The Ultimate Beginners Guide to Game Development with ROBLOX

Learn about obstacle course games in Roblox and setup files to create your own. 

Setup a blank world for an obstacle course and learn basics like camera controls and playtesting. 

Create a challenging series of jumps by learning to manipulate platforms in an obstacle course. 

Visually enhance the obstacle course by changing part colors and materials to match a creative theme.

Learn how to share work on Roblox.

Use string variables to say Hello World and test your code. 

Learn how to change a part's properties with code and create RGB color values. 

Learn about Parent/Child relationships in programming to create multiple parts that change color over time. 

You will be able to:

• Create a function that prints a customized line of text.

• Understand what code will and will not print when included in the scope of functions.

You should:

• Know how to create a script (Watch Lesson Create a Script)

Get introduced to functions and by creating one that outputs text of your favorite animal. 

Apply your knowledge of functions to replace a flaming part with one that sparkles. 

Create a trap that removes any object that any object it touches from the game. 

Use parameters and event listeners to create a button that makes a bridge appear in-game. 

As you make games, you will find yourself wanting to make cause-effect relationships like the following:

• If a player scores 10 points, then they win the game.

• If a player has a power-up, then they can run super fast.

• If a player says “Happy Birthday” in chat, then sparkles appear.

All of these relationships need a conditional statement, lines of code that only run if certain conditions are true. One type of conditional statement is an if/then statement that checks to see if something is true before running instructions.

Learn conditional statements by changing a part in-game when a math equation is true. 

With if/then statements, you can make a trap that changes a player’s health rather than just destroying everything it touches.

Create a powerup that increases a player's speed whenever they touch a specific part. 

You will be able to:

• Return values or objects from a function

• Use and store the returned values of functions
  

You should:

• Be able to use functions (see lesson Create and Use Functions)

• Be able to create custom functions (see lesson Functions 2: Instances & Particles)

• Understand parameters (see lesson Parameters and Events 1: Traps)

• Understand if/then conditions (see lesson Using if/then Statements)

There are different ways to make code run over and over. If you want the code to only run a certain amount of times, use a for loop. A good example, would be when creating countdown timers where the clock ticks down one second at a time.

To practice for loops, you’ll create a lamp that gradually glows brighter and then dims over time.

For this bridge, players will touch a button to make a bridge walkable for a limited time before it disappears.

Sometimes an if statement needs to be able to handle more than one possible outcome. Like in a race, you might want to give out different medals depending on how fast the player finished.

This is your first coding challenge based on the last lecture!

This is the second challenge based on Multiple Conditions with Elseif and Else

This is your third challenge based on Multiple Conditions with Elseif and Else

This is your fourth and last challenge based on Multiple Conditions with Elseif and Else

This project will use conditional statements to create a part that will give or subtract points on a leaderboard depending on what color the part is when touched.

In this lesson you learn to create and script GUI Buttons.

Nesting loops allows you to repeat tasks in batches.

This is the solution of the Rain actual cupcakes challenge!

Tables are a way to group multiple values together. Unlike variables that store just a single value, tables don’t have a fixed size and can hold a mix of different value types.

Arrays can be combined with loops, such as while or for loops, to repeat the same code for each value.

A optional challenge for looping through arrays.

An array’s contents will often have to be changed, like when needing to remove an item from a player’s inventory.

Dictionaries are tables that use a key to identify values instead of numbered indexes Values store data related to that key.

pairs() and ipairs() are functions that can be used with a for loop to go through each element of an array or dictionary without needing to set starting or ending points.

This is the first challenge for Pairs and iPairs where you will try to create a waiter NPC.

Another challenge for pairs and iPairs where you will allow players to place orders.

earch a table using pairs() or ipairs() for half of any table element, such as the key or value, to find and return the other half.

Abstractions in computer science provide a simplified representation of something larger.

An algorithm uses a series of steps to determine an outcome.

Copying the same functions between multiple scripts can be time consuming and hard to manage.

To apply your knowledge of module scripts, create a module script that allows players to pick up lockpicks and use them to open treasure chests.

This guide will get you started with the beginner gameplay section.

In this article we talk about the game we created and what's next!

In Roblox Story Games, words are going missing and it’s up to players to fill in the blanks!

Before coding, write the story you’ll use as the base of your game. The story can be about anything you wish.

To create a word game out of the story, delete words from the story and create placeholders for them. In the game, players will answer questions to fill in the placeholders.

In Roblox Studio is a Story Games template that has everything needed for the game to work, except the code for the actual story.

In Roblox, code is typed inside of scripts using the coding language Lua. Games often have separate scripts for each thing the game needs to do.

The first thing to code is the placeholders for the words that the player will fill in. In a script, placeholders for information are called variables.

Test your knowledge and earn the first of three prizes by clicking the button below to open a Roblox quiz game.

The variable you just created will be used to both ask players questions and to store their answer. The questions will show up in the middle of the player’s screen after they click on the large book at the front of the library.

Store Info Inside the Variable

This is a good point at which to check your code and make sure it runs. Testing your code often makes it easier to figure out where you might have made a mistake.

