He/Him. Roblox Developer, Intern 2016. Club Boates Proprietor. Creator of After The Flash series and Legends of the Aether. Co-owner of Mystic Tower, & more:D
Which Roblox generation did you join during?
2006 - 2009: The Roboomer Generation
2010 - 2012: The Lost Generation
2013 - 2015: The Open World Generation
2016 - 2019: The Rosplosion Generation
2020: The Quarantine Generation
@BLOX
I just saw the same dude!! Right before I went into the Oppenheimer theater he asked me if I had any money for the claw machine and wouldn’t stop asking
The Impostors game on Roblox is yet another cheap, easy attempt at cashing in on another game's success.
The game is obviously thrown together in less than a week. Even the tasks which help make the game fun for Crewmates are lambasted into being mundane. Bad game.
I repeat again: Most of these things sucked, modern Roblox functions WAY better.
THE THING PEOPLE MISS is how old Roblox wasn't extremely profit-driven and games/the website were more communal.
Today's shoutout to the past: Uberubert
Uberubert is debatably responsible for bringing the Tycoon/Simulator genre to Roblox. Their tycoon games were the first big linear progression/"number go up" type games on the platform.
Bread Factory Tycoon, released sometime late 2007.
Clarification: The Lost Generation is lost because it experienced mostly stagnant roblox growth, crappy obby games, war clans, and the Disney XD era. Most of those who joined in this generation left Roblox long ago.
Does anyone remember the era when every single morph was named Dalek
I didn’t realize until like 2014 that Dalek wasn’t actually a technical term for a morph, it was just the name for the Doctor Who robot that nobody knew how to rename
When I'm looking for decals, it's always fun to run into essentially someone's 'home photos' that they uploaded for some reason. Like who were these dudes? What were they training for? What year was this - 2012? What are they up to now? lol
Roblox nowadays disconnects you if you're idle for 20 minutes and says exactly that
But I miss how back in the day it would tell you EXACTLY how long you've been idle for after being disconnected: example "Disconnected for being idle for 718 minutes"
Wait... so....
A roblox game can get rated 9+ or even 13+ for having farts or poop in it, but players can run around freely in any game with photorealistic feces as their characters?
Am I just mistaken or has god really abandoned us
Today's shoutout to the past: Anaminus
They were responsible for some of the most successful experimental games in the 2006 - 2012 era.
Hyperspace was my favorite, it was incredibly clean, smooth, and it felt like if oldschool flash games and Roblox had a child
Anyone else feel an occasional impending doom with Roblox
Maybe it’s just anxiety but I’m worried in 5 or 6 years being an indie dev on Roblox will no longer be possible as larger companies start making games and buying out the homegrown teams
@ployfrass
You're right, I should apologize to the children who hack into my game's code using 3rd party programs if they happen to see the word "piss"
If you ever thought corporations ever cared for you (yes, even the one we're thinking of) - let this be the lesson
They're willing to shut down a city's worth of shops to punch down at worker unions
BREAKING: Workers at a Starbucks in Ithaca, NY have walked out to protest the company’s plan to close all the stores in the city.
Every single store happens to be union.
The strike is happening at The Commons. They do not plan to return to work until their jobs are saved.
Just for the fun of it, I decided to run some numbers on Blade Ball again. But does it break Roblox TOS...?
Simple wheel - 6 prize slices - 2 of which are great. Total odds to hit a GREAT prize are 1 in 3, right?
Well... (THREAD)
TODAY IS THE DAY!
Once a year, on November 18th, I have been on Roblox for another full year. Today marks 14 years of being on Roblox for me.
When did you join? What game was the first you played?
Mine was Pirates of the Robloxian by Stealth Pilot
Yesterday was the 13th anniversary of After The Flash.
Somehow, we're still going strong after so many years. We're currently 2.5 years into the lifespan of the 8th game in the series.
I have so much fun telling stories with people, I look forward to many years ahead.
@MaximumADHD
That’s interesting. My parents have always thought I was simply lazy for the same reasons. I’d spend all day in school making board games and comics on my desk while everyone else learned. Normal and necessary tasks have always been almost unbearably boring for me
It's just really interesting to me that you can get the graphics of a PlayStation 1 game in Roblox if you just position yourself very far away from 0,0,0
FELLOW DEVS...
I return from the battlefield, mortally wounded. With my dying breath, I utter to you...
