If you’ve ever wanted to make your own Xbox One game, Roblox now gives you that chance – for free. They cited indie Steam hit Unturned as the product of a former Roblox user.
Roblox claims that it’s now been around long enough – it was founded in 2006 – that some of its longtime users are now graduating into full-fledged professional game developers. I also saw Tiny Tanks, a top-down eight-player tank shooter where you control a tank inside a fort created on the floor of a child’s bedroom and Natural Disaster Survival, a goofy romp where up to 30 players roam a map until a random catastrophic event such as a volcano eruption or blizzard occurs, leading all the players to scramble for cover and safety as the elements destroy the Lego-like world around them. Among the first games playable on Xbox on day one is Heroes!, a top-down dungeon-crawler with Ys-style just-run-into-your-enemies combat made by a 19-year-old Indiana teenager who’s using in-game microtransaction revenue to help pay his way through college. “You don't have to worry about networking, you don't have to worry about multiplayer." While I didn’t see the actual editing tools themselves – those need a keyboard and mouse, so the mobile and Xbox One versions of Roblox only support the actual playing of the user-created games – it all seems very similar to the XNA toolset released by Microsoft back on Xbox 360. Using the concepts you have learnt by creating this game you will be able to develop it further or use your own ideas to create your own game in Roblox Studio.“We scale the platform with the talent of the developer,” Silvestrini explains, adding that their proprietary set of tools take care of a lot of basic functions.
Section 5 - We polish our game and discuss how to take what you have learned and develop it further. Section 4 - We continue to develop our game, adding more functionality and learn some more advanced coding techniques. Section 3 - We begin to develop a "Camping Game" and discuss the rules and how to implement them using Lua code. Section 2 - We then learn about coding concepts and how they work.
Section 1 - I show you how to create a Roblox account, and install and use Roblox Studio. It is designed to be taken in the order it is presented. My course will teach you how to set up and create your first Roblox game. As of March 2019 98 million dollars has been paid to these community developers. There are currently over 4 million active developers and creators producing their own games using Roblox Studio. "We enable anyone to imagine, create, and have fun with friends as they explore millions of immersive 3D experiences, all built by a global community of developers." Roblox's mission is to bring the world together through play. Roblox is one of the most popular entertainment platforms for players under the age of 18, with 1 Billion hours of Roblox being played each month by over 80 Million Roblox players.