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Roblox - The Birth of a New Era of Gaming?

Young people are learning to code while creating games and earning money.

By Peter GrayPublished 7 years ago 3 min read
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Roblox is a massively multiplayer online gaming platform that allows it's users to browse through a selection of games and play them. The difference with this type of gaming is that the games on the front page change quite frequently and I wondered why. It is in fact, due to the ever-changing frequency of new games being made by none other than the users them self. The community that forms Roblox's fan base are made up of people who like to simply play the games, but there is another core part of Roblox that appeals to people as well and that is the fact that anyone can make a game and get paid for it.

Roblox features many different kinds of games, there are literally hundreds of games that people are playing on the Roblox website and they are all made by players of the game. They are all multiplayer games, so expect to have other players in the games with you. The game is intended for a young audience, which isn't to say that older people do not play it, there are older people who stream their gameplay on it, so the older generation do play it. The fact it is intended for a younger audience ensures that the behaviour of the players is heavily monitored and if someone does do or say something inappropriate then they will definitely be heavily punished for it. The environment is heavily designed so that younger audiences can have a safe environment to play in, without having to worry about people being rude. A number of games available is huge and it keeps growing as people design more games. The graphics of the games have a blocky effect, hence why the name Roblox was given, but they are decent enough, especially for a lot of free games. Anyone can download the launcher and play as many games as they want without paying a single penny.

When a user creates a game in the game studio known as 'Roblox Studio', they can publish the game to the Roblox website and then run advertisements for it, which can be purchased with Robux, one of the in-game currencies bought with real money. For every visit the game gets, the creator will get credited with some money. If they get more money than they spent on the advertisement, they earn a profit. How would they earn a profit? Well, if people like it they will keep coming back and when people keep coming back, the game will increase in popularity and become featured on the front page. One of the top games now has over 22,000 players on it right now, suggesting the owner of that game has earned quite a bit of money. The coding language that Roblox uses is a language called LUA. This is one of the easiest coding languages that can be learned and it is a good introduction to coding. The ways in which it is used to makes games makes it a really good way to get young people involved in learning to code, which is a very important thing to know in this day and age when the whole world is turning digital. Learning to code can also open up many job opportunities in the future. Not only that but once someone has learned how to code, they can use that do make applications, which can go on to make them a lot of money.

If you are a budding game developer or want to know more, you can create your own game too and enjoy the income, whilst having fun!

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