Almost 1000 players descending on the Exploratorium tomorrow. When I joined ROBLOX, there were less than 1000 players total.
Tag: roblox
Looking for Help to Test the ROBLOX Data Persistence API
I’m looking for a small group (~10) of people to help test the upcoming ROBLOX DP API. When made public, this API will let place creators save and load data from lua scripts. We expect this feature to unlock exciting …More
Screen Space Ambient Occlusion Shadow Demo and Some Whale Hunting
Ambient shadows look best when you have a ton of moving objects in a scene. Otherwise you might as well be baking lightmaps. Here’s a fun demo I threw together. (embedded video – click to expand)
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
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
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
Telamon Mailbag–Admin Shirts and Sellable Badges
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
Have Yourself an eXtreme Chrizzmax
Our tree, Red Erikson. Note the non-traditional tree-topper. I’m upset because the presents are too big. And also, the ribbon is painted on. I suck at ice skating. But blurry photography makes it look like I’m going really fast. ROBLOX …More







