About Taylor Whitmer

Social Media Manager at ROBLOX.

Character Explorations v3

Character Exploration

Over the past few weeks, we have shown the ROBLOX community various character explorations that include new head, body, arm and hand shapes for both male and female characters. We have a few examples of what these renderings would look like in ROBLOX. Check out the video of some new characters, and let us know what you think.

For previous examples, you can learn more in our first and second character exploration post.

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ROBLOX Takes on Phishing Sites

Phishing has been a problem since the inception of the internet, and in 1995 the term was first coined in a README doc for a popular hacking tool targeting AOL users. Recently, ROBLOX has seen an increase in phishing sites, and we wanted to communicate how we approach these sites. Phishing is a common method of online identity theft, and in our continued effort to make ROBLOX as safe as possible, we will be taking serious measures to ensure the security of our players. ROBLOX will press charges and utilize law enforcement to take down any phishing sites that threaten our site’s security.

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Simplifying ROBLOX

Two years ago, ROBLOX started the Ambassador Program, which was designed to encourage players to spread the word about ROBLOX.  In the program, users would take HTML code (specific to that player), and then post those links on other active websites.  Users were rewarded with 2 tix per day per active link.  We believed we could get users involved with promoting our game.

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ROBLOX Recruiting at GDC

With GDC looming right around the corner, we decided to give you some insight as to what we’re planning.  This year will be the first time that we have a booth at the conference, and we are excited to increase our presence at the world’s longest running game industry event.  There will be five days of panels, tutorials and roundtable discussions on a comprehensive selection of game development topics taught by leading industry experts.

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