Zombie Fest!

Unleash the powerful forces of the Zombie hordes across Robloxia and wreck havoc across the lands! With the power of Zombies and these ancient artifacts in your hands wipe out legions and show off the zombie awesomeness!

Brain Trap

– The necromancers controlling the zombies infect these brains with powerful dark magic, that activates when anyone but a necromancer gets close. A zombie spawns to attack its unwary victim and chases him as long as it can to finish the job.

Zombie Slayer

– The Zombie Slayer while being a amazingly powerful sword wielder by any good swordsmen, also feeds on the power of the Zombies making its wielder stronger and stronger. Watch out!

Cliche Staff Of Zombie Infection

– Using powerful necromancy, this staff shoots out viral infectious seeds that upon impact turn its opponents into zombies, slowing them down massively and inflicting a lot of damage.

The Necrosapien Staff

– Said to be wielded by only the most powerful necromancers on Robloxia, The Necrosapien Staff summons unholy zombies. The summoned zombies act as a shield to the wielder of the staff and attack viciously anyone and everyone that get in their way, carefully returning to their master afterwards.

Please discuss the new gear items in the forums.

- Sorcus

Meet an Interesting ROBLOXian: Genius5

Meet an Interesting ROBLOXian: Genius5

Meet an Interesting ROBLOXian

Welcome to the first in a series of player interviews! You can look forward to meeting interesting ROBLOXians from all around the world.

---

Name: Genius5 

Type: Builders ClubVisits: 21,771Knockouts: 2,241Location: USA

Mini-interview

Why do you play ROBLOX?

Because of the variety of places! On ROBLOX, there are places for everyone. It’s also fun to play around with the real-life physics, which makes ROBLOX so great! You can make friends anywhere, from the games, to the forums.

What is your favorite thing on ROBLOX?

Definitely the fact that you can share your creations with the world; be it places, models, clothes, etc. Sure, there are some incredibly awesome places on ROBLOX, but have you ever taken your time to look at the detail that goes into the clothes that some of the graphic designers have made? That’s what I like about ROBLOX: There is a wide variety of people, from scripters to graphic designers. It’s almost impossible not to make friends!

What do you want your fellow ROBLOXians to know about you?

I LOVE computers! When my first birthday came, what did my parents get me? Yes, you guessed it, a computer! I was one of those babies, where you could hit your rattle on the keyboard, and make things happen!

I am a graphic designer. (Not professional, though.) I taught myself Photoshop. I started out by learning MS Paint, then Paint.Net, until I understood the “ultimate” program, Photoshop. Most people say that I am the “King of ROBLOX Ads”! (I don’t believe that! There are TONS of radical ad makers out there.) If you don’t know the first thing about graphic design, I encourage you to learn more about it, and to try your hand at it in MS Paint, and possibly Paint.NET. Set your goals, and you will reach them!

Do you have any advice for noobs?

Don’t walk off the end of the baseplate! There’s no telling where it leads. If you do, don’t worry, you will respawn back to the starting point. If something should go wrong, just blame John!

ROBLOX Game Cards now Available at Target and CVS

ROBLOX Game Cards now Available at Target and CVS

We are pleased to announce that ROBLOX Cards are now available at participating Target and CVS stores in the United States. To celebrate the launch of our Target ROBLOX Cards – we are offering the exclusive Fiery Dragon Axe to everyone who redeems a Target Roblox Card anytime the rest of this month. To celebrate the launch of our CVS cards we will be awarding the Skull Gladius to anyone who redeems a CVS card before November. For those of you not familiar with prepaid ROBLOX Cards – here’s how they work:

You purchase a $10 or $25 ROBLOX Card at Target, CVS, or one of our other retail partners. Once you have your card, you login to ROBLOX and go to www.roblox.com/gamecard. Scratch off the section on the back of the card that hides the secret code needed to activate your card. The code on the back of the card can only be used once so be sure not to purchase a card if the back is already scratched off. Enter the code and click redeem. POW! You’re ready to spend your ROBLOX credits on Robux or Builder’s Club.

-Brighteyes

Halloween Contest!

      I have created a Halloween Contest this contest features YOU! The Robloxians you guys have a job. On Halloween I am holding a contest. The contest is What Is Your Best Halloween Contest? Yes On October 30, 2011 You have to make your best Halloween Costume and it must be on your Roblox character. To enter you simply either leave a comment to a link leading to your picture or email me at bubby48@myway.com. Have fun and do your best.

          Sincerely,

          JamieChomper

A Bat's Life!

A Bat’s Life!

This week we bring you the batlicious, bat gear! Use them to gain unusual powers in battle and overpower your opponents with a variety of attacks.

Black Steel Throwing Bats – Made from strong black steel, these are engraved with memories of bats. Throw it at your enemy and watch it annihilate them and faithfully come back to you.

Bat Blade – The bat blade was crafted using ancient techniques by vampires. Watch your health restore with every hit you give to your opponents and move faster and slash even faster.

