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Game Development with Roblox Studio

Name: Game Development with Roblox Studio
Price: 85 USD

This course is for students who are ready to go from playing Roblox games to building and publishing their own. Using Roblox Studio and Luau, Roblox's programming language, students build four complete games and publish each one on Roblox: an obstacle course, a coin-collecting game, a factory tycoon and a tower defense game. Each game introduces a bigger idea, and each one reuses code from the last. Over four months, students progress from their first script to an original game in a new genre, which they present at Demo Day.

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Next Batch Starting

13 November, 2026

Fri

11:00 AM - 12:00 PM

2 Months

1 Hour Class

Medium

Online via Zoom

Why take this course?

Many children spend hours playing Roblox, but very few know how the games are made. This course turns students from Roblox players into Roblox creators. Through Project-Based Learning (PBL), students build and publish four complete games: Sky Obby, an obstacle course; Coin Rush, a coin-collecting game with a shop; Cash Tycoon, a factory tycoon; and Defend the Core, a tower defense game.

Along the way, students learn core programming ideas used in every language: events, variables, loops, conditional statements, functions and tables. They then apply them to game economies, shops and upgrades, saving player progress, automated systems and simple game AI. Because every new game builds on code from the one before, students see how real developers reuse their own work instead of starting from scratch.

Students also learn to playtest, debug and balance their games, to think about what makes in-game purchases fair, and to use the Roblox Assistant to explain errors rather than write code for them. By the end, they will have planned, built, published and presented an original game, giving them the confidence to keep creating on Roblox and to move on to other text-based languages.

Prerequisites:

Prior completion of Scratch Level 1 (or equivalent block-based coding experience) is required — this course introduces real scripting (variables, events, conditional logic) starting Week 3–4, and students need that foundation to keep pace.
Comfort with basic computer use (mouse, keyboard, general browsing) is expected.
A typing speed of 15–20 Words Per Minute (WPM) is recommended. For practice, you can visit the following website:
- monkeytype.com

Course Outline

2 Month Plan

Building Foundations & First Mechanics

Getting Started with Roblox Studio

Students will explore Roblox Studio and learn the purpose of the Explorer, Properties, Toolbox and Output windows. They will learn to move the camera and to move, scale and rotate parts. They will build the first stage of their obstacle course and discover why properties such as Anchored and CanCollide matter.
Students will learn how to design fair, enjoyable stages that get harder step by step. They will sketch and build new stages, check Toolbox models for hidden scripts to stay safe, and add checkpoints so players can continue from the stage they reached after falling.

First Scripts & the Leaderboard

Students will write their first scripts in Luau, the programming language used in Roblox. They will learn about variables, printing messages to the Output window and changing a part's colour and transparency with code. They will predict what each line does before running it and build a colour-flashing platform.
Students will create a live leaderboard that tracks which stage each player has reached. They will learn how scripts respond when a player joins the game or touches a checkpoint, and use conditional logic so a player's stage only goes up when they reach the next checkpoint, never down.

Respawning & the Skip Button

Students will learn how to respawn players at the last stage they reached. They will explore 3D positions using X, Y and Z coordinates and use character events to move a player to the correct checkpoint each time they respawn. They will test the system by falling and checking where they reappear.
Students will design an on-screen Skip Stage button and learn how the player's screen communicates with the game server using RemoteEvents. They will understand why important changes, such as moving a player forward, must happen on the server, and build a working skip button that stops at the last stage.

In-Game Purchases, Traps & Launch Day

Students will learn how games earn Robux by turning the skip button into an optional purchase using a Developer Product. They will handle purchases safely on the server and test them in Studio, where test purchases cost no real Robux. They will also discuss when paying to skip is fair to players.
Students will add traps such as lava blocks and moving or spinning obstacles, and learn how loops and a debounce keep them working reliably. They will polish their game with lighting and music and publish it on Roblox. On Launch Day, they will play each other's games and write patch notes.

Economies, Shops & Saving

Coin World, Spawning & Rarities

Students will sculpt and paint a terrain island and set the scene with lighting and a sky. They will learn how to store a coin template, copy it with code and use random numbers to spawn coins in different places, reusing the leaderboard from their first game to count coins collected.
Students will learn how to organise data with tables, using lists and dictionaries to define coin types such as Bronze, Silver, Gold and Gem, each with its own value and rarity. They will use loops and attributes so one script handles every coin type, and test how changing the chances affects the game.

Shop Menus & Upgrades

Students will design a shop menu using frames, buttons and layouts. They will learn how to make menus that fit computer, tablet and phone screens, add a coin counter that updates automatically, and check their design on different devices with Studio's device emulator.
Students will make shop upgrades such as speed, jump height and a coin multiplier work in their game. They will learn why the server must always check a purchase instead of trusting the player's device, subtract the cost safely, show a message when a player can't afford an item, and keep upgrades after respawning.

Saving Progress & Launch Day

Students will learn how games remember progress using Roblox DataStores. They will load a player's coins and upgrades when they join, save them when they leave and handle errors safely so data is not lost. They will set starting values for new players and test by leaving and rejoining the game.
Students will add finishing touches such as sound effects, particles and animated menus, then balance prices with a partner during a bug hunt. They will learn to use the Roblox Assistant to explain errors instead of writing code for them. They will publish their second game and present it to parents.

