How to Create MOVING PLATFORMS in Roblox Studio

Master moving platforms for your Roblox games!

Platforming is not only a popular genre for Roblox, but also a popular genre for the general game development industry. While the mechanics themselves are mostly simple to implement, the creativity that goes into the characters, level designs, backgrounds, and similar create unique experiences for every single platformer that is made.

All this being said, level design is indeed a key part of creating a great platformer. Certainly, having static platforms is perfectly fine in many cases - as there are other interesting mechanics and aspects that can be added to a platformer to make it interesting. However, you can easily spice up your platformer levels a bit by adding one simple thing: moving platforms. Not only can these simple platforms add challenge to your levels, but make the entire aesthetic design a lot less static.

Using Roblox Studio, the Roblox-made tool for making Roblox games, this tutorial will show you how to take an obstacle course level and add a moving platform to it. You'll learn both how to implement the platform itself in the level editor, as well as how to create the Lua scripting logic that will control the platform's movement. This being said, no previous experience with Lua is required, as we'll keep the moving platform code as simple and understandable as possible (with the assumption this may very well be your first game).

Whether you intend to build Roblox games, or want to dive into different game engines, these skills will nonetheless prove extremely helpful for platformer development. You'll gain not just knowledge for how moving platforms work, but also new techniques for coding in general. So, whether for your hobby or career, these beginner-level game development skills will help pave the road for your future game success.

[ericflo]

Would have loved to know how to make the character stay on the platform when moving sideways.

[brotachikun]

how do I make a moving platform that players follow the movement of the platform? For example. Moving platform goes to other side but you won't follow the platform to over there.

[saad]

NOT WORKING? could be wrong, I did it just like is done in the video?