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Mastering Roblox Coding

By : Mark Kiepe
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Mastering Roblox Coding

By: Mark Kiepe

Overview of this book

Roblox is a game platform with over 47 million daily active users. Something unique to Roblox is that you’re playing games made by other gamers! This means that you can make your own games, even if you have no experience. In addition, Roblox provides a free engine that allows you to create and publish a simple game in less than five minutes and get paid while at it. Most Roblox games require programming. This book starts with the basics of programming in Roblox Luau. Each chapter builds on the previous one, which eventually results in you mastering programming concepts in Lua. Next, the book teaches you complex technologies that you can implement in your game. Each concept is explained clearly and uses simple examples that show you how the technology is being used. This book contains additional exercises for you to experiment with the concepts you’ve learned. Using best practices, you will understand how to write and build complex systems such as databases, user input controls, and all device user interfaces. In addition, you will learn how to build an entire game from scratch. By the end of this book, you will be able to program complex systems in Roblox from the ground up by learning how to write code using Luau and create optimized code.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
1
Part 1: Start Programming with Roblox
5
Part 2: Programming Advanced Systems
12
Part 3: Creating Your Own Simulator Game

Implementing developer products

Throughout the previous sections, we learned how to monetize our games by implementing game passes. Similar to game passes, we have developer products. These, unlike game passes, can be purchased an unlimited number of times, though generally, the effects of developer products are temporary. They can be used to implement money boosts or an adrenaline shot for extra health. However, developer products can have other implementations as well. For example, they can be used to purchase a revival or purchase in-game currency quickly rather than saving up by playing the game.

To create a new developer product, follow these steps:

  1. Open the Game Settings menu in Roblox Studio.
  2. From this menu, open the Monetization tab and scroll down to Developer Products, as shown in the following screenshot:

Figure 9.6 – The Developer Products section in the Game Settings menu

Here, we can see the (Developer) Product ID, Product...