Firebase for ROBLOX

ROBLOX is a platform that offers small developers the opportunity to make profitable video games for users across the world. I was the leader of a development team that produced a popular game on the platform. At times, we would have 80 users playing the game at once.

In order to make the game more immersive and enjoyable, we wanted to make sure that users' achievements were being saved properly and loaded back into the server when they rejoined the game. ROBLOX offers a pretty robust datastore service, but there were times where data was lost due to their servers.

Therefore, we decided the best option would be to implement Google Firebase into our ROBLOX game in order to save data instead. Not only would this improve data reliability, it would also improve the accessibility for moderation. Rather than having to program a huge interface for moderators to view user data, we could simply use the interface that Google Firebase provides.

We were able to successfully connect our game to the database using HTTP requests. We did not suffer any data faults for the rest of the game's duration. I think that this approach is not recognized enough, and more ROBLOX developers should take steps to implement Google Firebase into their game.