Roblox

Old Roblox is a free online brick-building MMOG (Massively Multiplayer Online Game). It entered multiplayer alpha in 2006. In Roblox, the player can visit, build, and script Places, using an infinite supply of virtual blocks, and the scripting language Lua 5.1.

In the summer of 2010, Roblox has said to upgrade to a new engine called "Ogre."

History and Development
Roblox was founded by David Baszucki, in Silicon Valley, June 2005. Originally, ROBLOX was going to have Legolike figures, but with different features. The picture shows some of the designs. But this was scrapped, Because of the figures looking too much like Legos, And he was afraid they could file a lawsuit. There is a blog that shows the designs, and the mesh.

In 2008, ROBLOX added the Guest feature, a Guest are stupid crap faces that are a disgrace to Roblox. Guests always appear the same as the ROBLOX user, and have limited abilities. They cannot type in what they want to say in in-game chat,becaue their too dumd but have to have Super Safe Chat. Although, some use hacks to allow some guests to type in what they want to say.They cannot make places, and they cannot change their appearance because their too lazy. Most people in Roblox hate Guests, and thus have created some well scripted objects that reject them from places. Guests also harass players constantly because their mean Some people simply don't log in, become a Guest, and harass players.

Inner-workings
ROBLOX is developed with Microsoft Visual C++, and uses libraries such as fmod and Microsoft's WinForms. ROBLOX is also built on the ImPlicitNgine. Graphics are currently coded on OGRE 1.4.1.

On the topic of data, ROBLOX stores its user-save files in the eXtensable Markup Language, an easy human-readable encoding, which is actually more commonly seen on the Internet. Because of the fact that it is easy to create an error while writing an XML document, ROBLOX's use of the XML API in VC++ has resulted in the replacement of all capital letters with lowercase characters in handles for more than half of the users who joined before May 2007.

Appearance
When players create an account they have a name and an avatar. When a player chooses a name, it cannot be changed. However, a player's avatar can be. Players always start off with a randomly generated head and body. The user can change the head, face, hat, shirt, t-shirt, and pants of the account by buying new ones with Tix (Tickets) and Robux. Players can create some items. Only Builder's Club members can sell items they have created. Roblox also has Limited Edition items. These items are created by ROBLOX, and have a limited supply. Usually, the limited items are either hats, faces or gear. They also have timed items which is an item that only has a certain time limit for players to buy them in and it's usually hats or gear. In addition to their infinite supply of shirts, gear, pants, and more, they also have a body structure change also known as the Packages. The Packages allow the user to become a selected body form which alters the player's appearance significantly. Unfortunately, the Roblox Administrators did not want just any of the public to use it or they just want more money so they only allow Builder's Club Members (Also, you may be a Super Builder's Club Member or even the Outrageous Builders Club Members) buy it. These are classified as the BC and can also can be classified as the BC Limited(Only if there is a limited supply). They also cost a lot of Robux and you cannot redeem a Package with tix unless you use the Trade Currency Program on Roblox.



Places
Places are virtual worlds, that players can play and build in. When an account is created, each user gets 1 free Place, in which they can build anything, with a unlimited supply of bricks that they can insert, by using the Insert button. The user can choose to have one of three starting templates: In many places you will meet many types of people. They will be cool, noobish, odd, fair, angered easily, and even more. Also, you can talk to them and befriend them although some people are kicked out of a place or server because of bad or noobish behaviour, name calling, or cussing, cursing, and even more.
 * A Happy Home in Robloxia, consisting of a car's main structure, a house (empty), road/ path, and building bricks (starter pack).
 * Starting Brick Battle, consisting of 2 opposing walled towers, two different teams and a baseplate. Players get all of the standard Roblox fighting tools.
 * Empty Baseplate, consisting of a large black brick (black baseplate). The Editor gets Tools and Gear but players must get the useable tools from existing scripts or givers.

Tools and Gear are virtual tools that players can use. There is a difference between tools and gear. Tools are items that can manipulate things within the game, including weapons. Gear is a special variety of tool, that is kept by the player from game to game.

Bodies
The ROBLOX company is currently making a new type of body for Robloxians. Theses bodies vary, and more are often, but usually

around holidays or popular contests. Many holiday-related bodies go timed and go offsale after the holiday.&nbsp Exaple of these are: Robloxian 2.0,&nbsp Elf,&nbsp Football player,&nbsp Action figure and&nbsp Superhero.