Create an Arcade Style Game in Roblox

Discover how Lua powers Roblox, and how Lua can be learned outside Roblox. Explore Lua basics like control structures and the if statement, with online tutorials and Roblox scripting resources.

Access part properties in a Roblox script by creating a local pellet variable, then print its name and color (brick color or color) to verify properties in the output window.

Change the palette's transparency with a script, gradually transitioning from fully opaque to fully invisible using timed waits and incremental values (0, 0.25, 0.5, 0.75, 1) to disappear in game.

Publish a new Roblox game by saving a test area in your first game, turning off team create, and naming it my first test area, while working with for loops.

Demonstrate for loop from high to low by applying a decrement step of -0.1 to transparency, pausing briefly with wait, to make a pellet disappear and reappear.

Troubleshoot a Roblox arcade game's leaderboard visibility, ensure the pellet points update by ten, remove debug prints, and avoid output window errors.

Debug the Roblox leaderboard by checking the output window, correcting leaderstats naming in server script service, and using plus-equals to grow points as you test with pellets.

Learn to use Roblox's sound service to play a chomp sound on the client, set a cave reverb type via Enum, and explore local sound control and debugging.

Turn off shadow casting for pellets to save resources. Duplicate them with a single script and group into a model for the Udemy maze, then save and export the setup.

Clone the eat script for each pellet in the loop via a deep clone, attach and enable it to every pellet, then run and check the output for errors.

Add eyes to the ghost by resizing and centering a cylinder, duplicating a pupil, coloring white and black, and welding eyes to the ghost body.

Create maze nodes for the ghost to visit, ensuring right-angle paths. Implement a raycast beam in the patrol script to check four directions and guide movement.

Learners adjust look speed and turn smoothing in Roblox arcade game by using linear interpolation and longer loops to reduce jitter, noting that 180-degree turns run faster than 90-degree turns.

Position and align maze nodes and ghosts in Roblox, duplicating junctions and tagging walls to create ghost paths, test in play mode, and finalize the ghost trap setup.

Design a retro arcade lobby in Roblox by resizing the lobby, applying decals, and adding an arcade floor texture, walls, and arcade machines.

Build a Pac-Man starter character in Roblox by assembling a round head and half-circle, align with an R6 humanoid rig, then configure hip height and a humanoid root part.

Create a Roblox character animation with the animation editor, set movement priority, add keyframes, save and publish, then apply the animation ID via a local script on the starter character.

Import a second map into Roblox by loading assets, ghosts, pellets, and tags. Configure starter scripts and the chomp animation ID, publish, and test in the retro arcade.

Implement a one-shot kill damage script for the ghost body in Roblox, detecting touches and applying 100 damage to the player. Clone the script to all ghosts and test.

Track and decrement player lives by adding a lives int value under player stats. When lives reach zero, trigger game over by teleporting to lobby and sending ghosts back.

Create a melon man life icon in the lives frame using an image label, load asset, clone it from replicated storage to reflect lives, and remove a life on death.

Create a local script to update the lives UI by cloning life icons from replicated storage, and refresh on player stats lives changes for a reliable, consistent display.

Move NPC raycast logic into ghost utils, implement a get_choices function that uses an include list, and streamline movement by front, right, and left choices for dynamic NPC navigation.

Learn to reset all ghosts on player death in Roblox using a server storage bindable event, firing on death, and returning ghosts to their start positions.

Clone the patrol script, activate ghosts, and configure each ghost's patrol while removing extra patrols. Add AI to scan for Pac-Man and adjust each ghost's inclination toward him.

Teleport players to the lobby when lives reach zero to end the game and record the high score, using the teleport service and the lobby id.

Attach two black eye spheres to the starter character's head with wild constraints, adjust their position for a frontal gaze, and later swap the death sound to a pac-man style.