Nice shadows, Simon. UPDATE: It looks like these new shadows are going to ship soon. Expected performance hit is only 15% on top-end machines! Unfortunately, for low-end graphics cards, the hit is more like 50%. QQ.
Tag: roblox
You win this time, Jahrblox
ROBLOX has gotten into gokart racing. I smoked these fools, except for my new nemesis, Jahrblox. Matt Dusek is actually a professional high-performance driving instructor. He got the best lap time of the day (just under 28 seconds!), but luckily …More
Screen Space Ambient Occlusion
One of our interns, zacropetricopus, has been hacking the ROBLOX graphics pipeline apart for the past month to add ambient shadows. Today, we’ve got some super-early screenshots!
The Telamon Chaos Institute Brings You…
My job is basically to create chaos, something I feel uniquely qualified to do.
ROBLOX? More like LOLBLOX!
“God darn it, I didn’t enter. DARN! I would use profanity but this is Roblox. Not Sparta.” – A user
Game Developers Conference 2007
Last week was crazy. I spent most of it at GDC, the largest annual event in the videogame industry. As I mentioned in a previous post, I went to GDC to both compete in the Student Finalist Showcase (10 games …More
Beverly Hills: Sole Survivor
I‘m not even sure that my blogging software is still configured correctly. I haven’t really posted anything since I came back from my summer vacation in NY. Here’s some highlight from the past three months: Went to the NY MOMA. …More
Living the Dream
My first week as a professional game developer has been pretty awesome. Here are some of the things I have done: Made the main character able to jump Made a medpack Made a time bomb Built a tower Build a …More
Gainfully Employed!
This was a great week on the job hunting front. Jo got a job offer from Volkswagen – they want her to work in the Palo Alto lab on hybrids, fuel cells, biodiesel, and other green stuff – which is …More





