Mango's Tutorials: How to create successful ads

Advisement's; some are good, some are bad. Some get lots of clicks, some don't. Today I'm going to teach you how to make good ones, that people will click.

Really, there are only 2 types of ads people will click:

• Humorous ads
• Very well made ads

If you have an ad that includes humor, it doesn't necessarily have to be well made. Because if you can get the person to laugh, that's all the matters.

So, since this isn't "Mango's Tutorials: How to be funny", were going to focus on well made ads. Beautiful hand crafted ads that show whatever they are advertising.

Since I don't really know what graphics program you use, I'm just going to tell you what people like to click, and hopefully you can re-create those effects on your program.

Here's one of my simple examples:

See how the text is nice and bold? This is a plus for ads. When your clicking around the Roblox site, your going to completely ignore the ads unless something really pops out at you.

Here's an example of a poorly made ad:

Sorry to whoever made this, but it's not something I, or probably you, would click anytime soon. It's to simple, bland and looks like a stop sign. You want to ad many colors and ambient into your ad, it doesn't have to look like a stop sign to pop out.

Here's another bad example:

Whats wrong with this one? Well for one, it doesn't pop out. Two, it looks like someone just cut out pictures of a magazine and pasted them onto an ad. This is another thing you don't want to do, copy and paste pictures to the ad, unless of course you actually have a nice background and have the ability to put drop shadows and ambient around them.

This is what a good ad should look like:

Clean. Organized. Pops out. Colorful. Ambient's. Drop shadows. Captivating text. All in all, you really want to include these in your ad, because if you don't, it will just get lost in the competition.

Thanks for reading! PM me any questions HERE.

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-Mango

Slender RANT Review

If you haven't heard of Slender yet. It's basically an amazing game made to scare people. Although there are better mini-horror games this one seems to be the most popular right now. However, the ROBLOX version of it. (Well, at least this one) fails to have any resemblance to the real thing. To put it frankly, it is really, really, really, really bad.

Gameplay 0/10
The basic goal of the game is to... I don't even know. In the real game you're supposed to collect notes but when I walk around in this place touching the notes does nothing. There is no goal other than "Don't get killed by Slenderman lul" who has a tendency to get stuck a lot and basically has the same script as a zombie.
Effort 0/10
The basic map was made with a stamper tool. Everything was inserted in (badly) and no effort was made. The map stinks.
Creativity 0/10
There are already plenty of GOOD Slender games. If you want to play one of them I'd recommend this one. 

Overall 0/10
Suggestions

• Just stop. You can't make a good Slender place. I'm sorry but please. Stop.
• If you don't stop make Slender a pony

  If you want your place reviewed simply contact Banjobug on twitter or send me a private message on ROBLOX. The next post could be about your place! I'll be glad to give you ideas on your place and help make it better. Also, if you find a place that is absolutely awful and on the front page send me a PM and I might make a RANT about it!

Also, you should follow me on twitter even if you don't have a RANT or review request! Sometimes I invite my followers to go to places with me to help review them.

Place Reviewed: Slender
Reviewed by: Banjobug     

Black Friday Survey Estimation!

Well, the other day when I was bored I thought... Hmmmm, it would be kinda cool to guess what we would get in this survey, so I asked arbirator, we both made a few decisions for things that could possibly be in it so then I published it! For those people who read my last review, I told you I would have a little surprise! Just leave your vote on what you think will come out or be in the survey, I'll post the results when ROBLOX's real survey is posted. I will also have a few links to hats if you don't know what they are. Enjoy!

W Inc. Designer Sunglasses

• JJ5x5's White Top Hat
• Sir Rich McMoneyston, III Disguise
• Silverthorn Antlers
• Mrs. Tentacles
• Teakettle Hat
• Clockwork's Shades
• Silverthorn Antlers (Yes again)
• Happy Time Magic Flower Hat
• Note: For the following, these are what the items would look like!
• Green Sparkle Time Fedora
• Linked Sword
• The dude, on the road.

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Gear Review: Spartan Sword and Shield

GEAR REVIEW: SPARTAN SWORD AND SHIELD

       Hey guys, Ulquiorra98 here with a look at the Spartan Sword and Shield, a recently released by ROBLOX. As always, this review will be split into 3 sections: Abilities/Effects, Appearance, and Pricing. So, without further ado, let's get down to the review!

Abilities/Effects:  Well, as far as swords go, this one's pretty decent. Each attack takes approximately 25% of your opponent's health, which means 4 hits to a KO. I'm not quite sure if the shield really helps that much, as I've noticed that I tend to lose as much health as I normally would even when the gear is equipped. The one thing I like about this item is that once you've knocked your enemy down to 25% Health, your next attack will cause whomever it is you're fighting to "fall" into a "deep" pit of doom, from whence there is no return. Why the quotation marks, you might ask? Well, it's because quite often, things get messed up during this part. A) The pit is not so much a pit as a flat, black oval. B) When you kick your enemy into said "pit" they often skid right across it, rendering this "pit of doom" completely useless. However, it is a nice effect and did boost my rating of the item in this category. 8/10.