"using :Stop() on an animation track doesn't instantly stop it... you need to say :Stop(0) because the default is 0.1"
I pass away, enlightened but irritated
I can't believe that under Roblox's new age guidelines...
...one of our games went from All Ages up to 9+ restricted solely because we have a sword that farts when you swing it
Just gonna take a moment to appreciate and shoutout
@MaximumADHD
for how good of a job they've done replicating so much of old 2006 - 2008 Roblox in Super Nostalgia Zone
This image was taken in 2021
Devforums are wild
You ask for help on an issue. You could get three newbies telling you passive aggressively you're dumb and recommending you the methods you've already tried
Or you could get a veteran dev who is having a bad day and takes it out on you for some reason
NEW ROBUX LOGO = STINK.
WHEN 👏🏻 WILL 👏🏻 WE 👏🏻 GET 👏🏻 TIX 👏🏻 BACK 👏🏻
Roblox has gone down the drain I am so disappointed everything is money nobody likes games anymore all new players just want to eat hot chip and lie all the older players are gone i hate Minecraft blah blah blah
I still think the voting age should be 16 in the US.
16 year olds can be expected to drive a vehicle, or even work a job and pay taxes, but aren’t allowed to vote for some reason?
Moving the age to 16 would also guarantee high schools would be politically active.
Just to clarify: I think games nowadays are more fun, I joined in 2007. I do however think the lack of money incentive and smaller community from the old days was something we all can mourn being gone, as well as losing the relatively stress-free childhoods we had
This is funny to everyone who understands that deleting System32 kills your computer, but younger kids without that knowledge may see this and ruin their laptop/desktop on accident. No hint of a joke in this original tweet, 2/10
Let it be known that this is legit the last User Ad I ever saw on Roblox before they disappeared forever
Rest in peace User Ads. Sometimes you were beautiful expressions of creativity, sometimes you were borderline illegal. But you didn't make enough money for HQ... now you rest
Roblox can go 8 years without adding new Animation Priorities
But does a great job somehow always finding creative ways to make Sound updates even more damaging than previous ones
Am I missing something here? Is Roblox under threat or like a $100M lawsuit or something?
Today's shoutout to the past: miked
They built games which established certain genres on the platform that persist to this day. Other games may have come earlier, but none with this quality.
Genres they helped define on the platform: shooters, minigames, and roleplay
Today's shoutout to the past: Dued1
He's still making games today! Although he's never used the word "Simulator", his creations since 2007 have always been simulator-type games: functional worlds with roleplay elements.
His most popular (Pizza Place) has been running since 2008
This is Kiki
She’s an old cat who was born on June 6th 2006 and died this morning by the fireplace.
She was a really good cat who brought us chewed up mice to try to keep us fed, among many other things. Rest In Peace Kiki
Tfw your game finally gets a tweet from
@Roblox
but it’s during an outage so instead everyone takes a big ol dump on your game & Roblox for ten hours straight
One of the first free models I ever used in 2007 or 08 was an arcade machine
I'm carrying on the legacy by having my own arcade machines cycle between random colors on the screen
ALERT!
Please remember that this season you will get scams on both Roblox and your phones like crazy. Scammers saying ‘you must update your shipping info!’ or ‘thank you for buying, click here for a gift card!’ or ‘free robux’!
Watch yourselves this Xmas, stay vigilant
Just thought I’d remind y’all to support 🔨
#AbolishTrade
🔨 on Roblox! 🥰🥰🥰
It’s the source of 99% of account, asset, and Robux theft leading to monetary loss for both players and developers. The ‘Roblox economy’ is a joke. Just have a Catalog and let it be that.
BROKE: DevEx'ing whenever you can
WOKE: Using Roblox as a bootleg Savings account and never cashing out more than you absolutely need so you don't get taxed for your excess income
And with the biomass raid, Craterview now belongs to the mutants. The humans have fled and formed a small Refugee Camp in the Badlands. The valley stands in silence
The Open World Generation: Defined by steady growth. The world opened up for Roblox. Global shadows, DevEx was implemented, player animations and sounds, the Developer forum, and tons of larger, more open-world games. Tons of clubs, obbies, RPs, etc.
Just here to announce that I’m beyond proud of my wife for getting into one of the grad school programs that she wanted
(Other schools aren’t in yet)
that’s all for now