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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

Testing GUIs

Nothing is more annoying and unprofessional than GUIs that do not scale properly. We have already learned how to scale GUIs properly using the Scale property in the UDim2 data type throughout this chapter. Doing this already makes our GUIs scale properly across different-sized screens.

But there are many devices that you can play Roblox on. Roblox even supports consoles that might be connected to enormous TVs but also supports phones and tablets. While they keep getting bigger, there are still a lot of very small phones out there, and our job is to make our GUIs look fantastic on all of these devices.

Obviously, we cannot purchase every device to see whether our GUIs look good on them, yet we still want to see what they would look like on these devices. Luckily, there is a solution for this. Roblox Studio has a built-in emulator that allows us to pretend to be another device. This way, we can see what GUIs look like, and much more, which we will come back to in a...