How pro Roblox developers learnt to script
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- Опубліковано 14 чер 2024
- Today I asked pro Roblox developers what they did when learning to script and what was useful to them. I also did a survey of 100 developers and reveal the results later in the video!
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boatbomber - / boatbomberrblx
Wsly - / wslyrblx
Myzta - / @myzta
/ themyzta
Deathrun - www.roblox.com/games/206640076
My Droplets - www.roblox.com/games/2773040896
Lua Learning - www.roblox.com/games/1334669864
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why are you commenting on your own year old video my guy
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69th like I am
I still remember seeing some screenshots of a certain stickmasterluke on the dinosaur-era on-site forums, frantically asking beginner-level questions about game development and scripting.
How far things have come...
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Lmao only two comment
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Do you still have them?
Yeah, you can't be afraid to ask.
For example, I spent 2 hours on a banana script because I spelt Sit wrong, I will always from that moment on make sure I write my code properly.
"Learning scripting shouldn't be a chore it should be something you enjoy" --Alvin Blox what a great lesson to be learnt
and now it's my procaastiantion hobbby which leads me to undiscipliness on other chore, but i still enjoy it
i like scripting but its hard
Agreee
@@subbydubdub2247 mhm
Well scripting itself is boring, without knowing what they do, so it will be anyway a chore until you don't learn how to do it.
Ah yes the average day for me is
1.look up how to script
2.watch the entire video
3.try to do what’s in the video
4.be lazy and quit
5.go back and repeat the same thing
Same lol
same. then never revisit roblox studio for like 2 months
@@m4dsci3nt1st4 2 months? MORE LIKE TWO YEARS
Well same but I am not stacked I am just moving slow
SAME
This guy helped me a lot in learning how to script, so I just wanted to say thank you for making such helpful videos!
Lol same
Yea I feel the same way, during the scripting/learning phase, I watched about 10 alvinBlox videos a day, and 3 TheDevKing videos, and Alvin has lead me to victory. Im currently working on many games, and feel comfortable with scripting thanks to Alvin, and many others and its wonderful that we have people to help us out when it comes to scripting
@@noobamooba any problem?
@@Robertisindian its just funny
@@acceptance1446 ikr
Why did I feel motivated when I was watching this video? lol
same
Me too
I am because i recently knew how to animate, and my friend knows a little about scripting
Same
why? well its simple, its because its reminds that of our ideas, it reminds of us that we want to do awesome games, the only thing that block our way its our laziness
It's basicly pretty simple. Take a free model, edit, morize, repeat.
It really works when leanring more!
That's not learning
@@bandabanana4939 for me it is.
You have a model that looks cool to you, you edit the code abit to see if it works to your liking. Then i take out the code and use it for my own things. Thats how i memorize it and then repeat with more models and code examples.
@@dannyrietveld7379 yeah, but you should soon stop just using free models and make everything (that is possible to you) without any help from the devforum or anything alike.
@@noobmanguything423 I'm pretty sure this person makes their own stuff now. Learning from free model code is actually pretty common
@@idontknowwhyiexist6918 I do make my own stuff now. But i used to use FMs alot to learn myself ;)
Alvin Blox: "You can pick apart free models"
Me: I do that and half the time i find a virus
try verified items
Codec might try that!
why i never find any virus models ?
@@xx_gotadam_xx9457 idk
@@codec1824 I've tried a free model that was verified and it was broken so i think the best way is to just remove the viruses because a lot of other free models are better than verified ones
I bet zKevin learned like:
"How to make door"
"How do seed generation"
"What is particle emitter"
im macking a game and im exactly like that on some things
@@3bcampossilvabrandonemmanu573 m a c k i n g
@@3bcampossilvabrandonemmanu573 macking
@@3bcampossilvabrandonemmanu573 mmmmm macking
@@3bcampossilvabrandonemmanu573 ah, yes, macking
Great video! Sometimes people forget that everyone has to start from somewhere. No one becomes a pro overnight
Whoa sup dude helped me make my game
Cyber :DDD
apparently people seem not to understand that these days and people think you can get successful on one day
pro gamer advice
Hey I just saw your channel you have great tutorials
i learned everything about coding but i wasnt sure how everything worked, but this video helped me realize what to do THANK YOU WSLY I LOVED UR GAME BTW
I’m here currently working on the base system for my game after ditching around 6 or so projects over 5 years. This channel has been the source for me to learn studio itself and lua. I went from following tutorials not paying attention to fully understanding the code and being able to tweak everything and make my own. Thank you
John 3:16
For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life
@@amanewithjesus5244 John Pork 6:94
For Pork loved his creations that he called random people, legend says whoever he called shall not have eternal life, but perish
Yo, have you made a game yet?
