Indie Devlog 1: Starting My FIRST Game!

I spent way too long on this...
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The Roblox game engine is not very good, but what it lacks is made up for in what you receive.
Every game is hosted for free on the Roblox servers and intended for multiplayer games.
You will get much fewer headaches when it comes to multiplayer as a new developer compared to other problems, BUT:
- Roblox is very inefficient (worse performance for fewer assets loaded)
- The work environment is not very intuitive (though it does have a lot of tools to make up for that)
- Third bullet point with more interesting problems
I heard most don't read descriptions, but since you have, you might as well like and subscribe too.
Follow along with the game dev journey, make your own game!
Have a pretty cool day.
New discord server!
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[@CupOfTea]

Next video is out!

[@JedotiOffical]

I am a Roblox Dev since 3 years , believe in yourself and dont be dissapointed if you fail , at least you learned from it

[@raygun9301]

How did you get started I’m having trouble finding my way especially in the scripting side

[@MarcelR-fz2jn]

​@@raygun9301 YT tutorials is best best way to start

[@heyitssunset]

nuh uh @@MarcelR-fz2jn

[@SnockLock]

@@MarcelR-fz2jn KZbin tutorials is a no, devforum is a no, the only way is to play around with code and read offical roblox tutorials.

[@JustCozyFan]

Yeah Failure is the key to learn everytime you fail you learn from it.

[@hutcle]

Nice to see more roblox devlogs pop up on youtube, great work!

[@Nothsa21.]

Ikr devkogs going crazy

[@lavagamersheep]

if you want your game to get popular, i'd recommend you to start with a simplified version of your game so that you can see if people like your game concept and if they do, you can build up from there

[@gquarkie1073]

you made agame before?

[@CupOfTea]

Of course! I am starting with all the necessary mechanics first, then the ones that make my game unique, and finally things like cosmetics and polishing which you don’t really need

[@CupOfTea]

@@gquarkie1073nope

[@FrowningWind213]

@@CupOfTeacup o’ tea

[@CupOfTea]

@@FrowningWind213 OK.

[@amalgat-lol]

That looks incredible so far! If you have the energy, you could add regions of the map that have summer, autumn, winter and spring. That'd make the map look far more interesting, for the selection you could try experimenting with Highlights (they're still in beta iirc), they'll give an outline to whatever you're selecting. PS: I also love tea, I'm drinking one right now

[@legend_developer]

This is an amazing start! I'm a fellow roblox indie developer too, so I really respect the work your putting into this. If I were you, I'd try scripting a biome mechanic, so that the map doesnt feel as unnatural and random like a lego box. You could also make it so that each biome can spawn with a random color variation to add more life to the maps.

[@Woscar-]

Hopefully this game goes well for you! I’ve been on Roblox for 6 years and been developing for 4, and I have to say this is a great start for this game, good luck!

[@Goldtalysis]

its great that ur making a game thats different from what is usual. its looking great, looking forward to part 2!

[@esyphre]

I love.. everything. Everything about the video, your personality, the skill, the explanation. Well done, have to say! I will be looking out for the rest of this series

[@fadecj]

I am so invested please upload part 2.

[@CupOfTea]

Working on it!

[@k1ng_chicken]

Yeah, I get not being a “cashgrab” but you gotta have real good monetization if you wish to continue development and be further boosted by the algorithm. Hope the project works good!

[@tapwatersoup6027]

We will watch your journey with great interest

[@chiyopipi5672]

next video is out

[@0Lvs1]

I have a feeling that this guy will become big

[@alt_baconxd]

Nice video! One of the most important factors to a game's success is the marketing so making a youtube series is a very good idea!

[@ClownMaster73938]

I see a great developer in the future, nice video also I'm a new subscriber! Don't give up and always try hard.💪

[@config8640]

I’ve been a developer for a decently long time and I love to see other aspired developers. I can’t wait to see what you will achieve

[@0weenie]

can you teach me lua, or know any good websites to learn from ?

[@config8640]

@@0weenie DevKing and the Devforum. Also Roblox documentation. And if anything I recommend that you practice maths like simple vectors.

[@config8640]

It’s cool because now I now lua, I can start learning any other languages and make other projects out side of Roblox like some robotics stuff

[@config8640]

Lastly I’d say record everything you do and back up every file, it’s easy to lose data

[@0weenie]

@config8640 Thank you so much. Your guidance gave me a good idea/help 👍

[@FireFlameExists]

as a fellow roblox dev i tip my hat to you (: Edit: the only tip i have for you is that it would be nice to see some more variation in the tiles like have mountains/trees in different places on the tile, have some tiles rotated and/or scaled.

[@CupOfTea]

Good man

[@saneperson-rl3zd]

I also wanna be a roblox indie developer, but I keep stopping due to not know much about codes.. But yours is starting to get well so far! Better then mine lol

[@ninjapolice_9509]

Nice job! I've been doing studio for a while and even I can't script that good!

