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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