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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

Chapter 10: Creating Your Own Simulator Game

In this chapter, you will create your very own simulator game. You will use many of the systems that you learned about in previous chapters. Besides this, you will learn how to combine all of these individual systems into one complete game. This way, you will learn, for example, how your GUIs can display data that is stored in your data stores by creating safe RemoteEvents or RemoteFunctions.

The following topics will be covered in this chapter:

  • Introduction to the game
  • Creating data stores
  • Implementing server scripts
  • Programming GUIs
  • Updating your game

By the end of this chapter, you will have made your own simulator game based on several requirements that your employer could provide you with. You will know how to create proper data stores that will save all the data required for your game. In addition, you will learn how to create the server scripts for all the systems in your game. Besides this, you will...