Build a Game with Friends Online

Creating something is almost always more fun with other people. If you want to make a game with friends online, you have historically needed a deep technical background, expensive software, or complex source control setups.

With Orio, the process is simple: one person generates a starting 3D world from a text prompt, and the rest of the group joins the session directly in their browser. Together, you can build a game with friends online in real time. When you're done, the game is playable instantly on any device.

The result isn't a generic game. It's one built around your group — your humour, your references, your inside jokes baked into the world design. A scavenger hunt set in a replica of your college campus. A platformer where the enemies are named after people you know. A boss fight someone designed specifically to destroy their friends. That kind of specificity is only possible when you build it yourselves.

Who Builds Together on Orio

Orio is designed to be open and accessible to everyone. While anyone can start a session and invite their friends, here are a few of the groups we see building together most often:

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  Friend Groups

  Whether you are hanging out virtually or looking for a collaborative activity beyond traditional multiplayer games, it's a great way to build shared worlds together.

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  Indie Creators & Prototype Partners

  Great for developers and designers who want to brainstorm and prototype gameplay concepts in real time without version control overhead.

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  Families & Shared Activities

  A genuinely shared creative activity that spans ages, because no one needs technical skills to contribute.

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  Anyone with a Cool Idea

  Whether you're planning a virtual birthday scavenger hunt, a classroom project, or just want to mess around in a 3D editor with someone, you don't need to fit any specific label to start creating.

Here's how a session works.

Step 1: Create the Starting World

One person in your group kicks things off. Open Orio, type a prompt — one or two sentences about what kind of world you want to build.

Orio expands your idea into a full game concept for you to review and tweak before anything is built. Once you confirm it, the generation starts: 3D terrain, all the assets, scripts, mechanics — everything placed and playable.

Generating and building the initial game world takes about 10 minutes, giving you a quick break before the multiplayer editor session starts.

Step 2: Invite Your Friends

When the world loads, hit the invite button at the top of the editor. Enter your friends' email addresses. They get an invite immediately.

• If they already have an Orio account — the invite appears in their dashboard alongside the email.
• If they don't have an account — the email walks them through it. Accept the invite, enter an email address, and they land directly in your game. No download, no credit card, no setup.

Step 3: Build Together

Once everyone's in, you're all in the same 3D space at the same time.

You can each:

• Move, rotate, scale, copy, and paste any asset in the world
• Sculpt the terrain — raise hills, carve paths, shape the landscape
• Prompt in the chat window — type what you want changed and the AI updates the game for everyone

Multiple people can edit different parts of the world at the same time. There's no turn-taking or locking. Up to 8 people can be in the editor simultaneously.

The best sessions have a loose brief and a lot of discussion about where things go. That's part of it.

Step 4: Play It

When you're ready, play the game directly in the browser — no export step, no wait. Everyone in the session can jump in immediately.

Every game also gets a shareable link. Send it anywhere — your friends can open it on any device without an account. You can also:

• Publish it to the Orio platform, where other creators can find and remix it
• Export to Roblox and other platforms

What to Build First

A few setups that work well for groups:

• Divided labour

  One person builds the environment while another places enemies and collectibles. Meet in the middle.

• Hidden challenge

  Each person secretly places one hard-to-find collectible. First to find all of them wins.

• Escalating difficulty

  One person sets up the world, another goes in and makes it harder. Rotate.

The starting prompt doesn't need to be finalised before everyone joins. Start rough. The group shapes it.