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: Build and Battle, ROBLOX’s mock Hackathon, character models, terrain and more.
Build and Battle: A new breed of ROBLOX game
Build and Battle is a team-based shooter where the objective is to take out your opponent’s energy core. Sounds simple enough, right? ROBLOX’s Content team ran with the basic foundation, introducing randomly generated terrain, resource collection, base building and more. You can read all about it and watch a video featuring ROBLOX developer Rohan, or jump right into a match.
ROBLOX’s “mock Hackathon”
A couple Fridays back, we announced a Hackathon for ROBLOX Game Conference 2012 and a “dry run” at the ROBLOX HQ. Well, we did the dry run, and we have video evidence to prove it — and how fun the actual event will be.
Character models progress report
Our latest entry in the “Character Explorations” series shows the version-3.0 character models, all dressed up to create a variety of personalities. You’ve got Sarge, a comically deranged-looking soldier, and Dr. Smith, the evil genius, and Missy, and… Well, just check out the embedded video to see them in the virtual flesh.
Run Length Encoding
There are multiple reasons why ROBLOX’s terrain is efficient and scalable, one of which is Run Length Encoding. ROBLOX developer Daniel Ignatoff crunched some numbers for us, showing how Run Length Encoding and compression techniques drive down file sizes for terrain-based ROBLOX games. Put on your math hat and check it out.
ROBLOX, elsewhere on the webMassively.com writer Karen Bryan published a great “first-impressions” article about ROBLOX, and very elegantly observed some key differences between our platform and the oft-compared Minecraft. Roblox often gets compared to Minecraft, and while both have block-style graphics and offer players the opportunity to build in-game worlds, I think Roblox has a depth to it that Minecraft does not. Roblox is part computer science, part game design, part multiplayer-game, and part lemonade stand … Minecraft and Roblox actually seem to be headed in different directions, so I think the differences will be even more stark down the road. |
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Some day ROBLOX bodies are going to look like real human bodies! And it’s going to be “The Blox Bodies 1000000.0″ ROBLOX the game was better in 2011!
i think roblox should make a mastercheif helmet
I need obc XD but they need to be the bodies free not the free only tix and robux
Can somebody please donate me some robux, I don’t car how much robux it is.
A Hackathon? O, come ON, you guys are makin me so mad that I can’t afford the RGC tickets! And, are you guys still workin’ on the in-game wardrobe change? I’ve been waiting for that one!
I want to go but I live in Indiana :(
I wish roblox will be more awesome one day.
I like the new bodies but I don’t have bc or any robux.All I have is nothing on roblox.If you donate please donate me at least 20 robux.My name is spaghetitacos.I will like it if you donated money to me.
Cool! Too bad I missed it… :(
I like the new 3.0 bodies.
Can you make a hat called based off of Artic Commando but all black? That would be awesome. Also if anyone could donate to me, I accept any amount. Pm me @ Epicfail889 on roblox. Thanks to those that are willing to donate :D
i agree with sub
I think u should have a Free Hat Day every saturday because im rlly low on currency at the moment
Yah i dont even have robux and dont know how to get robux.we need ONLY every saturday.Thanks if you do this :)
i think there should be an update where u can go to 04-12
Agree @below, because people might hate them and that’s wasted their tix/robux
And I hope that they won’t give guests those bodies ’cause they are treating guest with hair and torso/just a hat!
this would incourage people to not make an account ’cause they already look ‘decent’ enough as a guest…
agreed and i think they should add a system where u can sell the stuff u bought for like 3 quarters of the price or something
roblox deserves the money. only like 10,000 or little more players played in 2006 and i met 10,000 who sayed they were so stfu up about that. and i dont want 3.0 bodys casue it will prvoke more online daters and really its almost like face book and with all the ” what i am up to” and connection to face book so friends can see what yuor playing and crap. i just want to play roblox but with new things IN GAME that help fighting and adventures mabey even tycoons like good working floating water better exploisions that dont kill you through walls and heck gravity mabey even having a thing were you admins and wokers of roblox make your own games and have like a neet *Creators* section instead of that crap relavance thing. BUT ANY WAYS thats just me and i am not like most people
I am in the BC,but I still think the bodies shuld be free