We Built the s&box Website Facepunch Never Made
Hey everyone! SboxPlays is a project my team and I have been working on for a while now. It's a website built for the players of s&box.
We noticed that s&box only had a website aimed at developers, and that joining games required opening Steam and launching the game itself. With SboxPlays, you can browse, join, and build communities directly from your browser. Personally, since I always had a browser tab open anyway, it became so much easier to stay on top of what's new in s&box and see what friends are playing in real time.
Beyond that, we've added a lot more to make SboxPlays a true community hub, because honestly, that's something s&box has always been missing compared to other UGC platforms like Roblox. Facepunch didn't seem interested in building something like this themselves, so my team and I decided to take the initiative and make it happen.
As game developers ourselves, we also noticed how difficult it can be for games to get discovered and for players to find something they'll actually enjoy. That's why we built an additional layer on top of s&box's existing discovery system, making it easier for your game to reach the right audience and for players to find games that genuinely fit their taste.
That said, we're still in the early stages, so you can expect to run into bugs and some features that aren't fully finished yet. We're committed to continuously improving it and ironing things out over time, and just like s&box itself, we plan to make it something really great.
We hope you enjoy it!