Knight Framework; a modern Roblox framework

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Knight Framework; a modern Roblox framework

About the framework

Knight is a comprehensive Luau-based framework for Roblox game development that allows for the structured creation of server-side, client-side, and shared code. This framework promotes clean code organization and scalable development practices, making it easier to manage complex game logic.

Knight is made for everyone from professional game studios to independent developers. With the powerful & simple structure of Knight you can easily build a great codebase foundation for your game. With our powerful features such as our amazing networking system you can easily get a stable version of your game out quickly!

Knight is open-source and licensed under the MIT License. Contribution is welcomed.

Knight’s origin

Knight was originally created in 2020 as a proprietary framework, then open-sourced in 2022. Over the past 5 years I been working on the framework on & off with some internal help, I believe the framework is now in a state ready for widespread usage.

Example service using Knight

-- Copyright (c) 2025 Meta Games, LLC. All rights reserved.

local Players = game:GetService("Players")
local ReplicatedStorage = game:GetService("ReplicatedStorage")
local SoundService = game:GetService("SoundService")

local KNIGHT_TYPES = require(ReplicatedStorage:WaitForChild("KNIGHT_TYPES"))
local Maid = require(ReplicatedStorage.Packages.Maid)
local NumberSpinner = require(ReplicatedStorage.Packages.NumberSpinner)

local Player = Players.LocalPlayer

local ClientCharacterController = {} :: KNIGHT_TYPES.KnightClass
ClientCharacterController.__index = ClientCharacterController

function ClientCharacterController:OnCharacterSpawn()
	if self.Maid then
		self.Maid:Destroy()
		self.Maid = nil
	end

	self.Maid = Maid.new()

	self.Character = Player.Character or Player.CharacterAdded:Wait()
	self.Humanoid = self.Character:WaitForChild("Humanoid")

	self.Maid:GiveTask(self.Humanoid.Died:Connect(function()
		self.Gui.Dead.Visible = true
		SoundService.ui_death:Play()

		for i = Players.RespawnTime, 0, -1 do
			SoundService.ui_mission_tick:Play()
			self.DeadSpinner.Value = i
			task.wait(1)
		end
	end))

	self.Gui.Dead.Visible = false
end

function ClientCharacterController:Start()
	self.Gui = self.Services.ClientGui:WaitFor()
	self.DeadSpinner = NumberSpinner.fromGuiObject(self.Services.ClientGui:WaitFor("Dead/Container/Timer/Label"))
	self.DeadSpinner.Decimals = 0
	self.DeadSpinner.Prefix = ""
	self.DeadSpinner.TEXTGUI_PROPERTY.ZIndex = self.Services.ClientGui:WaitFor("Dead/Container/Timer/Label").ZIndex + 1

	if Player.Character then
		self:OnCharacterSpawn()
	end

	Player.CharacterAdded:Connect(function()
		return self:OnCharacterSpawn()
	end)
end

return ClientCharacterController

— Snippet from Skull Island by Meta Games.

Links

Repository: GitHub - RAMPAGELLC/knight: Knight; Roblox Game Framework
Documentation: https://knight.metatable.dev
CLI (Utility to create and update projects): GitHub - RAMPAGELLC/KnightCLI: Command-line-interface (CLI) for the Knight Framework written in TypeScript.
VSC Extension (Utility to auto-fill snippet): Knight VSC Extension - Visual Studio Marketplace
RBXL Template(s): Templates (RBXL) | Knight Framework

1 Like
#2

i like the idea but this is seems way too over engineered for a “clean framework”, most people aren’t making use of the included libraries, and having to install a cli just to use it is just plain annoying. it also reintroduces one of the many pitfalls of knit, which is using Get’X’ methods

if it works for you, then thats great, but it literally seems like you ripped your own custom framework from your game and published it for use

#3

CLI isnt required, just simply git clone the repo, and Get’X’ method isnt only option as the system support cyclic indexing.

local Service = {}
Service.__index = Service

function Service:Start()
    -- Cyclic indexing allows you to access another service directly
    local result = self.Services.OtherService:CallFunction()
    warn("Result from OtherService: ", result)
end

return Service
#4
  1. using a package manager would be much easier than cloning and removing bloat manually
  2. this is literally the same thing as Get<X>, the problem is theres no type inference
#5

Just delete the folder. Nothing is depended on.

We’re working on updating our VSC Extension for that.