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: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Turtle Trouble, impressive game conversions and re-imaginations on ROBLOX, how ROBLOX renders shadows, our moderation program and more.
‘Twas the week of the Turtle
On Monday, we announced our Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Turtle Trouble game. On Saturday, we went in-depth on the making of said game. Indeed, it was the week of the Turtle (and ninja-rat). While you may have already played Turtle Trouble, we recommend you read our making-of article, then revisit the game. We think you’ll see it through a different lens, having consumed our breakdown of why things are the way they are and how they got there.
Impressive game conversions on ROBLOX
The more you search ROBLOX and look back at the games that aren’t topping the Games page, the more you realize just how much interesting content there is to explore. Type “Pac Man” into the search box, and you’ll find pages of Pac-Man games. Of course, they’re not all good; to help you suss out some of the filler, we made a list of five (and then some) popular games — from Portal to Pac-Man to Test Drive: Unlimited — that have been converted or re-imagined on ROBLOX.
How ROBLOX renders shadows
We received a question asking how ROBLOX renders shadows several weeks back. We recently got around to picking the brain of our Client Engine Lead Simon Kozlov, who shared details about our lighting and shadow-rendering methods. We also explain some of our ideas for the future, which include “voxel lighting.” Check out the complete post for all the details.
Still need more? Try this on for size: Moderation on ROBLOX: How It Works.
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GDC Online (October 9-11)
Game Developers Conference (GDC) Online, the self-proclaimed premier professionals-only event for online, social and cloud gaming, takes place next week in Austin, Texas. ROBLOX CEO and Founder David Baszucki will be sharing his knowledge at the event’s Game Dev Start-Up Summit on Tuesday, October 9th. Running from 8:45 a.m. to 6 p.m., the summit consists of sessions covering the “issues, challenges, and realities of a new game dev as it forms and gets off the ground.”
Having built ROBLOX from a two-person operation to a gaming company with more than 60 employees – and in a time when any one social network had yet to cement itself as a go-to platform for online games – David brings unique perspective and knowledge.
You should play this ROBLOX game
This week, for me, was all about ROBLOX Pac-Man, by crazyblox. Human ghosts make the classic nigh impossible, but it’s still exciting and entertaining.
Bits
- The ROBLOX Currency Exchange is a fluctuating market controlled by supply and demand. One user has built a web graph that tracks the Currency Exchange rates.
I think that it is great and all that you can do the stuff you can to make good games like Lego Hero Factory: Breakout and TMNT: Turtle Truble, but a few mounths or so ago there was one of these on guis and I think that instead of typing in the position in proporties, you could have it like you do the bricks just move it over one pixle at a time, that way it would save time building and it would be alot easier. Since me and like two other people who said the same where never heard last time I thought I could post a coment about this now. Sorry if it is off topic I just think it’s a good idea and it should have some thought gave to it.
I really think we should have 13+ games because we are are older and TMNT or whatever is kinda for little kids (I’m not trying to be mean) but we need 13+ contests and ads like tmnt for us older ones
Agreed.
That’s a great idea! The best contest (that I’ve played) was the Hero Factory one. But that was only because I love legos.
i completely agree, i want games where you are allowed to add gore and pg13 images. and personally i dont want to follow the lines of a 5-year-old’s game, this is a really good idea but it has its flaws that need to be worked out… i just hope it happens.
i agree, we should definitely have 13+ games.
Yes, agreed.
Maybe, but maybe not. Think about it, wouldn’t it be better that 13+ players were put with 13+ players? So that instead of having a different game section you could have game settings where you can choose that say only 13+’s in one server and 12- in another.
I completely agree, I want to add something inappropriate for little kids but can’t because of the rule
=3 awesome
i won all the prizes and got all the items in tmnt turtle trouble. i’m curios what the next contest is. i’m ready to win the next prizes!
i’m ready too! can’t wait!
TMNT is epic, i rate it, 10/10 :D
Well, you guys seem to not know that ROBLOX isnt designed for computers with low graphic levels, hence your lag.
I want them less laggy
the game is laggy like minecraft…..
ROBLOX is best game of building
people argue that minecraft is the best… you tell me when minecraft can create a killing, walking robot, a personal jet that flys and that’s just the tip of the iceberg… Roblox will always be the best, unless minecraft copies. O.O
It’s cool about lighting and voxels and how they work, but for some users it lags. Can you make it less laggy so all users can enjoy?
It’s great ROBLOX is using voxels and all, but I hate how everyone who doesn’t know about ROBLOX Studio is forced to use those ugly cubes.
I had no idea we did so much this week, I read all the articles but this is a lot of updates!
the Pac-Man game looks awesome too
the game is awesome
i have played the tmnt one i have all of the masks
my rating would be
10/10
Very cool. I thank the people who take the time to explain these cool topics on the blog.
Hi people, it’s my first time commenting here in the blog. I just want to know how more to control or make scripts work. I think it could be a lot of help to me. Thanks!
Sweet… I guess
+_+ cool <3
Cool.
Good week :7
Nice. Without the blog, users would definely feel as thought they were comopletely disconected wioth the makers.
The teenage mutant ninja turtles game is cool.
the game is very fun
The shadows, I set them to all as you suggested, and everytime I walked near a building or mountain, it gets shady.
You know this is interesting,but I have a question.If roblox keeps getting more realistic won’t you have to change the name it would be more realistic then it is classic building.I mean this is a world of lego people and its changing to are life itself its kind of weird.I like clasic roblox without 3.0 stuff better.
Nice
I don’t see anything about the banner contest in here. Huh.
Dear Andrew,
While reading about the teamwork and detail put into these games is interesting, I would appreciate if you reported on a more important matter: When will these development tools be made public so that all Roblox users can manipulate the new animation joints?
Wow, I hope they get a chance to add shadows!
They very so have already.
cool
Sweet, can’t wait to play TMNT again.
Cool.
Wow