Roblox Game Design Club

Roblox Club in Wellesley

Player to creator — and Lua is a real programming language.

Ages 7–15 · one hour a week · $199 a month

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Clubs 2026–27 · iCode of WellesleyStarts Tue 22 Sep

Roblox — enroll now

Dates
September 2026 to June 2027
Day & time
Tuesdays, 3:30–4:30 pm
Format
One hour a week
Ages
7–15
Location
73 Central Street, Wellesley

$199 a month · second club $180 a month
Ten payments, September to June

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A Roblox world beside a window of Lua code
A Roblox world beside a window of Lua code.

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 do clubs run?

Clubs run September 2026 to June 2027, one hour a week. This club runs Tuesdays, 3:30–4:30 pm, at 73 Central Street, Wellesley. It starts Tuesday 22 September and runs to 30 June 2027.

What does it cost?

$199 a month, one hour a week, one topic. You pay for ten months, September to June — July and August are not billed, because clubs do not run then. Taking a second club at the same time? $180 a month for each extra one. Brothers and sisters get 5% off, and that comes off both prices. Materials are included. Stop any time with 30 days’ notice — no term to see out, no penalty, no phone call you have to win. Nothing renews on its own in September; every family chooses again each year.

How is a club different from the Belt Program?

A club is one hour a week, 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. AI Studio is one hour a week, self-paced, with the work tuned to your child by their instructor. Plenty of students do more than one.

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. We run on school holidays too — a day off school is not a day off club. We are closed 24 December to 7 January.

Can we stop?

Yes. Stop any time with 30 days’ notice — no term to see out, no penalty, no phone call you have to win. Email wellesley107@icodeschool.com, or the Managing Director, Soundarya Ganesh, at soundarya.ganesh@icodeschool.com.

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.

Families travel to us from Wellesley, Needham, Natick, Weston, Dover and Newton Lower Falls.

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