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Coding Roblox Games Made Easy, Second Edition

Coding Roblox Games Made Easy, Second Edition - Second Edition

By : Zander Brumbaugh
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Coding Roblox Games Made Easy, Second Edition

Coding Roblox Games Made Easy, Second Edition

4.5 (31)
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)
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Section I: Introduction to Roblox Development
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Section II: Programming in Roblox
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Section III: The Logistics of Game Production
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Other Books You May Enjoy
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Chapter 5

Q1. What is the purpose of structuring your experience to be modular?

A: Keeping systems in separate modules is great for organization and lets them run independently of each other.

Q2. What service is used for storing and retrieving player data?

A: DataStoreService.

Q3. What is the purpose of including a recursiveCopy function in the Data module?

A: Tables are assigned to a variable by a shared reference instead of the structure being copied for performance. We want a unique table at several points throughout this system.

Q4. Why do we wrap asynchronous methods in a pcall() function?

A: These methods can produce errors; we need to make sure these errors don’t crash our program and retry when necessary.

Q5. What is the importance of including the ProcessReceipt event function in your game when selling developer products?

A: Roblox uses this to verify sales of products; you will not receive your earnings without it.

Q6. Why might...

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