Game Universes and the Quest for Massive Scale

Multiple UniversesImagine this: there’s a ROBLOX game that’s built out of 10 levels. Thousands of people are playing it and teleporting between environments at the drop of a hat. As they move from place to place, their character statistics and ever-growing in-game inventory move with them. They’re all exploring a cohesive world with impressive scale and interacting with one another as they make chance encounters on their journeys. They’re in an immersive world.

This is the impending future of ROBLOX games. Our Client, Networking, Services and Web teams are making it happen by building a robust framework of teleports, game universes and data persistence.

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