How to make a dress up game in Roblox Studio

What makes a dress up game work

The loop in one line: see the theme, dress for it against the clock, walk the runway, vote, see who won, earn money for new clothes, play the next round.

• A good wardrobe from the start. Thirty items that look great together beat three hundred that do not. Group them by category (tops, bottoms, shoes, hair, accessories) so players find things fast.
• Readable themes. "Beach day", "Royal ball", "Space explorer": a theme should give everyone an idea in one second.
• Everyone gets a moment. The runway walk is the payoff for the dressing time. Give each player a few seconds alone in the spotlight, with the camera on them.
• A vote that feels fair. Players notice when friends vote each other up or when someone always wins. Server-checked votes and averaged stars help.
• Low pressure for new players. A newcomer with few items should still be able to place well with a smart outfit.

Make the game your own: your own name, your own items and your own themes. The genre is open to everyone; another game's clothes, art and branding are not.

The systems you need

There are two ways to dress a character. Your own items: Accessory objects you made or are allowed to use, stored in ServerStorage and cloned onto the character with Humanoid:AddAccessory. Catalog items: build a HumanoidDescription with marketplace accessory IDs and apply it with Humanoid:ApplyDescriptionAsync. Your own items give you full control over the look and the slots; catalog items give a huge choice but you do not control what is in it. The script below uses your own items.

Build plan: from a baseplate to launch

First playable

1. Make a small wardrobe: five or six Accessory items per category, each with a Slot attribute (Hat, Hair, Top) in a folder ServerStorage.Wardrobe. An accessory attaches by matching the Attachment name in its Handle with one on the character, so test each item on an R15 character first.
2. Build a dressing room with one rack per category, or a simple menu with a button per item that fires the Wear RemoteEvent with the item's name.
3. Add the script below and check that wearing a second hat replaces the first.
4. Build the runway and a seating area that faces it, then add the vote: a row of five star buttons that fires Vote with the player being rated and the stars.
5. Run a full round with three players in Studio's multi-client test: theme, dressing, runway, vote, result.

First public test

Thirty items, twenty themes, one runway and a results podium. Watch how long people spend in the dressing room (if most are done in a minute, the timer is too long), whether anyone gets a zero-star round in a row, and how many stay for a second round.

What to add for launch

• A shop with items bought with money earned per round, and a few starter items for everyone.
• Saved owned items and a few outfit slots to save a whole look.
• Colour or pattern choices for some items, which multiply the wardrobe without new models.
• Poses and a runway camera for each player's turn.
• Mobile layout checks: the item menu and the star buttons must be easy to tap on a phone.
• The Maturity and Compliance Questionnaire in the Creator Dashboard: Roblox restricts who can play a game without content maturity information.

The defining mechanic: outfits and a fair vote

This server script does the two things that must not be left to the client. Wear takes only an item name: the server finds the item in the wardrobe, removes whatever the player wears in that slot and puts a clone on. Vote takes a player and a star count: the server accepts 1 to 5 stars, ignores votes for yourself and keeps one vote per voter for each player, so a later vote replaces an earlier one instead of adding to it.

ServerStorage
  Wardrobe Folder
    Sunhat Accessory       attribute Slot = "Hat"
    LongHair Accessory     attribute Slot = "Hair"
ReplicatedStorage
  Wear RemoteEvent
  Vote RemoteEvent
ServerScriptService
  Fashion Script new

-- Script in ServerScriptService named Fashion.
-- Puts wardrobe items on characters and counts star votes on the server.
local Players = game:GetService("Players")
local ReplicatedStorage = game:GetService("ReplicatedStorage")
local ServerStorage = game:GetService("ServerStorage")

local wardrobe = ServerStorage:WaitForChild("Wardrobe")
local wearEvent = ReplicatedStorage:WaitForChild("Wear") :: RemoteEvent
local voteEvent = ReplicatedStorage:WaitForChild("Vote") :: RemoteEvent

-- what each player wears, by slot
local worn: { [Player]: { [string]: Accessory } } = {}

wearEvent.OnServerEvent:Connect(function(player, itemName)
	if typeof(itemName) ~= "string" then
		return
	end
	local item = wardrobe:FindFirstChild(itemName)
	local character = player.Character
	local humanoid = character and character:FindFirstChildOfClass("Humanoid")
	if not item or not item:IsA("Accessory") or not humanoid then
		return -- not a wardrobe item, or no character yet
	end
	local slot = item:GetAttribute("Slot")
	if typeof(slot) ~= "string" then
		return
	end
	local mine = worn[player] or {}
	worn[player] = mine
	local old = mine[slot]
	if old then
		old:Destroy() -- one item per slot
	end
	local copy = item:Clone()
	humanoid:AddAccessory(copy)
	mine[slot] = copy
end)

