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: the official ROBLOX Mobile launch, John Shedletsky addresses your mobile gaming questions, tips for building mobile-friendly ROBLOX games and places, the great-looking Timeless by Unclear and more.
Seven-day Blog Recap
ROBLOX Mobile is available and ready for play
This week, we officially released ROBLOX Mobile, with gaming unlocked for iPad 2+, iPhone 4+ and iPod touch 5th Generation. If you download the app today, you can grab a free pair of White Earbuds for your ROBLOX character from the mobile catalog. We’ll also be releasing some additional iOS-exclusive items in the near future. For more information on them, visit our blog story about the launch of ROBLOX Mobile. If you want to skip straight to the goods, click here to download ROBLOX Mobile.
We’ve been documenting our development work and promotions for ROBLOX Mobile over the past couple months. If you need to catch up on what’s been going on, check out the stories tagged “iPad” for all kinds of reading material.
Tips for mobile game development
I talked with several members of the ROBLOX team about how you can design games and places that play well on mobile devices. They shared tips that span user interface placement, simplicity in game play and things you can do with touch detection, and you can check them out here. We hope it helps you achieve cross-platform greatness in the early, Wild-West days of mobile ROBLOX gaming.
Answers to your mobile gaming questions
There are a few questions we receive every time we start a discussion about mobile ROBLOX gaming. Among them:
- Will games need to be as optimized as possible to run well on mobile?
- Will ROBLOX eventually come out for Androids too? Or is it iOS exclusive?
- Will there ever be a mobile version of Studio? Just something to test scripts with?
John Shedletsky responds to all of these and more in our latest, mobile-themed Responding to User Feedback article. You can check out an archive of these posts by checking out the User Feedback tag.
You should see this ROBLOX place
This is Timeless, a highly detailed place by super-builder Unclear. He’s also the mastermind behind the impressive Temple of the Sea, which was featured in our Six Must-See ROBLOX Places. Here are a couple shots from the place:
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John Shedletsky walks you through some features of ROBLOX Mobile. Outside, because he can.
- ROBLOX user crazyman32 is video-documenting the development of a winter-themed snowball game; you can check out some timelapse footage of the process in this YouTube video – let’s hope it’s ready to play for the holidays!
- The seven habits of highly effective programmers (warning: long)
Is there any chance that we can wear at least up to 4 or 5 hats sooner or later?
i can play roblox outside too…. it’s called a laptop xD lololololol
this might mean for the people who are on computers might have to go easy on the people on the iphone and stuff it might not go well
wow this is epic
Cool app.
i have ipad
Wow interesting
I watched the video. My mind just went boom. I’ll never be able to script…
I think roblox should also be for samsungs too
You mean Android?
Somehow the new roblox ipad update broke all the guis in my games! (specifically the text buttons) and can roblox please fix this problem!
man thats really good.
Did they say that they will be working on getting roblox to the ipod touch 4th generation?
I want the app :c
cool
2 Requests: Fix the in-game player list. It’s driving me INSANE! The complexity of it just boggles my mind. It’s no longer in alphebetical order, the scroll bar is tiny, and the fact that if you click in the wrong place one time, it’s so annoyyying.
Make the ability to have limited item clothing items!
Wow looks great :).
u should let evrey one make hats then every one could look diffrent
Make a Game Review of GEAR WARS from Hanzo677
I think that the roblox ios app is bogus because only bc get to play all games, and nbc get very few.
ROBLOX fix the chat bug. It goes back to the home screen when i chat!!!
I think roblox should make it so you can edit and build on your own games.
Bring back the old leaderboard PLEASE! The new one is EXTREMELY laggy (I’m lagging in games I’ve never lagged before), and it’s harder to read, and I shouldn’t need to scroll to see my teams. It may be iOS optimized, but for PC users it’s terrible. Maybe keep it for iOS but put the old one back for PC.
Awesome! ^-^
Make the menu at the bottom that looks like a house. Make that for Ipad so we can clikc game settings, Reset character and leave game in the menu at the bottom.
Good stuff.
Mobile looks great, but will it ever come out on 4G?
Good job TheAmazeman you got on the blog.
Crazyman32 has been really active recently, hopefully this new game will get on front page, and replace the garbage on it now!
its epic
Wish you could add roblox for androids…
cool
For a new blog thing. please put the old leaderboard!!
Nice videos
Good job neven, if thats how you spell it
Pretty boss week