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The morning star first came into widespread use around the beginning of the fourteenth century, particularly in Germany where it was known as Morgenstern. [1] The term is often confused with the military flail (fléau d'armes in French and Kriegsflegel in German), which typically consists of a wooden shaft joined by a length of chain to one or more iron-shod wooden bars.
The online video game platform and game creation system Roblox has numerous games (officially referred to as "experiences") [1] [2] created by users of its creation tool, Roblox Studio. Due to Roblox ' s popularity, various games created on the site have grown in popularity, with some games having millions of monthly active players and 5,000 ...
In January 2017, Balfanz, along with asimo3089, uploaded Jailbreak, a cops-and-robbers game, to Roblox. On its first day of release, it reached 70,000 concurrent players, a number which Balfanz later said had shocked him. [1] It quickly became one of the most popular games on the platform, and made Balfanz a millionaire. [4] [3]
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.
Roblox Corporation has been ranked on Pocket Gamer.biz ' s top lists of mobile game developers, placing sixth in 2018, [30] eighth in 2019, [31] and sixth in 2020. [32] Fortune featured it as one of the best small and medium-sized workplaces in the San Francisco Bay Area, placing it sixteenth in 2019 and fortieth in 2021.
In China, a very similar weapon to the long-handled peasant flail is known as the two-section staff, and Korea has a weapon called a pyeongon. [19] [20] [21] In Japan, there is also a version of the smaller ball-on-a-chain flail called a chigiriki. In the 18th and 19th centuries, the long-handled flail is found in use in India.
Spike (Welsh guitarist), stage name of Mike Williams; Spike, stage name of Frans van Zoest, guitar player of rock band Di-rect; Spike Jones, American bandleader and humorist; Spike Slawson, American punk vocalist and bassist of the Swinging Utters and Me First and the Gimme Gimmes; Spike Xavier, lead singer of nu metal band Corporate Avenger
The company has Intercept Games studio and Roll7 studio. Subsidiary of Take-Two Interactive. Psyonix: San Diego: California: United States 2001 Rocket League XCOM: Enemy Unknown: Acquired by Epic Games in 2019 PUBG Studios: Seongnam: South Korea 2009 Devilian PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds: Acquired by Bluehole (currently Krafton) in 2015 Punch ...