Mark Kiepe - Mastering Roblox Coding: The unofficial guide to leveling up your Roblox scripting skills and building games using Luau programming

The unofficial guide to leveling up your Roblox scripting skills and building games using Luau programming

Mark Kiepe

BIRMINGHAMMUMBAI

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Mark Kiepe is an experienced Roblox Programmer and Game Designer with over six years of experience. He has contributed to several successful Roblox games. Besides these achievements, he is also the Co-Owner of a Roblox Game Studio called Sarcastic Studios, with games such as Pet Store Tycoon and Dream Island. Mark has contributed to more than 150 million play sessions across all games at the time of writing.

Mark started as a self-taught programmer on Roblox. What he learned on Roblox helped him in college. He currently attends a University of Applied Sciences in The Netherlands, where he studies Software Development.

I want to thank my parents and brother for their continuous support while writing this book. I am incredibly grateful for the amount of motivation they have given me.

Thanks to everyone at Packt for helping me write this book. It means the world to me.

I want to give a special thanks to Aamir and Rakhi. I have learned so much about writing through your feedback that I would have never accomplished without them.

I would also like to thank Vaideeshwari for giving me the opportunity to write this book.

Arnav is a UGC Event Organizer working alongside DevRel for Roblox. He has hosted numerous events on the platform and is also an experienced developer. He has over 350 million contributed visits. He is known by his Roblox username AceDevArnav and is also the owner of Ace Developing Studios , which is one of the rising studios on Roblox with its upcoming games and UGC items.

Mir Ali was born in Karnataka, India on June 4, 1983. He studied in Dubai, UAE. He learned programming from the 6th Grade, starting with Q Basics, and then learning C and C++. He found these boring, as there was no way to visualize the results, and nothing made sense to him back then, except for a few ways of using IF statements, and a calculator that he made himself. He also couldnt quite figure out what the lines of code were, when they started, or what OOP was. He therefore called it quits on programming and took a journey into building Gaming PC and servers. He then did his Cisco certification and went deeper to configure ATM relays and protocols, and calculate IP addresses for big companies.

Years passed by, and he became a father. One day his son came to him and asked, "Father, what is LUA, and how do you make an obby with rotating parts?" Mir Ali saw hope in his sons eyes, and got up, opened Roblox, and started teaching him. He taught his son IF conditions and operators, which were easy until he reached a syntax :, which was from OOP. This was when lightning struck him, and everything made sense. He taught his son a full library of LUA, including Bitwise operations, and made his own Physics and network library from scratch. Now, instead of his son, Mir Ali teaches corporate giants such as Accenture, Vodafone, Microsoft, and Walmart, to name but a few. He teaches the procedural generation of buildings and environments with complex floors, and ways to enter them. He also teaches Deep math and trigonometry, such as how to make your own Math library. Last but not least, Mir Ali teaches M.L and A.I.

To my children, Arafath, Ishan, Hasanath, and Saleyhath, who motivated me.