Roblox
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| Roblox | |
|---|---|
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| Developer(s) | Roblox Corporation |
| Publisher(s) | Roblox Corporation |
| Designer(s) | Roblox Corporation |
| Engine | ImPlicitNgine |
| Platform(s) | Microsoft Windows |
| Release | June 2005 |
| Genre(s) | MMOG, Physics Sandbox |
| Mode(s) | Online multiplayer, Solo editing |
Roblox is a free massively multiplayer online game (MMOG) virtual playground and workshop designed for children aged 6 to 124. The game is made up of building bricks of various shapes and sizes. Unlike many games, Roblox has no pre-defined goals.[1] Players are allowed to build anything such as houses, churches, cities, swimming pools, and more. Roblox users can program the places they create with a simplified version of Lua 5.1.[2][3] Roblox has become part of the privacy program TRUSTe.[4]
History and development
Roblox was released in June 2005 by Roblox Corp. of Silicon Valley, California. Roblox's project straddles several rapidly-developing aspects of internet entertainment: virtual worlds, casual gaming, and user-constructed content.[5]
Customization
Places
Players in Roblox have the ability to construct up to one place with a regular account, ten with Builders Club, and twenty five with Turbo Builders Club out of an unlimited supply of virtual building blocks.[6] These blocks can be customized to each players liking. Every user starts out with a home of their own where they can customize it using materials such as bricks, scripts, and other user created models.[7]
Avatars
Players in Roblox are given an avatar, which is used by the player when visiting each virtual world, that they can customize with new hats, heads, clothes and faces. All of these are available to purchase with Roblox's two virtual currencies, in the Catalog.[8]
Badges
Roblox provides users with achievement awards called badges. For example, Roblox has three combat badges that are awarded to users with high amounts of lifetime Knockouts. There is also a Builder's Club badge, given to the player when they join the paid service. There are a total of 15 badges available to users.[9]
The Catalog
The Catalog is where players purchase and sell creations for Tickets and Robux. When selling, there is a 10% sales tax, so 10% of the money it is sold for goes to the virtual economy, and 90% goes to the seller; for example, selling a shirt for 10 Tickets will give the seller 9 tickets. Some items, such as hats, can also be bought but can only be uploaded by an administrator.[10] On May 8, 2009, gear was introduced. This introduced weapons, boosters, etc. that the player could bring to the game. Soon after gear was introduced, players were allowed to specify which types of gear would be allowed in their place.
Economy
Virtual Money
Roblox has its own virtual economy. Players can earn and trade two currencies, Tickets and Robux.[11] Users are awarded Tickets by getting people to visit their virtual places, Tickets, Robux, or both from selling their user made clothing, or by trading their money on Roblox's stock market. Players are also given a login bonus of 10 Tickets. Builder's club members get a daily allowance of 15 Robux or 35 Robux if they are in Turbo Builders Club.[12]
Players can also advertise their clothing and places by uploading advertisements that they have created. They can then Bid Tickets, and their bid will compete with other users' bids. The higher the bid the more likely that the ad will appear.
Roblox also has a built-in Trade Currency system in which you can trade Tickets for Robux or Robux for Tickets. The Trade Currency has a system in which the rate can change. This rate is what decides how many Tickets you get for Robux or vice-versa.
Premium Offers
Builders Club
Although Roblox is free, it offers premium membership in the form of Builder's Club and Turbo Builder's Club. Offering:[13]
| Benefits | Builders Club | Turbo Builders Club |
|---|---|---|
| Custom Maps | 10 | 25 |
| Daily Robux | 15 R$ | 35 R$ |
| Sell Items | Yes | Yes |
| See Ads | No | No |
| Virtual Item | Hard Hat | Turbo Hardhat |
| Bonus Gear Item | No | Yes |
| Starting Robux | 100 R$ | 100 R$ |
| Create Groups | Yes | Yes |
| Create Badges | Yes | Yes |
Central Bank
While Roblox offers Builders Club, they have a "central bank" that could buy Robux for cash.[14] Builders Club members get more Robux with paying the same amount of money with non-Builders Club members.
Gameplay
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Roblox users can bring their avatar with them into the 3D worlds that have been constructed by other users.
Games
In Roblox users are allowed to visit other users places and see their creations. A game is built up of bricks and scripts to allow users to make whatever they wish. People are free to build anything they want, such as obstacle courses, paintball, explosion games, hang out games, or tycoons.
Meshes
Meshes are the shape of an item. Since 2008, people have not been able upload meshes to Roblox. People can however change the size, color and texture of meshes in Roblox Studio. Textures for meshes are uploaded as Decals.
Sounds
Different sounds can be scripted to occur at certain times and durations. There are built in sounds that download to the computer and sounds that have been previously uploaded to Roblox. As of 2008, only administrators can upload sounds.
Roblox Studio
Roblox Studio is a program very similar to Microsoft Visual Studio, used to build, edit, or test places. It is an essential program in order to do things such as scripting and advanced building.[15] People are allowed to copy or edit other places if their game's status is 'Shared' or mostly called Uncopylocked. With Roblox Studio, you do not have a character and you use the arrow keys to scroll around the game. You can pause, cut, copy, in Roblox Studio.
Chat Modes
Chat Modes
To enhance security of kids, there are 2 kinds of chat modes, SuperSafeChat and SafeChat. SafeChat users are allowed to talk anything they want as long as it does not contain profanity, when SuperSafeChat users could only use words or sentences premade.
Guests
When Roblox has users that could make games, upload shirts, buy clothes, and more, there are "Guests" that are all around Roblox. However, they have SuperSafeChat, which means they cannot talk unless if they use the blue chat bubble in every game with a list of words they could click and say. However, some people made scripts in games that let guests talk. Also, it is prohibited to impersonate a guest.
See also
- Blockland - Another brick building MMOG built with Torque Game Engine.
- LEGO Universe - An upcoming MMOG in development by NetDevil, endorsed by LEGO.
References
- ^ "Listio Reviews of Roblox".
- ^ "Roblox as an educational program language".
- ^ "Parents guide to Roblox".
- ^ "Roblox at TRUSTe".
- ^ "Roblox About page".
- ^ "Building blocks of Roblox".
- ^ "Help page found under Building".
- ^ "Roblox Catalog".
- ^ "Roblox Badges".
- ^ "Roblox hat".
- ^ "Roblox Game Overview at Onrpg".
- ^ "Roblox review".
- ^ "Roblox Turbo Builders club".
- ^ "Roblox Central Bank".
- ^ "Roblox on the Great Games Experiment".