What's Your Roblox Story?

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#163

Woohoo! Roblox origin story related? Let’s go!! Here’s my developer story.

I first joined Roblox around March 2017 when my 1st brother has created me an account that I want to play. I first use Roblox studio on a Guest account and I didn’t learn how to build stuff until I have an account to use Roblox studio. I use free models for my starter place that I have(Don’t complain that I use the free model because I don’t know how to make one.). Next year that I learn how to make a model by building with the part. In March 2018, I made my first horror survival called Kate’s Revenge because I use Kate as a free model character and I use a little bit of a free model but I discontinued it because I’m kinda lazy to work it. In 2019, I made many beds like a LOT every day and I have no plan to make a bed museum for them until I stopped making more beds in early 2020. Now in 2020… I made my first… REALLY FIRST… showcase game called My Room which it was my successful that it hit 170+ visits in late 2020 after the update called Basement Room Revamp and Billiard Room. I must be getting so good at building that I would love to improve my building skills! Oh and I forgot that I made a muscle dummy and dragon character model in December 2019 before 2020 which I’m a fan of muscle. This is my origin story of being a small developer.

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#164

My Roblox journey began on March, 9th, 2012.
I saw an ad that said free to play for Roblox and it was something I’ve never seen before, I signed up to see what what was this all about. I was super excited when I saw that you can make friends, play games and even make games for free! I told myself like I can build things I like and people would enjoy. I started playing around with studio or the build option of the time of website when Tix was a thing. I remember my first clan I started with a friend called the red eagles army, our imagination went crazy. From there I started building more and improving on studio, such as map design and architecture. As it stands now present day, I’m an official Map Maker for Stylis Studios (Phantom Forces) since March 9th 2019. I’m also currently working with my development team to create a game that hasn’t been done yet for Roblox. Roblox has taught me so much about endless possibilities for building and let your mind explore new paths for ideas you may have. Not only was this exciting, it allowed me to cope with bullying and stress in my actual life, if it wasn’t for Roblox I wouldn’t be here. I wouldn’t give Roblox up for anything. This is more than a hobby for me it’s my passion and career I want to pursue in doing. Thank You for changing my life into something I never would have thought about doing.

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#165

Been Playing ROblox since I was 8, i had this fascination with cool moves flashy stuff cool weapons, I once made a Card Game where like you have buncha chars diff moves, weapons,etc. and like after tht i got my entire school playing it decided to make a video game on it on roblox then i realized that it aint that easy to make 3d characters (I am a lit artist could draw 5 extremely unique cards in like 20 minutes and so I had around 200 cards within a 2 weeks), well then I quit and then I came back during lockdown cuz I was bored learnt scripting and stuff tried making chars again then learnt some scripting then a ton more scripting now I am devoloping games in huge teams.

BeSt pArT is all of the games had magic and all of them had lightning

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#166

Touching Story, ngl kinda motivational also cant wait for the new game

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#167

Thank you! I hope we can make a great game!

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#168

A friend of mine introduced me to Roblox in mid 2018. I didn’t really like the graphics then but I did become pro in Jailbreak lol. Master criminal and police. Tried my hand on Roblox studio but due to a bug, I got annoyed and left it. An year later, found bug was nothing but an increased value in move tool which wouldn’t let me move objects over short distances. I continued learning lua. I have a big group now and lots of robux =DD

Started trading some months ago and made some profits. I’m releasing my new game in some weeks and hope it works out. What’s your story?

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#169

I found out about roblox in 2015 and played it once or twice as a guest but then didn’t play again until in 2016 when I moved schools due to bullying and made some new friends.
My new friends reintroduced me to roblox and how fun it could really be to be on this platform. I have always been interested in creating as well as playing and so this year I decided to taking developing seriously instead of just chucking together a few free models. I’m loving it so far and I’m hoping to do big things soon.

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#171

I began my journey in 2012, mostly playing with a guest account on school with my friends. We always played that stamp build game by builderman or “Happy Home in Robloxia.”

I disconnected from that school a while later and started on my own journey, making things in roblox studio as if it were a sandbox while also playing some regular games I do not remember.

