Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-5372266-20130730043926/@comment-27338807-20160117193215

Magonoid wrote: Just by curiosity, what is roblox? Roblox is like a lego-themed simplified version of Unity3D or Source Engine, combined with a version of Steam where every game on greenlight is automatically accepted. It's targeted toward kids. And has hundreds of millions of players (a very large audience for your games?)

Kids and teens create their own games using the toolset Roblox Provides, as well as integrated Lua scripting.

Sometimes you can get people creating amazing things like

this http://imgur.com/a/ozeEd or this http://i.imgur.com/GkYG2z1.gif

But a lot of the games created are junk like this http://t2.rbxcdn.com/85d5c4e6288cb075f3eeea0d45898fd3 and used to make money off of gullible kids.

Roblox is free, but you can only host one game on your profile, and are subject to a heavy tax on anything you sell, unless you buy a subscription, in which case you get more game slots, and the tax for sales is reduced.a

There are two currencies in Roblox, Tickets and Robux. Tickets are the standard currency that everyone earns daily, and gets whenever someone visits their game. Robux is a premium currency which subscribers get daily, or you can purchase directly.

If you have enough Robux, you can exchange it for USD at a rate of ~400:1 however, the minimum exchange is 100,000 Robux for $250. You also have the highest teir subscription to do this, which is $30 a month.

Roblox also has a bunch of stuff for friend lists and avatar customization.

As an engine, it's really easy to use, but not very powerful, as a social site, it's filled with immature 10 year olds, and as a game library, most of the games are nowhere near professional quality. It's good for people new to the game development scene whose target audience is between 8-16 years old.

TL;DR: If Minecraft is Half Life 2, Blockland is G-Mod, and Roblox is Source Engine/Steam. You can create a game like Minecraft using Roblox, but Roblox itself is nothing like either of the other titles except in it's simplistic lego-inspired art style. And the communities of all three are usually horrible, but sometimes create amazing things.