How did you find Roblox?
My kids, students and friends’ children all play and love Roblox. They helped introduce me to Roblox.
How did you get started with development on the Roblox platform?
I’m a long time programmer and network engineer. The Roblox platform is unique but also familiar enough to pick up quickly.
Current goals/achievements on the platform.
Currently I’m exploring use cases of Roblox for education, counseling services and potential feasibility of it as a revenue source (for myself, children and students). I’m currently running a non profit computer education out reach for local schools. The covid-19 pandemic has dramatically changed many of our programs. Roblox has been explored by some as a potential resource with many useful applications.
What is your role in the developer community? (eg. GFX, UI Designer, Programmer, Builder etc)
My experience is broad in all of these areas. I’ve taught courses in Maya, 3d studio Max, Blender and Swift3d for 3d modeling. I’ve worked with game engines in flash, html5/css3 and helped with designing courses in Unity certification tracks. My initial career was as a network engineer in Silicon Valley working with Juniper and Cisco as both a CCIE and JNCIE years ago. I’ve worked as a wireless engineer with Meru networks and network security expert with Fortinet most recently. My programming knowledge and experience is also rather extensive working with local tech-startups acquired by Microsoft as members of the Microsoft Presidents club.
Anything else you would like to include
This community is unique and I am excited to be here. I have been a long time online gamer since the original BBS door / mush games and still enjoy the very first graphical MMORPG. When Second Life first came out I was excited for the educational potential it had, although I’ve been disappointed in the way it has turned out. Roblox had gone under my radar until recently as I typically wouldn’t fit the demographic it is aimed at personally.
It has always been a belief of mine that education could be greatly enhanced by environments such as Roblox. I’m impressed by the way Roblox has been achieving this but still see room for a lot of improvement.
When I first joined the forums I assumed they were like any other. It wasn’t until today that I tried to contribute my first post. This is where I found the limitations of my account and inability to post until being promoted to member. Again, I didn’t think much of this until landing on this thread and seeing how honored and happy all the members have been over the years to join the club.
With that said, I’m now also feeling honored, grateful and happy to be here in the community. I’m also looking forward to the potential of progressing further here ![:slight_smile: :slight_smile:](https://doy2mn9upadnk.cloudfront.net/images/emoji/twitter/slight_smile.png?v=12)
Thank you,
EmperorCreator