Author Archives: john shedletsky
The Black Iron Crown of Pwnage
Congratulations go out to Poker_Man29, the first player to achieve 10,000 knockouts. This was accomplished while maintaining close to a 2:1 ratio of KOs/WOs.
Continue reading 1.47 Million ROBUX
We introduced currency into our game about 80 days ago. Since then, more than 1.47M ROBUX have been earned by players. This figure does not include admins and most of this money was earned via place visits.
Continue reading Roblox Nation: 40,000 Strong
Great news! Yesterday a user named StickArena became our 40,000th account. We’ve granted him a small bonus of 400 R$.
Continue reading Roblox Video Contest Judging Begins…
We should know the results of the video contest by Wednesday!
Check out all the great contest submissions on YouTube.
Continue reading User Marketplace, Capture the Flag, and Heat Seeking Rockets
We put a new release of Roblox online around 2pm yesterday. After making sure everything was running fine, we went to our design meeting without telling anyone what we had done. Someone else was wondering aloud whether any user would find the “Sell a shirt” feature before we told everyone about it. I joked that when we got out of our meeting that there would be fifty user shirts for sale. It was more like 75.
Selling Shirts
Continue reading New Offices
Today we’ve made the switch to larger office accomodations. Once we’ve settled in, we’ll be pushing out a new release. We will also be upgrading a select few additional accounts to Builder’s Club status, as per miked’s formula, from our competition some days ago. When exactly will this happen? As soon as our new office building is complete. The contractors are working hard to finish the helipad, which will also us to celebrate future releases by taking impromptu beach trips to Half Moon Bay in Builderman’s refurbished army chopper.
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