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Roblox (/ ˈroʊblɒks / ⓘ, ROH-bloks) is an online game platform and game creation system developed by Roblox Corporation that allows users to program and play games created by themselves or other users.
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Roblox Corporation (/ ˈroʊblɒks / ROH-bloks) is an American video game developer based in San Mateo, California. Founded in 2004 by David Baszucki and Erik Cassel, the company is the developer of Roblox, which was released in 2006. As of December 31, 2023, the company employs over 2,400 people. [1]
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Roblox is an online game creation and social platform created by Roblox Corporation that allows users to program and publish games, referred to as experiences on the platform, and join experiences created by other users. It is the primary product of Roblox Corporation. It was founded by David Baszucki and Erik Cassel in December 2003 under Goblocks and later Dynablocks. On January 30, 2004, Dynablocks was renamed to Roblox. Roblox was released in 2006; the platform hosts user-created experiences of multiple genres, coded in the programming language Lua. For most of Roblox's history, it was relatively small, both as a platform and a company, partially due to co-founder Baszucki's lack of interest in press coverage, however, Roblox began to grow rapidly in the second half of the 2010s, and this growth was accentuated by the COVID-19 pandemic in the early 2020s.
Roblox is free-to-use, with in-experience purchases available through Roblox's virtual currency "Robux". As of April 2021, Roblox has over 202 million monthly active users, with 67% of its users being under the age of 16. Roblox has received generally positive reviews from critics.
From December 2003 to January 2004, Roblox went through multiple different names, such as GoBlocks and DynaBlocks, with their domain changing respectively multiple times in the short time frame. On January 30, 2004, the name was changed to Roblox, which is the name that remains today.
From 2004 to February 2005, Roblox underwent alpha testing. Following that, Roblox went into beta testing until November 2005. In November 2005 Roblox went "Stealth Testing Mode" important Stuff was added Early "Stealth Testing Mode" Avtar was Tested on January 11, 2006 Roblox gave "qa" a "Figure 5" witch was People 2006 Avtar you got Figure 1- Figure 8 "qa" got his Starter Place on January 11, 2006 on the same day as he got his "Figure 5" in Late 2006 "qa" Starter Place was turned into a Model. Late "Stealth Testing Mode" Coding was added to Roblox Studio. Sleath Testing Mode" ended on March 6, 2006 Roblox was in private Testing. in April 2006 Roblox was Playable for everyone. Then on September 1, 2006 Roblox was fully released to everyone with multiuser experiences and would gradually receive new updates and features over the years to shape it into what the platform is today.
Roblox is available on Windows, macOS, iOS, Android, Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S, Microsoft Store, and PlayStation 4/5. Users can create their own unique username; formerly one could also use Roblox as a guest which did not require account registration, however this feature was removed in October 2017.
Users can create their own experiences. Users also have their own character, which can be customized via Marketplace purchases, and they can participate in social aspects of Roblox such as group walls, messages, and the party chat feature.
Roblox is officially supported in VR mode on the Oculus Rift, Meta Quest2, HTC Vive, and Valve Index.
•"gooblox.com", "goblocks.com", and "goblox.com" all redirect to the Roblox home page.
•This also happens with roadblocks.com, roblocks.com, rogueblocks.com and rogueblox.com.
•This also formerly used to work with "Dynablocks.com", "Dynablock.com" and "Dynablox.com", but these now lead to a 404 error, since the Dynablocks name is no longer registered.
•As an April Fools joke, John Shedletsky posted a blog post on April 1, 2007, on the Roblox Blog stating that Roblox had been sold to Google for $380 million.
•On September 27, 2018, Roblox's favicon was changed from red to gray. Their logo was officially changed in February 2019.
•If an <13 account is logged on Roblox, the website will be "web.roblox.com" instead of "www.roblox.com". The web.roblox.com page is a variant of Roblox which changes several features and only exclusive to <13 accounts.
Roblox Corporation is an American video game developer located in San Mateo, California. It is the company that develops Roblox. The company was founded on March 23, 2004, by David Baszucki and Erik Cassel, and incorporated on April 9, 2004.[3]
The online video game platform and game creation system Roblox has numerous games (officially referred to as "experiences") [1][2] created by users of its creation tool, Roblox Studio.
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