The What’s New in ROBLOX TIX Raffle!

So, as you may or may not know, we recently reached our goal of 300 fans! So we have a surprise for you!

And now introducing the WHAT’S NEW IN ROBLOX RAFFLE!! You have to be BC to enter otherwise we can’t give you your TIX and you have to buy this shirt as a ticket and send a PM to the account linked below. But hurry because you have until February 4th, 2012 to enter! The winners will be announced February 5th!

CLICK HERE FOR THE RAFFLE SHIRT

Prizes:
-1st Prize – Winner will receive 1,500 tickets!
-2nd Prize – Winner will receive 750 tickets!
-3rd Prize – Winner will receive 500 tickets!
Keep in mind that these WILL raise if we get a great turnout! These are only the minimum prizes that we will give out!

==IMPORTANT==
For us to get people entered into the raffle, after you buy, PM this account after you buy:
CLICK HERE FOR THE ACCOUNT TO PM

So, how do we randomize all of the entries? We put all of the names that PMed the account and had the shirt into a list randomizer. The people who come up first, second, and third, win!

Lastly, We would like to think all of our group members, and we hope you enjoy your stay in this blog

=The What’s New In ROBLOX Crew=

Gear Review of “Dagger of Shattered Demensions”

Was R$2,500 and 500 were sold.

Appearance: 6
This gear is one of those gear that they add sparks and fire too. Most of the time it just floods out the dagger itself. The gear also just flames all over the place in game.

Price: 4
I believe that 2500 ROBUX for a gear like this is purely outrageous. This gear is very overpriced and took nearly 2 hours to sell out. This is a large waste of money.

Quantity: 7
The quantity on this item is not very bad. There are only 500 which keep this gear pretty rare. This may be the first item with a good quantity for a few months.

Overall: 5.6
Overall this gear is not very good. It is very overpriced and does not look very good. I recommend that you do not buy this gear unless you are attracted to it’s appearance.

-Lem786

“Paintball!” Place Review

This is the first review from our new member of staff, Buc391! We recently accepted him to our staff. This is a place review of the game “Paintball!” by Daxter33.

Construction-9.1
Very good C-Framing and a lot of detail with those little bricks in the game make it so realistic. A lot of the maps were made by fans of Daxter33, and he only picks the best for his game. There are a lot of hiding/camping spots throughout the game. There are certain advantages for both teams, you just have to find them.

Scripting-8.7
The scripting is very well done, too. The game randomly picks maps, the teams, the game type, and it looks like it’s being typed right there on your screen. Whenever you kill someone, you get a hundred points. A certain number of points lets you rank up to unlock more paintball guns. The guns are very well scripted with some realistic movement equipped with the gun, and shows the arm throwing the grenade when you press the “F” key.

Gameplay-9.6
A lot of action goes on in this game, whether you’re lying down and camping, or you’re escaping a mob of people playing the round, “Elimination”. Once again, the game randomly chooses teams, so you you never know who you’re up against. Yoou can unlock more guns, level up, BLOW people up, snipe people out of the blue, and capture flags in the “Controller” round, when you’re team must have the most flags captured after five minutes. The team that wins always gets an extra 250 points. There are a few rounds that you’d like to know about:

Team Swap, where when you kill someone, they join your team, kind of like zombie tag, but, with, paintballs…

Elimination: This one’s the only exception. If you get a kill, there’s an extra 500 points for you and the person you kill is out of the game until the round is over.

Controller: Capture the most flags at the end of 5 minutes and you win this game.

Deathmatch: Either the first team to get 30 kills wins, or the team with the most kills at the end of five minutes wins.

Controls:

Q: Aim down sights
F: Grenade
X: Toggle Prone
C: Toggle Crouch

Very good gameplay. Very action-packed.

Overall-9.3
If you’re looking for a place with great scripting, good guns, great building, and action-packed playing, this is the game for you.

