Hello Developers, today I’m making a post in honor of my time both playing, and working with Roblox.
I joined Roblox on November 18th, 2007, and here’s a few images of some ancient versions of my games I pulled up, starting with the most notable things I did on Roblox every year. It’s been 14 years* since I joined.
(* I’ve decided I’ll be coming back to this once a year and updating my adventures)
2007: Joined Roblox. Was only on Roblox for the last 43 days of the year, mostly just played Stealth Pilot’s Pirates of the Robloxian and Miked’s Paintball. First game I ever played was Are92’s Space Cruise V2.12.
2008: Made a war clan called The 13 Clans of Roblox (basically a feudal-era Japan ninja/samurai group; up until groups existed, I had to keep track of members in my profile description). Also got my first taste of a popular game; made a really bad Robloxians of the Caribbean game which got 20 players at once. Made a series of story games called Samurai Legend: Rise of the Dark Lord
2009: Made a clan called DESERT (Daring and Elite Soldiers Enforcing Robloxians To-law [creative, I know]). Did tons of training and fighting. Made a series of story games called Not Alone
2010: Basically threw myself and my clanmates at everyone who came our way and got in a lot of flame wars and in-game battles. Played lots of games, but also built a ton of upgrades and extensions to all of my military clan warzones.
2011: My first major hit game After the Flash… (ATF) hit a few hundred players. Also made the sequel ATF2
2012: Made ATF3, got top spot on Games page. (All DESERT-related activity stopped at this point as I focused my efforts on games)
2013: Made ATF4. Didn’t do much this year because I started focusing on other engines, until DevEx was instated late this year, which brought my focus back to Roblox (as I know it did with many others as well). Also made Divided We Fall and the original map for The Far Lands.
2014: Made ATF5, Blackout, and helped with other various games. Posted Attack on Noob on YouTube.
2015: Made Club Boates, attended my first RDC, won 1st place in the Roblox T-shirt contest (games category).
2016: I actually got to work in San Mateo at Roblox HQ for the summer. Made ATF6 and The Far Lands (FL) (now worked as a Roleplay).
2017: Developed Mystic Tower, helped with Apocalypse Rising 2, and developed Fusion Confusion. Got my first Roblox toy made!
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2018: Made ATF7. Graduated college and began doing Roblox as my full-time job. Released Eren vs the Armored Noob on Youtube. This was the first year I was actually able to make enough money to do Roblox full time!
2019: Made FL2. Focused on developing and updating both ATF7 and FL2. Started streaming while I work.
2020: Focused on developing and fleshing out FL2 and ATF7 all year. Made a new YouTube animation. Started working on a new MOBA project. New record of stream viewers of 515!
2021: Worked mostly on running events in ATF7/LOTA2 and coding the new system intended for ATF8/LOTA3 - expected release for the former in December and the latter in 2022.
2022: Worked mostly on ATF8. Released it last December and it exited beta today with peak concurrent players at 800! Tons of work went into ATF8’s system and I’m excited to use it in LOTA3.
2023: Worked on ATF8, a little on LOTA2. We managed to hit a peak of 1600 players on ATF8 this year. Tons of cool features + map upgrades have gone into the game.
2024: Worked on ATF8, a little on LOTA3. Hired Flashstorm’s first full-time employee. No new releases this year, but tons of new features, events, map updates, etc.
Here’s what Roblox looked like the day I joined. The top games usually didn’t break 60 players, and Are92 owned 3 games on the front page. The first time I ever stayed up playing a game until 6 AM was Planes Planes Planes!!! and you are the creator!!!
Here’s one of the first games I ever tried to make. It was a pretty bad tycoon, where you roam the lands for red spice geysers and harvest them for money with a free model axe.
For whatever reason, I needed a giant platform over lava with tons of chairs facing each other through glass. I’m not sure what 2008 me was doing
This is the giant training area I made for my “13 Clans of Roblox” group (before groups existed). There were around 25 portals and each portal led to an arena where you could swordfight. The room depicted here is the meeting room.
The first form of DESERT Air Base Delta. Also my first successful attempt at slapping my own weapons and bodykit onto an aircraft engine, 2009. The only functionality the place had was an enemy spawn and a clan spawn; the clan spawn got vehicles.
The final form of DESERT Air Base Delta (2012) until it was replaced by Blackout. We spent hundreds of hours fighting and training here over the years. By the end of its life, it was almost a fully-working game. There were flags to be captured, vehicles spawned at a few checkpoints if captured, you could buy upgrades and weapons, and there were multiple ways to win. I discovered around this time that what I really wanted was a fun game that people loved, not a clan with piecemeal “games” that we fought in.
The final form of the original DESERT HQ. We had a ton of wars, meetings, training, etc here. There were lots of skylines, each floor contained different things like a cafeteria, map of the clan territories, training course, paintball arena, technology testing room, and archives. The archives detail how our clan was the best and won every single engagement because why not? The final form of the new HQ (and resting place for DESERT) is depicted below.
I could bore all of you and go on for hours about the stuff I did throughout the years, like exactly what went down in every war and what it was like to direct a band of 8 year olds into combat, or what it was like trying to mash together a game out of free models in 2008, or even images of how much work (believe me, it’s over 1000 hours) went into building ATF maps, but you get the idea. I hope you enjoyed this nostalgia adventure, I know I did.
I never thought clicking that “Online building toy!” ad on www.onemorelevel.com 13 years ago would change my life so much, but I’m glad I clicked. I’ve had so many fun times on roblox.com, met so many wonderful and creative people, and I’m excited to move into the future and create even better, cooler things.
See you all for the 2nd version of this thread in November of 2027. I’ll also never forgive builderman for convincing me the actual Roblox HQ was a skyscraper.
I’m interested in hearing when you guys joined, what notable things you did each year since then, etc.
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. Through those 3 years I just used to play roblox games from the top page, mostly used to play that Burnout game or the space one from the egg hunt or plane crash into island games, never understood much thought, but did learn lots of English!
) but I still did not got into developing!
I too have been on Roblox since 2007, I was only 6 when I joined, so you and other great developers have influenced my life and possibly made me the person who I currently am right now. I’m thankful and very proud to finally be here, among all of you who have made my childhood amazing. Thank you for these awesome 10 years of Roblox! And lets go for 10 more!
