Roblox is an incredibly robust platform for all kinds of games and social activities. This track takes kids’ love (and obsession) with Roblox and uses it to teach the fundamentals of game design, digital art, and programming. Over the course of three seasons, participants will create and publish different games in Roblox Studio, and along the way learn the video game design pipeline from blue printing, concept, modeling, design, themes, mechanics and programming.

Fall – Challenge Course Game Maker

• Roblox is a robust game maker software perfect for young game designers. Use design software to create a unique obstacle course or “Obby” to learn the principle of game design. Write code for custom obstacles and power ups. Design timed moving platforms and interactive puzzles. Create keys that unlock doors as a game mechanic. Create custom user interfaces to add in app-purchases in order to learn about micro-transactions / game passes. Discover the means to design a game for online multiplayer and publish it to challenge your friends to beat it!

Winter – Big Paintball Capture The Flag

• Learn what makes games fun and how to translate that to programmed game mechanics using the LUA scripting language and Roblox Studio. Code new mechanics and interactions to start developing your own round based player vs player FPS capture the flag games. Create new armaments and power ups to place around your game map. Plan out an asymmetrical map design from pen on paper to fully digital map and learn how to balance a game with its environment and code user interface menus.

Spring – Restaurant Simulator Design

• Create a Restaurant Sim game and learn to write custom LUA scripts, code advanced object interactions. Add NPCs or non player characters to order food from your restaurant and use procedural generation to give them variety. Craft custom food recipes so you can add more challenge and depth to your game. Make an exponential gameplay loop, code tracking systems and user interfaces to track your in-game progress.

In this Track you will develop these Skills: 3D modeling, level design, multiplayer game design, online safety, scripting, programming, digital art, LUA programming, Publishing, User Interface