Congrats to "Homemade Meal", who just won a Roblox Innovation award in the "Best Use of Tech" category for Tunneler, a full-fledged, fully functional game inspired by Valve’s classic game Portal - including the original’s groundbreaking physics and teleporting mechanic. I interviewed Mr. Meal earlier this year, who told me one motivation he had for creating this game is to prove how powerful the platform could be:
“When people think of Roblox, they typically think of a game where a bunch of kids play with simple basic blocks,” as Tunneler’s creator puts it to me. “[But recently] more and more new and modern features from other game engines have been added onto the platform. Nowadays, the quality of the games on Roblox depend entirely on the developer.”
So the typical Roblox developer (i.e. a kid) could not make a game like Tunneler out of the box. It was created by ROBLOX user “Homemade Meal”, who in his day job, works part-time as an effects artist for a game studio.
“There's a lot of technical things beneath the surface that I had to do for Tunneler,” Mr. Meal explains, “like using tricks with physics to be able to pass through them while maintaining collisions with the rest of the environment.”
Read the rest here, including his explanation for how he created the portal (I mean tunnel) effect.
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