Chief Design Officer & Co-Founder
@Twin_Atlas
We design & develop top Roblox games with over 1.5 billion visits! Creator of Swordburst &
@WorldZeroGame
Swordburst 3 is coming!
I've spent a year slowly working out the design for this game, and we'll be starting development soon.
For now, please share your favorite stories / features from SB1/2 to help inspire any features we might be missing! ⚔️
Ever since skinned meshes came out we've been wanting to try this! The avatar is fully skinned and supports swappable
clothes. We're going to keep experimenting and see what we can make here. This is the first project in our new R&D division
@RedMantaStudio
!
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Tower 3 is coming out TOMORROW! Featuring the most impressive bossfight yet. The team has put everything into this one for Level 100!
💯
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@robloxdevrel
sent us tilt trophies!! The base is nearly 5lbs and each tile is nearly another 1lb. It feels so high quality and sturdy to hold. Thank you so much! We plan on filling these out 🎨🏆
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⚔️Final Swordburst 3 dev teaser! ⚔️
The next time we show off the game, it will be the Alpha trailer + release date announcement.
Check out our discord server for WAY more detail:
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Roblox voicechat is SERIOUSLY a game changer. It removes the chore of pausing gameplay to type and replaces it with something that's not only quicker, but has much more emotion and personality. It's effortless to engage and stay engaged, even if you tab out
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The other day I learned what a "Geneva Drive" is and I had to see if it would work on Roblox.
Turns out it does! This minute hand completes a rotation every 60s.
Check it out here:
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Hey everyone! We tried launching Swordburst 3 Alpha but it seems like Roblox is broken and won't let us launch. We're trying to get in contact with anybody who can help, and we'll keep you posted.
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The World Zero toyset came in the mail today!! This will be releasing Jan 1 and we will be giving a special item ingame to whoever redeems one ⚔️
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Swordburst 3 dev update:
- inventory
- crafting
- skill slotting
- questing
Lots to do still, but we're getting closer!
Stay up to date on the latest news and alpha dates:
I had the opportunity to share my 10+ year Roblox development story with Business Insider, from my first games up to where we are today with RedManta!!
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I'll be releasing Swordburst 3 development footage in August! So far planned: Dungeons in the open world, no locked classes, weapon mastery, crafting/dismantling, fishing, skill collecting & movement abilities. Will read all replies - let us know what else you want to see!
This is something we've been waiting to announce for a while! What does this mean for our players? More games and updates - done even better and faster than before.
Also I'll be posting Swordburst 3 dev footage very soon
Exclusive: Two of the largest independent studios creating games for Roblox — RedManta Games and Sonar Studios — have merged to form a new company: Twin Atlas.
For our next major update we're experimenting with difficulties! Previous dungeons would come back with harder difficulties, and you would be able to launch any dungeon inside any world. We're also thinking of adding dungeons to World 5 and 6. Good idea??
Working on Mounts for Swordburst 3!
You'll be able to obtain most mobs as mounts in the game by defeating enough of them.
Play the beta here:
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I was the first engineer on the Lua Apps team in 2016, which Roact was built for.
It was never intended to be released to devs. It was designed to poach Meta engineers who only knew React, so they would feel comfortable.
I have never used it in a single game, and you shouldn't
Swordburst 3 now has a stamina system so that your movement abilities are separate from your burst abilities!
Development is coming along nicely and we're focusing mainly on balance, filling out content (quests, monsters, equipment, skills) and design tweaks. More news soon!
[5/24] You can now place basic objects like fences, stairs, platforms and walls. They also have health so monsters can tear them down
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Beyond excited for what we have planned at RedManta next year. Project Block Defense, Anime Life & finalizing the game design for Swordburst 3. Not to mention the ideas we haven’t even thought of yet. See you in 🌟2022🌟
Watching the State of Unreal today reminds me how much I wish we could set the grass length in Roblox.
We have to use grass sparingly in Swordburst 3 because it's too long and hides your avatar / enemies / attack effects 🥲
#RDC24
was the best one yet.. but let's talk about the part of RDC that nobody does.
I've been doing panels / presenting for nearly 10 years. I love doing it. And every time, I am so nervous that I don't eat food for a day before. Talking to other presenters I realized this
Prototyped a toggle to hide other people's damage numbers! I think we'll add this. Useful for seeing your own damage as well as better performance in 10-player bossfights!
100 million visits really snuck up on us! It feels like yesterday when we broke 10 million. Awesome work from everyone involved to hit this milestone!
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We passed 100 MILLION VISITS today!!
Thank you all so much - we're releasing a promo code for 100 free crystals. Enter code 100MILPARTY in the new Promo menu :)
Added
@sleitnick
's camera shake to World // Zero. DEFINITELY need to tone it down a bit 🙂- but I could see bosses causing big screen shakes when they use big attacks🤛
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When I started making RPGs on Roblox 10 years ago I never expected to be creating a project of this size or quality. So proud of the
@WorldZeroGame
team and how far this game has come - and even more excited for where it's headed!!
