Whuts up?

Hello readers. Sorry I haven’t posted anything relativly new lately. School, work, ect ect. Well, actually….just school.

So here is a quick roundup

1. Vibhu is doing a lot of awesome projects. Faith in Roblox +10%!

2. Hats. A LOT OF HATS.

3. Outrageous BC. Truely outrageous.

4. OBC webcasts. Wasn’t this suggested like 2 whole years ago? I remember someone saying this a looooong time ago. Did I suggest it? I digress.

5. More Fourm Mods. The more the merrier, and the safer.

6. A lot of minor things, like a new login page and constantly updating groups.

And there is one more thing I was going to talk about: Fleshjherta. Roblox owes more to him than they think. I mean, thats how I found Roblox, and I am sure thats how many others did too before videos, and the site, went totally mainstream. He is an old player, banned now, but forever part of the Roblox history books. Hey, he might even still be playing and acting like a normal user. It would be cool. ;D

–Briguy

Locked Wiki? No problem.

As you may already know, the Roblox wiki was locked. Therefore, users can no longer post new advice for scripting, and people will find out the hard way that most of the techniques no longer work due to Roblox updates. So what do you do then?

You could always go to the ROBLOX forums, but that seems to be a paradise of noobs, trolls, and meaningful threads dying 4 seconds after being posted. No to mention the mods can be slow to respond to reports (Briguy, on the contrary, does a good job, if you ask me).

Nothing left, right? Wrong. A friend of mine is currently working on a forum where you can share your building and scripting tips to all site visitors. There is only one admin (the creator, Gregg) and one moderator (that would be me :3) so far, but as the community grows (We only have two other users right now; the forum was just created!), we’ll get more moderators. Right now, we don’t really need that many (obviously). If you do choose to visit, don’t try pulling anything off, because I’ll be keeping an eye on you.

Enjoy.

http://robloxtutorials.webs.com/

-XiaoXiaoMan (For the first time in a while O_o)

Yeah. I’m still alive. I’ve been a bit busy lately.

Roblox Developers’ Journal » The One True ROBLOX

Roblox Developers’ Journal » The One True ROBLOX.

(Random link. olol)

So I was moderating today. Big shocker there. But people keep on doing the same thing every day.

They reply to and bump spam.

I mean COMON! If its spam, just report it and go away. Every reply is just as bad as a whole new topic about it. If you see it, leave it be. It annoys me not only when people do it, but when I have to scrub EVERY reply and get action taken out on the others who replied, who could be the nicest person you may ever know.

I mean, seriously, just……stop.

Quickpost

I give a cookie to Lah30303 for being the only regular commentor. *hands cookie*

The API are coming! The API are coming!

The API are coming! –Paul Bloxere

Ah yes. API. A new milestone in Roblox. Any person who knows how to program Roblox LUA can now add a HUD to any players screen. This opens a whole world of possibilities, such as inventories, turn-based RPG’s, menus, and so much more. But how will the normal players, the ones who don’t know LUA, use these new features?

It is quite simple: Public Domain. Experiment, work, and create new API menus, and release it for all to use. If you keep it to yourself, then only you will ever use it, and if it can help, it never will. You should spend some time to help others with this new API, and release new scripts for others to use so that they can also have API’s in their game.

Create for the common good. And so it may move Roblox up to the next gen

–Briguy

Is Roblox to Facebook connectivity for the best?

Many have joined the Roblox Test Server and saw that you can connect to Facebook. So far I saw:

-Status updates on Roblox get sent to Facebook
-You can share places, items, and other things.

I am sure there is more, I was only on for a few minutes.

But I began to wonder: Is this for the best of Roblox? Lets think: Facebook is mostly filled with Teens and older kids. That is what we have a lack of on Roblox: Older, maturer, and smarter kids. If we get an influx of older kids, we might get an influx of better places, which is all together better for the game.

But the community? Well, the older kids might get stifled by the filter, and post nastier stuff, but I think we (and by we I mean the mods) can handle it, when and if it happens.

So. Is it for the best?

–Briguy

F-f-f-filler!

Oh, its that time again. Where I sit down, open WordPress, and reflect on the last few months of Roblox.

Its been fun, playing Roblox, moderating, playing TF2 with the other mods, my friends, relaxing from summer ectect. I’m sure I won’t be the only happy mod when school starts up again and the posting rate drops from a post every .5 seconds to a post every few seconds.

Roblox has gone through a bit of changes, with the major Groups and Feeds update, and the millions of hats that get pushed out faster than the post rate (Which I just said, is uber-fast). But in times like these, everyone is looking for a place where money is being wasted. Roblox’s Builders Club is no exception. Sure, it’s not a waste, but its not a necessity either (Unless you are Maxxz). You can bet 5 extra dollars a month is going to really help families *rolls eyes*

Everyone is cutting back. Heck, I almost lost my cable. But there is still one place I can look forward to. Roblox. Even when the w0rld seems to be on its knees, trying to find new ways to help each other out of the massive hole, kids around the world can log on, and play. Just play. Forget whats going on. Just play. Forget to eat. Just play. Forget to do chores. Just play. (Uhh…In retrospect, you shouldn’t really play Roblox over eating….or chores…)

Even after playing for 2 years and moderating for 1, I enjoy jumping on every day, for that one lucky shot, that one amazing place.

And coming to a world full of people just trying to forget it all.

Enjoy the rest of the summer, Robloxia. School for me starts August 26. It won’t stop me from playing.

–Briguy

Insane!

The new Roblox update has done live, and I gotta say, the amount of groups now avalible is INSANE. You can only join a max of 5, but I like it. I am happy.

I am also waiting for Badges. They were up on the test server, but were not released in this update. I expect a lot of work being put into it.

Update!

Lets list whats going down in the world of Roblox.

1. A lot of cool new updates are hiding on the Test Server.  Statuses like Twitter, Groups (I win), Best Friend Feeds, Personal Badges, and a new My Roblox page layout. It looks very cool. I hope to get on the test server soon and get time to have a full hands-on demo, which I will most likely record and narrate.

2. So many hats, I can’t keep track. I run out of Robux so quickly I need to learn how to use the Currency Exchange now. Its easy to make some quick Bux with the constant money. (Of course, I can use my “connections” to get stuff for free. I choose not to.)

3. The new contest, Video Tutuorial, is taking Youtube by storm. I quickly glanced through the rules and current videos, and ALREADY I think every idea has been taken. I find a minute not long enough to show someone how to do something. The cool stuff takes longer than a minute to make!

Enjoy whats happening, and whats to come!

–Briguy

Oh Noes!

Fate has hit me hard again, as my computer has crashed and I am left with only 1 way to connect to the internet on a whim: My Wii. Great.

So yeah, don’t expect anything from me untill I get it fixed.

–Briguy

(I can update Twitter from my phone, so you can still get mini updates from that.)