This article covers notable game events and notable things from 2020-26. Most content is sourced from the #announcements channel on the Retro Dev Discord. For the changelog of Retrostudio, see this article. NOTE TO EDITORS WISHING TO CONTRIBUTE: Please do not use #sub-announcements as they will take up more space and are irrelevant to the big picture of RetroStudio's history, thanks. :)

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RetroStudio, for the five years of its existence, has seen many changes like its events, updates, and incidents, from its first creation on October 18, 2020, to 2026. Due to the heavy content amount of RetroStudio, it has been decided to move the history here to optimize and organize the RetroStudio page.

History

October

18th - Retrostudio is created.

November

12th - The first testing session takes place.
16th - The title was changed to RetroStudio. Prior to this, the original title was "meta" which was RetroStudio's codename.

December

18th - Second testing session takes place.
19th - Third testing session takes place.
23rd - Fourth and last testing session takes place.
24th - On Christmas Eve, the game is publicized.
30th - Booster perks setup for the RetroDev Discord Server.

January

3rd - RBC hard hats are given to each user who buys Retro Builders Club.
10th - Misc. button and Shutdown Current Servers button.
14th - Place ID is added to get to specific games.
16th - Kloud4K Joined RetroStudio.
19th - Flamingo posts a YouTube video of him playing Retrostudio, causing thousands of people to play Retrostudio. This was criticized for the tons of "Newgens" as they are called to join the community. Details on the raid can be found here.
21st - Now able to scroll through game pages.
24th - Time eras from Late 2010 to Mid 2015 are added to the game.

February

2nd - DavidBlocks 1994 era added.
4th - Version reverting for places added.
8th - Scrolling backgrounds added in the main menu.
11th - Max server sizes are added.
20th - User profiles added.
27th - Message system setup.

March

Unknown - YouTuber Tutili made a Retrostudio video around this time, which only contributed to the "Newgen" wave that occured in Early 2021. He is criticized in the community for this.
20th - Catalog UI was resigned.

April

1st - Promo Codes added.
4th - Song player menu added.
7th - A new default thumbnail was added and Dialog was added.
17th - Place teleportation is now possible thanks to a model, and Late 2010 bubble chat was updated to be more accurate.

May

1st - Guests are added as a gamepass for 150 Robux.
23rd - Materials for Late 2013 and later were added.
28-29th - Both of the 2009 eras are added.

June

4th - Default avatars now resemble those from 2011 Roblox.
21st - Banners were added.
23rd - You can now private, public, or hide games. Privating a game will not shutdown any current servers running.

July

2nd - Edit and Format menus were added to Studio.
16th - Block coding is added after development since April, and while limited in function, now makes standard scripting possible.

August

11th - You can now overwrite places.

September

1st - Like percentages added to games.
4th - You can now import and export models in Studio by code/ID.
5th - Settings and themes added, along with the option to turn off the FPS cap.
12th - OBC Orange and Cyan themes are added.
22nd - You can now mute the music in the main menu.
24th - Badges are added along with badge coding blocks. Settings are updated.
25th - Midnight Orange theme added, along with the Esteemed Architect Badge.

October

6th - Searching for code blocks was added.
18th - Retrostudio turned a year old on this day and so came the Veteran badge.
25th - Retrostudio's first Halloween Event was released.
28th-31st - The Roblox 2021 Outage occurs, the longest time Roblox was down and the first time nobody was on Roblox since 2016. Like many other games, the hype for Halloween activities blew over.

November

11th - The Profile tab was redesigned.
14th - Legacy theme added.

December

10th - Christmas theme added.
16th - Status is added to player's profiles.
24th - Retrostudio's first Christmas event opens.
31st - LocalScript is added, which allows code to run from a player's computer.

January

6th - Search added for avatar items in the avatar page.
16th - You can now multitask scripts(edit several scripts at a time) in Studio.
23rd - Home page added.

February

19th - Execute script was added.

March

24th - Outfits are added
Uncategorized - Games layout page revamped.

April

1st - April fools!(did anything actually happen on this day in Retrostudio?)
11th - Loading screen added for Mid 2014.
13th - Tweening blocks for GUI were added.
15th - The 2022 RetroStudio Egg Hunt takes place.
19th - Dev console added to Early 2014 client.
30th - Mobile Studio fixes.

