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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
1
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

Index

Symbols

3D modelers 7

tables

reversing 231

A

aircraft system

creating 239

announcement system

creating 234, 235

Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) 39, 219

argument 74

arrays 49

art 251

assert() function 75

Avatar Shop 23, 24

B

backend

setting up 122, 123, 166

base classes 66

Battle Royale Game

backend, setting up 166

frontend, setting up 196

local replication 189-192

loot, spawning 192-196

player data, managing 166-168

round system, setting up 181-184

weapons, creating 168-181

working, with UI 196

Battle Royale Game, round system

player, preparing 184-189

Battle Royale Game, UI

game message 197-201

players display 197-201

shop, creating 207, 208

spectate menu, making 201-206

Beams 117

BindableEvents 95, 96

BindableFunctions 95, 96

Boolean data type

setting 53

booleans 49

bools 49

builders 7

C

callback...