Hack Week: The Series!

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While many were enjoying chestnuts roasting on an open fire (well, not here in the Bay Area, thanks to the nightly Spare the Air alerts), our dev team took advantage of the Holiday break by participating in our first-ever Hack Week.

What’s Hack Week, you ask?

It’s the opportunity for our illustrious developers to work on anything they wanted to over the break for the sole purpose of improving what our ROBLOX fans see and use in the not-too-distant future. While Hack Week wasn’t a competition, per se, the devs did want to wow their fellow colleagues with their presentations and get the room buzzing about what’s in store for ROBLOX. More importantly, it was their chance to share their demos and how they strengthen our mission of allowing anyone in the world to create and play amazing 3D games.

And the demos didn’t disappoint, to say the least.

Stay tuned to see the functional prototypes our dev team created!

77 thoughts on “Hack Week: The Series!”

  9. I rather be patient for it to become flawless, than impatient and receive it now with multiple issues, that is what testing is for :D

  11. Ok I think that this is a really cool idea and i can’t wait for it to come out. If you don’t mind me saying hurry up, the players that know about this are dyeing for it to come out.

  21. Looking at the features of the Feature.
    Nice Roblox.
    First the iPad
    Now Universes and Dynamic lighting
    And ofcourse the Water and new Ropes.

    You are doing what the users wish and for that I thank you.

    Juriaan

    • I am SO excited about these new tech demos and features that are going to be added to roblox! I am so happy that roblox is going to be for the ipad, have dynamic lighting, water, and new ropes! It just keeps getting better and better!

  22. Great job ROBLOX staff!!! You are really getting the site out there and easier than ever to build! You guys have been doing a great job and I’m looking forward to more amazing updates and gameplay here on ROBLOX!

  23. This is the kind of company I would love to work for even though i am more into 3D animation I do love 3D gaming too! So if you guys ever come out with any animation modules in ROBLOX I might just be on 24/7!

  25. I thought Hack Week was someting bad, but now it looks epic now that I’ve read on!

  28. First teleporters, studio, fog, ipad AND NOW THIS!?!??! Roblox employees, i have to hand it to you. Good job!

  34. I can’t wait to see what epic stuff ROBLOX has in store for us!
    ROBLOX just keeps getting better and better!!! :D

    • I know!
      Its amazing!
      I have been playing since 08 and its still getting better every day! Talk about amazing!

    • Though I haven’t seen what the admins have created, I believe this is a very good idea. They should do this more often.

    • Yeah bro I wish I knew how to script. If you know how and want to teach me send me a PM on roblox ccody0292 thx.

    • EPIC! With that, well, just think bout it, people could build 4 HUGE places,and practically combine them to make the game 4x bigger!

  41. I thought hack week for a second before I read was people were going to hack for a entire week and not get in trouble I was like no no that is a bad idea but then I read and 3d sounds awesome

  49. i thought Hack Week was a great idea me and the roblox community love the thought that is going through our minds

  50. Although you may not know me, I think that hack week was a VERY good thing to do, I liked it.

  62. I looked at Telamon’s status and saw a certain thing that was probably made in hack week that I can’t wait for!(HINT:Got an IPad?)

  64. 1) Awesome that you brought the comments system back. :D

    2) Can’t wait to see what you guys made.