{"id":32486,"date":"2021-05-17T13:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-05-17T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=32486"},"modified":"2021-06-18T07:05:06","modified_gmt":"2021-06-18T11:05:06","slug":"epic-v-apple-day-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2021\/05\/17\/epic-v-apple-day-10\/","title":{"rendered":"Epic v. Apple, Day 10"},"content":{"rendered":"

Adi Robertson<\/a> (tweet<\/a>):<\/p>\n

Massively popular game creation tool Roblox is now a massively popular experience<\/em> creation tool Roblox, possibly in response to the ongoing Epic v. Apple trial.<\/p>\n

[…]<\/p>\n

The “Games” tab now reads “Discover” on the web, although it still points to an address of “roblox.com\/games.” Developers can create and manage “experiences,” and experiences have “max people” allowed. The word “game” has been replaced by “experience” across nearly the entire Roblox website, and the iOS and Android apps now have a Discover tab instead of a Games tab — although both apps are currently classed as games in their respective stores.<\/p>\n

[…]<\/p>\n

Roblox blurs the line between a large social game and a game engine or sales platform. Users don’t enter a single virtual world like Second Life; they launch individual experiences created by users. Developers can sell items within those experiences, and there are full-fledged game studios<\/a> that build with Roblox instead of, say, the Unity or Unreal engines. But all of this activity happens within a single Roblox app, instead of as a series of separately packaged games.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n

Matthew Ball<\/a>:<\/p>\n

This is cray<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n

Dieter Bohn<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Totally very normal thing for a developer to completely change the language and marketing of a vital part of their app (ahem game?) as a result of testimony in a trial they are not a participant in. Yup. Nothing weird here.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n

Previously:<\/p>\n