How to create a Roblox Lobby system with teleport?

If you are going to make your very first game in Roblox Studio, one of the coolest things to build should be the Lobby System. It just so common in many Roblox games. Remember when you play roblox rivals or natural disaster survival, you first come to the Lobby and then teleport to the game play area.

The Lobby (starting area) usually is the place for players chill out before the real game begins. Once you are ready, you will be teleport away to the main game zone.

So today, I’m going to walk you through step by step how to make this intermission system work. No experience? No worry, in Bloxcreators.com we always make games together, promise step by step okayyy. Ready? Let’s get started 🙂

Step 1: Setting Up the Lobby and Game Area

Alright, first thing’s first, let’s open Roblox Studio and create a new Baseplate project.

Once you’re in, I want you drag two parts from the toolbox into the game and scale up to make two areas. Lay down a floor for the lobby, maybe throw in a few walls or decorations. Then build your Game Area the same way.

One will be the Lobby Area, obviously, this is where players spawn and hang out. Remember rename the part call “LobbyArea” for example.

Another one is the the actual Game Area. This is the place players get teleported from the Lobby area.

I will suggest you make sure both areas look a bit different. For example, maybe color the Lobby blue and the Game Area green. Such that it will be more obvious when you teleport later.

Step 2: Add a Teleport Trigger

Step 1 should be pretty easy right? Now let’s create the actual teleport trigger. Just simply insert a part into your Lobby area. You can make it like a door or a pad, whatever shape you like. Click on the part, open the Properties panel, and make sure it’s Anchored (so it doesn’t fall) and CanCollide is set to true (so people can stand on it). Rename it to something like “TeleportDoor” just to keep things tidy.

Now, go over in your Game Area. Next thing we going to do is insert another Part and name it SpawnLocation. That’s the destination when the teleporter send the players to.

So far so cool? Let’s make the magic happen with a bit of Roblox scripting (LUA)

Step 3: Script of the intermission Teleport system

Remember we have created a TeleportDoor thing? Now just right-click and insert a Script.

Below is the code we are going to use. Just give me a sec, I will explain all of them in details:

local teleportDoor = script.Parent
local destination = workspace.GameArea.SpawnLocation

teleportDoor.Touched:Connect(function(hit)
    local player = game.Players:GetPlayerFromCharacter(hit.Parent)
    if player then
        local character = player.Character
        if character and character:FindFirstChild("HumanoidRootPart") then
            character.HumanoidRootPart.CFrame = destination.CFrame + Vector3.new(0, 3, 0)
        end
    end
end)

So what’s happening here? Let me give a quick explanation:

First, we tell the script where the teleport door is. And then we define where we want players to land (that SpawnLocation we made earlier). By using the Touched, now when someone touches the door, the script checks if they are a real player. If the condition fulfilled, it teleports the player to the game area.

Step 4: Test It Out

Let’s see if everything work fine. Click Play (or press F5). You should spawn in your Lobby Area.

Now just walk and touch the teleport door. If everything’s wired up correctly, your character should instantly teleport to the Game Area. Awesome.

In case it didn’t work well, just double-check:

Is your SpawnLocation correctly named and placed inside workspace.GameArea? Or is your script attached to the right part? Common mistake usually just typo or naming issues.

Bonus Challenge

Want to go even further? Here are a few ideas to level up your lobby system:

You may ddd a ProximityPrompt so that players need to press a button to teleport. Or you can add a countdown timer before teleporting everyone at once. You can also create a fancy UI message like “Teleporting in 3… 2… 1…”. Just leave comment down before and let me know if you are interested to know more.

🎉 You Did It!

Congrats, you just made your first working Lobby with teleport system in Roblox Studio.