Roblox Studio 2016 Replica Made With Screen Guis

Hello, I’d like to show my current passion project. Roblox Studio 2016.

It’s not finished yet, but I plan to make it function EXACTLY like roblox studio did back in the day, plus, you’ll be able to make your own games in it.

The game is now open for alpha testing. Here’s the thread: VirtualBlox Alpha Testing Has Begun

Here’s a video of what it currently looks like:

I am making this alone so I would love to hear feedback about how I can improve it, or what people think in general.

All current features:

VirtualBlox is now open source:

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This is insane dude, you were able to complete what I’ve been trying to do :sob:
How long did this take to make?

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It’s been a few months so far. Like I said, it’s not done yet, but I’m currently working on a serializer using the open source Rose library to be able to save games on it. I’ll also add terrain chunk saving, and even real secure lua scripting using a security wrapper I made myself.

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That’s great, I’d love to see where this goes
Do you plan on remaking other versions of studio?

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I may do that depending on how well received this one ends up being… I’d like to remake roblox studio 2012 even though I joined in 2016 because I used to play finobe a lot. If you don’t know, Finobe was a roblox revival that used the 2012 client and studio on a completely third party site, but sadly they shut down because roblox sent them a cease and desist.

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This is honestly incredible! Good work dude.

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As someone who cannot work on modern day roblox studio due to specs issues, I resorted to downloading an old archived version of roblox studio from Jan 2017 and make maps on it ( i even record it, albeit vid quality is poor)

But I must acknowledge, this is a masterpiece, actually the UI is heavily resembling the UI of the older days and it is impressive. I may not expect a mobile version of this since the studio was never made for it, but regardless it is very good and I have immense respects for the hardwork put, brother. :folded_hands:

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Good job bro. I just had a flashback of my younger self in a public library working on Studio

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I just added the ability to save files to the roblox datastoreservice… I’ll be making a video about it soon. Also, I want to thank you all for the nice comments. :slight_smile:

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Instance saving is added!

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I’ve made quite a few updates since I last posted here. One of them being that I added scripting.

For those so inclined, feel free to watch this video that details all the current features that the game has.

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Bro’s studio is more optimized than actual studio :clap:
Super cool.

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It’s not optimized enough yet. I plan to make it so that you can spawn and delete over 1k parts a second with the explorer gui open and not lag at all.

Add saving games into your roblox studio, like studio lite.

I will add this once I can finally port forward on this awful router. Games will be able to be downloaded through a website of mine once they’ve been published using the “Publish to VirtualBlox…” button.

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bro really knew that nobody else had better recreation so he had to do it himself and now here we are a 1:1 replica almost

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It means a lot to hear this from a UI designer. Thanks.

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I added the change history service!!!

add team create support with ReserveServer in a seperate place.

team create did exist in 2016 in beta

looks better than retrostudio’s 2015 remake of roblox studio imo

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