Roblox in the browser

Building a Multiplayer Roblox-Style Game in the Browser

I’ve been creating web games for a while now. I remember doing my first ones around 2017, following YouTube tutorials by Daniel Shiffman, which introduced me to p5.js a JavaScript library that makes it easy to create graphics and interactive content in the browser. Projects were simple but fun, like this Langton’s Ant simulation: Getting Into Multiplayer Games I mostly play multiplayer games. Adding multiplayer to even a simple game opens up endless possibilities, so I started learning about networking, multiplayer architectures, hosting backends, and so on. ...

January 6, 2026 · 8 min · 1530 words · iercan