@@ishaankataria4742 still kind of a failure but i havent quit
Kinda sucks theres people out there who began learning studio after i made this comment and they are already extremely successful with a living
yes, you're back
Good video, good tips!
As a game developer who worked in a company for 5 years, you have a tight schedule sometimes (if not always).
When you have a tight schedule, you have to think faster and less planning.
I favor planning and doing things in the best way possible.
But from what I have learned over the years in developing complex features ...
Only when you start writing you see things more clearly.
Another thing that many don't do and learn it, and if they understand it, it is the most significant step they might be able to take on the action to become PRO!
It's shortcuts. Knowing how to write code is not a problem. Learning how to write quality and flexible code that can be changed in the future - it's a significant step on the way to becoming a PRO programmer.
So, of course, it can come with experience, but always try to improve yourself and not get stuck. Check how you can improve the existing code (considering the time you have).
Good luck!
Fantastic video. The testimonies from top devs, as well as your own commentary give some much needed insight into the world of programming that many "how to code" videos fail to explain entirely.
Everybody: uses a tutorial or something to guide them
Me: spam lines of code until I understand what they mean
That's actually a good way to learn
Repetition is actually a good way to learn!
I tried doing that once for modding, it suprisingly worked.
Believe it or not there are times when you do the most random yet turn out to be the thing that help you advance the most
That's exactly what I do lol. I just try something, most of the time it doesn't work, then i go research why it doesn't work or i try something else, and after sometime it just works most of the time.
Love the work that went into this video! The editing is on point :)
Thank you so much for this video. Your scripting tutorials are amazing and give good developer resources to your viewers! You and the devs in the video are absolute legends!
Thank you so much and to everyone that you interviewed. This has helped so much and I am yet again very appreciative of this video.
this gave me a huge impression. thanks for nice video alvin!
Your intro is so relaxing
I love his voice its so calming
Lua learning deserves a lot more love than it should. Went on there and only 15 people were playing it. Now it might be because people learned and left the game. The tutorials are not all over the place and only take like ten minutes to read (I read the easy ones not sure about the medium or hard) also during the tutorials it will tell you what each line of code means. What I would do is write the code down in my sketchbook. Then write what it means and try to quiz myself until I remember what it means.
This is the same way I learned the Korean words that mean what to do when I took taekwondo classes
What you mean in the last part with "try to quiz myself until i remember what it means"?
@@ZeroRedz They mean that they try to remember what each script does without looking at their sketchbook
@@rudgz i did it the same with math but my schoolmistress everytime i was doing that way she was getting annoyed and angry at the point to spit at my face.. maybe this is why i hated so much doing math she was interfering with my lessons and my life..
@@rudgz but for me is like impossible to script in this way.
@@ZeroRedz Everyone learns to script differently, just follow your own path and then you will succeed.
This really helped a lot, thanks Alvin! And all the Roblox Developers!
I struggled for 5 years because all I did was copy and tried to remember syntax, I didn't even try to understand. I changed my way and learned how to script.
hey do u have a discord i have some questiions as a begginner scripter
@@safegamer857 Yo its been 8 months can I ask how good r u in scripting now?
@@Tx_98 idk where it went wrong but now I make exploits and I sell them 💀
@@Tx_98 I’m pretty decent now
@@safegamer857 bro 💀
Great video as always! Can't stop watching you
This really helped me out with my confusion and stuff. Being honest with you I also tried to make huge projects that I knew required a lot of time but after watching this video I finally noticed why I didn’t make much progress on huge scale games I was working on.
