Developers can now play their own private games!

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#21

yes yes yes yes yes yES YES YES

bye kick scripts
bye friends only
bye private groups
you won’t be missed

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#22

Awesome feature, sounds like something I’ll be using a lot!

#23

Great step in the right direction! I hope to see more granular access control going further.

#24

Underrated feature of the year. This is super useful.

Also, thank you for the warning underneath the play button. I would have for sure linked private games to others expecting they could play them without it. Awesome foresight.

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#25

Now all we need is free private servers for owners of a game. Good update, though!

#26

‘This also applies to group games: everyone who has edit access will be able to play privately’
use that as a whitelist

edit: Oh nvm I see what you and snowskateer meant. If they aren’t developers but still testers

#27

Finally!

#28

This is on my todo list but don’t expect it anytime soon – it’s going to be a large effort.

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#29

In addition to this, wouldn’t it make more sense for the “friends only” option to be moved alongside the “public” and “private” options with a message similar to what is shown when private is selected?

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#30

Yeeeeeeeesssssssssssssssssssss
thank yew ver much

will use many

#31

This is just perfect, now you don’t have to make it friends only and take care about who’s your friend

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#32

nice.

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#33

god has not forsaken us after all

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#34

This is awesome!

I’m glad to see that this was implemented. This makes testing so much easier. My previous method involved a lot of tricks with Place teleporting to avoid unwanted players. This makes it very straightforward.

Thanks.

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#35

I love you.

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#36

Also will this show up under Friend Activity? If I want to keep something secret I’d have to obfuscate the icon, thumbnail, description, and title as well.

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#37

yay, good bye code to kick them!

#38

Pretty sure you’d have to do that either way if you really want to keep it secret. The people who are a threat to your ideas aren’t limited to friend activity. People can always see all of your projects. Why create a descriptive title and description and upload thumbnails and icons on a private game until you’re going to release it?

In any case, it clearly shouldn’t show up on friend activity, I just don’t agree that that’s why.

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#39

How would this work for people who are invited to team create servers from privately owned places?

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#40

Woho I have waited for this so long, no longer need for creator only entrance scripts where you want the game private.

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