Roblox News Egg Hunt Poll

Roblox News Egg Hunt is nearing! And we are taking suggestions. If your suggestion is considered you will win all the passes in the Roblox News Egg Hunt, so regardless of whether you win or lose, it's worth a try. I will be making my suggestion soon! :)

Sneak Peak: Roblox News Egg Hunt 2014!

Before we begin we would like to address a common point raised by the community regarding our blog egg hunts. I often get asked why we are hosting an egg hunt when Easter has been and gone. The answer is simple: it is not an Easter hunt. If we were to run the event at Easter it would likely enjoy far less success due to the occurrence of an official, widely promoted egg made created by the Games team. We are also adding a twist this year; it is an all season egg hunt.

You'll see what we mean later.

Winners of the 2014 RN Egg Contest!

As we step ever nearer to the completion and launch of the RN Egg Hunt 2014, the anticipation for the event grows! We will be revealing more and more about the hunt over the coming days, but what we can tell you now is who won our retexturing contest we have held over the last month! There were a number of fantastic entries this year and we believe the competition has been far tighter this year. It was a hard decision choosing the winning three entries, but we also have a number of runner-ups who may or may not feature in the hunt depending on development timings and the demands of the hunters!

Rival Egg Hunts: The Three Hunts of ROBLOXia

Hello everyone! CYNICALCHRIS here, and today, I thought I would write a little post about the upcoming Egg Hunts for 2014. These include my personal Egg Hunt, the official Roblox News egg hunt, and the Official ROBLOX Egg Hunt! Let's begin!

Roblox News Egg Hunt 2014: Retexturing Contest!

As many of you know, we are in the process of developing our annual Easter Egg Hunt which will span a number of maps and dozens of different eggs. As with every year, we are looking to outdo ourselves both in terms of scale, but also quality of the user experiences. However, while we are toiling away scripting eggs and building universes, we have little time to create the egg designs themselves!

This is where you come in! For our hunt we require a multitude of different egg designs to spruce things up and make sure that each egg feels and looks unique when compared to the next. We are looking for user submitted retextures to add to our count - with the best ones being selected to feature in our game with full credit given! We want you to be creative with your designs and produce work that is unlike any other eggs we have seen on ROBLOX. Simplicity is often the best course of action, so don't think that your retexture has to be complicated and detailed if the design/theme doesn't really warrant it. This set may provide some inspiration: 2014 Eggs.

How to enter:

Rules:
1. Any egg hat can be retextured - this means you can use the meshes from the 2013, 2012, 2010 and 2008 egg hunts. Do be aware that the basic egg mesh is the easiest to retexture and can often lead to the best results. There are a number of basic egg meshes from numerous years, I suggest you use this one as it is the simplest to retexture, and makes it easy to spot the oval area where the texture goes. Here is quick list of more eggsravagant ones you may want to retexture:

• Cataclysmic Egg 
• Fabergé Egg 
• Studio Egg 
• iEgg
• Sugar Egg 
• Vampire Egg 
• Outrageous Egg
• Scrambled Egg 
• Egg Fuse Bomb (can be turned into a hat) 

2. Recolours are permitted, but unless you have performed something really clever, they are unlikely to be chosen to feature in our hunt

3. You can send as many entries as you want - please try to keep them within one private message (it makes the collection process a lot easier). If you have a large amount of entries, it would be advisable to send  them as a set.

The requirements to enter this retexturing contest are simple:

1. Upload your creation as a ROBLOX model with 'egg' somewhere in the title. In the description, please insert the tag 'RN Egg Hunt 2014'. Make sure the model is freely available - this is important.

2. Copy the URL (link) of the model and private message it to Arbirator. I will be creating a set in order to store all of the egg entries

The winners will be announced  on April 6th 2014, so you have just under two weeks to complete your entries and send them in. Good luck to all contestants! I hope to see some fantastic designs!

-Arbirator
Editor of Roblox News 

The 2014 Roblox News Egg Hunt

Hello all,
Some of you may know me, some of you may not. I am Josh (TechTeam911 on Roblox, previously zinc707), and I am the lead project designer + programmer + web developer for Arbirator's Roblox News. In my free time (When I'm not running my business & working in college), I love to create games on Roblox. I've been programming with Lua for over 6+ years now, and it's one of my favorite languages.

As many of you know, here at Arbirator's Roblox News, we always host a yearly Easter Egg Hunt event for the community to enjoy. Last year was the best egg hunt we've ever had (Over 30K visits, and tons of positive feedback), but of course, we always have to do better every year. That being said, on behalf of Arbirator's Roblox News, I am proud to introduce the Roblox News 2014 Egg Hunt.

This year is going to be one of the most sophisticated (And enjoyable) egg hunts that Arbirator's Roblox News has created.

Summary:

• Numerous universes where eggs rain down simultaneously (Universes are all connected to a central hub, pictured above).
• Central hub is used to teleport to other universes - hub is also used for socializing, purchasing items, viewing the leaderboards, and more.
• Universes are created by both Arbirator's Roblox News staff and the community (Will get into details later on about that.)
• Very few eggs are going to be recycled from last year to be reused this year, the majority of the content is going to be completely new and innovative.
• The egg hunt will be much more challenging than last year's egg hunt. That being said, certain universes will exclusively drop easy-to-get eggs for the people who are having difficulty with some of the other universes.)
• Each universe has exclusive eggs (Ie: Magma egg only drops in volcanic map, beach ball egg in beach map etc.)
• In place of game-passes, there will be currency packages.
• No, we're not going Candy-Crush on you guys, the currency purchases are completely optional.
• The two types of currency are as follows:
• Cash
• Gold
• Cash can be earned in-game through unlocking eggs.
• Gold can be earned only through currency purchases.
• Gold is completely optional, it's used to purchase certain assets that are locked for normal users.
• Buying in bulk gives bonus currency (Ie: 25% more cash if you buy y package vs. x package).
• Egg hunt should (Hopefully) be iOS compatible.
• That being said, there will be no eggs that are exclusive to iOS users.
• No eggs require you to pay for an item to unlock them, the items are purely optional.

So this year, we've decided to do something different. Instead of having just Arbirator's Roblox News builders do the maps this year, we've decided to reach out to the community for submissions. Yes, that's right - your map can be featured in the egg hunt this year!

Details for map submissions:

• Map submissions should be sent to RNEggHunt with the subject 'Egg hunt map submission'
• Maps must have a specific theme (Can't have water-theme in one area, and then volcanic-themed in another area.)
• Maps may not have hidden areas (Except without the explicit consent of RNEggHunt).
• All map submissions will not have scripts - if you want a specific effect to be added, talk to RNEggHunt about how it can be incorporated into your map.)
• Maps should be unique, free-model use is discouraged.
• Regular terrain is preferred over triangle-terrain.
• Maps should be medium to large in size.
• Deadline is April 10th.

If we like your map submission, we'll put it in the egg hunt for everyone to play! You will also receive credit for the map, and you will receive in-game currency as a reward (and possibly an extra prize).

We're also looking for egg property ideas, PM RNEggHunt with your ideas for the egg hunt.

More details to come soon :)

Screenshots of the hub (Created by Demjot), still waiting on map submissions.

Roblox News Egg Hunt: Progress Report

Progression at it's best...

The Egg Rain script is working at peak efficiency, thanks to Zakkeh and Arbirator..

Roblox News Egg Hunt 2014: Taking Suggestions

Hello there, this is me Zakary W posting about this years annual Roblox News Egg Hunt, we are currently taking idea submissions from anyone who has the capacity to think of ideas that will put me and Josh at work!




Looking forward to reading your replies!!

~Zak And Josh