- About Roblox 5 facts you need to know

oblox, a game creation platform and massively multiplayer online game, has a fanbase dedication rivaling that of Minecraft. According to Gamesindustry.biz, Roblox attracts more than 48 million active players every month as of April 2017, surpassing 1 million concurrent users at peak times. Minecraft reached 55 million monthly active players in February of 2017. It’s expanded from the PC to mobile devices, Xbox One, and even Virtual Reality, according to Forbes.

1. Roblox Was Preceded By a 2D Physics Simulator
General purpose physics simulators are where all of the objects in a simulation are simulated, and were originally used in mechanical engineering. Knowledge Revolution later created a 3D simulator called Working Model, which could simulate complex mechanical devices like motorcycles or copy machines. Both programs won many awards. Roblox would go on to have its own general purpose physics simulator scaled to thousands of parts.

According to the Roblox Wiki, Roblox launched its beta iteration as DynaBlocks in 2004. It was renamed Roblox in 2005 and officially released in 2006. Since then, it’s added features such as avatar customization, a search engine, private messages, and more.

In an interview with Cassel on the official Roblox blog, he talked about the first time Roblox went from a single-player game to a multiplayer one. Their first multiplayer game had about 20 children building in the game. They realized they could put blocks on each others’ shoulders – something the creators didn’t even know about – and started carrying each other on contraptions strapped to each others’ backs.

2. Roblox is a MMO Where You Create Your Own Games & Even Get Paid By Them
Roblox is a massively multiplayer game where people create their own worlds to play in together. Games cover a wide variety of genres ranging from competitive shooters, obstacle courses, and social hangouts. Games can be created by dragging and dropping things in the Roblox Studio or by writing in Lua, Roblox’s coding language, for more advanced functions. There are several tutorials on the game’s YouTube channel.

Roblox also has advertising deals with big companies like Disney, giving players free items like the McQueen Helmet to promote Cars 3. Baszucki told Forbes that some of the advertising deals are six figures and beyond, and their developers get some of the money. About a quarter of their revenue comes from advertising.

3. Roblox Had Its Own Conventions
Roblox has had a number of special events both virtual and in real life.

Roblox has held the ROBLOX Developers Conference starting in 2015. Roblox developers received a preview of the latest tech for the game, tips and tricks for building games, and a chance to deliver feedback directly to the Roblox team.

Roblox also held an Easter Egg hunt in the game starting in April 2008. According to the wiki, the event began with eggs dropping from the sky in a game, with players receiving eggs as cosmetic accessories if they find it. Since 2012, the event turned from an egg drop to an Easter Egg Hunt, with players going to a single game to find eggs. The 2013 Egg Hunt was the first game to get over 10,000 concurrent players as well as the first game to get over 1 million place visits in a week, according to the wiki.

4. Some Roblox Users Have Become Famous
From staff to fans, many users on Roblox are well known throughout the community.

One of the most popular users on Roblox is NerfModder, aka Jackson Fowler, who joined on June 2008. He was the leader of the largest Russian-based group on Roblox, [русская армия] (aka Russian Army or RA), which obtained over 27,000 members at its peak according to the Roblox wiki. He eventually resigned and handed over the leadership position to User Treys1. He was born on February 25, 1995 and lived in Nova Scotia, Canada.

A group known as NerfModder’s Legacy was established to finish and update Fowler’s games. The group is run by ag4Official, JTF2RogueSniper, and Fowler’s mother Laura.

The description on the page for Jackson’s account has been replaced with a memorial written by Laura:

5. The Creators Hope that Roblox Becomes Bigger than Minecraft
In March 2017, Roblox raised a $29 million round of funding led by Meritech Capital Partners and Index Ventures. The focus of the new investment is in hiring and support of the company’s infrastructure to make the game seamless and keep up with the growing use on mobile devices.

Back in February, Roblox released a series of toys in partnership with Jazeares. Each toy comes with a redemmable code for exclusive virtual items.