User:Effligo/GollyGreg

GollyGreg is an eighteen year old Robloxian who iconically wears orange pants and occasionally updates his places with new content and bug fixes.If he decides to visit a place that he does not own, there is a good chance that he is taking advantage of documenting the activity via screen capture and may upload gameplay and commentary on his Youtube channel.

Robloxians generally enjoy GollyGreg's wit on the forums, where he has accumulated over twenty-thousand forum posts. Primarily posting within ROBLOX Talk and Scripting Helpers, some forumers have noticed that GollyGreg's foruming activity has increased since the spring of 2012.

Camera manipulation
GollyGreg's popularity quickly spread during the development of Parody. Created during the summer of 2009, the place featured camera work and animations not commonly seen in many ROBLOX places. It was through this median that other players soon realized the potential ROBLOX offered, and many places today feature some sort of camera work or cutscenes.

Turkey Hunt 2010
During the middle of November 2010, John Shedletsky and Kuunan, owner and visionary of mod-Studio, exchanged messages over Twitter in regards to the prospect of members of mod-Studio undertaking a Thanksgiving themed level that would be featured for the annual Thanksgiving day event.

The team had exactly eight days to design, construct, and perfect the place in order to meet their deadline. Member of the team included Kuunan, TengoLa (formally and currently known as NanuukoftheNorth), GollyGreg, and eumesmo92.

Throughout the week, the development team held numerous public beta testing and advertised the opportunity on the official ROBLOX forums. Many were excited to be a part of the level design process, but many remained skeptical on the credibility of the project.

By the end of the week, the team sent their work to Shedletsky, who assured the team that he would handle awarding the hats. However, the hat system at the time was not fool proof and on the day of the event, the servers could not process all of the hat requests. Luckily, the ROBLOX staff awarded the hats to every Robloxian who visited the place and all technical issues were settled.

The place can still be played in its original form.

ROBLOX commercial
In the Spring of 2011, John Shedletsky contacted GollyGreg via Twitter to ask for assistance in building, filming, and shooting the "official" ROBLOX commercial. The project was originally planned to air on many major TV networks, but the decision was later changed due to the lack of marketing funds.

The crew consisted of GollyGreg, Kuunan, NanuukoftheNorth, owen0202, TaslemGuy, BlueSham, and Mattchewy. GollyGreg's main task was to manipulate the camera objects in game and animate many of the AI figurings featured in the shots.

A "Super Rough Cut" version was uploaded by Shedletsky on Youtube

The final version was also uploaded later that week.

Beethoven Award for Excellence in Music
At the time MIDI on ROBLOX was becoming increasingly more and more popular, blobbyblob was working on his own RIDI player. After blobbyblob had published his first few versions of his RIDI player (which could only emit a single instrument), GollyGreg quickly offered to help him develop the tool even further. While blobbyblob coded and constructed the inner workings of the device, GollyGreg gathered viable sound assets that would eventually be used in the final product.

Throughout all of their testing, both Robloxians had crafted amazing pieces of music, and together own one of the largest collections of music available on ROBLOX. The place eventually received the first ever Beethoven Award for Excellence in Music during the 2011 ROBLOX Rally, and is still a popular place to visit.