Joel Bernstein on LinkedIn: Gamers Spent 16.7 Billion Hours on Roblox in Just 3 Months. Here's What… (2024)

Slightly older residents of the internet will remember a time when instead of spending hours on Roblox, kids were obsessed with complex browser-game worlds like Club Penguin, Neopets, and, my personal favorite, Moshi Monsters. If something like that were to come back in 2023, an all-encompassing franchise with games, books, plushies, and more, what would it look like?Darran Garnham, CEO of the creative design studio Toikido, is here to answer that question with his company’s new venture Piñata Smashlings, a “blockbuster quality” Roblox game with its own accompanying line of plush toys, blind boxes, and official guidebooks. The design of the Smashlings might look a little familiar to you, especially if you grew up online in the early 2010s. That’s because Garnham is one of the minds behind Moshi Monsters and members of the Toikido team worked there alongside him, as well as with companies like Disney and King.Check out the full story here: https://lnkd.in/edQyT_hM For daily mobile games industry news follow Pocket Tactics - the biggest mobile gaming site in the world! #gaming #mobile #PinataSmashlings #roblox

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Our Roblox game, e.l.f. UP!, has surpassed 10 MILLION VISITS! 🤯 In just 6 months since launch, e.l.f. UP! has:✨ Maintained a 95% positivity rating.✨ Had the biggest giveaway of free in-game items, with over 1M free UGC for our players.✨ Deployed our own Animation Pack – and we’re the first and only brand to have one.✨ Brought back The Hunt, a highly requested in-platform game.✨ Partnered with Reese’s Book Club to celebrate Gen Alpha’s love of reading and literature.✨ Created 120,000 in-game cans as part of our Liquid Death collaboration that were redeemed in under 12 hours between our two drops!We are so thankful for every single player who has joined us on Roblox!At e.l.f., we go where our community is and when our research showed that 70% of our community played video games, we embarked on a mission to create gaming platforms for every eye, lip and face. As we dove deeper into these platforms, we discovered e.l.f. was one of the highly requested brands to join Roblox. According to the World Economic Forum, over ⅓ of Gen Z and Gen Alpha plan on launching a start-up or side-hustle. e.l.f. UP! was created as a game to teach these generations how to be entrepreneurs. We took a popular genre in Roblox, the tycoon game, and put our e.l.f. twist on it. We truly believe that opening the minds of younger generations – and every single gamer out there – to possibilities is what will fuel all our rocketships in the future.🚀 See you in the game! 🎮 💕

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🎙 You may not know that Century Games, of Whiteout Survival fame, successfully operates two Roblox experiences- Livetopia and Metlife.The growth of the UGC games industry has seen many traditional developers increasingly asking: should we build a Roblox game? Join your host, David Taylor as he speaks to the CTO of Century Games, Xiang Shen, about how Century Games found success on Roblox and how this fits into its broader strategy as a successful mobile developer. It's a must-watch/listen and includes the topics below.- Xiang's background at Century games- Getting Started on Roblox- Monetizing through Brand Activations- Launching a second successful Roblox game- Building an IP on Roblox- How Roblox fits into Century Games Broader Strategy- AI on RobloxApple: https://lnkd.in/gD_cTdQMSpotify: https://lnkd.in/gEwewDJyYoutube: https://lnkd.in/g_NmmaWKThis episode is brought to you by Overwolf, the all-in-one platform for creating, sharing and monetizing in-game apps and mods. Visit http://www.overwolf.com for more details.

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"Blade Ball is the latest breakthrough hit on Roblox. It was developed by Y1ddy and Chunchbunch, two amateur developers in their early twenties who started exploring the concept in January this year, but only began serious development in June. With the use of open-source assets and a game category invented by others long before them, they developed and launched what is currently the third most popular Roblox game in a matter of months...Blade Ball’s meteoric rise teaches us a great deal about how to be successful on Roblox, the importance of social media in game distribution, and the meaning of IP on UGC game platforms. So without further ado, let’s dive into Blade Ball."

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A Minecraft spin off ends development:For a while, Mojang Studios has taken an interesting approach to franchising: spin off games. This has led to...🏹 𝐌𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐜𝐫𝐚𝐟𝐭 𝐃𝐮𝐧𝐠𝐞𝐨𝐧𝐬 (2020, made w/ Double Eleven) ■ action-adventure game ■ reached 25 million users ■ last updated in 2022 to focus on other projects, such as...⚔️ 𝐌𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐜𝐫𝐚𝐟𝐭 𝐋𝐞𝐠𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐬 (2023, made w/ Blackbird Interactive) ■ action-strategy game ■ reached 3 million in 2 weeks ■ struggled since; ending development in under a yearIt's difficult to say where to go from here. On the one hand, the magic of Minecraft is in its infinite possibilities, and the stories players create — spin offs are a great way to explore different plot lines without committing to any one. Yet, as Epic Games takes efforts to consolidate different games in the Fortnite ecosystem, and Roblox continues to lean into creator-made experiences, it's clear there's an appetite for one platform that everything rests within... Is the answer a better spin off, or renewed focus on the core game?

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