Thanks again Alvin as always. Now that I chose to become a game design student in college, I can actually focus on beginning to learn scripting and level design without just screwing around for hours and ditching the project as I usually do.
this video was actually really motivating and i had done what you did. try code big games as a beginner. now my plan is to use the dev forum and to try make little projects and grow on from there. thank you alvin!
Inspirational quotes
“Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes.”
Alvin, i just wanna thank you for teaching me about scripting. I remember i used to be so lost like a year ago, now im so much more confident when it comes to creating, you opened up a whole different imagination that i would ever thought when it comes to creating! Thank you Alvin for helping me find something i enjoy!
Thanks, Alvin for an amazing video. This really helped me.
Great video Alvin, keep up the work these informational videos are really helping me strive to become a better developer.
Alvinblox: How did you learn to script?
Me: Well, I watched your videos!
Honestly you inspired me to script and to have fun
omg hearing your voice now rather then from back when I was learning feels so different, and your editing style is still very similar to your old one. I'm glad I went back to check on you.
this is really helpful. I still have the issue of not understanding what lines of code do, so when I find a good model with notes on what it does it really helps.
This was very encouraging, it reminded me that I’m not gonna magically learn everything in one day, and it’s gonna take some time
I really respect the take of "most people only understand how to make something, and not how it works", I was in the "only know how to make things" boat for a long time, but when I started understanding the actual code it's self, and building off those fundamentals, I became a much better scripter. I would recommend anyone reading these to actually learn the basics, and not how to make specific things.
Thank you so much, this helped a lot to understand how you can pick up on scripting and improve at it !
This was a really cool concept for a video, I really enjoyed! Thanks for making sick videos!!!
It was always a hobby for me, I honestly cant find any good games for every time I come home with a feeling I want to play a game like this so I set out on a quest making small parts of it and learning things along the journey and its helped a lot. I make games and have learned coding to make my dreams a reality, it was never about the money.
notice how not one of them said school taught them
I know its insane
@@DarkSageArt really ? all the pro developers learned from courses
No one teach Lua even in college they only teach c++ or php or python
i learnt from school use code teacher!
are schools supposed to teach you a programming language that isn't even commonly used? let alone teaching you a specific game engine
Thank you so much I've been looking for something like this!
Thanks! This encourages me to continue making games!
0:31 Now that message is how to create a path without following the one that's used alot.
look it up when you don't know parts of the code
Me: looks up every line of the code
me too
Bro I’m sorry buthow many subs I will have after the yes comment I have legit 0 subs woah ya
@@eeeeee6154 are you ok?
@@Im_Bad_at_Games no bro
thanks for this video! i wanted to learn how to script, but i had no clue where to start. after this video, i realized that instead of watching youtube videos all day long and failing, i should actually try to look at stuff on my own. i also realized that im not going to become a pro scripter in an hour. great work, you earned a new subscriber! ;)
Thank you for the video Alvin, it really hrelped me. Im starting in this world and am creating my first functions and variables and It feels great to advance. I have very high spectatives so its a problem but im sure I will eventually learn!
0:43 LMFAOOOO THE SOUND
bruh are you high
My dream is to make an airline and have fun and you gave me motivation on learning how to make one, thanks.
Honestly lots of helpful tips. Thanks to everyone included!
Thanks Alvin, I was working on a game and I lost motivation halfway through, I was doing a tutorial and I was stuck at a part, it was an old one and roblox has changed since then but after I watched this video it inspired me to take a new approach, I applied what I learnt in both the tutorial and this video and finally got to solve the problem!
It took my like 5 years to learn because I started when I was like 8 and decided I would never need a tutorial. I would just mess around with it until it did something and analyze toolbox scripts until I understood the basics and eventually the advanced stuff.
I can relate to this, I've improved mostly because I take code from something I want to do, and divide it in small pieces, so I know what's the purpose of each thing, and try to simplify what I learned in my head, and also repeat in my head or take notes of the stuff I got from that source code so I don't forget it; Which I think is more efficient than just learning how to do a specific thing, since instead of that I use that same thing to learn other more, and by the time I can gather all those small pieces from assets I wanted to do, and make something completely new, or even a whole game.
Nice video alvin, keep up the good work!
