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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

Exercise 3.1 – event-based game

In this exercise, we will make a game based on the knowledge we learned during this chapter. The game will consist of two teams. Each team has to claim as many parts as possible. You can claim parts by simply walking over them. Because this game requires buildings, a premade game has been made. This game is open source. Therefore, anyone can edit the game and create their version. Please bear in mind that the game is not finished. In this exercise, we will finish the game.

You can find the game here:

https://www.roblox.com/games/8645775042/Event-Based-Game

Select the three dots next to the name, and click on Edit to open this game in Roblox Studio.

Once opened, you will see a square in the Workspace service. The gray area is the playing field. This gray area consists of 144 different parts. In ServerScriptService, you will see a script named TeamAssigner. This is a premade script; you do not have to change anything here. This script...