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Innovation and creativity are two of the most important aspects of our culture here at Roblox, and our latest Hack Week took the excitement surrounding these values to new heights.
With no limit placed on imagination, Hack Week is a chance for our employees to break away from their day to day work and explore fresh new ideas that test the outer limits of technology. And when the sky’s the limit, the possibility for innovation is endless. Just before our holiday break in December, creators gathered to show their inventions to their peers. For the sixth year in a row, the gathered crowd came away with a greater appreciation for the creative-brained inventiveness of all of Roblox’s presenters.
Over these five days of Hack Week, we saw unbridled creativity resulting in visionary new concepts for our player and developer communities, new internal workflow solutions, and global product development with an eye towards China. In short, exciting new ideas only achievable through the wide-open atmosphere that Hack Week provides. When your fun assignment is to go forth and create whatever you think will benefit the Roblox world with no risk or fear of failure, great things happen.
Here’s a highlight reel of some of the creations developed during Hack Week in December 2018. When all was tallied, over 70 projects went from daydreams and cocktail napkin sketches to actual concepts.
While none of the projects in this video are currently in the production pipeline and were made to test the limits of our technology and creativity, who knows where they might end up? If you saw something you loved, use the hashtag #RobloxHackWeek on Twitter and we’ll put in a good word for your favorite.
Hack Week is always a fun and inspiring week for the entire team. Having the opportunity to work on any project we desire, with an eye towards making Roblox a richer experience for you, our community, is a workplace dream come true. You keep playing and we’ll always keep pushing the creative envelope.
Product & Tech
Powering the imagination is at the core of everything we do here at Roblox. One of the ways we seek to continually celebrate that vision from within the organization is through our beloved annual Hack Week tradition, which recently took place from March 26th to the 30th.
Hack Week is a fun, impactful opportunity to test our coding prowess, stimulate our creative muscles, and shape the future of the Roblox platform in new and unexpected ways. Every year, various Roblox teams take a short break from their normal day-to-day routines to focus exclusively on building amazing things they’re passionate about, no matter how ambitious. Whether it’s improving the way we work internally or creating inventive tools for the developer community, everyone at our headquarters teems with excitement about the vast potential of some of the incredible ideas that are formed over these five days. There’s no risk of failure during Hack Week; just pure innovation, experimentation, and unbridled creativity.
Inside Roblox’s Hack Week
In the spirit of community, we’d like to share a short highlight reel of some of the cool experiments that were born out of this year’s Hack Week. In the end, 75 projects(a new Hack Week record!) went from intriguing ideas to actual concepts.
As a reminder, none of the projects you see here in this video are currently planned on our roadmap and were only made to test the limits of our creativity and technology. With that said, please enjoy this brief look into our 2018 Hack Week:
What happens to all those great Hack Week ideas?
At the end of the week, we all get together and let everyone present their completed projects in front of the entire company. Although most of them are simply demonstrations and may never truly see the light of day, there is a small chance a few of those ideas may someday make it into our product pipeline for an official release. If you saw anything in the video that truly moves you, tweet us at @Roblox with the hashtag #RobloxHackWeek and we’ll try to make it a reality.
Hack Week has frequently proven itself to be extremely productive, fun, and inspiring to the entire team. Getting the opportunity to work on any pet project we desire lets us learn, collaborate, and push our technology forward so we can better serve you—our dedicated fans.