-Buc391-

A New Roblox “Bug”

On January 18, 2012, Roblox had a “Bug”. This bug caused all of the Limited items for sale, whose owners were not in Builders Club, to go offsale. This dramatically raised all of the prices of all old and forgotten hats. Many people have lost track of these hats, and lots of owners did not have Builders Club anymore. This caused a lot of hats and faces to become extremely rare and are left with very few sellers. Since there are not many sellers, these hats will not sell often and will be listed at outrageous prices. Telamon tweeted that Roblox has fixed the bug, however a lot of hats and faces have been ruined due to this incident. I hope that all of the What’s New In Roblox fans were unaffected from this glitch.

-Lem786

ROBLOX Against SOPA/PIPA

In case you didn’t yet know, Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) is a proposed bill in Congress that will censor the internet. Many famous websites are protesting against SOPA like Facebook and Wikipedia. ROBLOX is even one of the protesters by releasing an official position by the CEO David Baszucki. The ROBLOX position can be found HERE.

To allow ROBLOXians to protest against SOPA, the admins released a special limited edition gear available for a small cost of 5 TIX. Get yours today to protest!

The "Protest: ROBLOXians Against SOPA" gear allows players to protest SOPA quickly and easily! Make sure you wear it after you buy it!

“Entrepreneur Tycoon!” Place Review

This game immediately got my attention when I saw that it had over 2,500 people online at the same time yesterday. It’s been at the number 1 most popular spot for the past two days now, and I don’t think it’s going to fall.

Entrepreneur Tycoon has had unreal success in the past few days

Construction – 7
It’s a little laggy when you first enter the place and it took a minute or two for my computer to speed up. I also saw a few free models, like the police station, but I’m just going to assume that he built the rest of it himself because it’s not that very well built anyways.

Scripting – 8
This game runs with many very simple regen scripts and buttons that give you cash, nothing really more. It’s a clever spin on the regular tycoon game by forcing you to “work”, or step on buttons, for you money.

Gameplay – 7
This game is pretty boring but somehow addicting, I found myself playing this game for a surprisingly long time. I’m even playing it right now, waiting for cash buttons to come up while I write this post.

Overall – 7.3
This game is pretty good but it definitely doesn’t deserve the sharp rise in popularity that it’s gained over the past few days. I was thinking of putting a special “Grammar” category just for this place because there are so many spelling errors I couldn’t count them all. In that aspect, this game was made by an 8 year-old.

===Kman786===

ROBLOX for iPad Demo!

Here’s an interesting story for people with an iPad. ROBLOX will be able to be played on your iPad in the future! As you can see in the video linked at the bottom of this post, it’s still in the early stages of development but it looks like it’s going to be pretty cool. You’re even going to be able to play on regular servers with it! ROBLOX Studio will not be added in the app and they have not tried making a version of ROBLOX for Android tablets or your phone. Check out the demo video below! P.S. This video is unlisted on YouTube so you can only see it here or on the ROBLOX Tech Blog!

===Kman786===

Interview with Brickbuilder74

We were lucky enough to get an interview with the maker of Kill the Courier, Brickbuilder74. We hope you will enjoy it!

Brickbuilder74 has over 2 million place visits and 700,000 profile views

1. Q: Have you ever been interviewed before?
A: Yes

2. Q: What year did you join Roblox?
A: 2008

3. Q: How many Robux/Tix do you have?
A: 200,583 Robux and 13,291 Tix

4. Q: How do you make your Robux?
A: VIP T-Shirts

5. Q: How do you get the ideas for your places?
A: Either real life games, or playing with my friends.

6. Q: Do you often play your own games?
A: A few times a week.

7. Q: How do you normally get your places to the front page?
A: Probably by the 700k tix that I spend on advertising.

8. Q: What is your favorite hat?
A: Domino Crown

9. Q: If you were an administrator, what hat would you make?
A: A golden trophy with B74 engraved onto the side.

10. Q: Have you ever made a place completely out of free models?
A: Yes, but that was a long time ago.

11. Q: What do you want to say to all of the builders and fans out there?
A: I build my games for everybody’s pleasure, even mine!

-Lem786

Place Review – Raft Survival: Volcano

Today I’ll be taking a look at Raft Survival: Volcano because I noticed it has been gaining some popularity in the past week. It’s the #1 most visited place in the past week and it has almost 300,000 visits total.

