Roblox
Roblox is an online game platform and game creation system developed by Roblox
Corporation. It allows users to program games and play games created by other
users. Founded 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.For most of Roblox's history, it was relatively small,
both as a platform and a company, due to both co-founder Baszucki's lack of
interest in press coverage and it being "lost among the crowd" in a large
number of platforms released around the same time. Roblox began to grow
rapidly in the second half of the 2010s, and this growth has been accentuated
by the COVID-19 pandemic.
Roblox is free-to-play, with in-game purchases available through a virtual
currency called "Robux". As of August 2020, Roblox had over 164 million monthly
active users, with it being played by over half of all children aged under 16
in the United States.