX helped me because it is a very compatible and safe way to let teachers know that we can make projects with just about anything.  – Ronat

Teacher comment: Good work.  This is one astounding idea and helps with our budget!

Scripting Languages

I had a project recently about programming at my school! My project was about all of the types of programming, and what they do. Roblox helped me in this project by showing me ways of scripting techniques and things like, lua, and all kinds of scripting in the lua language. Also roblox helped me because it made it easier because I already knew about Lua very well. Another thing is that I made a PowerPoint for this project. One thing that helped me with this project was the scripting language of lua, like the “game.Workspace.etc.etc” because a lot of scripting engines handle things similar to that type of scripting. In Roblox the scripting engine: LUA, helped me again by showing me ways of boolean values in it, which we are talking a lot about in class!
-Timshadow

Parent comment: This is a great way to learn and help you with scripting and it would help you with the project!

Biology

Roblox helped me on this project by letting me show cool models to the class, but also show the sharks in a gentle way. Other pictures I looked for in this projects showed some of the creatures as killers. They wouldn’t have helped to show sharks aren’t all bad as most people say. The saying, “the only good shark is a dead shark” really gets to me and I couldn’t not show these sleek and amazing creatures gently, yet still cool looking, other wise. The pictures got the classes attention. P.S. I got an A.
-fireball11121

You can comment and chat about this contest on our forums!

-ReeseMcBlox

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