DataStore (Saving Player Data, pcall(), Scopes) - Roblox Advanced Scripting #17 (2024)

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In this 2023-2024 Guide to Roblox Scripting for Advanced Developers, I will go through everything you need to know to continue scripting on Roblox!
My new mission is to have fun teaching everything I know from developing games on Roblox since 2016. We will dive into scripting concepts as basic as printing to as complicated as raycasting. For every episode of this series, I encourage you to do everything I do to gain experience and let it stick with you so that you can create the games you're passionate about on your own. Enjoy this series and remember: being a competent scripter takes time and effort so don't get discouraged if things get too tricky. Remember where your inspirations came from; if you can be a Roblox scripter, then anyone can!

Timestamps:
0:00 Intro
1:57 CONCEPTION
6:07 Enabling Studio Access
7:53 Accessing Data Stores
10:38 SetAsync()
11:23 GetAsync()
13:18 IncrementAsync()
15:14 RemoveAsync()
17:09 pcall
25:50 SetAsync() vs UpdateAsync()
31:28 Scopes
35:25 Saving Player Data
42:44 Optimization Tips/Limitations

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[BrawlDevRBLX]

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[AdityaPlays.lolpanti]

Thank You soo much.
Finding such detailed explanation is really hard to find, all the resources on YouTube are either too old or not so detailed.
It is really a shame that this video still does not have the views it deserves

[ElipsMakesGames]

I now understand STUPID data stores after 3 years

[cauasales]

You're amazing. I'm from Brazil, english is not my first language but your teaching skills are fenomenal. I can understand pretty much everythin without needing to go back in the video, your oratory it's just too good! Thanks for the video and keep up with the hard work!

[Draco_Dev]

Thanks man your so underrated, you deserve more subs, keep up the good work!

[gullyy]

for anyone confused about how he has 2 variables connected to the function wrapped in the pcall:

the pcall will have a boolean value (either true or false) when the code is executed and this is assigned to the first variable, which in this example is "success". The function returns its own value upon being run (the dictionary result in this example) and is thus assigned to the second variable.

This doesnt just apply to datastores as you could have something like:
local curr, suc = pcall(function()
return "Hello"
end)

print(curr) -- Output: true (success status)
print(suc) -- Output: "Hello" (the result)


as you can see, the same logic still applies

[snblitz]

this was literally the only datastore tutorial that i fully understood and wasnt way too convoluted
thank you soo much, this will bring my games to the next level

[vlogsquad]

Was literally looking for one of these videos and have been following your tutorial. Youre awesome for that

[ScriptFedora]

Finally a tutorial on Data saving that ACTUALLY WORKS. I cannot tell you how many tutorials i've seen with the same not working code and no explaining done. You honestly deserve A whole lot more views and subscribers than you have.

[nolanhairr]

Thank you for making these videos! They're easy to follow and extremely helpful! I've watched dozens of other videos but the way you explained the content made it feel very approachable. Thank you!

[thattarch]

i love your videos so much man, they have helped me to understand lua so much better and make me able to code things that i wouldn’t even have understood before watching your videos. you deserve so many more subs and you should definitely keep up the fantastic work!!!

[DevDucksey]

literally the best datastore video I've seen, you explained it so well. Surprised to see you only have 5k subs

[quickstir]

ive watched 7+ vids on data saves and this was the only vid that helped me this much. ily bro

[becausewhynot]

OMG I've done like 5 different tutorials and yours is the first that worked, and it also makes a lot of sense! Thank you so much for this video, it did a really good job of explaining how datastores work :D

[Xelous]

man, thank you. No other youtuber has gone through this in detail. Watched the entire video and now I get it, ty

[spike]

love the way you explain everything keep it up!

[ZeroCrypher]

W tutorial, you lowkey helping me keep up that content 💯

[elorapadilla]

this channel & video needs wayyy more hype!

[hobis_wife]

compared to other videos, this video cleared up any mud I had about data stores and now data stores seem pretty simple. thank you! :)

[GF-musc]

You and Jacob and Tweety Gaming (from roblox studio community) are helped me very many :D Thank you so much.