Launch a live game directly from studio

Feature Requests Studio Features
#1

As a Roblox developer, it is currently very tedious to test games outside of studio, as of right now the only option you have is to
A. Open up the website, go to your Favourites, click the game and then launch
B. Open up the website, go to your Creations, find the group it is under, locate the game and finally “View on Roblox” and press play.

I am proposing that a button should be added somewhere in the studio “Test” tab called “Play Live”. All this button would do is launch the Roblox player and open the place that studio currently has open.

If Roblox is able to address this issue, it would improve my development experience because I wont have to open up the website just to test my game in a live experience.

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#2

100%. I actually made myself a quick plugin that creates a deeplink so I can just paste it into my browser to launch my game live, but it’s be great if this was built into studio.

plugin code 
local Toolbar = plugin:CreateToolbar("deeplinker")
local PluginButton = Toolbar:CreateButton("deeplinker", "Output a deeplink url to the console", "rbxassetid://4458901886")
PluginButton.ClickableWhenViewportHidden = true
local function onPluginButtonPress()
	print("roblox://placeId="..game.PlaceId)
end
PluginButton.Click:Connect(onPluginButtonPress)
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#3

So far, this is the fastest method:
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Only takes three clicks to get from studio to a game (as long as you don’t actually have the game open in studio, then that’d be more clicks)

But it would be quite the convenient feature if there was such a “Play Live” button in, perhaps, the test tab.

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#4

Technically, Roblox does have this feature in Team Create. It’s actually almost the same name but just called “Live Test” and what it basically does is publishes your game and then creates a Roblox server that can only be accessed from the Team Create. You can test with other members of the Team Create this way.

But definitely needs to be a button that exists alongside “Play Solo”, “Run”, “Local Test”, and “Team Create Test” that allows to launch the current game in the Roblox player straight from Studio

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#5

Isn’t that what the Start button does?
Doesn’t it show the Server sided game as well as the Local game?

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#6

Some how Roblox has made a clickable button that takes you to the documentation page in the Modern City baseplate, if I knew did that then I would be able to make a button myself in plugins, but still would be better for a live game.

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#7

But isn’t that still in Studio not a proper normal one?

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#8

Sorry, was just testing it out. It is just in a Studio server, my mistake.

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#9

I never use it but sometimes this silly bug happens where it automatically starts a server when I don’t want it.

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#10

going to bump this and once again propose instead that we get a Open in Browser or Copy URL to Clipboard button in the Asset Manager menu. This would solve multiple problems at once (including the original post request), and also managing multiple places effectively.

This would be so helpful for so little effort on the engineers end would really love some support for this :pray:

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PS. There is a share button in the top right of studio that allows you to copy the game link but it only works on the original game, not sub-places