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Coding Roblox Games Made Easy, Second Edition - Second Edition

By : Zander Brumbaugh
Book Image

Coding Roblox Games Made Easy, Second Edition - Second Edition

By: Zander Brumbaugh

Overview of this book

“I read/worked through the book with my kids to build a game together and I highly recommend pre-teens, teens, and tweens to pick this up as their first book to coding games” -James W. Y III, Technology Integration Specialist at Old Bridge Township Public Schools “...a must-read, must-practice essential book for anyone getting started with building games on Roblox using Luau programming...” -Frederic Markus, President, Feerik Games (Ex-Ubisoft, Nintendo, Rockstar, Disney, LucasArts, and Epic Games) “..includes everything from Roblox Studio menus, the basics of the Luau scripting language, how to tie in real-world (or any world!) physics into your experience of marketing your game as well as some great ideas for where to go next.” -Jay Sebastian, Computer Scientist and Adjunct Lecturer in AI for Games and Simulation Roblox isn't just popular; it's incredibly popular, featuring more than 54 million active players per day. Any experience imaginable can be created on Roblox. Coding Roblox Games Made Easy, 2nd Edition, is a go-to guide for anyone at any age looking to get started with building a game on Roblox using Luau programming. In just about 300 pages, you’ll learn the basics of Luau programming, build two end-to-end games, add customizations to finally publish and monetize them. The bonus chapter ‘50 Cool Things to do in Roblox’ is a perfect end to your learning journey with information nuggets presented with examples to save your time when coding, animating, building avatars, using Robux and so much more. Join Zander, 19-year-old Roblox developer and programmer on this game-development journey and bring your ideas to life
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
Free Chapter
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Section I: Introduction to Roblox Development
4
Section II: Programming in Roblox
9
Section III: The Logistics of Game Production
13
Other Books You May Enjoy
14
Index

Summary

In this chapter, you learned the best practices to ensure that whatever concept or theme you create in the future, it has the best chance of finding an audience and becoming profitable and popular among players from around the world. By heeding the advice of the Three Ms (Mechanics, Monetization, and Marketing), I have no doubt that you will have experiences garnering thousands of concurrent users in no time. Remember that while we focused on the prospects of making money from what is otherwise a hobby, it’s important to have fun and experiment with what you want to do. Make your experiences how you want them to be because the wonderful thing about topics in development theory, such as those discussed in this chapter, is that they are constantly evolving. So, do not be afraid to get out there and design a genre of your own. Make concepts and visuals that no one has ever conceived before. Be the best developer you can be from your own perspective.

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