Roblox is a gaming platform that allows users to create their own games and play games that other developers have created. It allows people from around the world to connect, but the game went through some major developments before it became the great gaming platform we know.
The gaming platform began as a simulated 2D physics game called “Interactive Physics” from 1989 to 1997. This simulation became the building blocks of the game we know today.
This logo was a combination of “interactive” in black and all caps with a red italicized cursive “Physics” overlapping,
As the game continued to develop, it obtained the name “Go Blocks” in 2003. This was the first attempt at naming the game which quickly got changed.
This logo was in sans serif font with the word “Go” in green and the word “Block” in blue.
In 2004, founders David Baszucki and Erick Casssel, launched “DynaBlocks”. The original concept was to create a physics-based building game where users would design games using interactive blocks and characters and share them with other users.
This logo kept the sans serif font but thickened and in a rainbow of colors.
In 2005, Roblox was launched, and not long after gained many dedicated users. The name “Roblox” came from a combination of “robots” and “blocks”.
Roblox was officially released to the public in 2006 allowing anyone to join and create their own games. This, along with the concept of the game, became the foundation for the evolution of Roblox.
This update evolved the appearance of the logo, changing it from a red outline of the word Roblox with an accent mark above the first “o” and a gradient blue hue, to a cartoon-like style and a marker stroke effect still in red, outlining the word. This logo lasted from 2006 to 2007.
The logo was updated again in 2007 keeping it very similar but with a few slight changes. They kept the same cartoon style and stroke effect but changed the red to a slightly darker red and adjusted certain letters making the logo slightly different. This was the longest logo the game has had from it lasting from 2007 to 2017.
After ten years, Roblox introduced a new logo. This logo kept the red but changed the font into a modified Gill Sans Ultra Bold font with the “o” symbolizing the building blocks of the game with the first “o” having a slight tilt. This logo only lasted a year.
In 2018, the logo stayed exactly the same but switched from red to all-black. This logo lasted from 2018 to 2022.
The most recent adjustment changed the font to Gotham leading the logo to have a much slimmer appearance. The second “o” was also adjusted to have the same font as the rest, and the first kept its tilted squared shape. This is the present logo.
Roblox has gained major growth over the years from just starting from a small community to now over 79 million users daily. It has opened opportunities for developers to create their own games. Roblox has truly evolved from what it once was.