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[7/24] Parachutes that drop supplies! There is an upwards force applied at the top of the parachute equal to 98% of gravity. Combined with a heavy base, this adds up to a pretty cool swaying / drifting effect.
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Bikes are almost working in Anime Life! They're definitely the most fun/convenient way to get around. Trying to knock out as many tasks as possible so we can open the game for a public test soon!
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On Friday we launched the Zero Altar in
@WorldZeroGame
. It allows you to combine the rarest weapons into Zero Weapons.
Here's what it looks like when you fuse them at the Zero Altar! (yes lots of Zero nomenclature in this)
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New main menu screen in
#Swordburst2
! This should reduce loadtimes and it also looks a lot cooler than before. Built by
@buildermans_son
Unlike the previous menu..this one can be explored!
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Swordburst 3 will feature open-world PvP. Indicators above your head let other players know how dangerous you are!
Green = Friendly player
Orange = Recently attacked another player
Red = recently killed another player
More details:
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Swordburst 3 FREE RELEASE is tomorrow!
Friday February 16th
Favorite the game to get ready:
Join the discord to know the exact minute it goes live:
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Thrilled to be adding the Miata to the garage! The last time I bought a car it got scraped by a tornado 20 minutes after bringing it home. Today’s experience was much better 👍
@motto_koneko
Someone did this in my server and everybody quickly muted them. They were just screaming with nobody listening. I wonder if Roblox could detect if a player is frequently muted by other players, and matchmake these kinds of users into the same server :)
[1/24] With 24 days left until RDC I decided to schedule a daily tweet showing development videos from our new prototype.
RedManta started this prototype 6 weeks ago and I've regularly been taking progress videos. Here we go - in order from start to finish!
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Absolutely mindblowing waking up to nearly 15,000 people in Swordburst 3 today!!
We've been overwhelmed by the results so far, and are working as fast as we can on patches and Floor 3!! Thank you so much everyone for your support and feedback :)
Play here:
[8/24] Sniper scopes! It's been over a month since this was implemented however we still haven't been able to reduce camera sensitivity. We found no developer-API for this so it's been on the backburner. We'll need to find time to rewrite the Camera scripts.
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Roblox went down so I was interrupted mid-line of code, in an editor that runs at 1fps.
Artists were uninterrupted because they use 3rd party tools of their choosing.
I hope 2023 is the year we get official support for 3rd party code editors. Would get so much more done.
#RDC2021
was easily the best one yet. Despite all the hurdles it was priceless getting to see so many old friends (and new ones) after nearly 2 years. Thank you for the opportunity to speak on a panel - hopefully it was helpful because it definitely motivated me!
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[6/24] The ammo counter now works along with some new effects. The casings that fall on the ground are only seen by your client so that every player isn't spamming parts.
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RedManta has a new logo!!!
We spent a lot of time tweaking this to be just the way we wanted and are excited to display it in our games soon!
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We finally shipped
@WorldZeroGame
alpha this weekend. The feedback has been overwhelmingly positive and the community so supportive!
Amazing job by the entire team - we only started this project 3 months ago and I can't wait to see where we go next.
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Our 2019 Bloxy award for Best Use Of Tech arrived!! Our mini-bloxys now have a friend. This was really nice to get in the mail today because tonight is our huge Dragoon + World 6 update. Don’t miss it!!
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It feels like the Roblox "Friend Activity" sort should tell you *which* friend actually played a game. I wish I knew which friend was into Frontlines so I could invite them to a party.
Testing out new ProximityPrompts - definitely going to be adding these to World // Zero! No more digging through a list to interact 😃
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@elonmusk
Apple makes more money from Roblox games than the individual developers do. This tax suffocates the digital ecosystem and absolutely harms innovation. Had Microsoft charged a 30% tax on software, it's hard to imagine platforms like Steam and other MMOs could've survived.
For Swordburst 3 there's a few weapon types that we know will be there for Alpha. But for the less obvious ones, which is your favorite? This will help us choose which to prioritize. Comment any others if you'd like!
Just received the Swordburst toy set from
#roblox
! The wolf is really cool and I quickly discovered you can swap its pieces with other figures for some..interesting results :)
Anime Life now has blinking! We've been wanting to experiment with face tech for a while (blinking, emotes) and this is a good opportunity to do it.
Once this prototype has a few more things completed (basic UI, saving, etc) we'll open it up for testing!
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side obsession: I've always wanted to try making a crankshaft, so today I did. This took less than 30 minutes and was extremely easy to setup using Roblox constraints.
I love how Roblox is both my job - but also where I go to actually just play / experiment in my free time
Happy 2023! I feel like I didn't post enough in 2022, so you'll be seeing a lot more this year. We've got Swordburst 3, Drive World, Anime Life, big World Zero changes - way too much exciting stuff to list off in a single tweet. This year - let's make some awesome games!
[3/24] Crosshairs & camera kick! The camera kick has been toned down a lot since this video was taken. I have to be careful about over-tweening because it's satisfying when testing - but not for long play sessions.
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Watch the Level Up roundtable ft
@RedMantaStudio
as they share their experience managing live games and discusses
#gamedev
fundamentals for building game expansions.
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