David BaszuckiDavid Baszucki is the founder and CEO of Roblox. His vision is to build a platform that enables shared experiences among billions of users.
The beta version of Roblox was created by co-founders David Baszucki and Erik Cassel in 2004 under the name DynaBlocks. Baszucki started testing the first demos that year. In 2005, the company changed its name to Roblox, and it officially launched on September 1, 2006.
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In 1989, David Baszucki founded Knowledge Revolution, a company which concentrated on educational physics and mechanical simulation software. There, he wrote a general-purpose physics simulator called Interactive Physics.
The original currency, ROBLOX Points, could have been earned by logging in daily or by playing minigames. Features added in 2006 and 2007 included private messages, the search bar, and avatar customization. Roblox badges were added on December 22, 2006.
The first Roblox convention, the ROBLOX Rally 2011 was held in San Francisco on August 1, 2011. A similar event called the ROBLOX Game Conference 2012 was held in 2012. The subsequent ROBLOX BLOXcon 2013 was held in Chicago, London, and New York, then completed by the Virtual BLOXcon 2013 which could be watched through a live stream.
On February 11, 2013, co-founder Erik Cassel passed away after a difficult battle with cancer.
Logo designed by David Baszucki's father-in-law and introduced in May 2005.
Roblox allows players to create their own games using its proprietary engine, Roblox Studio, which can then be played by other users. Games are coded under an object-oriented programming system utilizing a dialect of the programming language Lua to manipulate the environment of the game.
The Roblox logo used from 2006 to 2017; it had numerous variations, but mostly remained the same.
Users of Roblox have been noted for their efforts against racism, with numerous regular users and co-founder Baszucki having declared their support for the George Floyd protests and Black Lives Matter. In August 2019, an investigation by NBC News revealed over 100 accounts linked to far-right and neo-Nazi groups.
Roblox has generally received positive reviews.
In January 2017, toy fabricator Jazwares partnered with Roblox Corporation to produce toy minifigures based on user-generated content created by developers on the platform. The minifigures have limbs and joints similar to that of Lego minifigures, though they are about twice the size.
Roblox is the brainchild of Canadian David Baszucki - who had been involved in programming educational physics and mechanical simulation software since 1989.
Following the growth of the game, which now has millions of users, David’s worth has increased year upon year.
Roblox offers a service that lets users develop their own games, play other people's games, and explore user-created content.
I enjoy creating games on Roblox because it’s social. It takes the socialization of platforms like Facebook to a new level with the games and creativity of the community.
The Developer Hub is your one-stop shop for publishing on Roblox. Learn from a wide set of tutorials, connect with other developers, get platform updates, browse our API references, and much more.
Roblox is the brainchild of Canadian David Baszucki - who had been involved in programming educational physics and mechanical simulation software since 1989.
Following the growth of the game, which now has millions of users, David’s worth has increased year upon year.
Roblox offers a service that lets users develop their own games, play other people's games, and explore user-created content.
Roblox is an online game platform and game creation system developed by Roblox Corporation that allows users to program games and play games created by other users. Created by David Baszucki and Erik Cassel in 2004 and released in 2006, the platform hosts user-created games of multiple genres coded in the programming language Lua. For most of Roblox's history, it was relatively smal…
Roblox allows players to create their own games using its proprietary engine, Roblox Studio, which can then be played by other users. Games are coded under an object-oriented programming system utilizing a dialect of the programming language Lua to manipulate the environment of the game. Users are able to create purchasable content through one-time purchases, known as "game passes", as well as microtransactions which can be purchased more than once, known as "develo…
Users of Roblox have been noted for their efforts against racism, with numerous regular users and co-founder Baszucki having declared their support for the George Floyd protests and Black Lives Matter. In August 2019, an investigation by NBC News revealed over 100 accounts linked to far-right and neo-Nazi groups. After being contacted about the accounts by NBC, Roblox moderators removed them.
Roblox has generally received positive reviews. Common Sense Media gave it 4 out of 5 stars, praising the website's variety of games and ability to encourage creativity in children, while finding that the decentralized nature of the platform meant game quality varied, and recommended disabling chat functions for young players to prevent possibly harmful interactions. Patricia E. Vance of the Family Online Safety Institute advised parents to monitor their child's interactions o…
In January 2017, toy fabricator Jazwares partnered with Roblox Corporation to produce toy minifigures based on user-generated content created by developers on the platform. The minifigures have limbs and joints similar to that of Lego minifigures, though they are about twice the size. The minifigures have limbs and accessories that are interchangeable. The sets included a code that was used to redeem virtual items, as well as blind boxes that contained random mini…
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