ROBLOX Xbox One app launches with 15 community-built games, Windows 10 app in the works

By John Callaham
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ROBLOX, a service for self-publishing of videos games that's seen it's greatest success with kids, has just launched its official app for Microsoft's Xbox One console. The app comes with 15 free games made by members of the ROBLOX community.

ROBLOX currently has 15 million registered players, and anyone on the PC and Mac version of the app can create new games for the service. The Xbox One version is limited to just playing the games that have been selected by ROBLOX, but the company plans to eventually have all of the service's games available for owners of the console. The long-term goal is for players to publish their games straight to the Xbox One version.

While the app and the launch games are free to download and play, the app does support in-app purchases of ROBLOX's virtual currency. Gamers can us it to upgrade their avatar or to purchase in-game power-ups.

In a chat with iDigitalTimes, ROBLOX CEO David Baszucki confirmed they are also working with Microsoft "on a cool Windows 10 version" of the app.

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Source: ROBLOX

John Callaham
John Callaham
26 Comments
  • What the heck is this? Never heard of it. Thanks for the heads up.
  • Huge game that kids play these days, kind of up there with Minecraft generation.
  • Minecraft is not just for kids only Posted via the Windows Central App for Android
  • so True @RoyalBob Right Right!
  • It's not a game on it's own. It's a game engine that developers use and program with LUA. There's a huge difference between Roblox and Minecraft - where Minecraft is a standalone game that is a procedurally generated survival game. Roblox provides you with their game engine as well as free servers - which you can develop games with(In LUA) and earn USD$ with by exchanging in game currency(You can earn it by selling products on your game or selling your game for in-game currency.). Your game appears on their game page for players to try out.   For example: http://blog.roblox.com/2015/04/taymaster-earns-the-first-ever-50000-deve... Most of the people on Roblox are players - which is why it's relatively successful for developers on this platform because they have a wide playerbase to work with. However - the average community is relatively young - so it tends to get a bad reputation, as well as it's previous years(which were relatively bad). So usually the people who are shittalking it played WAY back when they didn't offer incentives for making games other then free hosting/satisfaction of it.
  • sad people vote dan down for answering a question. i voted dan up.
  • It is hardly like minecraft. If anything, it's very comparable to Scratch or Steam. Roblox provides you with their game engine as well as free servers - which you can develop games with(In LUA) and earn USD$ with by exchanging in game currency(You can earn it by selling products on your game or selling your game for in-game currency.). Your game appears on their game page for players to try out. For example: http://blog.roblox.com/2015/04/taymaster-earns-the-first-ever-50000-deve... Most of the people on Roblox are players - which is why it's relatively successful for developers on this platform because they have a wide playerbase to work with. However - the average community is relatively young - so it tends to get a bad reputation, as well as it's previous years(which were relatively bad). So usually the people who are shittalking it played WAY back when they didn't offer incentives for making games other then free hosting/satisfaction of it.    
  • I never heard of it either until my 8 year old daughter wanted to play it about 2 months ago.  We play together most times now.  Some games are awesome like the McDonald Obby, Pizza place, Disaster, and Death Run. 
  • I remember playing this like 8 years ago xD jeez
    Will be nice to see a windows 10 app, means comming to W10M too.
  • You should try it out again. It's relatively better - and Roblox is primarily focusing on game developers and giving incentives(In game currency for USD, which they earn from developing games usually and selling products in game. There's a lot of high quality games in comparison to the clickbaits that were there years ago(Though there's the occasional clickbait that ends up on the front page, but that falls down relatively quick due to people going for the higher quality games.)
  • Damn people still use this garbage?
  • Is the Xbox one version of ROBLOX only available in the US? I live in Canada and I cannot find it in the store
  • Just spoken to Microsoft and it is only available in US. I have one very unhappy little boy.
  • Wow. Of course it's US only. It seems like everything new is US only.
  • Forgot the e in use
  • Definitely going to look at playing this on stream. Interesting game. Surprised I've not come across it before. Very cool that they're looking at making a universal Windows 10 app. Posted via the Windows Central App for Android
  • It's not a game on it's own. It's a game engine that developers use and program with LUA. Roblox provides you with their game engine as well as free servers - which you can develop games with(In LUA) and earn USD$ with by exchanging in game currency(You can earn it by selling products on your game or selling your game for in-game currency.). Your game appears on their game page for players to try out. You can probably notice if you do try it - there's various games that it shows up. They are all made by different developers, and they all earn money off of it(in fact the people that got the chance to port to XBox One probably earn around 5-10k USD a month?
  • Thanks for the explanation! I'm guessing by the sounds of it we can only play the games available on the Xbox One version for now and will get the creation tools later? Probably just buy it on pc. Posted via the Windows Central App for Android
  • Gamers can USE it to upgrade...
  • I watched the video and I'm not surprised that I have never heard of it before. I'll pass, we already have enough ***** AA and I do games on Xbox One. I really won't bother to try. BTW, from the description of roblox it seems more like a project Spark to me.
  • Downloaded it!  This seems to be a lot like Project Spark.   Does anyone know where the apps are on Xbox One?  It seems like there are a lot more apps on the 360 than the Xbox One. 
  • I wonder too i think its because they pay a premium to be on xbox one.
  • Holy **** ! THATS AWESOME!! Posted via the Windows Central App for Android
  • NO CANADA WHEN IN CANADA?
  • Hm... and how to play it? I just downloaded and installed it on my Xbox One, when I selected any game and pressed Play button console produced "beep" signal and nothing happens.
  • Hi it'sgreat