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Our friends who play on small devices can rejoice! I’ve added several anticipated features for mobile players, including shift-lock and tool dropping.
This update also brings some love to the training room bots and, as usual, a handful of fixes and improvements.
Add support for mouse lock (aka shift lock) for games on Roblox’s mobile app by adding this resource to your game/experience.
I made a handy resource for Roblox developers to support “Mouse Lock” (aka “Shift Lock”) mode in their games for mobile players!
Also consider getting the Model from the Roblox website so it’s available in Studio’s toolbox and on your Roblox account!
Continue reading “Shift Lock for Roblox on Mobile Devices”A shiny new in-game shop, some item rebalancing, small interface updates, and a whole boat load of fixes have arrived.
It’s time Panem got what it deserves: a brand-new way to spend money, of course!
Following the theme of the UI Updates earlier this year, this update brings minor interface consistency updates and some fixes to content that broke recently. Oh, and some item rebalancing too.
A quality-of-life update to this particle-emission plugin from 2015 is now available: attributes, better onboarding, passive update notifications, bug fixes and more.
It’s all freshened up for the modern-day Roblox developer! This simple yet useful plugin got some love in its version 2 release.
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nowEmitCount attribute, so emitters can burst different amounts of particlesYet another batch of improvements to the game interfaces, this time focusing some of the oldest in the game! Additionally, there’s updates to melee weapons and gamemaker selection to make things more fair for all.
The good times keep rolling with lucky batch number three of the UI Update. Continuing from Part 2, this update brings changes to some of the game’s oldest and most untouched interfaces.
But as usual for these, it’s never just interfaces updates! Melee weapons have gotten faster, fairer and more fun. Selection of gamemakers is improved, too.
The second batch of changes for the UI Update is here, featuring the return of “The Fallen”, a new Report window, and a streamlined sponsor/betting flow.
It’s time for the second batch of changes! Continuing from Part 1 of the UI Update, this brings quality of life to Sponsoring and Betting, the return of “The Fallen”, and a brand new Report window!
There’s never been a better time to be a tribute in the Hunger Games! Read up, and may the odds be ever in your favor.
A much needed update to the Hunger Games is here! I’m kicking off my 2021 roadmap plans for the game with the part 1 of the UI Update. It’s a whole boatload of changes, with more on the way. Spectating is upgraded, disasters are working again, there’s new changes to prevent abuse, and an in-game news window. Read up, and good luck in the Arena, tributes!
Felt like my Internet presence needed a fresh new look! Behold.
The image is a render of my Roblox avatar, with a white outline, blue background and a hint of a radial rainbow. I’m sporting the Vision Française glasses, the original Red Bow Tie, and my very own Ozzy’s Formal Top Hat which you can snag by using a code from my Roblox toy!
In a previous post I described my goals for 2021 which included updates to one of my oldest works, the Hunger Games. Since then, I’ve decided exactly what’s getting in as well as the order these updates will be added. These are overarching themes for updates, not just the only prospective content. Behold, my tentative roadmap for the Hunger Games in 2021:
Continue reading “On Clever Code and Debugging”Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it.
Brian Kernighan
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