ROBLOX Mobile in the Press: Forbes, Mac|Life and More

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NewspaperIt’s now been a couple weeks since the official launch of ROBLOX Mobile gaming. Since then, several gaming and technology media outlets have taken notice of our unique mobile experience, where your content takes center stage. We’ve rounded up a few of the great articles that have been authored since ROBLOX Mobile’s release and pulled excerpts from each below.

Forbes LogoForbes writer Alex Konrad had the benefit of meeting in person with ROBLOX CEO David Baszucki, who demonstrated the app just before its launch. In his article, The World’s Most Popular Kids Site Takes Its Games Mobile, he said:

The move to iOS is the logical first step for Roblox as it builds out its platform, but the company plans to reach users wherever they connect and want to play. “I’m playing on the iPad against people on PCs and Macs right now,” Baszucki says as his avatar is wasted by a rocket to its blockish face. “We’ll be looking at Kindle and Androids, too.” Until then, parents who give kids their first iPhone or iPad this holiday season may want to encourage them to think creatively and download the Roblox app alongside their Temple Run.

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Massively writer Karen Bryan also spoke with David, both about the technical challenges of making ROBLOX run well on mobile hardware and our plans for helping ROBLOX game developers better optimize their creations for mobile play.

The mobile app has had a big impact on the game overall. As Baszucki said, you can safely design a user experience for mobile and have it translate to the desktop, but you can’t have it go the other way. Mobile is the new design standard for Roblox, and long term, the devs want to make everything work on all platforms. Even though players can currently create worlds, click a button, and push them to the cloud for all platforms, Roblox’s team hopes to provide the tools to produce a high-quality experience across the board.

Mac|Life LogoMac|Life writer Matt Clark not only wrote up a brief history and overview of ROBLOX as a whole, but gave significant coverage to the ROBLOX Mobile launch. Here’s an excerpt from his article, which even delved into some of the technical feats of our iOS app:

While other iOS and Mac games have attempted to provide a complete, cross-platform format with varying results, ROBLOX will actually allow its massive community the opportunity to play all its games, regardless of device. Of course, the idea of every game’s content working flawlessly with the new touch-screen interface sounds daunting, but Bromley and the rest of the ROBLOX team seem confidant in the company’s “clean and portable” code.

“During the process of developing for iOS we found a much quicker way of rendering everything that we have in our world,” adds Bromley. “Moving to iOS we did some optimizations, so the largest world we have will actually render 10-times faster. So it’s at a point now where the render is actually faster than high-end PCs.”

Here are several other mentions of ROBLOX Mobile in the press:

If you haven’t yet tried ROBLOX Mobile, you can download it on your iPad, iPhone or iPod touch using these methods:

82 thoughts on “ROBLOX Mobile in the Press: Forbes, Mac|Life and More”

  2. Well Roblox is doing a great job so far. It’s a great company. I might try to join them.

  4. I just downloaded the ROBLOX app on my fourth generation iPod touch, and I love to be able to play games, but my iPod won’t let me. I don’t understand why my iPod wont let me play, after all, it’s pretty much the same operating system.

  15. I just got my iPad, and I play ROBLOX so much on it! ROBLOX runs better on my iPad than my PC! I will probably be using my iPad for ROBLOX now instead of my PC. Keep up the outstanding work ROBLOX!

    • Yeah but on my iPad alot of places crash and it saus this device doesn’t have enough memory to do this game even though it is an iPad 2 with a gigabite of space left! What does that mean?

      • I think you gotta delete some stuff for it to function normally..
        If that doesn’t work, I have no idea..

    • Well, it says “We’ll be looking at Kindle and Androids, too.” so I’m guessing yes.

    • ROBLOX is trying it’s best to get ROBLOX on the Android. After making it, they need to pay to officially announce it an app.

      • Agreed, but it costs more to put it on iOS so it shouldn’t be a problem for the dev team.

    • Yes, isn’t it amazing? The ROBLOX Staff is doing a very good job! I hope I can become part of the ROBLOX Staff someday.

      • Yea, ROBLOX is doing awesome, if I get the chance to work on the ROBLOX staff one day, that would be an amazing day =)

  30. Yeah, it will. In the post it says, “We’ll be looking at Kindle and Androids, too.”

  46. It’s cool and all, but the graphics need improving. @MagiclyEvilFox, they are looking at making it for the Kindle.