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It annoys me when people call Roblox a game. It's an engine and a platform. It's like calling Unity or Unreal Engine a game.

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I've also found that people tend to underestimate the development tools Roblox gives. There are games on Roblox that have external web APIs for managing servers, games that circumvent the standard "player model" and instead opt for an entirely different appearance, games that make use of the GUI tools given in meticulous ways...

Roblox does a fantastic job at giving creative young minds an opportunity to expand on their ideas — something very few other "games" accomplish.

This is exactly what I love about Roblox. My 11-year-old daughter does "commissions" and designs 3d objects to sell, she's on "Scripting teams" where they help design in-game elements. She's having fun, building / creating, learning and interacting with people. Something I could only dream of when I was 11 (I had BBS's, lots of TW2002).

My 11-year-old knows blender, photoshop, python and javascripting because of Roblox and some Minecraft.

Remind me to break out Tw2002 on docker.. And yes, the opportunies these kids have is amazing.

It's a nearly fully featured game engine. Maybe not quite suitable for a AAA game, but I think it'd be possible for a studio to make a real commercial game with it.

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