[@凁]

tbh bro, with that code u had there, if u continued working on it, u could make like a simulator of making your own city like skylines, with the tiles u had, etc, adding GUIs to let people spend game money to buy a tile that has buildings or roads on it, etc, theres so many ideas to do w that

[@skin_error]

love the game so far. its unique love it keep going!

[@ThatGuySnagz]

Looks awesome! Keep doing devlogs, don't worry about negative feedback. I think more ROBLOX creators should be doing them!

[@xenobeam7874]

Wow, i love the editing, and the game also looks nice! I'll be watching your future devlogs.

[@RoArchitect]

Dev for 5-6 years currently. You're doing great. Good job.

[@TVDeveloper]

Very well done, it already looks good. But what if instead of having your camera at the top view, you're instead going togive the camera an angle so that you can see the models better. If your camera is perpendicular to the ground, you will not see the depth perception of your map/models very well. Everything else looks nice. We want more!

[@CupOfTea]

I will try it out!

[@October-TE]

dude made this banger and just forgot his password

[@BrickArchitect4]

good luck bro! just started my journey of building a game as well. At the design phase now while still trying to learn to script. Was gonna maybe hire a scripter down the road but not sure yet. But good luck on your game!

[@FEIN_MATE]

Nawwwh this guy is so underrated. Heres a pieace of advice Deving comes with stress especially indie deving. so if that happens take a break, dont be sad if your game flops because roblox sucks with game recommending, Just create games with an unique idea. Another thing make sure when creating new games put them in a testing phase for feedback it would HIGHLY HIGHLY make the game better chance to be better, get on the home page and successful. Goodluck on your journey, and make sure to remember failure is the key to success.

[@idkbrolikeireallydontknow]

an idea i have is to have the ability for people to fight using their character and their units, once you get to that part. best of luck 👍

[@RoDev]

Good stuff, keep it up!

[@CelestixRBX]

Bro how you have 752 subscribers because i said it your making so good videos and trying so hard and you have to have million sub love you.

[@HoIdennnn]

great video! i think a topic for the next video could be different types of units & how to unlock them. good luck with this!!

[@lucalanca8943]

Really nice video man and really nice work :D , and here's an ideawhat if you add random tiles with animals spawn and add a hunger system too, that depends on how many "soldiers" you have

[@xxstormyskies]

Yo this is sick already, I'm planning on doing my own devlogs soon but as I'm just an amateur at coding it won't be as good as yours. Anyways can't wait to see episode 2 of this and seeing how the final product turns out in the future!

[@WilliamMahon-ss4sc]

I suggest when clicking on an object you can add the Highlight object rather than making your own. Saves on performance

[@yousufmirza5328]

you will go very far

[@joshument]

I'd recommend using a selectionbox instead of parts for the selected tile, and also having a thinner selectionbox for whatever you're hovering over

[@imkl2845]

it looks really nice, you should keep going

[@Roblator]

I think your game is going to be amazing!! (+1 follow I absolutely don't want to miss anything). I thought I would be a Roblox dev but in the end I'm not so sure, I still have to watch tutorials that show us how to make a game😂😂. When the next episode will be released plsss

[@InsoiDev]

Cant wait to watch the next devlogs! subscribed :)

[@chiyopipi5672]

the sequel is out

[@madchauffeur]

There is a highlight instance so if you just clone that to the part client-sided it will do the same as your own highlight. cool video btw

[@gunipotys]

Amazing video ! I'm confident that your game will be fire !

[@unsmart414]

no way u made custom captions the goat

[@MisterOx]

I don’t know if you have already done this but making the tiles cluster in a specific area could make it feel more organic

[@RetroStuds]

I hope your game becomes popular

[@umurew4]

Hey! You can try voxel terrains using 3 dimensional perlin noise; that makes you can generate caves and different biomes using differen perlins for each.

[@Woscar-]

I have a recommendation - you may have used parts for the selection box for a specific reason but a better option is to use “Highlights”, idk if there is still a limit on them but a very viable and versatile option. Hope this goes well!

[@Unknown-ym3ds]

You can use wave function collapse for better terrain generation.

[@CupOfTea]

in the future

[@blirc3685]

keep up the good work, i'd love to see how well this does

[@maaron8518]

"by looping in a loop" -CupOfTea

[@NezziHound]

Great video! I suggest u to make a smaller map, spread each block a little farther away from eachother. And add some kind of characters.

[@CupOfTea]

I'm working on the next video and that's the next thing I made!

[@ashters4204]

@@CupOfTeanice, you have better than ive ever done

[@melonlord8803]

something you could do is make specialized terrain, so mountains come in ranges and forests are look very large, making variations of the tiles could also make it look a bit better (imo)

[@billyjoesmth4442]

I don't understand what a tech tree or whatever a delta waba bang bang hellopus program is but it sounds essential and must be needed in making the game

[@DwnOfficial]

Nice video!👍 Btw you can also use selection box instead of making your own one but it's up to you tho 😀

[@realtitedog]

I love the game so far! I think you should use a Highlight instance for highlights though instead of a box

[@Revard96]

so cool,continue pls and post this game when it's done.

