Roblox



Roblox is a free-to-play online game designed by David Baszucki and the late Erik Cassel, co-founders of the Roblox Corporation. It was released first in 2006 for macOS and Microsoft Windows, in 2012 for iOS, in 2014 for Android, and for the Xbox One in 2015. It is about users creating their own games, chatting with others, buying things for their character, and so on.

Roblox began to grow rapidly in the mid-2010s and this growth has been accentuated by the COVID-19 pandemic. As of August 2020, Roblox has over 164 million monthly active users, with it being played by over half of all children aged under 16 in the United States.

Roblox Studio
Roblox Studio is the proprietary game engine for Roblox games ames are coded under an object-oriented programming system with Lua, an open-source programming language to manipulate the environment of the game. A total of 20 million games are produced using Roblox Studio each year.

Items and currency
Robux, as of nowadays, is the only currency used on Roblox that allows players to buy and sell virtual items which can be used to decorate their avatar on Roblox. In addition, these items can be however created for free. Prior to 2016, the game had a secondary currency called Tix (short for "tickets") that was discontinued in April of that year, meaning that players have to pay with real money to obtain Robux without tradings.

Good Qualities

 * 1) The biggest advantage of Roblox is that it's completely free to create an account to play games, and even create your own games for it. Formerly, players could choose to not create an account to play Roblox as guests.
 * 2) There are a lot of good games on Roblox such as:
 * 3) *Work at a Pizza Place by Dued1 (a game where you can make and deliver pizzas as well as make your own house), and is well known as one of the oldest games on Roblox still being updated.
 * 4) *Super Nostalgia Zone by CloneTrooper1019 (a game that simulates how Roblox was back in 2006-2008)
 * 5) *Murder Mystery 2 by Nikilis (a popular horror, mystery game based on the Garry's Mod game called Murder)
 * 6) *Driving Simulator by Nocturne Entertainment (a game based on the open-world Need for Speed games, with the ability of customizing cars like you would do in Raw Thrills arcade racing games (you know, "V8 engines" with zoomies exhausts and big hood scoops, funny spoilers, lots of preset decals, underglows, etc.) and the ability of cruising your car in open waters. The game was infamous by its (what appears to be edited) ad banners saying "become a racist" instead of "become a racer". This rather satirical take on controversial advertising turned into a meme soon after.
 * 7) *Super Doomspire by Polyhex. A PvP game based on the original Doomspire Brickbattle. It is redesigned with many features like improved combat, currency system, more game modes and switchable weapon variety.
 * 8) *PolyBattle by Moonlight Interactive (a game based on the Battlefield games)
 * 9) *Arsenal by ROLve which is a game based on the CS:GO Gun Game mod but fused with elements of Team Fortress 2, and is one of the more popular FPS games on the platform. It also has a competitive playerbase as well with tournaments.
 * 10) *Zeppelin Wars by lolkiller101, a team PvP style game where you destroy the opposition's zeppelin by sniping them with cannons or partake in dogfights in biplanes.
 * 11) *Miner's Haven by Berezaa, one of the better tycoon games on Roblox with an actual customizable base and machine setups, massive selection of ores and crazily unique upgraders that are able to get you ridiculous amounts of cash massing more than billions!
 * 12) *ION Formula Racing, and its electrified sister, ION Formula EV Racing by AVENUE VANCE EMPIRE (a racing game based on Codemasters' F1 series, which has its own esports league, one of the very few on Roblox).
 * 13) *Blackhawk Rescue Mission 5 by PLATINUM FIVE and GameLoaded Entertainment (based on ARMA games).
 * 14) *Hellreaver Arena (a shooter game based on Doom Eternal)
 * 15) *Juke's Towers of Hell, an intense series of vertically based obstacle courses, it is well known for it's hardcore difficulty but greatly designed towers purely based on skill and filled with awesome coded obstacles and lots of content.
 * 16) *Delta Ring (based on Halo games).
 * 17) *RoVille, a game based on The Sims games. Surprisingly, this is a great alternative to the expensive Welcome to Bloxburg, with houses that you can build and even share it online like liveries in Forza Horizon games, jobs like being a bank teller and a taxi driver, some interesting landmarks, and much more.
 * 18) *Developer Inc., a simple tycoon game in which you build your own IT company. The reason why this game is featured is the minigames, where you had to do quizzes based on your knowledge on coding. This game is also spreading good news for Top Gear fans, as the first car you can buy is a car based on the Dacia Sandero!
 * 19) *Car Crushers 2 by Panwellz and Exoniphy, a simple simulator game where you have to crush vehicles, but it gets more and more fun as there is racetracks you can race, more crushers that you can use, and hundreds of vehicles available. It also has a forum, similar to Roblox Developers Forums, in which you can spread some bug complaints, off-topic stuff, and suggestions. Be careful in that page though, as when you act very rude, you get a permaban.
 * 20) *Eight Driver Car Racing by Eight Stu, by far the best and the most realistic street racing game in Roblox, as there is features such as in-depth tuning, easy-to-learn-but-hard-to-master handling, and numerous joke vehicles that can be "lethalized" such as a van, an ATV, and a school bus.
 * 21) *Vans World by The Gang Stockholm, originally a sponsor event that commenced on September 2021, now turned into the best skate sim game for Roblox, with tricks that you can buy, real Vans sneakers that you can customize, and a BMX that you can unlock.
 * 22) *Several country-specific driving games such as Car Driving Indonesia, Southwest Florida, and Greenville, as those games really capture all the similarities and stereotypes of their countries in Roblox, and that is quite impressive (despite some changes to companies and car manufacturers to avoid copyright).
