Roblox features millions of such games, many of them generated by the very children who play them. Grow a Garden — ...

The newly announced Roblox avatar updates aim to inject both more customization and more realism into the blocky Lego-like looks that are synonymous with the platform now.

But Roblox is primarily a building game, not a market simulation. The game is physics-based and encourages both building things out of virtual blocks, and using scripting to code how items behave.

Roblox will offer layered clothing and facial gestures for more realistic avatars The company announced the experimental features at its annual developer conference.