This made me inspired to actually learn scripting thank you alvin and the other devs
it took me 2 weeks to learn lua, it's really not that hard of a language to grasp in comparison to some of the bigger like C or Java.
All it takes is sheer willpower, if you really want to learn something then put the time into doing so and enjoy the journey!
I honestly love programming.
@Ethan S yeah, that's why it was easier to pick up on.
How did you manage to learn lua in 2 weeks, any suggestions on where or how to start? Or just like the video
@@evvortexofficial hey how is your learning experience going.
@@justinaccount9920 Never really got back into it after awhile
@@evvortexofficial aw man if that was something u rlly wanted to do you shouldve kept going
Oh my god, alvin. 5 years ago I used to follow your tutorials! For some reason, I had deja-vu of your videos! So I downloaded Roblox Studio and had extreme nostalgia! Man your voice bruhh
I hope you see this and I wanna remind you that you were a big part in my childhood - I remember listening to you for hours!
hwllo help
Great reminders and new information to ponder on!
Great video with such useful info!
Wsly has always been a great example for me for making my own games, back in the old days when his games weren’t that popular he was in my roblox group called the dutch builders, we played and build together with the group and made some funny games and had an amazing experience. With thhe arrival of deathrun 1 wich was a beginning succes I loved that game and I saw how he putted his work in it and became more popular. So he recommended me to do the same thing as he said in this video on how to learn scripting. Since then ( it has been a couple of years now) I tried his method and it really works, I can script on roblox now and if I want I can make some good games but the only problem for me is perseverance. So anyone who want to learn scripting/ making a game you should really follow this strategy and this will help you so much more then just copying script or models. Thanks for making this video Alvin!
What is your way please tell more detail about it, thank you
Video Idea:
Make a game for 24 hours!
Dude! this is amazing! I have been learning from you! you are great
This changed me and now I am following each way on how each dev made their roblox game. And now I am the developer of a little game called Zombie Defense
I am extremely good at scripting and have been doing it for 4 years now and the points all these people make in the video really are true and pay off in the end. I went from not knowing what the explorer was to being able to make almost any genre of game
Hey would you be interested in teaching ?
@@dgx2737 well for staters, definitely look at starting youtube tutorials and what I did was take notes and write down everything I did on a notepad for future reference. and yeah, alvinblox is a great starting point and his old videos are even good.
@@PoppinCorn what games have you made ?
Im like the first person. I kept on searching on google for answers and learning from them, until eventually I realized that I could make basically any type of game
@@Teroces1 that built up most of my scripting knowledge, too
You helped me be a anime fighting simulator builder thank you
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
You devs were the guys who gave us the idea of rblx studio bcz earlier for us game dev meant unity and unreal but now I am really liking rblx studio and I am loving your tutorials too!!
Thanks Alvin 😃😊
I just found this video rn and its pretty helpfull still, i want to make some movesets and custom abilities just for fun maybe but i just used "tutorials" to do so, after this video i snapped to reality and imma start learning from the basics so i can understand how every single thing works.
Also you got a new sub :D
Finnaly, it answers my question...
im a kinda new to developing and I love your vids,
Thank you very much for making this video and thank you to the devs. I am just starting to learn. This will be my Bible though my learning process
Helped me a lot , especially the quote !
I learned to script by watching your tutorial on how to make stuff. I don’t know why but one day I suddenly understood almost everything (I have to say that because of for loops) you said. Now I’m working on a game that’s like horrific housing or plates of fate.
I made the main script for the game while I was bored at home so I’m definitely doing it as a hobby
Oh nice
hey do u have adiscord i have a couple questions as someone who wants to begin scripting
I learned python at school, and I feel like once you are fluent in one programming language, its just a matter of syntax when learning other languages because the logic is basically the same. I figured I'd put my knowledge to some use and make a roblox game
hows it going?
@@Sunquilibrium I got distracted and learned java instead oops. I started making the roblox game, but I got kinda bored and lua is wayyy to easy lol
Same learnt python now piecing together lua
This is the first channel I come to if I need to learn something new. Thanks for making great content, AlvinBlox :D
Do u know how to scrip if you do, how well and would u be interested in helping on a project, we can pay in modeling you things in blending :) because we know blender
Oh my.. I remember watching a couple of your videos 4 years ago. Your voice has changed so much! :D
Everytime I see scripting I dont even know what to do.