 * 23) Decent recreations of existing games can be made with Roblox Studio: A Sonic the Hedgehog game that really captures the Genesis games can be found here. as well as a [[Doom (1993)|Doom] recreation]Doom recreation].
 * 24) * This is to the point where there is an entire wiki about it here!
 * 25) It spawned various merchandising. Even toys were made, and they include codes you can redeem to obtain accessories for your Roblox avatar.
 * 26) As of September 27, 2017, all players, including Non-Builder's Club (now Premium) members, can now have up to a maximum of 200 active places making it more useful for non premium developers.
 * 27) Roblox Studio itself is quite simple to use but also is very versatile at the same time making it beginner friendly for any new developer.
 * 28) * Because of the nature of .obj and .fbx files, you can import anything into any 3D software, such as Blender, Maya etc, unless if a submesh has more than 10,000 polies.
 * 29) * It is possible to create Roblox games without coding knowledge (although this is frowned upon).
 * 30) "Team Create" allows you and other players to build together in Roblox Studio.
 * 31) Their Hack Week among these years in Roblox is amazing and creative.
 * 32) The graphics became a lot more modern since 2014 since Roblox replaced OGRE with their own engine, and from there they added elements such as dynamic lighting, neons, new UI updates, and more, although it can increase system requirements and it may break scripts from older games.
 * 33) Since then and now, Roblox Corporation has helped people through major real-life events such as the 2013 Philippine typhoon, and the COVID-19 pandemic to name a few.
 * 34) Many tutorials on Roblox Wiki, Roblox Developers Forums, and the official Roblox Developer website that teach new and inexperienced users how to build and/or script in Roblox Studio.
 * 35) As of December 18, 2019, you can join or create up to 100 groups, according to the Roblox DevForum thread, so you don't need to join Premium anymore when you create a group that costs 100 Robux.
 * 36) Since 2019, Roblox Corp. has allowed some qualified users to post their own modeled accessories and sell them to the catalogue. Known as User-Generated Content (UGC), it has significantly expanded the variety of accessories on the Roblox catalogue. Not only that but it also appeals to developers specializing in modeling who want to make a profit from their items on the avatar shop.
 * 37) With the Body Type and Proportion update, you can now customize your character with the newest body type scaling.
 * 38) *Rthro (also known as R30), although Roblox is supposed to be a blocky game, can receive creativity.
 * 39) ** However, this avatar style flopped when it comes to players using it, due to most of them finding it to be out of place with the general environment of Roblox. Players decided to continue sticking with R6 and R15, leaving Rthro behind.
 * 40) The new R15 avatar update makes avatars look better with bendy joints and multiple animation packs for different actions, and players can still switch from R15 to R6 avatars.
 * 41) Roblox games use Lua for scripting and programming purposes, meaning that it is a decent starting point to figure out how to program for those who are looking to program applications and games in the future.
 * 42) Hosted fun events such as Egg Hunt 2018: The Great Yolktales, RB Battles and the Annual Bloxy Awards.
 * 43) The games in the site has improved later on, as there are now more games out there as scripting and studio became more upgraded like Piggy, Adopt Me!, Jailbreak, Welcome to Bloxburg, Tower of Hell, Murder Mystery 2, and Arsenal while back then, there were only tycoons and obbies.
 * 44) Recently, a new feature allowed you to get Robux as long as premium players played any game/place you have created. This could give more encouragement to new developers.
 * 45) Even Roblox Corp. themselves managed to make a lot of great games such as Classic: Crossroads, Welcome to ROBLOX Building and Classic: Happy Home in Robloxia, and Doomspire. Sadly, they were all closed except Classic: Crossroads but thankfully, a lot of them got reuploaded by various players.
 * 46) Very versatile avatar editor. You can put multiple hats or accessories on your avatar or scale the proportions of your avatar. There is also a huge variety in the Roblox avatar shop with many clothing and cool accessories for your avatar as well as body parts.
 * 47) The Ultimate Guide Collection is very cool and it's even helpful to new Roblox players who don't know how to play it.
 * 48) If you do a quest in Roblox, like beating an obby, escaping a killer or beating a story game, then you get a badge for it and there are even official Roblox badges even though they retired.
 * 49) * There is also games in Roblox where you farm badges by stepping on the platforms.
 * 50) Later on in 2021, you can now sell clothing as a non premium member for free (Except for T-Shirts since they have a selling fee). You have to note that you have to pay 10 robux for a shirt/pants to be uploaded on Roblox.
 * 51) During 2021, Roblox have started to make 3D Layered clothing, in which works for every Roblox package, in which means you can have actually jackets on your avatar, making Roblox avatar customization better than ever and even rivaling other games with this kind of feature such as Saints Row 2 and several RPGs such as Black Desert Online and Fallout 4.
 * 52) Previously, you had to pay Robux to upload audio files, but in 2022, audio files are now free with monthly limit of 10 files but can be extended to 100 if you verify your account's age, meaning that not only developers but other players don't have to deal with spending portions of cash to upload their favourite music tracks for their game.

Bad Qualities

 * 1) Despite being a good game, Roblox is still really flawed, and it has enough bad qualities to get a separate article on the Crappy Games Wiki.

Trivia

 * As of August 2020, Roblox had over 164 million monthly active users, with it being played by over half of all children aged under 16 in the United States.
 * When the game first came out, it was called DynaBlocks, but the name was changed following it's release.

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