In (possibly) around 2015 I met some people in Miner’s Haven, becoming friends with them. I played Miner’s Haven with them for most of the days I played Roblox. Sometime later I was victim blamed, getting my second account deleted from Roblox, my first account had still existed but at the time I did not have access to anymore.

I created a new account and set out on a quest to find my old friends, which I magically did. Nowadays, I don’t really play with them, one of the friends had most likely left. So then I came back to Roleplay games, one created by ChadTheCreator - “After The Flash - Rain”. I was pretty immature back then, I wasn’t proper in roleplaying, though others and I still had fun doing it. I slowly gain more experience as I play these games more. It was just normal till 2019 which is were I had found the moderation team and the community to be extraordinarily frustrating, so I moved on to another game of Chad which was named the Far Lands. In that game I had made myself big, bigly immature. The community had liked it, I was very known, though it wasn’t the path I would have preferred. I left, with a big mark on the community, leaving it to rot to start my own universe which is were I position myself now. Nowadays, I sometimes play other Roleplay games of ROBLOX, watching the users there, seeing how they act. Occasionally returning to develop on my own game whilst listening to 60-90’s music. Without participating with other communities, I learn much faster.

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#172

I first discovered Roblox on the App Store around 2015. I installed it and the first game I tried to play as a guest was a pizzeria game called “Pizza Mobile” or something along those lines. It took so long to load so I picked another game to play and that one also took forever to load so I uninstalled the game and forgot about Roblox.

Two years later, one of my friends was playing Roblox on their PC and introduced it to me. The game he was playing looked super fun so I wanted to give Roblox another shot (on PC this time, just found out back then that you can play Roblox on desktop lol).

After a while, I opened the blue icon sitting on my desktop and fell in love. I started learning how to build and I hated it so I learned how to script. I played around with sculpting terrain and have found my passion for being a 3D terrain artist. Here I am now, making my third showcase with terrain. I’m gonna continue doing what I love for many more years to come and hopefully make a career out of it.
#RobloxStory

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#173

I joined back In 2016 as a normal player. I was told about Roblox by friends and since joining Roblox I have had a good time. As of recently, I started making UGC Concepts, 3D models, Accessories, and games for my enjoyment. Seeing people make accessories Inspired me to make models and honestly. I wish more people would have a similar experience. Even tho my account has been compromised, and my JJ5x5’s White Tophat got stolen. I still love the platform. Thank you for making it the way it is. <3

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#174

Story: I know it was a long time ago, but I started play as a Guest on Roblox back in 2008/2009 I think (I can’t remember since it was a long time ago). I then signed up to the platform on the 8th of August in 2009 when I was 9 years old. I also started using Roblox studio in that year if I remember correctly.

I did make a few city games but they weren’t that great as they were mainly free models. But I have been improving over the years as more features and content became available to the platform & Roblox Studio.

At one point I wanted to try and make an arcade racing game similar which would have featured car combat and traffic in urban settings similar to an arcade racing series known as Burnout but that didn’t get very far in development. As the years went by, I improved gradually but I kept making the same things as that was what I was only good at. This was fictional city maps but I am getting better at those.

I also remember that I also tried making a couple of games using the personal servers feature but they didn’t really go as what I expected.

Over 11 years on, I have seen a lot come and go but I am still learning new skills. I’ve even started making my first proper game but I will continue to work on that and my projects which I have been working on for a long time. But still in 2020, I have had an attempt at scripting whilst working on Mystery Island Adventure which is my current game in development.

As of now, I will still continue to work on my games/projects whenever I can in my free time but I will continue to try out any features and content that may help. I still use this as a platform to envision what I would like to create and achieve as my goals of what I would like to create on the platform.

#RobloxStory

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#175

Well, I vaguely remember finding Roblox some time in 2009 after doing the one thing I swore I’d never do - clicking an ad on a Flash game website. After that, since I was about 7 years old at the time, and needed my parents’ permission for just about everything, I spent the next few weeks begging them to let me make an account until they finally did.

Fast-forward a few years, Roblox has practically raised me, but then I drift away from it during high school. I came back around November of last year when I had, coincidentally, just been hacked. The moderation team generously agreed to re-activate my account, and since then I have gone completely nuclear with my account security.

