Internet Shortcuts for Roblox Games

Currently, Roblox games can only be launched through the website. Every time a player wants to play a specific game, they have to open the site, navigate to the game, and click “Play”. It steals time from the player, and also kind-of contradicts Roblox’s vision of being a platform and not a game. This can be prevented easily, by letting users create desktop shortcuts for the games they choose.

The shortcuts would be simple internet shortcuts, maybe opening the site and launching the game for them after the player clicks on them. They would have the icon of the game, with the title as the name.

This must be very easy to implement, as the only thing that needs to be done is a button on the game page which creates an internet shortcut that takes the user to a specific link, which has a specific icon and name.

Sidenote: Several developers have come up with ways of achieving this, but I am making a request for a website feature, therefore, those methods are irrelevant to this request.

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Both Studio and the player create a protocol called
roblox-studio:// and roblox-player:// respectively.

Studio can be started by just navigating to roblox-studio://1

The player requires client authentication and so is impossible to start directly from the desktop.

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