Coding Roblox Games Made Easy: The ultimate guide to creating games with Roblox Studio and Luau programming, 2nd Edition

Length: 302 pages
Edition: 2
Language: English
Publisher: Packt Publishing
Publication Date: 2022-06-06
ISBN-10: 1803234679
ISBN-13: 9781803234670
Sales Rank: #463573 (See Top 100 Books)

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Get up and running with Roblox environment and Luau programming basics to build and share your games

Includes an exclusive invite to join the online Roblox game development community

Key Features

Begin coding in Luau: build player avatars, battlefields, game physics, countdown timers and more
Learn tips, tricks, best practices, and advanced Roblox coding techniques to create 3D games
Join the book club to discuss queries, provide solutions, and ask Zander for advice on your games

Book Description

Roblox is a huge entertainment platform like no other for both playing and creating games. With over 200 million monthly active users, Roblox has enabled new and experienced developers to create successful games, often called experiences, that can be played globally at no cost.

Coding Roblox Games Made Easy, 2nd Edition, builds a solid foundation of the concepts you need to embark on the journey of building two end-to-end games in Roblox in increasing order of complexity.

For the first game, you will create obstacles and traps for an obstacle course game (obby) and overcome them to win the game alongside other players and earn rewards. In the next game, you will manage player avatars, their weapons, a battlefield and add programming logic for the players to find their weapons and fight, with a reward for the last player standing.

Finally, you’ll delve into the logistics of game production, focusing on optimizing your games’ performance by implementing impressive mechanics, monetization, and marketing practices. We will also discuss how the Metaverse is set to change the dynamics of user experience and what the future holds for Roblox game developers.

Let’s create and share experiences through play!

What you will learn

Understand how to use Roblox Studio and other free resources
Learn how to code in Luau: basics, game systems, physics manipulation, etc.
Test, evaluate, and redesign to create bug-free and engaging games
Use Roblox programming and rewards to make your first game
Move from a lobby to a battleground, build avatars and create weapons with which to fight
Master the three Ms: Mechanics, Monetization, Marketing
Learn 50 cool things to do on Roblox

Who this book is for

Get started with building your first game on the Roblox platform. This book is for anyone interested in learning the fundamentals of Luau programming and Roblox Studio and needs direction to build and share games. If you’re already familiar with Roblox and are looking for tips, tricks, and the best Roblox and Luau practices for efficient development, you’ll find this book helpful.

The book requires no prior knowledge of game development.

Preface
    Who this book is for
    What this book covers
    To get the most out of this book
    Get in touch
Introduction to Roblox Development
Introducing Roblox Development
    Technical requirements
    Learning the benefits of Roblox development
        Financial opportunities on Roblox
        Improving professional skills
        Benefits of networking
    Discovering developer types
        Programmers
        Modelers
        Builders
        UI/UX designers
    Gaining a perspective about your early projects
    Summary
    Worksheet
Knowing Your Work Environment
    Technical requirements
    What is an experience?
    Traversing the Create page
        Configuring Experience and Place settings
        The Configure Experience menu
        Configure Start Place menu
            Icon
            Access
        Other place options
            Configure Localization
            Create Badge
        The Creator Marketplace and Avatar Shop
    Getting started with Roblox Studio
        The File menu and settings
        Movement and camera manipulation
        Utilizing the Explorer
        Using Studio tools
            The Select tool
            The Move tool
            The Scale tool
            The Rotate tool
            The Transform tool
        Managing the Game Settings menu
        The View tab
        The Test tab
        Customizing Studio to aid your workflow
    Taking advantage of Roblox’s resources
        Tutorials and resources
        The Developer Forum and Talent Hub
    Summary
    Worksheet
Programming in Roblox
Introduction to Luau
    Technical requirements
    Learning about data types and creating variables
        Data types
        Setting and manipulating variables
        Numbers
        Booleans
        Strings
        Tables
        Dictionaries
        Vectors
        CFrames
        Instances
        Conditional statements
    Declaring and using loops
        for loops
        while loops
        repeat loops
    Learning about functions and events
        Functions in programming
        Recursion
        Events and methods of instances
    Demonstrating programming style and efficiency
        General style rules
        Roblox-specific rules
    Summary
    Worksheet
Roblox Programming Scenarios
    Technical requirements
    Understanding the client-server model
        Different script types
        Scripts
        Local scripts
        Modules
        The Script Menu tab
        FilteringEnabled
        RemoteEvents
        RemoteFunctions
        BindableEvents and BindableFunctions
    Using Roblox services
        Players service
        ReplicatedStorage and ServerStorage
        StarterGui
        StarterPack and StarterPlayer
        PolicyService
        PhysicsService
        UserInputService
    Working with physics
        Constraints
        Movement constraints
    Adding peripheral experience aspects
        Sound
        Lighting
        Other effects
    Summary
    Worksheet
Creating an Obby
    Technical requirements
    Setting up the backend
        Managing player data
            Creating a datastore system
            Creating and loading session data
            Manipulating session data
            Saving player data
            Addressing throttling and edge cases
        Managing collisions and player characters
    Making obby stages
        Creating part behaviors
        Creating rewards
        Shops and purchases
        Robux premium purchases
        Making in-experience currency shops
        Preventing exploits
    Setting up the frontend
        Creating effects
            Sound
            Particles
            Tying in effects
            Part movement
    Testing and publication
    Summary
    Worksheet
Creating a Battle Royale Game
    Technical requirements
    Setting up the backend
    Managing player data
    Creating weapons
    Setting up the round system
        Preparing the player
    Local replication
    Spawning loot
    Setting up the frontend
        Working with the UI
            Game message and remaining players display
            Making a spectate menu
            Creating a shop
    Summary
    Worksheet
The Logistics of Game Production
The Three Ms
    Technical requirements
    Mechanics
        Simulators
        RP games
        Tycoons
        Minigames
    Monetization
    Marketing
        The Roblox promotion system
        YouTubers
        Community
    Reviewing what you’ve learned
        Chapter 1
        Chapter 2
        Chapter 3
        Chapter 4
        Chapters 5 and 6
    Metaverse
    Summary
    Worksheet
50 Cool Things to Do on Roblox
    Technical requirements
    Programming challenges
        Is number x divisible by y?
        FizzBuzz
        Find the maximum value in a table
        Check whether an element exists in a table
        Format seconds into hours:minutes:seconds
        Return unique elements from a table
        Number of stickers
        Concatenate two tables
        Reverse a table
        Sort a table using table.sort()
        Sort a table using a sorting algorithm of your choice
        Solve a linear equation
        Guessing game
        Find the nth number of the Fibonacci sequence
    Experience systems
        Make a leaderboard system
        Make an announcement system
        Make a daily reward system
        Create an interaction system
        Make a custom ProximityPrompt appearance
        Make a world lighting system
        Make a projectile system
        Make a car system
        Make a racing system
        Make an aircraft system
        Make a ship system
        Make fighting NPCs
        Make a survival system
        Create an inventory system
        Make a pet system
        Make a crafting menu
        Create a house customization system
    Experience ideas
        Simulators
        Tycoons
        Roleplay games
        Hangout games
    Roblox features
        Group name changes
        Free badge creation
        Spatial voice
        Mesh deformation
        Layered clothing
        Flipbooks
        Custom materials
        Talent Hub
    Other development types
        Plugins
        UI/UX design
        Art
            Clothing design
            Thumbnails/icons
            Particle design
            Sound and music design
        Animations
    Summary
Worksheet Answers
    Chapter 1
    Chapter 2
    Chapter 3
    Chapter 4
    Chapter 5
    Chapter 6
    Chapter 7
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Index

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