May

14th - Lobby UI fixed on mobile.
25th - First RetroStudio Shutdown Begins. Over the next few days, status updates would be released by crazyblocks(unknown user) on Twitter, confirming that the game was not taken down for inappropriate content.
29th - Messages rework

June

1st - First RetroStudio Shutdown Ends. RetroStudio returns after Roblox Support restores the game.
6th - Custom cursor added to the lobby for PC users.
24th - Statistics section added to user's profiles.

July

7th - Updated accuracy of materials.
20th - Team Create is released, however only one person can work on a game at a time.
26/29th - The "OOF" sound is re-added.

August

26th - You can now hide your/other's RBC icons in the playerlist.

September

20th - Game icon revamped

October

10th - You can now search for all of your places under the "Build tab" and also sort by "Public" or "Private".

November

1st - Halloween theme added, and the Lord Umberhallow's Revenge(Hallo. 2022) Event was launched. The event received poor feedback as it was known for being rushed.
18th - The RetroStudio BLOXGiving Turkey Hunt 2022 event was launched.
21st - Bug fixes, catalog pages added.

December

21st - Custom symbols and unicodes are no longer useable in game titles for the purpose of chat moderation.
25th - Christmas theme added. The RetroStudio Holiday Games 2022 Event was launched aswell.

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Sometime in 2023 - Retrostudio hits the 50 million visits milestone.

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16th - Natural Disasters Survival is the first RetroStudio game to hit 1 million visits.
18/20th - Design changes for avatar item and game pages.

April

1st - The Retro Dev group reaches 100,000 members. The promocode "Group100K" was added for 2500 Retrobux.
7th - 16:9 thumbnail support added(confirmed?)

May

June

28-29th - The Beyond 5D hacking incident occurs. With another hacker, 5D overrid games with his own map featuring a hellish landscape and signs showing his ego towards hatred of the community. It occured a second time shortly afterwards. Panic erupts for the two days.
30th - A documentation site is launched for RetroStudio for guides, code blocks, and objects in Studio.

July

10th - Slave labor tycoon drama - After a trend of tycoons related to using slave labor, moderation was enforced further on this day.
18th - The game’s вампир Update (English: Vampire Update) released, hosting random Dracula games as “events”. Random players were wearing a Dracula mask. In addition, these players were speaking Russian. That was due to a trend on social media platform TikTok, on Russia’s end, with Russians (and probably others) that this trend was funny, causing chaos to ensure.
20th - Drama occurs with the Russian playerbase of RetroStudio resulting in several rulebreakers, requiring a reminder announcement.

August

3rd - You can now export Retrostudio-made models to Roblox.
Early August - Suggestive content issues - Many server users begin to report that they no longer feel comfortable in RetroDev after a surge in inappropriate content. On the 10th, the old rulebook is enforced further.
28th - Realistic blood is no longer allowed in RetroStudio games after Roblox orders the game to meet to age guidelines.
31st - After severe delays, the 2023 Egg Hunt Event is released to the public, fully released on September 1st, and ends on October 1st.

September

6th - One of Retrostudio's largest BLOXtober seasons takes off with two planned event games(Hallow's Eve 2023 and a Halloween-themed paintball tournament game) and a map submission contest.

19th:

Discord incorrectly marks the RetroDev Server as NSFW. This was quickly fixed three days later.
cristiano rallies the server in an effort to fight the Roblox Experience Marketplace Policy which, thanks to their efforts aswell as other communities on Roblox, stop from being implemented.

October

31st - The RetroStudio Hallow's Eve 2023 event is launched, along with Retrostudio's own Headless Horseman bundle for 31,000 Retrobux.

November

1st - A gamebreaking bug related to data causes chaos in the Halloween event. By popular demand, the event deadline is also pushed to November 13.
10th - AyRay announces considering a block code plugin for Roblox Studio for models being created and exported from RetroStudio. However, it hasn't been created despite popular support.
15th - A frenzy occurs server-wide after a glitch in Roblox's catalog makes the Headless Horseman bundle free, and announced to the RetroDev server. It was up for 30 minutes before the issue was resolved and the free copies were confiscated.

December

8th-24th - The RetroStudio Giftsplosion(2023) takes place, reviving a long lost Roblox tradition.

January

1st-7th - Fixed some bugs regarding corner clip.

February

15th - The ability to add limbs of different packages with each other was added and you can now use gears that were previously restricted to a package.

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November

7th - Cookie-stealing scam ping occurs, which leads to several user's accounts, including an admins, being compromised.
10th - #retro-builds channel is replaced with a forum for organizational purposes.
11th - Game Of The Week for Retro Dev is considered by Robloxandtyler, but so far has not been released.

