[chc4]

I also grew up playing Roblox, and it's how I learned programming. I probably logged thousands of hours in script builders. My life definitely turned out very different thanks to Roblox.

For those not in the know, script builders were places that were just an empty map, but that allowed anyone in the server to load in their own scripts - so people would create and run custom weapons, power armor, admin commands, etc. and play around with each other. There was a very dedicated community of programmers that played them for years, and I'm still friends with some people I met through them like 7 years ago.

I think as a genre they're pretty dead, though - Roblox tightened security around loading arbitrary scripts that broke all the script builders several times, and now had replication filtering so that client-side scripts can't set properties. You probably could still make cool swords, but they'd need to use proper RemoteFunctions for client-server RPC, meaning all the old scripts are broken.

[madjam002]

Hi fellow script-builder!

Yep definitely had a lot of fun in those places. I remember loads of people logging on injecting admin command scripts (wasn’t it something like Person210’s admin commands that everyone used?)

One of my more vivid memories was making a script that would inject a train station that only I had access to, with a train that would take me to a distant planet with god-mode weapons and aircraft. Had a lot of fun with that! This must have been back in 2008/09