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It annoys me when people call Roblox a game. It's an engine and a platform. It's like calling Unity or Unreal Engine a game.
by travbrack 7y ago
It annoys me when people call Roblox a game. It's an engine and a platform. It's like calling Unity or Unreal Engine a game.
- benji_is_me 7y agoI've also found that people tend to underestimate the development tools Roblox gives. There are games on Roblox that have external web APIs for managing servers, games that circumvent the standard "player model" and instead opt for an entirely different appearance, games that make use of the GUI tools given in meticulous ways... Roblox does a fantastic job at giving creative young minds an opportunity to expand on their ideas — something very few other "games" accomplish.
- supernovae 7y agoThis is exactly what I love about Roblox. My 11-year-old daughter does "commissions" and designs 3d objects to sell, she's on "Scripting teams" where they help design in-game elements. She's having fun, building / creating, learning and interacting with people. Something I could only dream of when I was 11 (I had BBS's, lots of TW2002). My 11-year-old knows blender, photoshop, python and javascripting because of Roblox and some Minecraft.
- xen2xen1 7y agoRemind me to break out Tw2002 on docker.. And yes, the opportunies these kids have is amazing.
- travbrack 7y agoIt's a nearly fully featured game engine. Maybe not quite suitable for a AAA game, but I think it'd be possible for a studio to make a real commercial game with it.