[@NotTaskAgain]

This looks awesome and I love the idea, keep going

[@Putterp99]

You are so good!!! +1 Subscribe

[@ohitsleswift]

so basically Bloons TD Battles? I'm playing this game.

[@peppersonly.]

Damn bro that’s sick how did you get so good

[@CraftyUnknown]

Nice video! What kind of game is this gonna be?

[@nebollous]

Hey for your highlight, you don't need to instance a bunch of parts since that isn't very optimized. There are different types of highlights Roblox gives to you for you to use which work perfectly, all you have to do is instance one of the built in Roblox highlight instances, ex.("Highlight", "SelectionBox").

[@redranger6402]

add terrain generation and everything would look much nicer.

[@ironicfull]

bro made a banger then left

[@kilpamations3477]

this man is gonna be so successful, just give him some time

[@RoboGameOfficial]

You can use the environment variable *workspace* instead of having to write *game.Workspace* which saves a ton of time and makes code more readable

[@bigkebizino8970]

Good luck Mr cuppa

[@IloveTDS50]

I think you should add in maybe latter updates a laser cannon

[@DracoTheNinja]

I need more XD this is so good

[@Ameya837]

Yo this is actually pretty cool

[@Carter7to60]

I'm going to sub

[@Notherejsjajwksiak]

I kinda disagree with cash grabs being bad for most people the are necessary to get the funds to make better games even though they are dumb and mostly mindless. this aside, i love the game! keep it up i cant wait to play it!

[@CupOfTea]

I don’t mind if the game is well made, but often you find these toolbox or imitation games. Thanks for your support!

[@Notherejsjajwksiak]

@@CupOfTea yes i agree imitation games are usually bad

[@LittleHatHacker]

you forgot to add step #4 buy an ad so a lot of player's join your game

[@afx4777]

Kinda seems like a game called Battle of Polytopia but more top-down

[@BlobsMations]

I have only started roblox developing 2 days ago and I already made a full house with no coding

[@Mo_ons]

How did bro get 1K subs + 14K views on his first video... 💀 Congrats! 🎉

[@goofygober423]

BRUH I BEEN WAITING 4 MONTH PLSS

[@CupOfTea]

soz :(

[@InsoiDev]

You should try noise generation for the grid; who knows, it might look cooler :)

[@Bananaepic]

I am going to 100% play this game when its out!

[@1Coney]

I would say for the like auto generating system make the placement more random with the objects so it doesnt just look like copy and pasted move the moutains around rotate it on random math maybe change the size and the models and the color to add more varation

[@V3xDev]

yo whens the next devlog coming

[@GloomCraftR1]

We are watching your every move. Watch out buddy. We do not play fair with our competitors. 😤

[@GloomCraftR1]

JK

[@CupOfTea]

*eyebrow raise vine boom sound*

[@GloomCraftR1]

@@CupOfTea We like that 😏

[@GloomCraftR1]

he he

[@foolishstrudel2689]

You go man.

[@DasherFN]

Remember me when u get a front page game

[@SRsugarush]

Pls make a tutorial

[@GGOOSEO]

definitely continue this!

[@Daslolx1]

im trying to learn lua bin a year but its tough for me i do get good games done i try my best tbh.

[@scenebong]

This is really cool

[@ayo4773]

0:27 troublesome battlegrounds isn’t pc only it has pretty good mobile support

[@kjanahan3776]

I wish testing scripts were easier, if you could update it and reload it while testing, instead of waiting 5 seconds every time

[@kofolaontop]

nice video make episode 2

[@Krispycatt]

I wanna know how should i go about scripting on Roblox? is there someone I should watch or is there a really good tutorial out there? I can understand most things when it comes to coding in Roblox but every time I try to code myself I get a blank wall get stuck and have no idea what I'm doing.

[@alexiz_bs]

Thats so awesomeee

[@Courupted_Guest]

no the slogan of roblox is powering your wallet

[@xzarkaaavk2a_]

super cool!

[@bigkebizino8970]

Also are you coding this in oop or procedural

[@blue5079]

Keep going

[@angelosaracco7442]

deepwoken made it and its a really well made game thats PC only too. its like a full on game too that youd find on steam. All of that stuff doesnt rlly matter on roblox too much, its purely dependant on how good and creative you are

[@CupOfTea]

There are always exceptions. Deepwoken has a big team of developers and also made Rogue Lineage, a very similar game, so they have a lot of experience with these types of games

[@PurpleBrickster]

This seems awesome + 1 sub

[@Daslolx1]

Im not gonna lie but if u put effort and make this game bigger in 1 or 2 years this will be popular like blox fruits.