i f̵̞̼͈́͐̉̀͘ų̵͙͉̩̳̝̜̈́͂͐c̶͇̀͌̚͝k̸͍̈̓̌̅̀ȉ̷̦̙̦̝͖̾̀n̷͓̠͆g̵͕͋͌ love roblox. thats why i decided to dedicate my two weeks school break on creating the clone of it on c#. it lowkey looks like some "pixel gun 3d" type of game you would find on play store. and isn't that "project" thing way too ambitiously sounding?
build server and client as a regular .NET projects by using dotnet build.
now run the server with following arguments (change them to your needs):
-ss {"f":25570,"g":60,"b":"content/places/Welcoming.rbxlx","c":"Welcoming","d":"netblox","h":"The Lord"}
, where f is server port, g is maximum player count, b is a relative path to the XML
formatted place file, c is place's display name, d is place's universe name (places and
universes/experiences are different but connected entities!) and h is place's author. don't
ask me why the keys are so cryptically named.
finally run the client with following arguments (change them to your needs):
-cs {"a":"http://localhost:80/","b":"NetBlox Development","e":true,"g":"127.0.0.1"}
, where a is Public Service base URL (i will elaborate on this later), b is window's
display title, e is whether you want to log in as a guest (you can't turn it off yet) and
g is server's IP and port.
Important
Because Windows and JSON's double quotes, your terminal may turn arguments into literals
and ruin the whole thing. You need to escape the quotes, or substitute them with ^^.
as i said earlier, the project is basically a game engine, aiming to be API-compatible
with roblox. if we're lucky, then maybe it's gonna be compatible enough to cross-play with
native roblox clients on native roblox servers. the project follows traditional structure
for multiplayer games, we have UniversalServer program and UniversalClient, which are
server and client of this game respectively and i believe everything else is straightforward.
now i really have nothing to say as to why this project even exists, but i believe i created it as a no-hope thing that i didn't have any motivation to work on. over three weeks i added things or two and abandoned the project. then spring of 2024 came and i found this project on my computer and decided to give it a go, and now we're here.
just like roblox, it's expected to support physics, scripting, characters, multiplayer, nice rendering and its social network part. so far, little was achieved, but scripting probably works at a level that i can call "normal".
The NetBlox project is licensed under MIT license, check LICENSE.txt file in the repository root.
NetBlox. Copyright (c) 2024-2025, The NetBlox Project's contributors.
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Raylib-cs. Copyright (c) 2018-2025, ChrisDill (check license)
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