Create an Arcade Style Game in Roblox

Course Curriculum

Chapter 1: Getting Started

Lecture 1: Introduction

Lecture 2: Create a Roblox Account and Install Roblox

Lecture 3: Create and Play an Empty Game

Lecture 4: Roblox Studio Window Configuration

Lecture 5: Roblox Studio Player and Test Server

Lecture 6: Moving Around in the Workspace (Scene) Window

Lecture 7: Add a Part

Lecture 8: Moving and Resizing Parts Using the Properties Window

Lecture 9: Corridor

Lecture 10: Pellet

Lecture 11: Delete Objects, Make Models, Make Folders, Inventory

Chapter 2: Adding Code to Your Game

Lecture 1: First Script – The Print Statement

Lecture 2: Lua (Luau) – The Programming Language or Roblox

Lecture 3: Accessing Part Properties with Code

Lecture 4: Changing a Game Object's Properties with a Script

Lecture 5: Create a Function

Lecture 6: Add Parameters to the Function

Lecture 7: Refactor Function (+= operator)

Lecture 8: Why Function Parameters?

Lecture 9: For Loop

Lecture 10: Make a Test Area from Your Current Game

Lecture 11: For Loop – Task 1: Smoother Transition Faster

Lecture 12: For Loop – Using the Loop Counter

Lecture 13: For Loop – High to Low

Lecture 14: For Loop – Out of Range

Lecture 15: While Loop

Lecture 16: Variable Scope

Lecture 17: Function Return Values

Chapter 3: Add a Point System to Your Game

Lecture 1: Touched Event

Lecture 2: Humanoid and Touched Event

Lecture 3: Check for Player on Touched Event

Lecture 4: Leaderboard

Lecture 5: Update Leaderboard Points from Pellets

Lecture 6: Troubleshooting Leaderboard Exercise

Lecture 7: Solution to Leaderboard Exercise

Lecture 8: Add Chomp Sound to Player

Lecture 9: Chomp Remote Event to Client

Lecture 10: SoundService to Play Chomp on Client

Chapter 4: Maze

Lecture 1: Add to the Maze

Lecture 2: Pellets

Lecture 3: Activate Pellets – Storing Pellets in a Table

Lecture 4: Activate Pellets – For Loop and Debugger

Lecture 5: Activate Pellets – For Loop in Pairs

Lecture 6: Activate Pellets – Clone Eat Script

Chapter 5: NPC Model (Ghosts)

Lecture 1: Create Ghosts

Lecture 2: Ghost Ridges – Union and Negate Parts

Lecture 3: Ghost Eyes

Lecture 4: Ghost Primary Part

Lecture 5: Create a Junction Node for AI

Chapter 6: Ghost AI

Lecture 1: Beam For Raycasting

Lecture 2: Simple Raycast

Lecture 3: Raycast Parameters

Lecture 4: Walls Vs Nodes on the Raycast

Lecture 5: Raycast Directions

Lecture 6: Turn Ghost

Lecture 7: Turn Speed

Lecture 8: Ghost Move to Node

Lecture 9: Ghost Path Choices

Lecture 10: Move Nodes and Ghosts into Maze

Lecture 11: Place Ghosts

Chapter 7: Lobby to Map

Lecture 1: Create New Game with Start Area and Map

Lecture 2: Make Ghosts Choices Different

Lecture 3: Build Lobby

Lecture 4: Teleport to Map

Chapter 8: Starter Character

Lecture 1: Get RigEdit Lite

Lecture 2: Make Your Starter Character

Lecture 3: Add Joints to Character

Lecture 4: Create Character Animation

Lecture 5: Adjust Heights

Lecture 6: Chomp Animation in Your Starter Character

Lecture 7: Exercise: Import Everything into a Second Map

Lecture 8: Back to MelonMan Map

Chapter 9: Deaths, Lives, Return

Lecture 1: Ghost Damage

Lecture 2: Clone Damage Scripts to Ghosts

Lecture 3: Count Lives

Lecture 4: Create a User Interface Component to Hold Lives

Lecture 5: Add Icons for Lives

Lecture 6: Add Code to Update Lives UI

Lecture 7: Ghost Utils – Module Scripts

Lecture 8: Ghost Utils 2 – RayCast, Movement, and Choices in Utils

Lecture 9: Patrol – RunGhost

Lecture 10: Ghost Configuration

Lecture 11: Reset Ghosts on Death

Lecture 12: Clone Patrol & Configure Ghosts

Lecture 13: Teleport Back to Lobby