"Game" redirects here. For the 2024 event, see The Games.
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Add a new Place to an experience by right-clicking "Places" in the Asset Manager (View -> Asset Manager)
Experiences (also known by their previous name, games) are items that house and link places together. Each experience has a "start place," the place where users visit first as other places of the experience cannot be directly visited. The start place shares the name and description with the experience. Each experience also has an icon and at least one thumbnail that is viewed from its page by any user.
Experiences can be created by any user. When a place is being published by a user, it must be added to an experience. Other places that are not start places can be added to an experience via the Create page or the Asset Manager window accessible through Studio's View menu (as shown by the picture to the right). Experiences can be owned by either a group or a user and cannot be transferred between, however, places can be transferred by saving/downloading and re-uploading.
Developers can transport visitors from one place in an experience to another using 
TeleportService. Furthermore, different servers of a given experience can communicate with each other using 
MessagingService and 
MemoryStoreService. Saved data using 
DataStoreService is also accessible throughout all places in the experience.
Places using SavePlaceAsync and CreatePlaceAsync are shown in the "Created Place" menu of the experience' Configure page on the Roblox website.
All users are allotted 200 active experiences. Before September 2017, the limit was dependent on the user's membership or previous membership status. The removal of this limitation allowed many users to create more experiences. On July 12, 2024. Discover was renamed to Charts.
History[]
Contrary to popular belief, experiences did not exist until January 2014. They debuted alongside the ROBLOX 2014 Winter Games. Instead, the closest things available were unlinked places. From December 2003 to February 2006, places were known as "minigames”. Starting in February 2006, "minigames" were known as "games". From this point to around 2012, these were also occasionally referred to as "levels". In 2014, "universes" were introduced to link multiple of these "games" together. Shortly after this, the universes themselves were mostly renamed to "games", and the things that were then called "games" received their current name of "places". In May 2021, "games" and "universes" were both renamed to "experiences". References to universes still exist today.
Features[]
- Changing the start place in an experience used to be permitted in its "Configure Experience" page on the website. However, this feature was removed and all experiences that were missing a start place had one automatically generated.
- Teleportation used to prompt users to ask whether they'd like to change places. Now, this teleports users without an option.
- New places can be created in an experience through the "CreatePlaceAsync" method.
- There have been rumours that restrictions on the Apple App Store were the reason Experiences were renamed in 2021. These have not been confirmed nor denied.