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Roblox Tycoon: Coin Machine Scripting

Roblox course

Roblox Tycoon: Coin Machine Scripting

Dream of creating the next Bloxburg? Stop just playing and start building your own coin machine. Code the same 10-stage obby you know, then add a Dropper, Conveyor, Collector, coin-machine upgrades, and a publish flow.

What you shipA scripted tycoon obby
Polished Roblox-style tycoon obby with a start-area dropper, conveyor, collector, coin-machine upgrade pads, checkpoints, and a finish platformYour obby. Your coins. Your published tycoon.
10stages with a tycoon mechanic each
1real game published to Roblox
~100lines of Lua focused on coins

What you ship

Same obby. Tycoon layer. Live on Roblox.

Tycoon takes the obby world you already recognize and adds the engine of a classic Roblox tycoon: coins, a small machine that produces income, and upgrades that improve the machine. You build the obby from scratch (same shape as Launch a Sky Garden Obby) and weave the coin mechanic in stage by stage.

A 10-stage Roblox obby — same shape as the base course, every part built from primitives

Persistent leaderstats — coins follow the player across stages, deaths, and rejoins

A start-area coin machine with a Dropper, Conveyor, Collector, and upgrade pads

Coin-machine upgrades that improve dropped coin value and collector payout

A published, shareable game with a public link

Tycoon moments

The obby is familiar. The economy is new.

These are the mechanics that make Tycoon a coding course: runtime objects, server-owned coin logic, upgrade state, tuning, feedback, and a final publish loop.

Polished Roblox-style start area with a labeled Dropper feeding gold coins onto a Conveyor that carries them to a Collector

Start-area income pipeline

The Dropper creates coin parts with Instance.new, the Conveyor moves them, and the Collector awards coins through one server helper.

Polished Roblox-style start-area coin machine with Dropper and Collector upgrade pads

Machine upgrades

Physical upgrade pads spend earned coins to improve the Dropper and Collector. Every purchase stays tied to coin production.

Polished Roblox-style ExtensionPad with a publish billboard showing a game URL

Published game loop

Stage 10 turns the ExtensionPad into a publish moment with a public URL players can use to return to the finished game.

Course path

Each stage builds an obby obstacle AND adds a tycoon beat

The obby work is familiar — same hazards as the base course. The tycoon work is the lesson: a new piece of the economy lands every stage, on top of the obstacle you just built.

Stage 1

Ascending Walls + first coin

Stage 2

Sphere Staircase + scaled rewards

Stage 3

Plank Walkway + pickup coins

Stage 4

KillBrick Path + dropper

Stage 5

Fireball Cannon + the conveyor

Stage 6

Hidden Hazard Field + dropper upgrade

Stage 7

Rolling Rocks + collector upgrade

Stage 8

Spinning KillBricks + tycoon tuning

Stage 9

Kinetic KillWall + coin-machine polish

Stage 10

Puzzle Room + publish

How to start

  1. Ask your instructor for your class code. They read it out at the start of class.
  2. Make your account. First name, last name, a username and a password you pick.
  3. Sign in anywhere. Your work is saved to your account, not to one computer.

For instructors

The tycoon is the lesson — but the obby is the proof.

Don't let members skip the obby build to rush to the tycoon mechanic. The tycoon scripts only feel meaningful because they're bolted onto an obstacle the member just built. If a stage's obby work isn't solid, the tycoon beat lands on nothing.

Open the Instructor Guide