Don't Step There

🎮 Game Description

Get ready to experience the ultimate skating and racing challenge! The Spleef game mode took some vitamins! ✨

🏆Don’t fall from the platforms, be the last player standing!
☠️Don’t touch the barriers, use them to your advantage for beating other players!
👌DO have fun :) The game is in Alpha State, feel free to make any suggestions or reporting bugs 🐛

🐲More game info and Changelog: https://devforum.roblox.com/t/dont-step-there/

🛠️ Tools

For making this online video game, multiple tools have been used:

Roblox Studio: The game engine, closely tied to the Roblox Platform.
Luau: A variant of Lua forked by Roblox with some custom additions.
Blender: The tool used for creating, animating, rigging and texturing models.
Inkscape: For designing some game graphics and the main game logotype.

⚙️ Under the hood

Don’t Step There is an online experience, which means there must be an intermediary for handling player connections and data.

Here is a diagram showing the game architecture:

A diagram showing the server-client architecture of the game.

The architecture is based on a client-server one, using some tools to communicate between them…

Procedures can be qualified in 2 types depending where they are replicating:

Bindable: For communications only inside the server or inside the client. For example: A server function calls another one located in the server too.
Remote: For communicating between client and server, can be one way or another. For example: A player wants to color a part of the server pink, so they send an event to the server indicating so.

Procedures can be qualified in 2 other types depending on their response:

Functions: 2 ways communication. Example: The client wants to get an item from the database, and the database returns the result in the same client function.
Events: 1 way communication. Example: The server needs to send a private message to just 1 client, so it sends it, and won’t need an answer from the client.

So, looking the diagram above, the purple would be functions and the yellow remotes. (Note that the red lines indicate that the server is listening continuously for all it’s clients).

😊 Thanks for reading

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