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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

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Product type Paperback
Published in Aug 2022
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781801814041
Length 424 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (16) Chapters Close

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 15. Other Books You May Enjoy

Third-party sales

Another way you can monetize your game is by selling avatar items. avatar items are sometimes referred to as Catalog Items as well. In the Avatar Shop area, players can purchase new accessories and clothing to customize their avatar:

Figure 9.13 – Avatar Shop

But how do we earn money through these avatar items? When we sell these avatar items in our game, we get paid a commission. This commission is our “thank you” for selling someone else their avatar item. Commissions get paid as a percentage. This means that we get a portion of the money the player spent on this avatar item when they buy it in our game. Let us take a look at these percentages:

Table 9.3 – Avatar items

The preceding percentages are when a player purchases an avatar item in your game that you do not own. You get more when this is your own avatar item.

Limited Avatar Items

Roblox has limited avatar items. These avatar...

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