Automation & Smart Systems

Factory Basics: Droppers & Conveyors

Students will plan the core loop of a tycoon game on paper: make, move, collect and buy. They will build a base that a player can claim as their own and a dropper that creates items every few seconds, and learn how to clean up objects automatically so the game keeps running smoothly.
Students will build a conveyor belt that carries items to a collector, which turns them into cash. They will learn how physics can move objects along a path and make sure only the owner of a base earns from it, reusing the cash and leaderboard systems from their earlier games.

Buy Buttons & Smart Systems

Students will create buy buttons that unlock new parts of the factory. They will use proximity prompts so players press a key to buy, store prices as attributes, check whether a player has enough cash and reveal hidden machines once they are bought.
Students will learn how to run every button in the factory from a single script by looping through them and reading their attributes. They will set a buying order so new buttons appear only after earlier ones are bought, add floating price labels with pop-in animations, and discuss why one script is better than six.

Saving, Rebirth & Launch Day

Students will save each player's cash and every upgrade they own, then rebuild the tycoon exactly as it was when the player rejoins. They will reuse their saving code from Coin Rush and the unlock code from their buttons, showing how well-written code can be reused across projects.
Students will add a rebirth system that lets players restart with a bonus, compare Game Passes with Developer Products and discuss what fair monetisation looks like for young players. They will hunt for bugs, publish their tycoon, showcase it to the class and choose a genre for their capstone game.

Enemies, Towers & Strategy

Enemy Paths & Waves

Students will build a winding map with a starting point and a Core to protect. They will place numbered waypoints along the path and use loops so enemies walk from one waypoint to the next in order. They will see how real developers build tower defense games and design their own enemy types.
Students will create waves of enemies with gaps between them and give the Core a health bar. They will program enemies to damage the Core when they reach it, add a game-over screen with a restart option, and work out how many enemies each wave should have to keep the game challenging.

Towers & Targeting

Students will build a tower that finds the nearest enemy within its range and attacks it at regular intervals. They will learn how to calculate the distance between two objects, reward players with cash when an enemy is defeated, and add a beam or sound effect when the tower fires.
Students will let players buy towers from a menu and place them on pads. They will reuse what they learned about client-server communication so the server checks a player's cash before placing a tower, limit each pad to one tower, and decide how much cash players should earn each wave.

Upgrades, Bosses & Launch Day

Students will add tower upgrades that increase damage and range, and use tables to create different enemy types such as fast enemies, tanks and a boss every fifth wave. They will display a health bar above the boss and playtest their game to find problems to fix.
Students will balance waves, cash and prices with a partner, save each player's best wave and polish their game with sound and lighting. They will publish their tower defense game, showcase it to the class and practise pitching their capstone idea.

Capstone: My Own Game

Capstone Pitch & Core Loop

Students will pitch an original game in a genre they have not built before and write a Game Design Document. With their instructor, they will agree on a realistic scope, list their must-have features, choose at least three systems to reuse from their earlier games and pick one new mechanic to learn.
Students will build the core loop of their game first and leave decoration for later. They will reuse and adapt their own scripts from earlier games, attend short lessons on the new mechanic they have chosen and test their progress with a classmate at regular check-ins.

Build & Test

Students will build the must-have features of their game with one-to-one mentoring from their instructor. They will learn to find answers in Roblox's Creator Hub documentation, use the Roblox Assistant to explain code instead of copying it, and fix problems using the Output window.
Students will run a playtest rotation where classmates try each other's games and give feedback on what is fun, what is confusing and what is broken. They will fix their top three bugs and learn when to simplify or cut a feature that isn't working.

Polish & Demo Day

Students will polish their game with sound, particle effects and animations, then design an icon, thumbnail and description. They will publish their capstone game on Roblox and rehearse a short talk about it for Demo Day.
Students will present their published games to classmates and parents and explain how one of their scripts works, while the audience plays the games and asks questions. They will complete a course review quiz, learn how to stay safe online as creators and receive their certificates.

Learning Outcomes

Navigate Roblox Studio confidently, and use the Explorer, Properties, Toolbox and Output windows to build and test 3D game worlds.
Write scripts in Luau using variables, loops, conditional statements, functions and tables.
Use events to make games respond to player actions such as touching, clicking and buying.
Explain how a player's device and the game server communicate, and keep important game logic safe on the server.
Design game economies with currencies, shops, upgrades and fair, optional in-game purchases.
Save and load player progress with DataStores, so players keep their stages, coins and upgrades.
Build automated systems where one script controls many objects, and simple game AI such as enemy paths, waves and targeting.
Plan, playtest, debug, balance and publish an original game, then present it and explain how its code works.

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Teachers

Shuja ul Hasan
Teaching Game Development with Roblox Studio
Joined: October, 2020
6 years and 1 months
Roblox is more than blocky worlds. It's a real first taste of designing a system, writing the rules that run it, and handing it to someone else to play. It's also one of the more direct paths into the games industry today, with real studios built entirely on the platform. The curve is gentler than something like Unity, but the habits — thinking in mechanics, debugging your own logic, shipping something finished — carry into everything after. With this course, we build the foundation for anyone

Ayila Rasheed

Teaching Game Development with Roblox Studio

Joined: October, 2026

I want students to understand what makes a game work, not just what it looks like. As we build in Roblox Studio, I help them connect their designs with the scripting behind them, explore why different tools and programming concepts are needed, and learn through testing, troubleshooting, and improving their ideas. The goal is for them to make informed decisions about their games and grow more independent as creators.

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