The company’s long game vision for a fully interactive virtual world evokes something closer to Breath of the Wild’s sandbox of emergent gameplay - the wild combinations and interactions that its physics and “ chemistry” engines make possible - than what most people would think of when they think about Roblox. Roblox has introduced improved lighting, spatial voice chat and more realistic avatars to that end and now the company is overhauling core aspects of the visual toolkit that developers use to craft the games and social spaces that it’s known for. The changes are part of Roblox’s mission to improve its visual fidelity across the board and will be available to all developers beginning today.Īs a generation weaned on its polygonal strip malls and murder mystery simulations grows up, Roblox is trying to grow with them. ![]() Now, Roblox is rolling out an update to make those materials look and act more lifelike, so sand will look more like sand and you can also get a truck’s tires stuck in it. Those blocks are composed of what Roblox calls “materials” - stuff like wood for trees, concrete for streets and brick for buildings. ![]() A social network of virtual pocket worlds with a daily user base roughly the size of Spain’s population, Roblox is ubiquitous among kids 13 and under and mostly mystifying to adults, who can’t generally see past its simple gameplay and blocky environments.
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