Introducing Roblox Development

Roblox is a massive entertainment platform like no other, for both playing and creating games. With over 200 million monthly active users, Roblox has enabled both new and experienced developers to create successful games, often called experiences, that can be played globally at no cost. With a great number of resources and a large and supportive community of developers from around the world to connect with, entering the Roblox game development scene provides opportunities that cannot be found anywhere else.

Before covering the technical details of working with Roblox Studio and programming in Luau, it is important that you are first familiar with what developing games on Roblox can offer you and what the day-to-day interactions with the platform are like. By the end of this chapter, you will have an understanding of the different roles developers can fulfill on game projects, how you can earn money as a Roblox developer, and what to expect as you...