Roblox Coding Level 1

Kick start a passion for game design in the most popular experience platform, Roblox. Students will gain a familiar understanding of Roblox Studio to make games of their very own to share with friends and family. This course covers both building and scripting. Learn the basics of modeling, create auto-cars, and paint beautiful landscapes. Students will become proficient in the programming language Lua. The course covers fundamental concepts like variables, properties, functions, and events.  All lessons are project-based, with 8 fun guided projects that allow students to practice new programming concepts. 

Students will learn game designing and development on Roblox Studio including basic introduction to Roblox studio, a lot of building, and some Lua code.

• In this Roblox game design course, students learn to use Roblox Studio for creating and sharing games, covering both building and Lua scripting.

• Through 8 guided projects, students practice programming concepts such as variables, functions, and events, leading to a final project presentation. 

Lesson 1

Roblox Setup

Our lesson plan overview

• What is Roblox; What is Lua+Who/What uses Lua

• Roblox account creation/Roblox Studio setup

• Window overview; Scene window and Explorer window

• Properties window; Insert Object window; Toolbar window; Toolbox window

• Terrain editor window

• Go over explorer, go over topics discussed in today’s lesson, examine the different game templates on offer to see what Roblox is capable of

Lesson 2

Intro to studio

• Creating a new world

• Inserting objects (block, sphere, wedge, cylinder) 

• Moving around the world and How to move, scale, and rotate objects

• Object properties (Appearance and transform)

• Spawning different objects (sphere, wedge, cylinder)

• Selecting multiple objects and grouping/ungrouping objects

• Go over top bar, file/new/undo/redo

• How to save/open the world

Class Project: Build house!

Lesson 3

Intro to studio part 2

• How to union/negate objects and why we should

• How to add effects to objects

• How to use terrain editor

• Ideas behind building (Make them very big, then union them, then scale them down)

• Flower exercise

Class Project: Improve previously built house with lessons learned today

Lesson 4

How to create attachments (HINGE)

• How constraints and welds 

• Create an autocar via the motor and hinge tools

Class Project: Create a unique autocar from the hinge and motor tools

Lesson 5

How to create a script

• Creating variables (string, int, bool)

• Editing properties via scripting (BrickColor, Anchored/UnAnchored, etc.)

• While Loops 

• Using Script.Parent Code 

Class Project: Create a light show with bricks!

 Week 2

Lesson 6

Obstacle Course part 1

• Coding checkpoints

• Coding teams

• Learn how to make example obstacles for your course

Class Project: Create an obstacle obby!

Lesson 7

Obstacle Course part 2

• Creating Functions

• Creating instances and particles from scripts

• Create events and parameters – traps

• Create player touchable buttons

Class Project: Improve your obstacle obby

Lesson 8

Obstacle Course part 3

• Powerups with if/else statements

• Traps with if/else statements

• Publishing your course

Class Project: Create power ups and improve your obby traps

Lesson 9

REVIEW DAY

Answer questions regarding students’ final projects, help with them

Lesson 10

FINAL PROJECT PRESENTATION DAY

Projects demonstrated by students.

Roblox Game Design With Lua 

introduction to the basics of Roblox Studio. This included moving in the View, and learning the basic controls to enable us to build.

Here is the link to the quiz that covers all the topics we learned today, it is entirely optional:

https://quizizz.com/join/quiz/61b006edf7c86f001ed04995/start

we went over modeling. We created a campfire model that we saved to the toolbox. The model had fire, smoke, and light. We then went over a variety of special effects in ROBLOX, as well as some lighting adjustments. We then ended with learning about the terrain editor.

solid modeling and how we could combine parts together into new parts. We then worked on creating an archway-gate type model. We then started a bit of coding

scripting journey. We talked about variables, data types, loops, if-then conditionals, and functions. We then ended by creating a part and learning about events in ROBLOX.

created a script that could animate our player when we clicked down. We then began our introduction to creating a teleporting gate.

local Player = game:GetService("Players").LocalPlayer

local Character = Player.CharacterAdded:Wait()

local Humanoid = Character:WaitForChild("Humanoid")

local UserInputService = game:GetService("UserInputService")

local AnimationID = "rbxassetid://" .. 522638767

local AnimationObject = Instance.new("Animation", Humanoid)

AnimationObject.AnimationId = AnimationID

local LoadedAnimation = Humanoid:LoadAnimation(AnimationObject)

