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Coding Roblox Games Made Easy

You're reading from   Coding Roblox Games Made Easy The ultimate guide to creating games with Roblox Studio and Lua programming

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jan 2021
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781800561991
Length 238 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Zander Brumbaugh Zander Brumbaugh
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Table of Contents (12) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Section 1: Introduction to Roblox Development
2. Chapter 1: Introducing Roblox Development FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: Knowing Your Work Environment 4. Section 2: Programming in Roblox
5. Chapter 3: Introduction to Roblox Lua 6. Chapter 4: Roblox Programming Scenarios 7. Chapter 5: Creating an Obby 8. Chapter 6: Creating a Battle Royale Game 9. Section 3: The Logistics of Game Production
10. Chapter 7: The Three Ms 11. Other Books You May Enjoy

Chapter 3: Introduction to Roblox Lua

The Roblox Lua language is a fast, procedural programming language adapted from Lua. Lua was originally created in 1993 due to software trade barriers in Brazil, which prevented many from buying specialized software from outside the country. Because of this, the language was designed to be highly customizable and C-based so that programmers could make their own implementations using Lua's C API.

The goal of this chapter is to give you the knowledge you need to make your first programs in Roblox Lua so that you're ready to become a fully proficient programmer. No prior programming experience is assumed, so we will start by covering the concept of variables and other universal programming constructs. Then, within a few chapters, you will be able to create full games, of your own design, on Roblox.

In this chapter, we're going to cover the following main topics:

  • Creating variables and conditionals
  • Declaring and using...
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