Roblox sits in the middle with 80m players on the platform each month” ( Roblox: The 10bn hour gentle giant, 2019, MCV). “As of September 2018, Fortnite had 78.3m monthly players, while Minecraft exceeded 90m monthly active users in October 2018.

Imagine a huge, clean playground sandpit that is filled with an immense array of shovels, buckets, molds and models to help kids build amazing imaginary worlds – this is Roblox Studio. Roblox itself is not a game – it is a platform on which developers can create, share and play. Once they have developed their game to a level ready to release, they can then publish that game onto the Roblox website where anyone with an Internet connection can play their game. It is very much like a playground sandbox where creators can build terrains from open savannahs, to volcanic islands, cityscapes and high rise buildings, then click “ play” to drop a character into that world and immediately begin playing.

Roblox Studio is a 3D video game development platform that is free to download onto a Windows or Mac computer. Here are some key links to get under the hood of the Roblox corporation:

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