‘Roblox’ lures pro game developers who compete with coding kids


A child adds a face mask to her character on the game ‘Roblox’ at her home in Manchester, Britain. Roblox’s trajectory generated interest from professional game developers, many of whom are now fighting to beat out children for success on the highly competitive platform. — Reuters

In the fall of 2018, Mary Rukavina was enjoying her first day of college at the University of Minnesota, where she had enrolled to study biomedical engineering, when she received an intriguing call.

RedManta, a video game studio founded that year, offered to pay Rukavina US$5,000 (RM21,737) a month to make games on Roblox, an online platform that allows people to program their own games and play games created by others.

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