Appearance: This particular sword and shield set has a very simple look to it. However, I think of this as a good thing, for a simple, yet nice texture is always welcome. The hilt of the blade is coated in 14k gold pixels, as is the shield. The sword fits well in your avatar's hands, as does the shield, with its genuine leather pixel straps to attach to your character's hands. I think it deserves an 8/10.

Pricing: This gear item hit the Catalog at a price of R$1,000, which in my mind is a bit too much for a sword such as itself. A price in the R$500-750 seems more suitable. 8/10.

Overall: 8/10

Thanks for reading and be sure to follow me on Twitter! @Ulquiorra98RBLX

Thanksgiving Poll Results

Hi guys,
zinc707 here again. So I went ahead and finished up the poll that I requested you ROBLOXians vote on - and I have the results:

Scavenger hunt: 28
Humans Vs. Turkeys (Minigames): 24
Humans Vs. Turkeys (Paintball): 15
Humans Vs. Turkeys (All-out-brawl): 11

This year - we will be hosting a Thanksgiving scavenger hunt, and will keep you ROBLOXians updated on the status of it.

Thanks to everyone that participated in the Thanksgiving Poll - your feedback is valued and gives us insight as to what the users want.

Hat Review: Knock Out Cap!

Hey guys sorry it’s been so long! I have been very busy, with school plotting more ideas for this blog, etc. Today I am going to review Knock Out Cap!

Mesh: 10/10

This mesh is very unique. It has the look of an old brown leather top hat, with an opening on top with a huge boxing glove coming out, behind the glove there is a little flap that covers over the hat and glove when not in use. I guess that is where “Knock Out Cap” comes from. This actually cap mesh could have been recolored/ retextures, with added mesh to the top to make a fist on a spring coming out. My only complaint with this mesh is the fact it comes down over the avatar’s eyes which I am not a fan of. Overall 10/10, for this hat’s nice and beautiful mesh.

Texture: 8.5/10

This texture is very simple for the hat part but once it gets to the spring and glove, it gets sort of complicated. I like how the spring is like flat, but looks very bendy. This hat’s texture is both very complicated and very easy; it is also very funny and enjoyable. Therefore I give it 8.5/ 10.

Money Value: 10/10

This is hat is a lot cheaper than you would think. This hat only costs 250 robux. It’s very a good price for a very awesome hat. Right now I would totally buy this hat but I am very low on robux at the moment. I suggest for anyone with lots of money to buy this awesome hat. I give the value on this hat 10/10

Enjoyment: 10/10

The hat looks very nice on your avatar, my only complaint like I said before the front of the hat goes down over the eyes of the avatar. It’s a beautiful and funny hat, it should have honestly been limited.

Overall: 10/10

Overall this hat is great, epic Texture, epic mesh awesome looks. I strongly suggest this awesome hat to everybody. Overall I give it 10/10!

P.S: Black Friday is coming up in 2 weeks so keep an eye on the blog from now till then, expect a little surprise post from me soon, and lots of hat/gear reviews during black Friday weekend!

Thanks for reading!

Hat: http://www.roblox.com/Knock-Out-Cap-item?id=97101617

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Mango's Tutorials: Beginning Scripting

Hey guys! I've asked some people and it appears that scripting is something that a lot of users are wanting to understand.

Beginning scripting is very easy to learn, if you have the urge and willpower to overcome the twist and turns that it's rocky road brings fourth. Once you've got the basics down, you'll be able to understand more complicated tutorials.

But before we get started, you'll need to have Roblox Studio set up properly. To do that, open Roblox Studio and start a new project.

Move your mouse over the "View" tab that's located on the top of your screen. your going to want to select "Explorer" and "Properties".

This is what the explorer should look like:

This is what the properties tab should look like:

Once you've got those tabs opened, we can continue on with the tutorial.

Notice when you click something on the explorer, you can change it in the properties tab. And everything that appears in the explorer, is in the game. Also take notice that everything is under "Workspace" in the explorer.

Alright, now I want you to insert a brick, and I want you to name it 'test'. The brick should appear as a "Part" in the explorer tab. Now insert a script. Do this by rolling your mouse over the "Insert" tab on the top of your screen, then click "Insert Object".

A window should come up, select "Script". A "Script" should be added to your explorer.

Double click the script. A window should come up with the text "Hello world" in it. Since we don't really need that there, your going to want to erase that.

What we're going to do, is change some of the properties of our 'test' brick using a script. In order to do that, we first have to tell the script what we want to edit. But, how do we do that? Simple.

First, we tell the script to look under 'game', since everything is in the game, obviously the brick is going to be in there. Then, if you look at the explorer, your going to want to identify it under 'Workspace' as well.

It should look something like this:

game.Workspace.test

First it looks in game, then Workspace and then it's directed to our brick, 'test'.

Now we want to change our brick.

