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Source: https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2022\/3\/22\/22989995\/roblox-game-fund-25-million-rolling-thunder-winds-of-fortune<\/a>
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Last July, Roblox announced the Game Fund<\/a>, a program to give developers funding and support for Roblox<\/em> experiences. Timed with the Game Developers Conference this week, the company is using those funded games to showcase the range of experiences possible with its tools.<\/p>\n

There are a few parts to what Roblox is announcing on Tuesday. One is that Roblox is revealing for the first time that it\u2019s investing $25 million as part of the Game Fund. Roblox had previously said it would be giving $500,000 minimum in each Roblox<\/em> experience it selected for the Game Fund, but now we know how much will be given out in total.<\/p>\n

Roblox has already announced<\/a> three games getting support from the fund \u2014 Winds of Fortune<\/em>, Rolling Thunder<\/em>, and neonKnights<\/em> \u2014 and it\u2019s sharing \u201cfirst looks\u201d of two of those experiences on Tuesday. Winds of Fortune<\/em>, from developer Sonar Studios, looks a little bit like Microsoft\u2019s Sea of Thieves<\/em>, featuring ship battles, mysterious islands, and even a giant sea serpent creature. Rolling Thunder<\/em>, from Splitting Point Studios, is a gritty first-person shooter. <\/p>\n

I recommend you check out both of them in a trailer below \u2014 I was struck by <\/strong>how they don\u2019t have much of the blocky Roblox<\/em> aesthetic you may be familiar with. <\/strong>Roblox<\/em> tells me they\u2019re each in pre-alpha, which means to me that parts of the game could change as development continues. If you want to try Rolling Thunder<\/em> right now, it\u2019s available for free on Roblox<\/em><\/a> \u2014 though, in my five minutes of testing, I found it to be a pretty rudimentary military shooter.<\/p>\n

Finally, Roblox is revealing three additional games that have received support from the Game Fund: Project Ruin<\/em>, a competitive PvE roguelike; Riotfall<\/em>, a squad-based multiplayer FPS (that is also available to try on Roblox<\/em><\/a>, though it crashed every time I tried to hop into a match on my iPhone); and Secret Neighbor<\/em>, a Roblox<\/em>-based version of the multiplayer game<\/a> that\u2019s currently available on PC and consoles. <\/p>\n

Jad Boniface, who heads up the Game Fund at Roblox, told The Verge<\/em> in an interview that there is a larger list of games that have been greenlit, but \u201cwe\u2019re just not ready to share details about those additional games yet.\u201d And Roblox plans to keep applications for the fund<\/a> open through July, Boniface told me, so it seems there is still opportunity for games to get picked to receive support. As for a second fund, \u201cwe hope that the results from this Game Fund will lead to a second Game Fund, but it\u2019s still too early to say,\u201d Boniface said. <\/p>\n