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Roblox is an umbrella term that covers the programming stuff and the game portal stuff. It's a game engine that allows people to create games using a visual la
by DanBC 7y ago
Roblox is an umbrella term that covers the programming stuff and the game portal stuff.
It's a game engine that allows people to create games using a visual language builder.
Here's the Roblox quick start: https://developer.roblox.com/en-us/quick-start https://developer.roblox.com/en-us/quick-start
It's also a multi-platform portal to games developed by users and small companies.
A user will load roblox, and then select a game to play, and then the roblox backend will find a server with available slots and join the player to that game.
There are a lot of microtransations. These can be used to buy player avatar decoration items such as clothing. They can also be "pay to win" items in games.
There are very many "incremental games", usually called Something-Tycoon. The player hits a button a few times to increment a counter, then uses that counter to buy another button which increments the counter faster. The IAPs in these games are sometimes in the form of pets that multiply the counter-increments.
If you get a chance have a look at something like Bubble Gum Simulator. This combines an incremental game with an irritating parkour, and then a bunch of lootbox mechanics on top.
Firstly, try to find this by searching the roblox website. https://www.roblox.com/games/?Keyword=bubblegum https://www.roblox.com/games/?Keyword=bubblegum
Most of those are not the game I'm talking about. This is some indication of the piss-poor quality control on Roblox.
This is the game I'm talking about. Here's their store.
https://www.roblox.com/games/2512643572/HUGE-SALE-Bubble-Gum-Simulator#!/store https://www.roblox.com/games/2512643572/HUGE-SALE-Bubble-Gum...
If I wanted to buy everything it would cost 3550 robux in the 50% off sale or 7100 robux at the normal price.
In the UK on Xbox One I can buy 400 robux for £4.99, or 4500 robux for £48.99 or 10,000 robux for £99.99.
Here's some gameplay of Bubble Gum Simulator. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-H1eXg9DIs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-H1eXg9DIs (I haven't watched all of this).
- ehsankia 7y agoI went to try it out but realized you need to install something to play, but that video did an amazing job. It seems like some of these minigames combine every sort of addictive game mechanic that exists, with saturated bright shiny colors. Perfect combination for getting kids to spend hours and hours playing.