Together they constitute a kind of multidimensional school where you can take classes in English, baking and swimming, and dress up using a vast catalogue of clothes and cosmetic styles. Royale High is a hugely popular (nearly 2.5 billion visits) roleplay game set across many themed realms, from Earth to a college for fairies. Now she leads a game that, depending on the time of day, can have up to 100,000 concurrent players. And then she started high school, got into League Of Legends, and that was that for a few years. But while that puts her among its earliest players, it wasn’t one of her top games - she also played Neopets and Gaia Online - hence not putting an awful lot of thought into her username. "Callmehbob" first played Roblox back in around 2007, when she was 12. My other builder, she’s way more talented than me, too, but she feels that she couldn’t run a game, and that’s just because of lack of confidence.” I’m trying to instil confidence in them, because they could go beyond me in a second. “Most of my audience is under 18 and they’re just so talented. Callmehbob: Managing one of Roblox’s biggest games I spoke to the teams behind two of Roblox’s leading roleplay games, both women, about how they started, and how they work. And now they’re growing up as designers themselves. The exciting thing is that these kinds of games attract new audiences who are looking for social and creative ways to play. I think it’s just the platform is built to do that.” When I first started, me and my friends used to create the worlds we wanted to roleplay in. “You can create worlds yourself, make what you need to roleplay easier. “My own take is that Roblox is a very creative platform as a whole,” says Mimi_Dev.
Its editor, Studio, presents itself from the off as a tool for making terrain and populating it with 3D objects, and most players start off by releasing 3D spaces that have no game logic. I suspect that part of the reason why Roblox is where it flourishes is that Roblox implicitly encourages world creation. But there’s nothing quite like the breadth that exists on Roblox. I suppose The Sims offers third-person roleplay.
#ROLEPLAYING GAMES IN ROBLOX MODS#
Sure, GTA Online supports roleplay, if you can stomach getting shot by players who aren’t roleplaying, and there are mods for games like ArmA 3 which let you play being a soldier in more detail. There are, simply, no other places which offer the same mix of 3D worlds to explore and play in, social interaction with other players, and a constant supply of new material served by developers who expect to support their games for years after launch. Roleplay very much reflects Roblox’s breadth of expression and the way in which it provides very different kinds of spaces for play, compared to the world of games outside the platform. It’s a way more natural play style than running around and shooting,” a Roblox developer called "Mimi_Dev" told me. ”I grew up with roleplay, not just on Roblox but also playing with my friends when I was little, so transitioning to doing that online felt natural. Others are almost completely freeform, acting as glorified chatrooms, imaginative alternative worlds, or places to show off and be seen. Some are focused on certain activities which bring in more traditional game mechanics, such as running a pizza restaurant or breaking out of jail. Most give players certain roles to perform.
#ROLEPLAYING GAMES IN ROBLOX PLUS#
They’re themed free-roam worlds filled with minigames and interactive bits and pieces, plus wardrobes of clothes and other cosmetics that let you look the way you want. Roblox’s roleplay games are places for playing make-believe. Many of these games won’t even seem like real games, since they often don’t have rules or mechanics. One of the most popular genres on Roblox is the roleplay game.
We’ll meet four of its leading makers, many of whom grew up playing Roblox, and one of its execs to understand what makes it special, and where it’s going next. This is the second of three articles about Roblox, which is quietly one of the biggest game platforms in the world.
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