Roblox: what the platform is, features and capabilities

How to combine entertainment and learning useful skills for the child? Most children love computer games. Roblox Studio is a platform where you can play games created by service participants and develop them yourself.

This virtual environment is designed not only to entertain children, but also a great opportunity for them to try their hand at game and app development. It is suitable for users from the age of seven. It is a service not only for children, but also for adult gamers and those who want to start developing games.

What is Roblox Studio

Roblox has its own engine, on which the participants of the service work. There are thousands of free games available. They are written in the Lua programming language. However, you do not need to learn it to create your own virtual worlds. Many ready-made blocks and templates are available. No wonder Roblox is used by over 100 million gamers and developers.

Projects can be created collaboratively with other participants. This helps children learn to collaborate. For teenagers and adults, it is an opportunity to develop their programming skills and make acquaintances useful for this sphere of activity.

What's on the Roblox Studio platform

To develop games, the Roblox programming environment is downloaded to a computer or laptop. It is compatible with Windows and MacOS. The program is easy to use to create your own games. Roblox has such features to work with:

• An account is registered for free.
• For free, a participant can create up to 200 maps or playsets. These are virtual worlds with a specific focus: pet grooming, parkour, virtual building construction, adventure, role-playing, etc.
• A library for participants includes templates for creating games and programs, as well as plugins, audio, scripts, and other tools to design them from scratch.
• You don't have to pay to create characters.
• To further develop your avatar, you'll have to shop in the Avatar Shop. It has the most different clothes for the characters. you can also find free things there.
• Finished games can be tested on the emulator of various electronic devices.
• Available game chat, group walls.
• In the blog, you can learn about new products.

Roblox gives the possibility of monetization. There is an internal virtual currency that can be spent on purchases in the «Avatar store» and on paid tools for creating games and programs. Developers get a percentage of funds spent on purchases in their virtual worlds. There is an option to exchange internal currency for real money.

There are virtual events in Roblox: parties, concerts. Music and songwriters hold performances online. Various developers and specialists find each other on this platform and conduct joint business.

It is important to consider that as in any social projects, child players and older developers are important to be cautious, because there are risks of encountering fraud. If the game creator works in a team, he can be cheated when sharing the proceeds from sales, stealing his ideas. When communicating in the chat room, you may encounter people with bad intentions. Therefore, it is important to set up your account so as not to receive notifications of a certain nature and messages sent by strangers.