Did you know that you can add Discord Rich Presence functionality to your own game? Thanks to BloxstrapRPC, you can do just that!
Some of you may already know about Bloxstrap. One of its main features is Discord Rich Presence. However, it also provides the ability for games to control and customize what the Rich Presence looks like - but how?
Bloxstrap features BloxstrapRPC, a simple one-way RPC mechanism for Roblox games to send data to an application running on your computer.
Here are some examples of developers who have integrated it into their games:
- Quantum Science Energy Research Facility, by Quantum Science Inc.
- Kit Battle Beta Testing, by @NobleReign
It’s also worth mentioning that Sober has support for BloxstrapRPC too.
Getting started
I’d recommend that you read up on the documentation for BloxstrapRPC, but I’ll briefly cover on how to get started with it here.
The BloxstrapRPC SDK provides you with everything that you’ll need. You can get it from the Roblox marketplace, roblox-ts, or GitHub.
Once you’ve done that, in any LocalScript, you can import it and call its methods. See the documentation for all the methods and types it makes available.
Here’s an example script that sets the user’s rich presence as soon as they join the game.
local BloxstrapRPC = require(game.ReplicatedStorage.BloxstrapRPC)
local timestamp = os.time()
BloxstrapRPC.SetRichPresence({
details = "Example details value",
state = "Example state value",
timeStart = timestamp,
timeEnd = timestamp + 60,
largeImage = {
assetId = 10630555127,
hoverText = "Example hover text"
},
smallImage = {
assetId = 13409122839,
hoverText = "Example hover text"
}
})
To test this out, publish the game to Roblox, and join it with Bloxstrap installed, and you should see this show up on your Discord profile.
It’s that easy! There is behaviour for persisting or resetting fields, so that you don’t need to re-specify all of the fields just for updating one thing. All of that is detailed in the documentation.
Let me know how well it works for you, what you’d like to see be added, or if you have any problems using it.
Special thanks to @ElusiveEpix for suggesting this idea, and helping me out with this.
