To get the most out of this book

You will require the following hardware and software to implement all the exercises in this book:

For a complete list of system requirements for all of Roblox’s components, please visit the following link: https://en.help.roblox.com/hc/en-us/articles/203312800.

If you are using the digital version of this book, we advise you to type the code yourself or access the code via the GitHub repository (link available in the next section). Doing so will help you avoid any potential errors related to the copying and pasting of code.

Download the example code files

The code bundle for the book is hosted on GitHub at https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Coding-Roblox-Games-Made-Easy-2nd-Edition. We also have other code bundles from our rich catalog of books and videos available at https://github.com/PacktPublishing/. Check them out!

Download the color images

We also provide a PDF file that has color images of the screenshots/diagrams used in this book. You can download it here: https://static.packt-cdn.com/downloads/9781803234670_ColorImages.pdf.

Conventions used

There are a number of text conventions used throughout this book.

CodeInText: Indicates code words in text, database table names, folder names, filenames, file extensions, pathnames, dummy URLs, user input, and Twitter handles. For example; “When a player joins the game, they need to have their data added to the sessionData dictionary.”

A block of code is set as follows:

local playersService = game:GetService("Players")
playersService.PlayerAdded:Connect(function(player)
    print(player.Name.. " joined the game.")
end)

Bold: Indicates a new term, an important word, or words that you see on the screen, for example, in menus or dialog boxes, also appear in the text like this. For example: “To create the user interface for your game, the first thing that you will need to do is navigate to the StarterGui service under Explorer.”