Save your work by publishing your game so it’s stored online by Roblox. It’s a good idea to save your game every 10-15 minutes.

Test your knowledge and earn the second of three prizes by clicking the button below to open a Roblox quiz game.

After the player answers all of the questions, they’ll get to see their answers combined with the story.

Combine the Story and Answer

To ask a second question, create a new question and keep adding to the same variable holding the story.

Keep adding to your game by adding more variables, questions, and concatenating strings.

Test your knowledge and earn the last prize by clicking the button below to open a Roblox quiz game.

Congratulations, you just finished the latest Roblox Creator Challenge in the course!

One of the most exciting features of Roblox is that it’s really easy to share your game with friends.

Have you ever made your own levels or worlds on Roblox before? If not, we’ve got just the thing to get you started.

Most popular games are made by teams of people with different skills working together. One role on teams is the world builder, sometimes also called the level designer. World builders shape the game environment. In competitive games, they make sure maps are balanced and fair for all players.

The tile pieces on the palette are lined up on a grid so that they will snap together nicely. To have an easier time keeping them lined up on the grid, adjust the Snap to Grid settings.

Save your work-in-progress privately online by publishing your game.

Test your knowledge and earn the Rodan’s Head avatar item and Drafting the Blueprints Badge! When you take the real challenge on the Roblox game.

Test your knowledge and earn the Rodan’s Head avatar item and Drafting the Blueprints Badge!

With the SpawnLocations done, move on to designing the rest of the city.

To build the first half of the map, you’ll need a lot more buildings than the number you see on the palette.

To test your map as it will look in game, playtest the map in Studio.

Next, duplicate the road tiles in your palette to create roads between the buildings.

Once you’re happy with the roads in your city, start placing the medium buildings.

When the first half of the city is ready, the next step is to use duplicate to turn it into a complete 4-player map.

A square map isn’t very natural or interesting to players.

You’ll use a variety of terrain tools to change the shape of the island, each step making the island slightly less square-like and a little more natural.

Test your knowledge and earn the Godzilla Backpack avatar item and World Builder Badge by clicking the PLAY QUIZ GAME Text in the next lesson to open a Roblox quiz game.

Test your knowledge and earn the Godzilla Backpack avatar item and World Builder Badge by clicking the PLAY QUIZ GAME Text to open a Roblox quiz game.

This last lesson will put the final custom touches on your game by changing how many points you can get for each building, uploading a custom image for your game, and allowing other people on Roblox to play your creation.

Besides just the map, other aspects of Create and Destroy can be customized.

Before sharing your game, add a custom image for the game icon and thumbnail.

For the game thumbnail, you can use the same screenshot or take another one.

When you first publish a game, it’s automatically set to private.

Test your knowledge and earn the Ghidorah’s Wings avatar item and Architect of DestructionBadge by clicking the PLAY QUIZ GAME text to open a Roblox quiz game.

In this Exam we test your knowledge over all the 3 topics that we have covered.

Congrats! You’ve completed the Creator Challenge.

This guide will tell you more about the Intermediate Gameplay section and what you can expect from it.

(Lectures being made possible by EgoMouse) 

In the written lesson we will be talking about creating our very own filtering enabled friendly first person shooter (FPS) game.

(Lectures being made possible by EgoMouse) 

One of the most common requests I get lectures are for a decoration placement system that saves.

(Lectures being made possible by EgoMouse) 

Most people want to know how to do this for things like basketballs or cannon balls and so forth. Since this is such a popular question I thought it would be worth writing a lecture on it and talking about a few other things we can extend from our findings.

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The trick to making a circular colour palette is knowing how to generate the colour palette image. Of course this can be done in many ways, but for the purposes of this lecture I used a shader.

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Quaternions are always a tricky, but interesting subject. They are four dimensional in nature and provide an unparalleled usefulness when it comes to rotations. Unfortunately, they’re far from intuitive, and for most people they are avoided entirely in favour of just letting the engine do the heavy lifting.

(Lectures being made possible by EgoMouse) 

The main difficulty you will find in creating grass like this is optimization.

What I describe below is by no means something that takes performance into account, rather this is just an idea of the process.

This is the Guide for all information about this section!

In this lesson we talk about why you should use Asset Forge, what it is, how to use it and how it could improve your current workflow for when you are already 3d artist in Roblox or Blender and how software like Blender could be a huge help to you.

In this lecture we learn to create a wild west building and will we have a assignment of which we see the solution at: 28 February 2019.

In this lecture DieSoft will teach you how to build basic shapes in the Roblox game engine.

In this lecture will DieSoft teach you how to build a Roadblock Roof.

In this lecture DieSoft will teach you to build a complete house from Scratch.

In this lesson we talk about extra art resources to keep learning art and get better in what we love.

Animations truly bring a game to life.

Roblox Studio features a powerful, built-in Animation Editor which allows you to design and publish custom animations.

In this lecture we briefly talk about how we can create trap that could kill the player both the the avatar is in R15 and R6.

I decided to create this lecture based on the many report of people finding issues with this lesson.