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Mastering Roblox Coding

By : Mark Kiepe
Book Image

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

Exercise 9.1 – building a currency system

In this exercise, we will create a simple currency system that uses the previously learned information. First, we need to make a data store that contains money. Then, players should be able to purchase a 2x Cash game pass. Besides this, players should be able to purchase 500 coins through a developer product. If players purchase this developer product while owning the 2x Cash game pass, they should get 1,000 coins instead of 500. In addition, we must implement a Premium Benefit. For our current game, we will give Premium users 10% more in-game money when they purchase it through a developer product. This means that Premium users without the double money game pass will get 550 coins and that the players with the game pass will receive 1,100 coins.

Now that we know what system we will implement, let us start making it. First, we will create a new game. Follow these steps:

  1. Open Roblox Studio and create a new Baseplate.
  2. Publish...