Click the 'test' brick on the explorer and look at the properties tab. Let's change the transparency, to do that, we're going to show the script what we want to change. So add 'transparency' to the script, like so:

game.Workspace.test.Transparency

Now we can go ahead and change it. We want to add an '=' sign and put in the decimal you prefer, just like this:

game.Workspace.test.Transparency = 0.3

Congratulations! You've created your first script. Push the play button, if you've done everything correctly,  the 'test' brick should become transparent.

Send me a message HERE to ask me any questions!

Don't forget to comment!

Poll: Thanksgiving event this year

Hi guys,
Zinc707 here - first time posting on RN. Just to clarify, my name isn't Nina - it's Joshua
(I let my sister use my Blogger account to manage her blog.)

So, I had a quick question for you ROBLOXians. I'm going to be making a Thanksgiving Event this year, but I'm torn between a few ideas. So, I figured that I'd let the readers decide what they want the event to be.

This poll is closed - thank you to everyone that participated in the poll - your feedback is valuable!

Place Review - Simon Says by RobredEyes2

Hello, and welcome to another Place Review by PlusJon! Let's get started!

Today, I went and visited RobredEyes2's suddenly popular game, Simon Says. This game is a great idea, but some things aren't so great. Let's start off with the CON LIST!

For those of you who are new, my CON LIST is a list of the top three things that make it annoying to play.

     1. The UIs are horrible. I can't stand them. Look at the image below and you will see what I mean.

     






     2. This game isn't clear. I hate when people make a game, then don't even explain how to play. Some people don't know how to play Simon Says. The only thing he does to help this is add a place thumbnail. Check below to see it.

        3. This place is a WIPEOUT TRAP!!! I hate the fact that this game doesn't teleport players back, nor teleport them when they lose. You can easily amass 100s of KOs in this place in as little as one hour.


The GOOD!

The Lobby is REALLY nice. I love the use of materials.

Lobby

This game has many different "themes". Each theme has a unique set of "Commands" for Simon to use.

The Cards Theme

There are two kinds of commands.

There are "Simon Says" commands, and then simply "Commands".

The image below is an example of "Commands". 

The image below is an example of a "Simon Says" command.

When players win, there is a nice message announcing all the winners.

Gameplay: I would rate the gameplay a 6/10. If it were not for the WOs, I would make this maybe an 8/10.

Design: I'd give the design a 7/10. Make the UIs better for a higher score.

Scripting: I'm going to give this a 3/10. It's great scripting, but the creator was a little lazy.
Rather than make it teleport players back to the lobby, he added teams and just switched their team and killed them.

OVERALL: 6/10

Nice game!

Roblox News Halloween Paintball Now Open!

Greetings all! The first thing that will spring to mind when reading the title of this post is 'Halloween Paintball?! What is this madness?' and I don't blame you. I realise that this game has been released slightly late and that while we started it at least a week before the 31st of October, it did not reach it's deadline due to bug fixes.

Thumbnail by IBarrageI 

The game was scripted by Zinc707 and the map was built by myself (arbirator).  The map features one main route through the centre of the map and two flank routes across a graveyard and a mandrake garden. Both of these flank routes boast plenty of cover opposed to the centre path. There are also two even wider routes you can take around the edges of the map, but beware, on both sides there are elevated positions that players can easily take advantage of and rain death down upon any foolish player to venture too wide.

Controls:

Press '1' to select your paintball gun and simply aim and click with the mouse to shoot. Use the 'Q' key to load or save any data - note you can only perform this action in-between rounds. Use the 'U' key to upgrade your weapon - every 25 kills you gain 1 upgrade point to spend on proficiencies such as paint ball velocity, accuracy, and damage.

The Modes:

Team Deathmatch 

The classic game of team warfare. Players are split up into two teams: Skeletons and Pumpkins. The objective of this game is for your team to get as many kills as possible in the 10 minute round period. The team with the most kills wins. 

Team Elimination

Similar to Team Deatmatch, you have to kill the other team members. However, when a player is killed, they are eliminated from the round, thus they will not respawn. The last standing player's team wins the round. 

Slaughterfest

Otherwise known as Free For All; players spawn at random points on the map and are tasked with killing every player in sight. There are no teams - everyone is your enemy. The player with the most points at the end of the 10 minute round period, wins.

Darkseed's Gauntlet

A devilish mode from the scheming minds of arbirator and Zinc707. At the beginning of the round, a crystal infused with the power of Darkseed is hidden somewhere in the map. Players must search for the crystal and pick it up - by touching it. The crystal will then appear on your back where you must transport it to the centre of the map: The Resting Place of Darkseed the Fallen. When the crystal is within the proximity of Darskeed, he will slowly begin to rise from the grave, coming for revenge. If the crystal carrier is killed, Darkseed will gradually lose power and descend back into his grave. If a team manages to capture Darkseed, the enemy players will be consumed by the power bestowed by Darkeed himself. The victors shall bathe in glory and valour as they watch their enemies being consumed by the flames of Darkseed. 

So, we hope you enjoy the game and it's four modes! Remember to send us any screenshots of you playing the game at robloxnewshelp@live.co.uk. Play it here.

-Arbirator