Blog
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Express Yourself with Display Names
Use the name you want. Here’s how.
| June 28, 2021 -
Working at Roblox: Meet Shweta Sharma
Read about Shweta’s contributions to the Economy team at Roblox.
| June 23, 2021 -
Build It, Play It Returns With a Dazzling New Challenge
Learn how to use particle effects to bring your experiences to life.
| June 10, 2021 -
Improving Front-End Memory Usage by 30x on Carousel Loading
In Q2 of 2020, we had a tech refactor on the experiences page, rewriting into React and consuming REST API. But during the implementation, we found an interesting problem. There are around 20 carousels on the experiences page, each with at least 60 t...
| May 27, 2021 -
The Gucci Garden Experience Lands on Roblox
The immersive experience celebrates self-expression and references signature campaigns of the House.
| May 17, 2021 -
Type Inference in Luau
Since 2006, Roblox developers have been using the Lua programming language to create games and interactive experiences on Roblox. Roblox developers come from all walks of life and all levels of experience and their creations are just as varied. Some ...
| May 11, 2021 -
Network Packet Loss & Latency Monitoring on Roblox Cloud
The Roblox Network Engineering team maintains a large, fast-growing network with data center and point of presence (POP) sites distributed across the globe. Delivering a great user experience on the Roblox platform is dependent on the performance and...
| April 08, 2021 -
Why We’re Bringing Spring Break to Roblox Employees
And why workplace flexibility is the future.
| March 31, 2021 -
8th Annual Bloxy Awards: Complete Winners List
Catch up on the top creators and experiences from Roblox's annual award ceremony!
| March 31, 2021 -
Creators of Color: Celebrating the Dynamic Voices in Our Community
We spoke with some of our amazing creators of color to learn how Roblox has widened opportunities for creativity and empowered them to find their identity.
| March 22, 2021 -
Hack Week Returns for Another Innovative Year
Our first fully remote Hack Week brings 86 new projects from concept to creation.
| March 18, 2021 -
8th Annual Bloxy Awards: The Nominees
See the full list of nominees for the 8th Annual Bloxy Awards.
| March 16, 2021 -
Creating a Robust Pipeline Cache with Vulkan
There are a lot of new concepts to learn when building a Vulkan renderer. Some of them are easier to deal with than others, and one of the more straightforward additions is the pipeline cache. To make sure pipeline creation is as efficient as possibl...
| February 25, 2021 -
2020 Reflections & Looking Ahead to 2021
A look back at the technical innovations of 2020 from our founder and CEO, David Baszucki.
| February 11, 2021 -
Cast Your Votes for the 8th Annual Bloxy Awards
Voting has opened for our annual awards ceremony. Who will you make a part of Roblox history?
| February 10, 2021 -
Celebrating Safer Internet Day 2021
Here’s how we can all play our part to make a safer and better internet.
| February 09, 2021 -
Winter 2021 Avatar Design Contest
Enter your best work in our Avatar Design Contest for a chance to win a $500 cash prize!
| January 29, 2021