Do you need to know Luau to script in Roblox?

The honest answer

No — not to make a game, and not tonight. Yes, eventually, if you want to build things no kit contains. Those are both true at once, and most advice pretends only one is.

What scripting does in a game

Luau is Roblox's language, and it is real programming. It runs the rounds, counts the money, remembers your progress, opens the shop. A game without scripts is a map you walk around in. This is why 'learn scripting first' is the standard advice — and also why most people never make it to their first working game.

Making a game before you can script

The way around the wall is not a shortcut through it — it is a different door. Start from a game whose scripts were written and tested by someone else, and which already runs in your own Studio. You describe what you want changed in a sentence; the change is applied to code that was known-good to begin with, and checked before it reaches your place.

You still end up with a real game in your account, published under your name. Nothing about it is fake or rented — the scripts are in your place, and one hidden setting in SG ai shows them to you whenever you get curious.

When you will want Luau

The day you want something no kit has — a mechanic nobody has described in a sentence — you will want to read the code that is already in your place. And that is a far better way to learn than a blank script: working examples, in a game you made, one system at a time. Plenty of scripters started exactly there.