December

14-25th - Giftsplosion 2024 is launched, lasting for 12 days.
19th - Giftsplosion 2024: Santa's Workshop is launched to part with the recent event.
31st - Due to new Roblox scripting updates, the Messages system is deprecated.

January

01/03 - A PSA is issued to developers whose games use block-coded chat systems to replace the systems with new chat blocks before the 30th. Any places still using the old systems will be banned, unless they are set to private. No accounts would be banned. Gamepasses can also no longer be misleading.
01/05 - The 100 Million Visits event opens, featuring a range of activities. That same day, a Retrobux giveaway with three winners and prizes would be announced.
01/13 - Former administrator Erazias left the RetroDev server after drama started flaring up about her.
01/09-16 - 2025 Administrator applications opened. However, in Late January, the RetroDev Bot released a server-wide message that majority of the applications were so poor and unprofessional, that the first batch of applications were declined entirely.
01/16 - Former administrator Nilivh passed away from Type 2 diabetic shock in his sleep. On the 17th, a server-wide announcement was issued, and shortly after a memorial game was released. On the 18th, the memorial game was unpinned.
01/20 - A vote is made in the server on changing the colors of code blocks between a left and right choice. Out of the five categories, all of them voted "Left".

February

1st - The second wave of Administrator applications wrap up.
2nd - Watch a TV, a longtime RetroStudio game infamous for degenerate behavior and slop copies, is Content Deleted on this day. The community rejoices in the end of an era. However, it returns in an hour with stricter moderation.
4th - The Retro Dev community on Roblox is now verified. robloxandtyler and Cristiano are now trying to become verified aswell by asking on the group wall shout for people to follow him.
7th - Custom themes are added, allowing users to edit the main menu UI to their desires, aswell as post them online with a code to use it.
12-24th - The Winter Warfare paintball event is launched, and those who follow robloxandtyler and Cristiano now earn 400 Retrobux in-game. The final prize is $1,000,000 Retrobux, which was split among the 5 winning team members into 200,000 checks.
20th - A glitch with Roblox's systems occured where players buying Retrobux with Robux would not receive the Retrobux. This was quickly patched, and Ayray was open to DMs(direct messages) for those with failed transactions history.
22nd - A second, shorter paintball tournament game was announced, moved to March 8-9th.
23rd - some users on retrostudio including 6ototototototototo experienced a major issue on 2/23/2025 that caused their retrostudio gameplay to crash and return them to the lobby after too many black text and some white text appeared on their screens as a September 2025 reddit post documented
25th - The new RetroDev mascot, Mr Retro, is unveiled, and takes the appearance of an edited mario, with blue instead of red, the signature M replaced with the retro "R", and no facial hair.

March

24th - Kenilworth916 data breach incident: This user reportedly had been involved in stealing several Roblox accounts, aswell as associated email accounts from users in the Retro Dev Discord. A PSA about protecting one's account, in both Roblox and Discord, was made with this announcement.
Also on the 24th - Fylo, a Discord server moderation bot that is growing in popularity, is being installed on Retro Dev to enhance the security of the server.
30th - From 4:30 to 7:30 PM EST, the Retro Support system is moved to modmail, providing a more direct and easier contact with admins. Between these times, the system was not in operation.
31st - Colonist announces his retirement from the RetroStudio admin team.

April

5th - Keyboard & Mouse Console Support is now enabled for RetroStudio.
6th - The #sub-announcements channel is created on the Retro Dev Discord, used for polls, game nights, and other miscellaneous announcements.
19th - Added Game of the Week, a new curated game pinned to the front page every Sunday. Staff will conduct internal weekly polls to pick the game of the week, each weekend

May

20th - Around 10 AM (Eastern Time) all games on the front page were replaced by NSFW condo games. In a sudden urge of panic RetroStudio is privated. AyRay was in the hospital at the time and announced a return of the game soon. Details here.

July

7th - On the Retro Dev Discord server, yourfavoritesalesman is the first user to reach Level 100.

October

1st - Event Team launched New Event called "Bloxtober2025" and Also there 2 New promocodes.

December

20th - RetroStudio is nominated for and wins the "Best Tech Design" category of The Creator Awards 2025.

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16th - First Ever RetroStudio Video: "meta" footage - RetroStudio).
23rd - Retro Dev "JunkBot" Group Wall Raid: Retro Dev group wall got raided).

December

18th - meta (RetroStudio) was back - RETROBLOX

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