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What is Roblox Studio?

Roblox isn't only a game — it's the editor the games are made in. Everything in a Roblox world is an object with properties, and a script that changes them. Tap the highlighted values below and watch the object obey.

Real Lua, live object

The script — tap a value

The world

That is the whole job in Roblox. The spin isn't an animation somebody drew — it's a loop nudging one property, over and over. Scoreboards, doors, shops and enemies are all the same idea with more lines.

What they'll actually make

Worlds you can walk around

A house, an obstacle course, a volcano island — real 3D spaces built with the same Studio tools that professional Roblox developers use.

Scripts that make it a game

Lua for checkpoints, scoring, moving platforms, shops, and characters that react. This is the point where building becomes programming.

Published to Roblox

Finished games go live on the platform their friends are already on, with a link anyone can join — including you.

Why choose this program

It turns playing into building

Your child almost certainly already plays Roblox. Moving from someone else's game to publishing their own is the biggest change available in how they spend that time.

Lua is typed, real code

No blocks. Variables, functions, conditions, and events — the same structures as Python or JavaScript, learned inside something they already care about.

3D and code at once

Students build the world and script its behaviour, so they feel how a design idea and what the code can actually do push against each other.

A real audience

Roblox has players on it. A published game can be joined by someone your child has never met — a very different motivation from a mark out of ten.

The tool: Roblox Studio — free to download, and the same editor published Roblox games are made in.

Ages 9–15 24 lessons, 3 levels 90-minute live sessions Windows and Mac