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Thousands of players are on the Roblox site at any given time—sometimes up to 2 million!
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The Rise of Roblox
Millions are playing and creating their own games on this online gaming site
When Alex Binello was 12 years old, he and a friend stumbled onto a website called Roblox. It was full of games with blocky, human-shaped avatars. By playing the games, they earned clothes for their avatars to wear.
Each game took only a few minutes to finish. But what Binello liked most was that regular people created many of them, not just professional game designers.
When Alex Binello was 12 years old, he and a friend found a website called Roblox. It was full of games. They had blocky avatars. The avatars were shaped like humans. Alex and his friend began playing the games. They earned clothes for their avatars to wear.
Each game took only a few minutes to finish. Binello liked that regular people created many of the games. Usually, professional game designers make games.
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Alex Binello
Now Binello is 23 years old. He develops his own Roblox games as a full-time job. His main project is MeepCity. It gets more than 1 million players a day!
Every Roblox game is created with a visual design tool. It’s called Roblox Studio. Many beginners find it easy to use. That includes a gamer who goes by the name of Beeism. She had never designed games before. Then she tried Roblox Studio. “It was something I could do,” she says.
Beeism uses Roblox Studio to make models and maps for games such as Egg Hunt. She’s made hundreds of items, including fairy wings for avatars and maps that look like pirate ships. Beeism is now a professional game developer.
Now Binello is 23 years old. He develops his own Roblox games. It is his full-time job. His main project is MeepCity. It gets more than 1 million players a day!
Every Roblox game is created with a visual design tool. It’s called Roblox Studio. Many beginners find it easy to use. Some gamers find it easy to use too. One gamer goes by the name of Beeism. She had never designed games before. Then she tried Roblox Studio. “It was something I could do,” she says.
Beeism uses Roblox Studio to make models. She also makes maps for games like Egg Hunt. She’s made hundreds of items. Some items include fairy wings for avatars. Other items include maps that look like pirate ships. Beeism is now a professional game developer.
About 30,000 new games are uploaded to Roblox every day. Many of them aren’t traditional games. They don’t have a definite end point or goal. MeepCity is one of them. Players hang out and chat while designing homes, attending a virtual school, or working at a pizza shop.
Beeism loves the variety that Roblox games have. “I can make any world I want and be anything I want to be,” she says.
About 30,000 new games are uploaded to Roblox every day. Many of them aren’t traditional games. They don’t have a definite end goal. MeepCity is one of them. Players hang out and chat. They also design homes, attend a virtual school, or work at a pizza shop.
Beeism loves the variety in Roblox games. “I can make any world I want and be anything I want to be,” she says.
How do numbers play a part in designing the rules and scoring system of a game?
One round of the Roblox game Fashion Famous (below) lasts 3 minutes. Say a Roblox player spends 15 minutes each day on the website. How many rounds of Fashion Famous could the person play each day? Fill in the chart below.
Which equation shows how many rounds of Fashion Famous the Roblox user could play each day?
A. 3 × ? = 15
B. 3 – ? = 15
C. 15 – 3 = ?
D. 15 × 3 = ?
Solve your equation from part B. What does your answer represent?
MeepCity has about 26,000 players at any given time. Robloxian Highschool has about 6,500 players at a given time. How many more players are there in MeepCity at a single time? Write an equation and solve using the variable p.
Roblox money is called Robux. Wings cost 1,000 Robux. A helmet costs 100 Robux. How many helmets can you buy for the same price as 1 set of wings? Solve using the variable n.
A different helmet costs 200 Robux. Adjust your equation from part A to calculate how many of this type of helmet you can buy for the same price as 1 pair of wings.
In 2017, kids spent about 51,500,000 hours playing Roblox games. That same year, kids spent 19,400,000 hours on YouTube. Write an equation using the variable h to find the difference in hours.