ROBLOX Shadows to the Max

January 25, 2011
ROBLOX Shadows to the Max

The client team is testing ambient shadows on gametest.roblox.com all week. I took these by also turning on global stencil shadows. I was surprised that the performance hit on my machine was minimal. Check out these screenshots! (click for bigger …More

Game Design Critique: Rock. Paper. Scissors. Time Machine!

My friend Doug just sent me the image link, so if someone in particular invented this game, I have no idea who it is, or I would credit them. I would argue that this game, in it’s current state, is …More

Idea Time With Telamon

January 18, 2011
Idea Time With Telamon

We have monthly troupes of kid visitors at ROBLOX HQ (more than monthly in the summer), and when they come I always like to gather user feedback in the form of a game. “Let’s pretend that you are Builderman and …More

Secret Achievement on Dominion.Isotropic.org Unlocked

I’ve been playing way too much Dominion online. The other night I won a brutal game of Pirate Ships vs. Bishop/Lighthouse/King’s Court with no green cards left in my deck. I love easter eggs.

Designing the ROBLOX Trading System

A lot of the backend work to support player to player item trading on ROBLOX is done. We’re trying to settle on a good front-end user interface. The feature we are trying to support is allowing Player 1 to trade …More

There is something incredibly creepy about watching a supercomputer beat the best human players at Jeopardy. For neophytes: writing a computer program that plays Jeopardy is a super hard problem, and this is nothing less than totally amazing. The hardware …More

Nothing could be more true

January 12, 2011

Code fast. Recriminations are for theorists.

The planets you may one day possess.

But the stars are not for Man.

It’s not really your fault that they broke, just that everyone is using a _huge_ hack (using the torso.roblox object, which is obviously a legacy thing, I’m sure you’ve had it described in detail already) in order to check for …More

As soon as I get the new Xbox set up, I’m totally buying this. Go get it.   Ironically, this video demonstrates that there may be hope for humanity after all