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In this Roblox Studio Advanced Scripting tutorial, I will show you how to use Roblox Studio DataStores and Roblox Studio Buffers to Save Player Game Data for your Roblox Games.

To Begin in the video, I take a detailed review into using tables in Roblox Studio Lua and compare them to the new Roblox Studio Buffer type introduced in late 2023 / 2024 into Roblox studio. Furthermore, I delve into Roblox Studio Memory Management and how you can view memory usage in your roblox studio game development projects. This trick can be used with the new Roblox Luau Heap tool inside of Roblox. Next in this Roblox advanced scripting tutorial, I define the structure we will use to create a new Roblox studio datastore system using these buffer types and implement the system into Roblox Studio. Finally, I end the advanced roblox studio tutorial by going through some use cases such as using Roblox leaderstats with the datastore system and saving 3D objects into Roblox datastores.

This system is designed for immutable datasets that you should know the size of before running the game. I go through some examples of when not to use this system in your Roblox studio games, but these scenarios happen rarely.

Resources from the Roblox studio tutorial:

User guide on the Roblox Studio DataStore System:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1PYLD...

Use case for the roblox studio datastore system: 3D Object and leaderstats:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ko9z...

More info on roblox studio buffers from Roblox developers: https://create.roblox.com/docs/refere...

Roblox studio tutorial Sections
0:00 Introduction to the tutorial
0:36 Previous Datastore video
0:48 Introducing the Roblox Studio Buffer Type
1:14 Roblox Studio Memory Management
8:17 the NEW Roblox datastore system
10:07 Implementation of the Datastore System
42:42 Bug Fix 1 Syntax Error
42:54 Bug Fix 2 Logical Error
44:56 Using the DataStore System Saving 3D Objects
51:39 Leaderstats using the Roblox Datastore System
52:23 Wrapping up the advanced Roblox scripting tutorial