Wednesday, 14 March 2012

Place Review: Galactic Domination

Space, the final frontier. These are the reviews of the A.R.N Enterprise. It's ongoing mission, to explore creative new places. To seek out new ideas and brilliant places. To boldly go where no robloxian has gone before. After exploring robloxia extensively I have found a brilliant new place.
Gameplay 10/10
The basic goal of this game is to conquer all the planets. To do so you need to destroy all the buildings on the planet and then take over the control point. You can make buildings on your planet in order to defend it such as turrets, ship spawners, and reactors. Each building has a specific purpose. The reactors give you credits so you can buy more buildings, turrets constantly fire on enemy ships. There are also extremely intense dog-fights in this game that rely on skill and agility. There are 6 different ships and all are good for different things. The scout is great at looking at other planets but is terrible in combat. The fighter can take out most ships but is slow. The bomber has a lot of health but is very slow. There are also other ships called blast boats that are very slow but do devastating amounts of damage.
Effort 10/10
There are tons of scripts at work here. There are 6 different ships, a ton of buildings that are scripted to do certain things. The maps are also brilliantly made.
Creativity 10/10
This game is completely unique. I have never seen another game like this, sure there have been sci-fi games but none of them ever went to this scale.
Overall 10/10
Suggestions
  • Add more buildings
  • Add a secret cake planet
  • Fix the glitch where you spawn on top of the space station (add more spawns?)
  • Add some kind of KO/WO system.

Thursday, 8 March 2012

Place Review: Destruction Derby

This week I decided to review the classic game called "Destruction Derby," which is a self-explanatory where the objective is to get into a car and destroy the other person's vehicle. Like every week, I review the thumbnail, which is a critical part of the entire place. So, at first glance, we see two cars colliding into each other and bricks flying everywhere. There's obviously a motion blur on it, because it blurs your vision when viewed tons of times.

The most important part of a place is the thumbnail, remember that when making a game. We enter the place and are placed in the spawn room. Not your modern spawn room, more basic and classic looking. The vehicles are placed in tiny rooms, they aren't visible. There's a purple button that turns black when touched and the vehicle resets. I'll say this, that this review wont be large because it's an old game that's really simple and doesn't really need much. The map is where you can crash into others. The map itself isn't much, just a green inclosed area with some ramps and stuff, not too exciting. So, this ends this review.

Scripting: 1/10, not many obvious scripts and most are just copies of old scripts.
Tools: No tools needed.
Building: 3/10, not too interesting.
Community Enjoyment: 9/10, many people enjoy this classic.
Originality: 5/10, back then, there were places like these.
Creativity: 3/10, not too creative.
Deals with Problems: 10/10, no problems.
Reviewer's Experience with Lag: 10/10, no lag.
Difficulty: Very Easy
Reviewer's Enjoyment: 8/10, I enjoy this classic.
Reviewer's Recommendation: 9/10, recommend this.
Overall: 9 & a half/10, great game, not excellent.

Wednesday, 7 March 2012

Goodbye Ambassador Program

Today, ROBLOX decided it was time for the Ambassador program to go. Here was the System Notification Telamon sent out:

"ROBLOX has decided to discontinue the Ambassador's Program. As of today, it is gone. It was an interesting experiment and we would like to thank all of our users who participated. Ultimately we think it was too spammy in a way that conflicted with our company core values, so it had to go."

 For some of us, this will be a huge change in the source of income. And others, it's just a little, unnoticed feature, gone. I have to agree with Telamon though, the Program was getting a bit out of hand. I hope none of you relied on it too much for Tickets.

Sunday, 4 March 2012

Interview with pokemondude185


Ladies & Gentlemen here's Roblox Talk forumer pokemondude185. With a respectable 3000+ forum posts and over a year on the game; he is quite an experienced ROBLOXian. 


pokemondude185 


1) When did you join ROBLOX? What appealed to you the most?


 Well, I was playing on a Flash game website and I saw and ad for ROBLOX and I thought "It's an exploring game, A 3D Exploring game!" I had always wanted on of those. And I was satisfied.


2) What was the first game you played? Was it memorable? Why?


 Well, I can't exactly remember but I do remember one. As a guest I played "Survive a train ride into a black hole" Alot. It was just real fun riding trains and I liked the graphics! 


3) What was the first ever thing you bought from the catalog?

 The Shimmering Ultraflash Anime hair, I liked Anime at the time and I thought It looked cool but in the end it did not....


4) What is your favourite game genre on ROBLOX? Why?


 I like Pirate and Adventure genre, I liked pirate genre mostly because of Lando6400's Pirates life. And I just like Adventuring in general! 

5) When browsing the catalog, what do you usually look for?


 Mostly Cool gears all though I never have anything to buy them with =P 


6) What is your favourite item in the catalog?


 The Epic face tie, I liked it because when I was hardly any good at ROBLOX and I had OBC I saw the Epic Face Tie and I was like "omg itz 5 rx what the" And I bought it and I didn't even know it was a Limited U! But anyway I don't care that its Limited U and I'm not willing to sell it! 

7) If you were CEO for the day, what would you add or improve?


 I'd add a 10 day Robux reward for NBC! 


8) What is your favourite type of gear? Melee, ranged.. ect.


 Ranged, Because I am very very very bad at Sword fighting but I'm skilledwith ranged weapons. 


9) What is your favourite flavour milkshake?


 Strawberry flavored Milkshakes! 


10) And finnaly, the most important question: pancakes or waffles?


 Waffles :3 
ROBLOX News kick of today, don't expect news straight away I'm still setting up the site.