- published: 23 Apr 2016
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Roblox' is a massively multiplayer online game (MMOG) user-generated virtual playground and workshop designed for children aged 7 and over. Players can create virtual worlds with blocks of various shapes, sizes, and materials.Lua, a scripting language, allows players to gain more control of their created worlds.
Players also have the ability to customize their virtual character with hats and clothing and communicate with one another through groups, built-in instant messaging, in-game chatting, "foruming," and private messaging. Like its competitor Minecraft, Roblox has been claimed to be community-driven as virtual worlds are created and hosted by players of the game.
Roblox is funded by Altos Ventures and First Round Capital.
Roblox was created by founder and co-founder David Baszucki and Erik Cassel in 2005, named after a portmanteau of the words robots and blocks.
In mid-2007, Roblox considered a new character concept to allow for more complex clothing such as hairpieces to blend with the character. This was however rejected later for the minifigure design which was already in use. Since 2010, Roblox started creating body shapes which players could buy using virtual currency.
It was hard to avoid
I suppose it was the shame
But they didn't even try
You see we'd never met
And they didn't have names
There was nothing I could do
So I turned on the crowd
And I screamed ";you and you";
";It could have been you";
And they seemed to think
That I looked that way
Or maybe I was wrong
So I said do you know Mr. Wall
And they looked the other way
And then they smiled at me
But the police came
And I said it was me
And I just walked away