Dean Takahashi wanders through the JDRF area inside Roblox.
Dean Takahashi wanders through the JDRF area inside Roblox.
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Roblox, game developers, and JDRF team up to fight Type 1 diabetes

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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  • 6 min

Roblox is hosting a game inside its virtual world platform to help raise awareness for Type 1 diabetes. The game, was made by Roblox developer MelonDev with medical research nonprofit JDRF, formerly known as the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation. The JDRF One World game is available today.

With more than 150 million users, Roblox is the No. 1 video game site for kids and teens. JDRF One World is part of a campaign from the game-focused charity JDRF Game2Give, organized in 2019 by prominent game developers who have children with type 1 diabetes. The effort is aimed at raising awareness and supporting work to find a cure for the disease, which strikes one in 400 children.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.