The Terrain Game
Hail ROBLOXians! Today has been an exciting week at ROBLOX HQ. The new terrain feature is 98% done; we did our first public test of terrain on gametest.roblox.com yesterday. What is terrain? I could...
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Announcing the First Ever Rich Tester Day
ROBLOX is a game built by its players. Players help us test the game too – on our test sites such as gametest.roblox.com and sitetest.roblox.com. Many of the bugs our early testers find are fixed...
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Land Grab!
ROBLOX has released version 1.0 of our hotly anticipated terrain feature! Since the time it was first announced at the ROBLOX RALLY on August 1st, the ROBLOX team has been focused on driving terrain...
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Personal Build Servers Running Hot
The overwhelming success of personal build servers is evident – more than 200 of them are running on ROBLOX as I write this. ROBLOXians in these servers are building so much stuff it is pushing the...
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A Brief History of Physics in Video Games
Objects in the real world operate under the laws of physics – so it seems quite intuitive that everything in video games (console, PC, online, mobile, arcade) should as well. The graphics world has...
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ROBLOX Secrets Revealed: Fog Blog
A new ROBLOX release went out late last night. It contained a lot of important performance improvements, but it also included a secret feature that some ROBLOXians have already discovered… atmospheric...
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A Brief History of Physics in Video Games
Objects in the real world operate under the laws of physics – so it seems quite intuitive that everything in video games (console, PC, online, mobile, arcade) should as well. The graphics world has...
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The Evolution of Voxels in Video Games
How do you represent objects and terrain in a 3D video game? A partial list includes triangle-meshes (very common), geometric primitives (ROBLOX), and height maps (terrain). Today I’m going to talk...
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Tech Note: Scripted tools and weapons
Our head gear programmer Deepak Chandrasekaran explains the steps that went into creating The Dagger of Shattered Dimensions. The ROBLOX creative team meets regularly to plan new items for publication...
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An Optimization for Lua Scripts
Lua is a powerful, lightweight, scripting language, and is often used in video games due to fast execution and a short learning curve. World of Warcraft, Angry Birds and Mafia II all use Lua script....
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