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is an online gaming platform and game creation system that 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 encoded in the Lua programming language. For most of Roblox's history, it has been relatively small, both as a platform and as a company, both due to co-founder Baszucki's lack of interest in press coverage and being "lost in the crowd" in large numbers. of platforms released all over the simultaneously. Roblox began growing rapidly in the second half of the 2010s and this growth was accentuated by the COVID-19 pandemic.
Roblox is free-to-play, with in-game purchases available via a virtual currency called "Robux". As of August 2020, Roblox has over 164 million monthly active users, with more than half of all children under the age of 16 in the United States. Roblox has received generally positive reviews from critics.
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