Enchanted Bat Flying Potion – Said to hold the secrets of Vampire flight, this potion allows the drinker to grow wings and soar high into the skies. But you also quickly realize, it doesn’t just give you flight but gives you vampiric abilities for the duration!

Accursed Vampire Bat hand – This ancient and rare relic, is said to be the actual hand of an ancient vampire that once walked the plane of Robloxia. Use it to summon lots of bats and watch them tear through your enemies and come back to you, healing you!

Please discuss the new gear items in the forums.

- Sorcus

The last Gift!

The Gifts of 2011 Halloween have sadly came to a end. But the last gift is out there! Rumors have it that it's a Dominus! I personally think its something special since it costs 31K Robux. What do you think? Is it a Trick Or Treat? Here is a picture

Boney Blast

Boney Blast

With Halloween fast approaching, we have some very special gear waiting for you to show off the undead awesomeness. This week, we bring you a blast of boney gear that is sure to knock the wind out of you!

Skeleboard – Hand made from some very strong bones, the Skeleboard is lighter and faster than other transports. Hear the bones creak as you speed along even the most rough parts of Robloxia with ease.

Skelefriend – Using powerful necromancy, the Skelefriend helps you in your combat, by spinning around you, protecting you and doing damage to any enemies that come near. With every opponent he rebounds, he heals you, making you stronger.

Fiery Bone Trap – Imbued with ancient magic to spread wild fire, spread these traps around the world, to trap your unwary opponents in a cage of wild fire!

Bone Crusher – Mace and Shield – Each set encrusted with the bones of great fallen warriors, this mace and shield, has been crafted to break some joints! Watch as you get stronger, move faster, and strike harder than ever. Unleash the hidden tornado combo to decimate your opponents!

Please discuss the new gear items in the forums.

- Sorcus

Land Grab!

Land Grab!

ROBLOX has released version 1.0 of our hotly anticipated terrain feature! Since the time it was first announced at the ROBLOX RALLY on August 1st, the ROBLOX team has been focused on driving terrain across the finish line. There are a ton more features we want to add, and you guys will see terrain improvements rolling out over the next several releases. Enough talk. What’s in version 1.0?
What is Terrain?
ROBLOX terrain is a super scalable voxel-based grid. Currently, it can be up to 2048 x 512 x 2048 studs large, containing up to 16 million 4×4x4 terrain cells. Anything built using terrain cells is extremely high-performance. You can uses all 16 million cells to build with no graphics slow down. Even better, terrain integrates seamlessly with the normal ROBLOX building parts.
Play With Terrain Right Now

To show off some of the new gameplay possibilities afforded by terrain, I’ve uploaded a simple demonstration level. All players start with overpowered weapons that cut through terrain like a hot knife through butter. At the same time, floating bots are launching rockets at the players. The level is uncopylocked – grab a copy and check out the scripts!
Make Your Own Terrain


You can very easily get started building your own terrains in ROBLOX Studio. We’ve added a slew of tools to help you create and sculpt your own terrains (warning: this is very fun). The first tool you’ll want to try is the Terrain Generator. It’s got some sliders that you can play with to generate different types of terrains. Here’s one that I made in 30 seconds:
All the other new tools help you modify an existing terrain that you have generated. The best way to learn what they do is by messing around with them. ROBLOX team members Gemlocker and bjdeck gave a presentation at the ROBLOX RALLY that showed off some of these tools.
Quick side note:
ROBLOX Studio pros know that there’s a lot of ways to move parts around with ROBLOX Studio. ROBLOX recommends that you use these tools for manipulating parts that you want to connect with terrain. For example, if you are inserting a large building, use the arrow tool shown above to weld this object to the terrain. If you use the old arrow cursor tool, the building will not create welds with terrain. This will cause two bad things to happen: 1) the building could be moved if something heavy hits it in-game and 2) your game may run slowly because you have a large object making many many surface contacts with the terrain. We will be cleaning up ROBLOX Studio and making this less confusing in the near future.
Scripters Paradise

Guess what scripters? All of the new terrain tools we have provided in ROBLOX Studio are actually plugins scripted in Lua – 100% modifiable by you! Make your own terrain generators! Make your own tools! Show off your 1337 creations in the scripters forum!
What’s Next for Terrain
Currently the ROBLOX terrain object only supports two types of materials: grass and sand. There will be many more coming in future releases. We will also continues to improve the quality of terrain plugins provided in ROBLOX Studio. Plus a bunch of other stuff that’s still under wraps!

- Telamon

Trick or Treat 2011

Trick or Treat 2011

Halloween is one of ROBLOX’s favorite holidays of the year.  To celebrate – we present the 13 days of Halloween!  Everyday from October 1st to the 13th there will be a new Halloween gift item for sale in the ROBLOX Catalog.  The Halloween gift items contain a surprise – some are tricks and others are treats.  Can you figure out which gift contains which? 
Here is how the gifts work – once you’ve purchased the gift, you don’t have to do anything.  At some point during the month the gift will open and your account will be awarded whatever was in the gift box.  The gifts will be on sale for a limited time only, so get them while they last! You can check out the first gift here. Talk about Trick or Treat 2011 here.
-Brighteyes