UserInputService.InputBegan:Connect(function(input)

if input.UserInputType == Enum.UserInputType.MouseButton1 then

LoadedAnimation:Play()

end

end)

GateScript:

local Players = game:GetService("Players")

local function GetPlayer(part)

if part and part.Parent:IsA("Model") and Players:GetPlayerFromCharacter(part.Parent) then

return Players:GetPlayerFromCharacter(part.Parent)

end

end

local GateA = workspace:WaitForChild("GateA")

local GateB = workspace:WaitForChild("GateB")

GateA.Teleport.Touched:Connect(function(newPart)

local player = GetPlayer(newPart)

if player then

player.Character:MoveTo(GateB.Teleport.Position)

end

end)

Today we worked on finishing up the gates. We then created a little obby setup. We created some kill parts and a couple power boosts. Here is the code:

GateScript:

local Players = game:GetService("Players")

local function GetPlayer(part)

if part and part.Parent:IsA("Model") and Players:GetPlayerFromCharacter(part.Parent) then

return Players:GetPlayerFromCharacter(part.Parent)

end

end

local GateA = workspace:WaitForChild("GateA")

local GateB = workspace:WaitForChild("GateB")

GateA.Teleport.Touched:Connect(function(newPart)

local player = GetPlayer(newPart)

if player then

player.Character:MoveTo(GateB.Teleport.Position + (GateB.Teleport.CFrame.LookVector * 5))

end

end)

GateB.Teleport.Touched:Connect(function(newPart)

local player = GetPlayer(newPart)

if player then

player.Character:MoveTo(GateA.Teleport.Position + (GateA.Teleport.CFrame.LookVector * 5))

end

end)

We created some teleporters that teleported us to other creations. We also learned how to make swinging doors. I've attached the teleport script below:

PlaceTeleporter:

local TeleportService = game:GetService("TeleportService")

local Players = game:GetService("Players")

local placeId = 18396054380

local PlaceTeleporter = workspace:WaitForChild("PlaceTeleporter")

PlaceTeleporter.Teleporter.Touched:Connect(function(part)

local player = Players:GetPlayerFromCharacter(part.Parent)

if player then

TeleportService:Teleport(placeId, player)

end

end)

In this session, we will work on creating our obby. We will code everything for it as well. We got the checkpoints, kill parts, and boost abilities to work. 

Code from today:   

local Players = game:GetService("Players")

local SpawnLocation = workspace:WaitForChild("SpawnLocation")

local CheckpointData = {}

Players.PlayerAdded:Connect(function(player)

    CheckpointData[player.UserId] = SpawnLocation

    player.CharacterAdded:Connect(function(character)

        character:MoveTo(CheckpointData[player.UserId].Position)

    end)

end)

local function GetPlayer(part)

    if part and part.Parent:IsA("Model") and Players:GetPlayerFromCharacter(part.Parent) then

        return Players:GetPlayerFromCharacter(part.Parent)

    end

end

for index, part in pairs(workspace:GetDescendants()) do

    if part and part:IsA("BasePart") then

        if part.Name == "CheckpointPart" then

            part.Touched:Connect(function(touchPart)

                local player = GetPlayer(touchPart)

                if player then

                    CheckpointData[player.UserId] = part

                end

            end)

        elseif part.Name == "KillPart" then

            part.Touched:Connect(function(touchPart)

                local player = GetPlayer(touchPart)

                if player then

                    player.Character.Humanoid.Health = 0

                end

            end)

        elseif part.Name == "JumpPart" then

            part.Touched:Connect(function(touchPart)

                local player = GetPlayer(touchPart)

                if player then

                    player.Character.Humanoid.JumpHeight = 50

                    wait(4)

                    player.Character.Humanoid.JumpHeight = 7.2

                end

            end)

        elseif part.Name == "SpeedPart" then

            part.Touched:Connect(function(touchPart)

                local player = GetPlayer(touchPart)

                if player then

                    player.Character.Humanoid.WalkSpeed = 50

                    wait(4)

                    player.Character.Humanoid.WalkSpeed = 18

                end

            end)

        end

    end

end

Our Roblox and Lua (Level 2) class focuses on advancing scripting skills in Roblox using Lua. Students will learn advanced topics such as creating interactive elements, saving game data, event handling, GUI integration, user tools, team-based mechanics, and creating complex game systems. Projects include building interactive games, designing user interfaces, implementing in-game purchases, and creating team-based mechanics, culminating in a final project where students showcase their own game creations.