Raft Survival: Volcano has gotten a full 100,000 visits more than the 2nd most popular game in the past week with a whopping 293,000 visits.

 Construction – 5
This game’s building is just average because it’s just a couple ramps and rocks. The rocks that are simply squares and simplistic angled bricks form paths.

Scripting – 3
Since this is a simple build to survive game with a semi-clever twist, the only scripts that actually exist are a script that makes your limbs disappear when you touch the brick and a script that makes your boat “burn” when you touch the brick. Both could’ve been easily found on free models, not that they were actually found there. I just wouldn’t doubt it.

Gameplay – 6
Easily the best part of this game, but still not great, because of its semi-clever twist on your run of the mill “Build to Survive” game. This game is pretty challenging because a simple touch of a brick will burn half of your boat. The fact that you can’t actually control your boat is also pretty annoying as you just run through the same monotonous path every time you start again.

Overall – 4.7
In short, I really don’t think that this game deserves the incredible popularity that it has. It is really just an average game in almost every aspect. The few scripts that it has are incredibly simple and so is the building. Play it if you want a little above average gameplay.

==Kman786==

An Interview with TheAmazeman

Today, I was lucky enough to get an interview with TheAmazeman. If you don’t know who that is, he is an amazing builder who has created such games as ROBLOX Titanic, Survive the End of ROBLOX, and ROBLOX Hiking. I hope you enjoy it!

TheAmazeman is an awesome scripter and an even better builder. As of right now, he has 1.6 profile views and 7 million visits

1. Q: Have you ever been interviewed before?
A: Yes.

2. Q: When did you join ROBLOX?
A: September 24th, 2008

3. Q: How do you get the ideas for your places?
A: By thinking of what would be a fun thing to do in a video game that no other video game offers.

4. Q: What is your favorite place on ROBLOX? (besides yours)
A: There’s no way to pick a favorite, so I recommended just looking on my favorites, they’re all great games. I’m probably missing a lot of new games that are awesome too since I dedicate most of my time on roblox to making or editing my own games.

5. Q: What do you normally do with your Robux and Tix?
A: Let them sit there, unless there’s a really cool hat or gear, I don’t buy much nor do I like to brag about what I can do with the virtual money I have.

6. Q: How many Robux/Tix do you have right now?
A: 2.4 mill robux, 5.4 mill tix.

7. Q: If you were an administrator, what kind of hat would you make?
A: I don’t have many ideas for hats, so I wouldn’t like to make hats if I were an administrator.

8. Q: What is your favorite hat?
A: The Ninja mask of Shadows because it’s nice and simple.

9. Q: Do you play any games other than ROBLOX? If so, what?
A: I don’t play any video games on any game console.

10. Q: Do you play your own ROBLOX games often?
A: I play them to test them, or to show a friend, I never play them for my own amusement unless I just made a really exciting update.

11. Q: How do you get your places on the first page?
A: By making a good update and running 1-2 ads at 9999 tix. Usually the momentum of having a previously popular game helps out a lot, so that initial popularity is the tricky part.

12. Q: What’s your favorite thing to do on ROBLOX?
A: See what kind of things I can do with Lua scripting, and watching it work in a game that’s fun.

13. Q: How did you get the idea for “ROBLOX Titanic”?
A: I’m really fascinated by the concept of human built things being destroyed by nature, and went to a Titanic museum. I decided to make Roblox Titanic right after the museum; although, before that, I noticed there were no good sinking ship games on roblox. I decided to change that.

14. Q: Who is your favorite ROBLOXian?
A: Stickmasterluke. He’s inspired me want to work at roblox some day as well as to keep making awesome games.

15. Q: Are there any new game ideas that you want to tell our readers about?
A: I have many game ideas that are displayed on this page: http://theamazeman.com/?page_id=8

16. Q: Is there anything you want to tell aspiring ROBLOX builders?
A: If you think constructing a game for people to enjoy sounds fun to you, don’t give up.

That’s What’s New In ROBLOX now, we’ll see you later!

==Kman786==