It wasn’t until late this year when I fully came back, now a grown adult working on a Bachelor’s degree, and decided I’d try and make my own game. I already had experience with Python, and from what I’d heard, Lua wasn’t too different. I’ve always been interested in creating games, but all the other times I’ve tried on other platforms, it’s either been too complicated, or too basic. I feel like Roblox is a pretty good middleground.

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#176

Started in early 2012 with guest accounts, shortly after making another account but forgetting the password and then ANOTHER which I still have to this day (not this one) I think I found roblox through my brother or through a much older friend or maybe through looking for “free fun games online”.

It’s been a long ride. I’ve had ups and downs as a player and a person and roblox has seen through it all. It’s a platform that has been with me through 8-9 years and has always been there for me through the best and worst days. I’ve met my bestest friends through it and started developing 5-6 years ago and I still dev to this day.
I genuinely can sit here and say I have months/close to a year spent on playing, devving and on the website. Some people will think that’s crazy but if you spend your time on something you’re having fun on, it’s time well spent.

I love roblox now, but when there used to be yearly events at (that halloween decorated highschool-- some of you will know it) it felt like a close community where everyone was accepting. I found players were much more close, kind and comprehensive back then.

Future goals: Advance my developing skills and will see roblox til it’s end because it was there for me through everything.

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#177

It all started when I was 12, which has back in 2016, I was used to play Minecraft Ripoff’s on the Play Store. Got bored then was like ok lets go and watch some YouTube videos. I was watching one Minecraft videos when I saw a recommendation video at the side. It was the first ever Roblox video I’ve ever watched, it was about the famous YouTube Star, DanTDM who was playing MacDonald Tycoon, I was like ok let’s go ahead, let’s see What is Roblox is all about…

I watched it, felt this creativity in it on Roblox, suddenly got interest to play Roblox, I created my first Roblox account on Roblox, I used to play obby games and stuff like that, by that time, I wasn’t that knowledgable about keeping sure that you’ve remember your username, gmail, password, keeping sure to remember so that i won’t forget when I log in the next time

After a few months, I forget my password, so I gotta abandon my first account. After that, I made my second Roblox account, I did mess around Roblox Studio, made a normal basic looking obby, idk how to script at that time. But then I gotta abandon that account as well due to the same problem as my first one :confused:

Then comes my third one [THIS ONE] , get to know the developers, youtube creators, history of it, the creativity in it, the community in it, the fun in it. Made a couple of simple showcase(my first time making showcase AND my first time making buildings). Now, I’m currently making a open-world game called PolyTown. Its gonna take a long time to finish it but hopefully its gonna be likeable to everyone.

And that’s my story…

#RobloxStory

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#179

Hi Everyone,
I am 1Lost_Waffle! I first started Roblox in 2017. I heard about it from a friend. I remember joining for the first time and playing Jailbreak. It was a really interesting experience. I did not know what to expect. I thought Roblox made every game and published it themselves. I did not realize that other players make games and publish it themselves. That got me thinking… what if I made a game. I began playing many more games and not just limiting myself to Jailbreak. I was looking at how the games were made and what I could potentially put in my game. Then, in March of 2020, I launched my first game, King Shooter. It was a really fun experience making it and I had a great time! It got over 1.5k visits which is decent for my first game! I recently just launched my new game in October of 2020. The game is called Global Trading. It is a trading game, sort of like Trade Hangout, that got 300 visits! Today, I am working on a tycoon! I really want to thank Roblox for letting me use my imagination when making games and being able to play other games created by people! Roblox is the best online platform!!!

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#180

I don’t remember an exact date but I remember about 5 - 6 years ago when I was still at that age where it was fun to visit friend’s houses we used to play Roblox a lot, long before guests/tix were removed and such.

The first Roblox game I played was Call of Robloxia 5 on my friend’s PC (sadly broken now), I was a lot into those games like Deadzone and such before FE updates made them unplayable and the classic Build to Survive/Disaster games.

Not long later I decided to just make my own account so I could play at home and keep my game saves, I discovered Studio was a thing, played around with free models a lot, looked at how it was built.

