Roblox Game Design Club
Roblox Club in Wellesley
Player to creator — and Lua is a real programming language.
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- CSTA & NGSS aligned
Fall 2026 Term · iCode of WellesleyStarts Sep 28
Roblox — enroll now
- Dates
- Sep 28, 2026 – Dec 7, 2026
- Day & time
- Afternoons, Mon–Fri
- Sessions
- 10 sessions, one hour each
- Ages
- 7–15
- Location
- 73 Central Street, Wellesley
$395 per ten-week term · second club $325
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Almost every student arrives having played Roblox. Rather few arrive knowing it is built on Lua, a text programming language used well beyond games. This club moves students across that line: from consuming games to building and publishing them.
Publishing matters here. A game other people can actually play is a very different standard from a game that works on your own screen, and students feel that difference immediately.
Tracks
Students enter at the level that matches their experience and move up as they are ready.
- World Building — terrain, structures, lighting, first environments
- Obstacle courses — level design, difficulty curves, playtesting
- Lua Programming — real scripted behavior, events, variables
- Game Creation — publishing, game economy, iterating on player feedback
What students actually learn
- Lua scripting — a genuine text-based language
- Level design and why difficulty has to increase in a shape, not a jump
- Publishing and maintaining something other people use
- Reading feedback from players without taking it personally
A brief, as students receive it
Build a course a stranger can finish in about two minutes on their third attempt. You must be able to explain what makes each section harder than the one before.
We give the requirements, not the steps. Working out how is the lesson — and the reason students can explain what they built when they get home.
The question parents actually ask
“Isn’t Roblox just where they already waste their afternoons?”
It is, until the day they publish something and a stranger plays it badly. That is when level design stops being decoration and starts being a problem to solve. We push students across that line deliberately, usually within the first three weeks.
Where it leads
Roblox students move naturally into Python — Lua makes the jump easy — or into Web Design if the publishing side is what caught them.
Questions
Does my child need a Roblox account?
Yes, and we will help set one up with appropriate privacy settings if you do not have one. Publishing is always optional and always your decision.
Is this the same as game development?
It overlaps. Roblox covers the whole arc from building to publishing inside one platform, which is why we teach it as its own club rather than a general game-design course.
When does the term run?
The Fall 2026 Term runs Sep 28, 2026 to Dec 7, 2026 — 10 sessions, one hour a week, at 73 Central Street, Wellesley.
What does it cost?
$395 for the ten-week term. A second club in the same term is $325. Materials are included.
How is a club different from the Belt Program?
A club is one hour a week for ten weeks, in a larger group, focused on one topic. The Belt Program is two hours a week across a ten-month year, in a group of about six, with a written progress report every month and a capstone project. Plenty of students do both.
What if we need to miss a week?
Tell us in advance and we will place your child in another group that week where the schedule allows. Vacation weeks are already excluded from the term dates above.
Where you’ll be
iCode of Wellesley · 73 Central Street, Wellesley, MA 02482
781-291-3131
Five minutes from Wellesley Middle School and a short drive from Schofield, Bates, Hardy, Hunnewell and Upham. Street parking on Central Street, plus the Municipal Way lot behind the building for pickup.
Ready to start?
Book a free evaluation and we will tell you honestly which track your child belongs in — or enroll straight into the Fall 2026 Term.
Enroll in the Fall 2026 Term
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