Roblox is MUCH easier to get plays and surprisingly isn’t really a “kids game”! Since you can just tell all your roblox friends to try your game, you can actually get a ton of players easily. Roblox does lack a lot of features GDevelop has, like 2d, since roblox is mainly a 3d engine. Roblox & GDevelop are both great in different ways!
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Yeah, I was interested in making Roblox games and even started to learn lua, but at some point switched to GDevelop instead. I still have Roblox game ideas though. Snowy, did you program in lua?
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Thing is with Roblox games, is that that’s what they are. Games tied to Roblox. Compared to GDevelop and most other game engines, where you can compile and publish games on multiple different platforms, with Roblox your limited to the Roblox itself.
If anything Roblox is closer to a more advanced Mario Maker than a game engine, only real difference is that you can monetise what you make (by monetise I mean recieve payment in Robux) and actually program logic and events in your game instead of “place goomba here, place koopa there”.
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Yes I did learn Lua! Lua is probably my favourite coding language (not counting GDevelop’s “no-code”)!
Roblox is actually a VERY good engine. You can easily get lots of people to play your games, make 3d games very simply, and the real time collab just takes the cake. You should definitely test it out sometime, even if it’s just for an hour or so. (assuming you haven’t tried it before!)
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Hi all!
What i could see about Roblox games with my granddaughter, the characters seems to have rectangular heads. But i think it’s voluntary of Roblox games programmers.
After a rapid look on LUA language, i did find it seems like an evolved Basic like FreeBasic, PureBasic, etc.
It’s more readable than C,C++, etc.
I would be younger, i think i would learn LUA but today, what would be the use for me.
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Xierra
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Hi @SnowyRawrGamer!
Have you made games with a language like LUA?
If so, you must have realized that this is very different from the events logic used in game engines like GD.
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Xierra
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This topic is super old, but i cant resist…
sorry for bringing up an old topic!
My fav part of gdevelop:
- Its opensource
- its no-code system
- how easy it is to publish games
What’s my fav part of making a game… hmm…
I guess the reasons are :
- its like i have a job, im not just sitting on the laptop wasting my time playing video games, im making them, i have a purpose on here, u know?
- I love thinking how the player who is playing my game would think when playing my game.
- I always think, the reason i make games is for my pleasure, for fun, and for others.
- I just like it idk why
- the main reason i started making games was thanks to my dad, who whenever saw me playing games always said : instead of that, why dont u make your own game, u know, u can do what ever u want, add whatever u want, and everybody can play it.
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well probably making the mechanics and programming it and testing the game and making cutscenes
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Great response! Also loved the back story about your father’s words for making your own game and I agree with him haha.
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Yeah those are fun aspects of game development! Cutscenes were always tough for me as I like to focus on developing mechanics or systems. Probably one of my weaker areas that’s for sure.
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if you have used godot before you could just make every body part a seperate part and key frame them like rigs which is way easier and it works for 2d and maybe 3d?
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Yeah, i have made some things in unity for cutscenes in a previous game which wasn’t too bad, but still didn’t enjoy doing it. Never tried doing one in Godot yet. Will have to give it a shot. I am more of the type to just code stuff to make things work than work on animations and what not. I even used code for handling animations more than unit’s animation systems.
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Well with GDevelop, I really honestly enjoy the whole process of making a game… well except for the sfx and music design but anything else is honestly really simple for me to do or deal with as there’s plenty of resources I can use to assist me if I ever have a problem
Though I enjoy testing the game the most as I can have a lot of fun messing around and such!
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