At some point, like a year later or so I began to look into scripting a bit, before that I just made minor edits to scripts to see if it would change game behavior.

Spend years on the wiki and following tutorials learning Lua, made simple things in Roblox, eventually got a little bored and wanted to make more complex things so I went deeper and started using a bit more math and playing around with tables and such.

I often showed my creations to friends, parents, sign- other, teachers on school since I was sometimes allowed to do Roblox there on a teacher’s laptop, some of them liked what I made, some were proud of what I was learning.

I just kept learning how the Roblox engine worked and came up with a lot of ideas for games, I still have a lot of work to finish but my concepts and ideas are still there, waiting to be finished and playable.

I sometimes work with others on their projects since they like scripting and I’m all about complex things like AI and such, making functional modular systems, etc.
Although, it does often keep me a bit off my own projects, so to this day I’m still looking where I can put everything and have it more organized so I can work on what my heart desires and so I can actually finish my own work at some point.

Roblox has been pretty amazing, it’s where I started making things, programming, school has never really teached me much about programming, had to learn it myself using Roblox.

Roblox has learned me a lot of things regarding game development and helps me on my way to become a great dev, Roblox has also helped me with other things, before I could understand more complex things like how Unity and such works, I first took the time to understand how Roblox worked and see if I could perhaps apply some of that knowledge to that (Unity is a whole lot different in the end but Roblox helped me understand better).
So now I work in 2 game engines thanks to that, which is pretty cool.

In a direct or indirect way, Roblox has actually done quite a lot ever since I discovered it, it’s a nice thing, I also discovered a lot of groups, people and friends through it that I actually have great contact with.

#RobloxStory

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#181

My Roblox Story
I have been coding all my life. When I was around 5 or 6 my Dad introduced me into code.org. It was a website that teaches kids how to code for free. I loved it a lot and I wanted to learn more. So I hoped on Khan Academy and started to learn HTML and CSS. When When I was about 9 I started to play roblox. About around 2016. I played the games a lot and even became addicted at some point (thanks to strucid). Roblox has always been a place for me to share my thoughts, have fun, and most importantly make friends. I used to think that all games on roblox were made from roblox. After realizing there not, I decided to make a game. Around the time tycoons were pretty big. They still are but like tycoons were the biggest thing. I wanted to make a game with like tycoon guns and stuff like that. I had no idea how to do anything on roblox studio. I just went around the toolbox adding free models into the game. Luckily, there was not any viruses. When my mom would ask, “Tadd what are you doing on the computer?” I would always answer “I’m coding mom, look!”. Even though I was only importing models. The game was pretty cool, at least the cars worked. After that I would rarely use roblox studio. The only times I would use it was as an excuse for being on the computer. I would keep playing games, keep spending money on roblox and I would keep making friends. Around Easter this year during the annual roblox Easter egg hunt I started to exploit. My intention was never to ruin the game. I just wanted the roblox Easter eggs to add to my collection. After I started exploiting I wanted more and more power. That’s what exploits do to you. They give you power over everything in the game. It was very sad actually. I even started to make my own script executors with C# and I did not start scripting on roblox until I wanted to make the actual hack GUIs. So I looked up an tutorial and I made a GUI. I kept hacking for about 1 months and got banned for a day. That pretty much stopped me from hacking. Also around that time my brothers (I have 2) wanted to have a development competition. Me, thinking I was the best developer in the world, agreed. I remember using free models, and making a GUI. I made a FPS game that I called Florigen Intelligence. I wanted it to be a spy type game with two florigen agencies fighting each other. MI6 and the CIA. I used the WB (war bound I think) guns and learned how to script GUI buttons. I had so much fun making the game I wanted to make more and more games. I started to learn how to make GFXs and I learned how to build. That’s when I wanted to join the roblox developer forum. I remember becoming over joyed when I was allowed to make topics. Even though I was completely inexperienced and unprofessional. I made even cooler friends that help a lot. And I even made some robux. Over all I am very grateful of roblox and happy that I was introduced to it. It legitimately changed my life and I am very grateful for it. Thanks to all the roblox staff and the people who make roblox fun for everyone.

