Roblox
The gaming platform reimagining the way people come together
Roblox is a digital platform where people come together virtually to share experiences - gaming, music, and much more. Every day, tens of millions of people from around the world come to Roblox to play, learn, work, and socialize in immersive digital experiences all built by a global community of creators. Created by David Baszucki and Erik Cassel in 2004 and released in 2006, the platform hosts user-created games of multiple genres coded in the programming language Lua.
Roblox was created by co-founders David Baszucki and Erik Cassel in 2004 under the name DynaBlocks. Baszucki started testing the first demos that year. In 2005, the company changed its name to Roblox, and it officially launched in 2006. Soon after it released a premium membership service named “Builders Club”.
In December 2011, Roblox held its first Hack Week, an annual event where Roblox developers work on outside-the-box ideas for new developments to present to the company. In 2013, Roblox released its Developer Exchange program, allowing developers to exchange Robux earned from their games into real-world currencies.