Roblox is a huge online sandbox for creativity, where the games are mini-games of various genres with arcade gameplay and visuals not burdened by graphical frills. All content is created by a large community of fans through the generation of worlds, characters, scenarios, and rules, while the game authors maintain the servers and engine, and also port Roblox to different platforms. Simple and intuitive controls allow you to immerse yourself in the amazing worlds (places) of the community or create your own gaming masterpiece.
However, Roblox is not just a game, but a great opportunity to try yourself as a developer and game designer. Roblox Studio is the platform's simple and intuitive toolkit that allows you to develop an adventure, race, shooter, horror, RTS, or even RPG; in a huge open world or through a set of locations; from a first or third-person view; with a simple or quite complex physics model; implement various game mechanics through simple scripting; fill your project with models, textures, objects, and other content.
Roblox as a platform does not have a storyline campaign or scenarios for training and getting to know the game from the developers themselves. After installation and account creation, you need to go to the mini-game selection menu — or places, as they are called within the platform. Once you find a suitable one, the player's avatar is placed in the place where they can interact with other players and the surrounding space.
The human form is not the only one. Depending on the genre of the place, the player's avatar can take the form of animals, fantastic creatures, vehicles, combat units, or even be incorporeal. For example, strategies provide a cursor with menus, and war games have a unit control interface.
The rules of each place are chosen accordingly. In most places, you can walk back and forth, run, jump, interact with objects, open doors, activate mechanisms, build or destroy objects, and more depending on the circumstances.
Thus, in story and role-playing games, you can create and develop your character, explore vast worlds, communicate with NPCs, complete quests, solve puzzles, and participate in battles. In flight simulators, you can control an aircraft, perform maneuvers over virtual landscapes, and even engage in air combat. Games with combat mechanics, such as first-person shooters, offer shooting implementation.
Rarely, a place can get a cool embodiment and content, usually, the worlds look primitive and unpretentious. The atmosphere and style of the environment depend solely on the authors: there are fantasy, sci-fi, realistic, and completely original ones. Rights restrictions do not allow copying popular settings like Fallout or The Witcher.
There is a full set of biomes — deserts, jungles, mountains and hills, snowy expanses; main weather options for them. The level or world design itself can include mazes, underground complexes, space stations, villages, towns, cities, their unique architectural features and decorations, as well as numerous landscapes.
The unassuming worlds of Roblox at first glance offer a diverse and engaging gaming experience that can satisfy various interests and preferences. This diversity, coupled with high intensity, has helped Roblox gain immense popularity. Each place is a small demo of a "big" game with a couple of well-functioning mechanics. It may become boring in 2-3 minutes, but millions of places together can captivate for long hours, each time offering a different gaming experience.
Often, the main feature of the game is social interaction. Worlds where you can cooperate and communicate with other players are significantly more popular compared to solo campaigns. For example, shooters offer battles with other players or bots, various weapons, tactical planning, and dynamic gameplay. Chat, group quests, joint battles or adventures, item and resource exchange, creation and joining of guilds or clans, etc. — all this is the second component of Roblox's success.
10 Roblox places worth trying
- Anime Fighting Simulator X — an anime-themed game where you need to level up and buy fruits to gain special abilities and powerful skills;
- Phantom Forces — a first-person shooter reminiscent of a whirlwind mix of Counter-Strike 2 and Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3;
- Slayers Unleashed — an anime game inspired by Demon Slayer 3. Characters, bosses, and even abilities replicate it if not entirely, then significantly;
- Tower Defense Simulator — defending your territory from hordes of mobs, the project boasts a couple of fresh ideas for the old genre;
- Dystovia — very similar to the popular Elden Ring. You can use teleporters for movement and find a lot of weapons, totems, and auras;
- Jailbreak — you find yourself in a large prison where you can play the role of a criminal or law enforcer. It resembles an open-world action game in the spirit of GTA 5;
- MeepCity — an open-world life simulator. After choosing a place on the map, you can build and furnish your home, throw parties, and have fun with NPCs!
- Natural Disaster Survival — you compete with other players to survive during crazy natural disasters;
- World of Magic — a role-playing game about heroes and mages where you can fight other players, create your guild, or join existing ones. There are two lines of behavior — become a hero for the common people or a tyrant associated with dark magic;
- Minerscave, Survival Island, Mining Simulator — very reminiscent of the classic "Minecraft" with altered textures, slightly simplified gameplay, and their level design.
- Thousands of them!
Over decades of improvements, Roblox Studio has turned into a powerful game development environment that requires a computer to work with. Development will require certain skills but is made as easy as possible. В наличии большая библиотека контента, десятки паттернов жанров, блоки для построения мира и скрипты на языке Lua. Есть редактор 3D-моделей, система физики, система анимации, разработка как одиночной, так и многопользовательской части. Поддерживается одновременная работа группы авторов.
Авторы Roblox стимулируют сообщество разрабатывать плейсы через монетизацию созданных игр. Продавая виртуальные товары, разработчики получают валюту Robux, которую затем обменивают на реальные деньги. Чтобы привлечь и удержать игроков, приходится постоянно обновлять и поддерживать свою игру через новый контент, фичи и исправление ошибок. Пользовательская свобода в том, как играть и что создавать, заканчивается на обязательном требовании обеспечить безопасное и дружественное окружение для игроков всех возрастов.