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Roblox is an online game platform and game creation system that allows users to program games and play games created by other users. Founded by David Baszucki and Erik Cassel in 2004 and released in 2006, the platform hosts user-created games of multiple genres coded in the programming language Lua. For most of Roblox 's history, it was relatively small, both as a platform and a company, due to both co-founder Baszucki's lack of interest in press coverage and it being "lost among the crowd" in a large number of platforms released around the same time. Roblox began to grow rapidly in the second half of the 2010s, and this growth has been accentuated by the COVID-19 pandemic.

Roblox is free-to-play, with in-game purchases available through a virtual currency called "Robux". As of August 2020, Roblox has over 164 million monthly active users, with it being played by over half of all children aged under 16 in the United States. Roblox has received generally positive reviews from critics.

History
From December 2003 to January 2004, Roblox went through multiple different names, such as GoBlocks and Dynablocks, with their domain changing respectively multiple times in the short time frame. "Roblox" became the final name choice, and was finalized on January 30, 2004.

From 2004 to February 2005, Roblox underwent alpha testing. Following that, Roblox went into beta testing until September 2006. Roblox was then fully released to everyone with multiplayer games, and would gradually receive new updates and features over the years to shape it into what the platform is today.