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Mastering Roblox Coding

You're reading from Mastering Roblox Coding The unofficial guide to leveling up your Roblox scripting skills and building games using Luau programming

Product type Paperback

Published in Aug 2022

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781801814041

Length 424 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

Lua

Tools

ROBLOX

Concepts

Graphics Programming

Author (1):

Mark Kiepe

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Table of Contents (16) Chapters

Preface

1. Part 1: Start Programming with Roblox

2. Chapter 1: Getting Up to Speed with Roblox and Luau Basics FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 2: Writing Better Code

4. Chapter 3: Event-Based Programming

5. Part 2: Programming Advanced Systems

6. Chapter 4: Securing Your Game

7. Chapter 5: Optimizing Your Game

8. Chapter 6: Creating User Interfaces for All Devices

9. Chapter 7: Listening to User Input

10. Chapter 8: Building Data Stores

11. Chapter 9: Monetizing Your Game

12. Part 3: Creating Your Own Simulator Game

13. Chapter 10: Creating Your Own Simulator Game

14. Index

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Chapter 6: Creating User Interfaces for All Devices

In this chapter, we will learn everything about graphical user interfaces (GUIs). We will learn about the different types of GUIs, what makes them different, and what they are generally used for. Besides this, we will learn how to properly build GUIs and scale them for all devices on Roblox. Then, we will learn how to use the emulator built into Roblox Studio to test the user interface (UI) of our game on different devices with different resolutions. Finally, we will also learn about the small things we need to keep in mind when creating our GUIs, such as color blindness and the navigation of our GUIs.

The following topics will be covered in this chapter:

Creating GUIs
Testing GUIs
Small UI improvements
Exercise 6.1—Creating a shop GUI

By the end of this chapter, you will know how to properly build GUIs for your game that scale on multiple devices. In addition, you will learn about all of the major...

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Authors (1)

Mark Kiepe

Mark Kiepe

Mark Kiepe is an experienced Roblox Programmer and Game Designer with over six years of experience. He has contributed to a dozen of successful Roblox games. Besides that, he is the Co-Owner of a Roblox Game Studio called Sarcastic Studios with games such as Pet Store Tycoon and Dream Island. Mark has contributed to more than 150 million play sessions across all games at the time of writing. Mark started as a self-taught programmer on Roblox. What he learned on Roblox helped him in College. He currently attends a University of Applied Sciences in The Netherlands, where he studies Software Development.

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