I only know a drawbridge script
@@ilaldkxb I don't know anything
Thats pain @MasterCult
@@tudor8899 same
MasterCult just keep practicing. I'm watch Alvins tutorials
I'm currently developing a game thanks to the help that y'all in the community provide :)
It's a type of simulator, but don't worry, it's very different to any simulator I've seen on Roblox, I got the idea from a game outside of Roblox, and I thought that it would be pretty cool to see it inside of Roblox, since NO simulator on the platform has this idea
I want to improve a bit or at least offer something different to the simulator genre
Hopefully it is finally done around February, if not, then until it is.
ooooh I would love to test it if you’d want
Ey bro post it here when ur done o wanna play it
Great! When ur finished can you tell us the name?
Reiterating the point of learning the code!! I usually redirect people to the lua manual, as it's much more beneficial to learn what the code means, rather than learning "if i slap this together, it does this". Learning Lua grammar so that you're able to understand what code does at a glance enables you to jump in and just start working! "I wanna display text, that's what strings are for." or "I see a colon with parenthesis, so this is probably a function!" for example.
Dang thx man I needed this
I get these spurs and follow through but what kills them is I try doing projects which are too complex for me to follow through on. I'll follow this advice and try to stick with it.
as somebody who currently knows the bare bones of HTML, lua has always been my dream to learn. ive always wanted to be a game dev, but im very stumped. and you may wonder why im saying this, its because just like html, when you are lost in the code that doesnt mean you should quit. it takes time to learn things, like lua. so always keep trying
Html isn't a programming language.
@@pixelated2877 wdym it is?
@@extremesoda It isn't.
@@extremesoda It's a markup language for web creation, not a programming language.
*When you're not a pro and you wanna learn how to but you forget everything you've learnt in 2 seconds*
Fax
thank you so mush !!!! I Got a lot motivation after completed this vid !!
Thank you so much Alvin blox you helped me so much in your videos
Most of the devs: Use free models and source code
Me: Cool! I can learn how to make a virus!!!
Normal Devs: Ray casting for Lightning
Me, creative but lazy: Rotating Parts with multiple trails are certain spots of the Part
This helped me alot, Thx alvin
its sooooo great your making tutorials for scripting now!
Next gen of developers "i learned from watching AlvinBlox"
I always try to make alpha games and then if I fully learn how to scirpt it will be alpha -> beta -> full release
This video is so helpful thank you so much
HOLY I HAVENT WATCHED YOU IN SO LONG, YOUR VOICE
Thank you Alvin Blox i want to be a creator and this is so helpful thank so much
Thanks I was actually going to give up until your video thanks man
basically api references is for pros
and thank you soo much, you gave me a great start on learning to script in roblox and programming, since I learn coding basics like data (variables),flow control (if then,for,while)and classes
Learning process of LUA is complicated, but honestly, take it slow. Don't just rush through every single source to make one game. Instead, even one source of information is enough to explain how everything works.
Though, I do admit that ROBLOX has very complicated syntaxs. Some in which makes it extremely difficult to learn without an error popping up, but that's the thing. Learn from those mistakes, even now I am starting to understand that language from like the 50th error I encountered.
Then again, it’s good that Roblox has an output that tells you a specific error for a syntax. If something in your game doesn’t work, then there’s something wrong with your code.
After watching the scripting videos of yours i keep forgetting it after 5 seconds 😭
Write the code down in a notebook! It helped!
@@exploiterreporters2564 :OOOOOOOOOOO
@@exploiterreporters2564 i was too dumb to realize dat
@@lgnd280 Yep. Good luck!
@@exploiterreporters2564 your the best mannnnn 😋
Exactly how I did it! Thanks for making this video, was really interesting!
Myzta had absolutely amazing advice for my every hard to process brain. Their way of learning is exactly how I do most things!!
I really wish I had someone I know to teach me how to code :(
Trying to make a game called Abandoned...
A survival game
@Justsomeguy Pog id say python is easier but we all have opinions