-- votes[target][voter] = stars, for the current round only
local votes: { [Player]: { [Player]: number } } = {}
local votingOpen = false

voteEvent.OnServerEvent:Connect(function(voter, target, stars)
	if not votingOpen then
		return
	end
	if typeof(target) ~= "Instance" or not target:IsA("Player") or target == voter then
		return -- only other players
	end
	if typeof(stars) ~= "number" or stars ~= math.floor(stars) or stars < 1 or stars > 5 then
		return -- whole stars from 1 to 5
	end
	local forTarget = votes[target] or {}
	votes[target] = forTarget
	forTarget[voter] = stars -- one vote per voter; a new vote replaces the old
end)

-- Call during the vote phase; returns each player's average stars.
local function runVote(seconds: number): { [Player]: number }
	table.clear(votes)
	votingOpen = true
	task.wait(seconds)
	votingOpen = false
	local averages: { [Player]: number } = {}
	for _, player in Players:GetPlayers() do
		local total, count = 0, 0
		local received: { [Player]: number } = votes[player] or {}
		for _, stars in received do
			total += stars
			count += 1
		end
		averages[player] = if count > 0 then total / count else 0
	end
	return averages
end

Players.PlayerRemoving:Connect(function(player)
	worn[player] = nil
	votes[player] = nil
end)

-- one quick test round of voting
task.wait(10)
local results = runVote(20)
for player, average in results do
	print(player.Name, string.format("%.1f stars", average))
end

A new character starts without the accessories, so clear worn[player] in CharacterAdded, or put the saved outfit back on. In the full round loop, call runVote after the runway, give money by place, and show the top three on a podium. Averages are fairer than totals, because players who got fewer votes (someone joined late) are not punished.

The hard part: votes and a wardrobe that keeps up

Two things decide whether a dress up game lasts: whether players trust the results, and whether there is always something new to wear.

• Friend voting. Friends will give each other five stars. Averaging helps; so does dropping each player's single highest and lowest vote when there are enough votes, and showing results only as places, not raw numbers.
• Vote quickly. Rate each player while they are on the runway, not all at the end, so people remember the outfit they are rating.
• No empty rounds. A player who did not vote at all can be skipped for the round reward, which keeps the vote alive.
• An item pipeline. Because the server reads the wardrobe folder, a new item is a modelling job: add the Accessory with its Slot attribute and it works. Plan a small collection for every update.
• Look after performance. Many players wearing many detailed items on one stage is heavy. Keep item meshes simple and limit how many items one outfit can have.

Monetization that fits a dress up game

Players in this genre happily pay for looks, which is what the game is about, so selling items is natural. The line to watch is the vote: paid items should look good, not win automatically.

A developer product must be granted through MarketplaceService.ProcessReceipt so a purchase is never lost; the game pass guide covers pass checks and prompts. A subscription must keep its benefits for the full term. Roblox also pays creators through Creator Rewards, which replaced engagement-based payouts on 24 July 2025. Rewarded video ads, where your game qualifies, must reward a developer product and cannot be random: "double money this round" fits.

What brings players back

• New collections. A themed set of items every update, announced on the game page.
• Daily themes. A theme of the day with a bonus for placing well in it.
• Saved looks. Outfit slots let players keep their best looks and show them off.
• Daily rewards and codes. Money or an item for a login streak (daily rewards, codes).
• Levels. Experience per round that unlocks items, so even players who never win make progress.

Build a dress up game with RoCode

RoCode is an independent AI agent for Roblox Studio. You describe what you want in a web chat, and its free Studio plugin writes the Luau and creates the scripts, parts and UI in the place you have open. For a dress up game it works in rounds: first the dressing room and wearing items, then the round loop and runway, then the vote and the shop.

Build this in Studio ↗

It cannot make clothing meshes or animations, publish the game, or judge which outfits look good: you still design the wardrobe. Free credits every day, no card needed. How RoCode builds a game.

Questions

Sources and further reading

• Roblox Creator Docs: Humanoid:AddAccessory
• Roblox Creator Docs: Humanoid:ApplyDescriptionAsync
• Roblox Creator Docs: HumanoidDescription
• Roblox Creator Docs: TextService. filtering text players write
• Roblox Creator Docs: Developer products
• Roblox Creator Docs: Subscriptions
• Roblox Creator Docs: Creator Rewards
• RoCode guide: Character customization

How the code was checked: every script on this page passes Luau's strict type checker against Roblox's API definitions (luau-lsp, 4 November 2026). A type check catches misspelt APIs and wrong types, not game logic, so playtest in Studio before you publish.