How to I make a desktop launcher for my game?

[MothManac]

I would like to make a desktop launcher for my game (windows by itself is fine, mac would be nice too.)
I cant seem to find resources for accomplishing this…
I thought about using web-app shortcuts, but that doesnt actually ‘launch’ the game.

Does anyone have a resource for accomplishing this?

[stastthepal (Eliana)]

why not use the roblox launcher?

[MothManac]

I dont want players to always have to go through the website unless they must log in

[stastthepal (Eliana)]

i dont think there is a third party way to play roblox without being logged in. why are you asking this?

[KdudeDev (Kdude)]

You can’t make a launcher for games, you have to go through the website.

[SimplyJosho (SimplyJosh)]

I’ve seen chrome plug-ins make links for servers, maybe you could use that sort of thing. I have no idea how they make it work tho.

[FentTamer]

Unless approved by Roblox themselves I don’t believe you could make this. They need to make sure you aren’t cookie logging and all of that I think.

[PersonifiedPizza]

I’ve seen people make desktop shortcuts into studio. Not sure if there’s stuff to make shortcuts into games. (If I recall correctly there use to be a way with private servers.)

Edit:
Sleitnick made something like this 6 years ago:

ROBLOX Game Shortcut Creator

Edit:

@sleitnick

Yeah I used to have an app that did this. It was sloppy and experimental, and so I removed it from GitHub.

When I executed RobloxPlayerBeta.exe --help , I get the following prompt:

As you can see, the id argument is no longer there. Trying to execute it with the id argument results in an error. I don’t know how this can be achieved anymore. I’m sure there’s a way though.

Edit:

This code from GitHub might work. I personally wouldn’t trust it though.

https://github.com/ProtoductionDev/RobloxShortcutGenerator

(Created some time after 2019)

[xander5610 (Master_xander5610)]

Well, you could try to program your own app that runs the code to join a roblox game, in this case it would be your game. You would just need to auto log in with a public account. I already have an account I’ll let you use for this and I’ll tell you the username and password if you need it.