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#182

I’ve played Roblox most of my life, developing, not so much. I started off as a major player, I wasn’t very good, but I loved the platform. I began to find an interest in Theme Parks on the Roblox Platform, already as a passionate theme-park-lover, I suppose you could say, I found an interest for parks like Universal Roblox and Roblox Point, and later on parks such as Movie Park. Around 2016/2017, I decided to dip my feet into developing. My first build wasn’t tragic, it was a few buildings, some signs and two spawn points/teams. I’m sure there’s better first projects but I’m relatively proud of it, considering it was my first. Then I carried on and found an interest for developing, I made my first theme park, well, started it, heck, barely even started it. It was basically an entrance building (using free models), and it had my disgusting old avatar at the front waving :nauseated_face:. There was a parking lot, starblox coffee, shop, some sort of hotel (I think?) and a waterfall that I somehow spent HOURS on, for some reason I remember nearly every bit of making it to this day haha. I also particularly remember making the hills at the side be corroded metal, and having this weird glass cage thing that was meant to be see-through-construction-walls at the park’s entrance. Oh and, did anyone else use free model invisible walls for a while? Just me? Okay :woozy_face:. I had a lot of ideas for a ton of games, and like I’m sure everyone has, scrapped every single one of them :smiley: After that, I slowly began learning more and developing (no pun intended) my skills. I ended up learning a lot of helpful things: such as unions, how to use particle emitters, and something that might be most important to me, UI Design. I developed on a lot of other projects, and worked on a ton of my own, and that’s pretty much how it still is. 3 years later I’ve learnt so much, From tweening to basic stuff like how to resize UIs. I’ve also been learning 3D Modelling. It’s been quite the journey for me and it’s far from over yet. I still have a lot to learn and I’m loving every second! Now I’m primarily a UI designer, builder and minimally a scripter. Thanks for reading this essay of sorts, I hope it was nice learning a bit about my story. Hope to see you around some time! :wave:

Edit: this is my developing story, and the story of my current account. I’ve been on Roblox much longer as a guest and on various other accounts, I hadn’t ever developed on those and if not, at the very least I placed a part, got confused and gave up hahaha.

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#183

i’ve known roblox maybe in 2009 but i started playing roblox on a windows xp back in 2011, with the user roastedenise. i most likely joined roblox because my older siblings also played roblox back then. i dont have a lot of memories since i easily forget so obviously i forgot the password to that account. so now it stays dormant and i gave up trying to get it back since it was impossible

so i decided to get back on an alt (this one) to play again in 2012. back then ig i liked playing a lot of zombie games (zombie outbreak, undead coming, zombie tower etc) and rp games, and around maybe 2014-2015 i used a laptop and made my avatar a guest. in 2015 i started to draw a lot and in old free draw i gained lots of friends there. it took a bit for the guest look to be my main look but i stuck to it ever since since i luv guestz. i relied heavily on tix so when it got removed i was devastated- and the only builders club i got was the regular bc and i knew it was impossible for me to get the unlimited obc back then

i started to play less of roblox and also hated the new updates around 2016-2017 until i stopped playing around when rthro was announced.
i was done with roblox for pretty much 3 years until this year in discord my friend messaged me if i wanted to play roblox with them. i was reluctant at first, since i wasn’t feeling good about how roblox will look like. but i agreed to play, and i slowly started to enjoy playing roblox again. its unfortunate that i wasnt there when builders club got removed, so i was confused of the new icon that was premium. i was also confused about the ugc hats, but started to love it. so now im still playing game B)

tldr: started in 2011 as roastedenise, forgot password so got back in 2012 as alt/main, funny fun times til i started to hate the new updates and quit for a couple years til i got back after a friend wanted to play roblox with me and enjoyed roblox again
(i dont know why i chose ‘roastedenise’ as my username and why i stuck with it LOL)

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#184

I met ROBLOX in 2013, while on YouTube I was searching for information about the elevator simulator, and saw some videos from ROBLOX. I still remember things like: TIX or unlimited number of friends - those were good times. Since 2013 I’ve been creating buildings with elevators, and now I’m creating a more realistic building with my friend (hi @vfx_1) . Since the same year I also have a group that still exists today.

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