Blog
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2022 Year In Review – Letter from our CEO
2022 was a great year for Roblox. We are optimistically driving our vision to reimagine the way people come together, and we’re realizing it by enabling deeper forms of expression, communication, and immersion. The investments we are making to ...
| January 18, 2023 -
Fostering a Culture of Innovation in 2023
Survey of engineers shows collaboration, flexibility and sense of ownership as critical factors in nurturing an innovation mindset and culture When a company sets out on an ambitious goal of building things that haven’t existed before, innovation i...
| December 15, 2022 -
Introducing Contact Importer and Friend Recommendations
Today, we’re excited to announce the rollout of two new features to make it easier to find and connect with friends on Roblox: Contact Importer and Friend Recommendations. Experiences on Roblox can be more amazing and enjoyable when you are with pe...
| December 09, 2022 -
Semantic Subtyping in Luau
Luau is the first programming language to put the power of semantic subtyping in the hands of millions of creators. Minimizing false positives One of the issues with type error reporting in tools like the Script Analysis widget in Roblox Studio is f...
| November 22, 2022 -
Team Behind the Tech – Creator Group
Go behind the scenes to learn about the Creator Group culture they aim to build, and how they’re working towards the future of creation on Roblox.
| October 13, 2022 -
RDC 2022: Our Vision for the Future of Roblox
At the Roblox Developers Conference (RDC), kicking off today at the Fort Mason Center in San Francisco, thousands of top 3D artists, programmers, builders, and content creators are gathering—in person and virtually on Guilded—to network and disco...
| September 09, 2022 -
Spotlight on Roblox Research
Showcasing some of the leaders of the Roblox Research team as they accelerate our mission to connect a billion people with optimism and civility.
| August 09, 2022 -
Introducing Custom Material Variants and New Enhancements to Materials
Our upgraded material system provides creators with new, out-of-the-box capabilities to enhance and customize the look and feel of their content.
| July 20, 2022 -
Why Content Creators Are Moving from 2D Screens to 3D Worlds
Roblox’s vision is to reimagine the way people come together to create, learn, play, work and socialize. We are creating a platform for immersive human co-experience, and people all over the world are participating and contributing millions of 3D e...
| June 23, 2022 -
Delivering Large-Scale Platform Reliability
Showcasing a quality-oriented process for achieving higher reliability in microservices acting together to improve the platform.
| April 28, 2022 -
Layers of Genius Behind Layered Clothing
A breakthrough in 3D realism took years of labor – and a little rocket science.
| April 04, 2022 -
Real Time Facial Animation for Avatars
Our deep learning framework for regressing facial animation controls from video that both addresses challenges and opens us up to a number of future opportunities.
| March 22, 2022 -
Designing a Mouse Pointer for a Digital Metaverse
How Roblox designs mouse pointers for a seamless virtual experience.
| February 01, 2022 -
2021 Year in Review — A Letter from Our CEO
It’s been an extraordinary year for our global Roblox community of users, developers, and employees. We continued to advance our technology to enable deeper forms of communication, immersion, and expression in line with our vision to reimagine the ...
| January 24, 2022 -
Roblox Return to Service 10/28-10/31 2021
Starting October 28th and fully resolving on October 31st, Roblox experienced a 73-hour outage.
| January 20, 2022 -
Avatars and Identity in the Metaverse, Part 2
In Part 2 of his analysis of avatar and identity, Nameer Hirschkind, Roblox Data Science Intern, investigates how users’ real-life identifiers intersect with their Roblox identities.
| December 07, 2021 -
Unleashing Creator Productivity with Open Cloud
Empowering our developers with the tools and freedom they need to build the next generation of incredible experiences.
| November 04, 2021