Roblox (2006)
Roblox is a 2006 platform video game made by Roblox Corporation.
Roblox is less a single game than a workshop full of them. Since 2006 it has handed players a toolkit and a scripting language built on Lua, then let them build worlds, obstacle courses, tycoon sims, and role-play towns for others to drop into. Millions of these player-made experiences sit side by side under one login, and much of the audience is young. The appeal is social and creative: make something, share it, wander into what everyone else made, and chat while you play. It is a platform, a sandbox, and a hangout at once.
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What is Roblox about?
Roblox is less a single game than a workshop full of them. Since 2006 it has handed players a toolkit and a scripting language built on Lua, then let them build worlds, obstacle courses, tycoon sims, and role-play towns for others to drop into. Millions of these player-made experiences sit side by side under one login, and much of the audience is young. The appeal is social and creative: make something, share it, wander into what everyone else made, and chat while you play. It is a platform, a sandbox, and a hangout at once.
When was Roblox released?
Roblox was released on 1 September 2006.
Who made Roblox?
Roblox was made by Roblox Corporation.
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A few thoughts on Roblox
The build-anything, share-anything spirit runs through Minecraft, the other great creative sandbox, and Ready Player One imagines where shared virtual worlds like these could lead. The Lego Movie captures the same joy of snapping loose pieces into something new.
Sandbox worlds shaped almost entirely by what players build
Roblox hands players a toolkit instead of a fixed game, and millions of user-built worlds sit under one login as a result. That same maker's spirit runs through Grand Theft Auto's decades of player-built mods, from San Andreas through V's roleplay servers, Skyrim's endless modding scene, The Lego Movie's brick-built imagination, and Ready Player One's virtual universe assembled from what its users bring to it.