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David Brent Baszucki [1] (/ b ə ˈ z uː k i /; born January 20, 1963), also known by his former Roblox username builderman, is a Canadian-born American entrepreneur, engineer, and software developer.
He and Cassel founded Roblox Corporation in 2004. [3] [4] Working from an office in Menlo Park, California, they began preliminary work on the video game DynaBlocks, which was launched in a beta state later that year. [2] [4] The game's name was changed to Roblox in 2005, and the game was formally released on September 1, 2006. [4]
The Roblox Studio interface as of August 2024. Roblox Studio is the platforms game engine [26] and game development software. [27] [28] The engine and all games made on Roblox predominantly uses Luau, [29] a dialect of the Lua 5.1 programming language. [30] Since November 2021, the programming language has been open sourced under the MIT License.
David Baszucki: founder and CEO of the Roblox Corporation; Marc Blank: co-founder of Infocom; Cliff Bleszinski: founder of Boss Key Productions; Doug Bowser: president of Nintendo of America (2019–present) Arjan Brussee: co-founder of Guerrilla Games & Boss Key Productions; Jon Burton: founder of Traveller's Tales and its parent company TT Games
Roblox has hired former Roku executive Louqman Parampath to help build out its advertising business, as the video-game platform bets on its lucrative young user base to draw marketing dollars.
In January 2016, Balfanz and his business partner, who goes by "asimo3089", created the game Volt, an open-world game in which players complete minigames. [3]In January 2017, Balfanz, along with asimo3089, uploaded Jailbreak, a cops-and-robbers game, to Roblox.
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Gamefam was founded in 2019 in Los Angeles, California, United States, by Joe Ferencz, the current CEO.Ferencz was originally involved with bringing Hot Wheels into the Forza series and Rocket League, and while doing so, he was observing Roblox's success as a free-to-play video game platform. [6]