As the Chief Business Officer Craig Donato emphasises, Roblox is firmly focussed on supporting it’s young user base. Far from being an isolating individual pursuit, the core of the Roblox platform is designed to enable developers and creators to connect, share and build ideas together. What is so special about Roblox Studio?Ĭentral to the Roblox Studio experience is community. Roblox was launched in 2006 which means it has also been around for much longer than Minecraft (released in 2011) and Fortnite (2017). At best, parents may have some notion of what Roblox is if they have seen their children playing games on the platform.
The reality is that most people with very little interest in gaming will know about Minecraft and Fortnite but very few will know anything about how big Roblox is. Roblox sits in the middle with 80m players on the platform each month” ( Roblox: The 10bn hour gentle giant, 2019, MCV). “As of September 2018, Fortnite had 78.3m monthly players, while Minecraft exceeded 90m monthly active users in October 2018. Imagine a huge, clean playground sandpit that is filled with an immense array of shovels, buckets, molds and models to help kids build amazing imaginary worlds – this is Roblox Studio. Roblox itself is not a game – it is a platform on which developers can create, share and play. Once they have developed their game to a level ready to release, they can then publish that game onto the Roblox website where anyone with an Internet connection can play their game. It is very much like a playground sandbox where creators can build terrains from open savannahs, to volcanic islands, cityscapes and high rise buildings, then click “ play” to drop a character into that world and immediately begin playing.
Roblox Studio is a 3D video game development platform that is free to download onto a Windows or Mac computer. Here are some key links to get under the hood of the Roblox corporation: The accounts they are held on have been listed.Figure 1: What is Roblox Studio.
If the item was traded or sold, the person who ultimately won the iPad will be in the "Original Owner" category. The following are users who purchased the ROBLOX Tablet. However, many of the tablets quickly ended up in the hands of owners unwilling to trade them due to their insane rarity. After receiving the actual IPads, a select few owners traded their tablets. Once sold, If the owner was to trade their Roblox Tablet after the tablet was named after them, they would forfeit the real-life iPad, thereby technically rendering the value (of the Roblox Tablet, not the iPad) useless. When the ROBLOX iPad promotion ended with the release of the ROBLOX Mobile app, the current ROBLOX Tablet owners received an Apple iPad 3.ĭuring their release, the tablets were labeled "Roblox Tablet #." with their respective number of the release.
However, the last tablet, tablet #20, was sold for 1 Robux. The first tablet would be sold for 10,000 Robux, the second one 20,000 Robux, etc. During the promotion, a tablet was randomly released for sale on the catalog for any BC member to purchase. They were created as a promotion for Roblox Mobile's release on the iPad.
ROBLOX Tablets (series) is a series of BC-only limited gear items.