I help Roblox game owners get polished, scalable, scripted systems for their game so that they can create a game they鈥檙e actually proud of. 11+ years of exp.
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Game feel matters a lot more for your Roblox game than you might think.
Sure, AI can make a system, but how effective is that system at actually making your players want to keep playing?
I took my friend's AI coded system and revamped it to make it feel better.
See the before and after.
people that have never programmed or scripted before don't typically try to tell the ai to make it look beautiful because, well, they don't know what beauty in code looks like, lol
The biggest Roblox update I want is to see my average playtime increase by the hour, rather than waiting 1-2 days to see it.
Right now, I make an update and I have to wait 1-2 days to see if it actually increases playtime. Session time, sure, we have live performance, but playtime is more important for the algo. Session time isn鈥檛 the same as playtime.
An update like this will allow me to iterate on playtime basically 8 times a day rather than 1 time every 1-2 days.
if your game is showing bad stats, just accept that your game in its current form isn't worthy of good stats yet.
and that's okay. because it's next form will be even better. you will make it better.
This is CCU from home recs. Not ads btw. 100 CCU from ads does not get a celebration from me. I do celebrate 5 CCU from home recs though :D
Create a game from scratch (no templates, your own idea, not a reskin of an existing one). Fail. Update. Get home recs. Get 2 ccu from home recs. Fail more. Update even more. Repeat until 1K+ ccu.
You鈥檒l learn much much much more about the fundamentals of game design doing it this way than you will otherwise.
I think of AI as a speed and force multiplier on what you already know. AI amplifies the quality of the person directing it.
If AI can do the thing (scripting/building/modeling/ui/etc.) better and faster than you, then what's the point of learning anything? AI will just do it.
My answer to this question is that learning is about building new mental models to see reality. Yes, AI can perform complex calculations, can figure out what to do next, has believable answers to most of your questions, can write code extremely fast and make it work with a single prompt.
But, at the end of the day, you have to be able to differentiate between what is a good response and what is a bad response. That is a skill called judgement and it's overwhelmingly important in society today.
In fact, judgement is why most Roblox developers never see much success.
Because judgment is not about "AI make this game for me ok publish boom 100k ccu"
Judgement is about "AI make this game for me using these specific instructions. I want the economy to function like this. I understand that one approach is doing it this way, but doing it that way has long term retention implications, so instead, let's do it this other way. I want you to code the DataStore modules in this way, ensuring that you cache ........ Tell me about your plans on how you'll code this before you write any code so I can review it."
And then even after it's done writing all the code, realizing that some parts of the game still need improvement and iterating.
Judgement is about knowing when the AI's response is garbage, and when it's good. It's about knowing what about your game needs to improve.
And you know the best way to develop judgement? By learning and doing it yourself.
The best way to be able to tell if AI's script is bad is by having the experience of already scripting, making mistakes, writing bad code yourself and realizing how to fix it.
Everyone has access to AI. Not everyone has the best judgement for the best outcome.
The top scripters are able to glance at AI code and realize all the long-term flaws with it, and reprompt it using better instructions (or just rewrite it themselves).
So, learning is still worth it.
