About the Author

Genevieve Johnson is the senior instructional designer for Roblox, the world’s largest user-generated social platform for play. In her role, she oversees creation of educational content and advises educators worldwide on how to use Roblox in STEAM-based learning programs. Her work empowers students to pursue careers as entrepreneurs, engineers, and designers. Prior to Roblox, Johnson was educational content manager for iD Tech, a nationwide tech education program that reaches more than 50,000 students yearly, ages 6-18. While at iD Tech, she helped launch a successful all-girls STEAM program, and her team developed educational content for more than 60 technology-related courses, teaching a variety of subjects from coding to robotics and game design.

Perfect for beginners---learn all the skills and techniques you’ll need to code your own Roblox experiences.

• Learn the building blocks of code and how it can make your experience come alive
• Code with properties, variables, functions, if/then statements, and loops
• Organize information using arrays and dictionaries
• Work with events to make things move, explode, count down, and do whatever you can imagine
• Keep your code manageable with abstractions and object-oriented programming
• Store data permanently to create leaderboards, inventories, and custom currency
• Use raycasting to allow visitors to place their own objects, such as furniture and props, within your world

For the burgeoning developer looking to take their skills to the next level and deepen their understanding of virtually every facet of Roblox experiences

• Build immersive natural environments using built-in terrain and lighting tools
• Model and import assets, models, weapons, and textures
• Code game mechanics, animations, and camera movement
• Design GUIs for store fronts, player HUDs, and interactive elements
• Teleport players between multiple experiences
• Publish your experience to multiple platforms with cross-platform play
• Attract visitors, monetize your experience, and earn real cash