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[@SmartyRBX]

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[@JustOnlyBlue]

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[@shinzo5744]

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[@mrmagmablock]

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[@mrmagmablock]

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[@mrmagmablock]

This is Billy. ☻ -|- /\ Billy has an ad-blocker. KZbin is now blocking all ad-blockers and now we can't watch videos anymore. Billy will either quit using KZbin entirely, or KZbin makes it so that we can watch videos using an ad-blocker and he'll return to KZbin. Copy & paste this around KZbin so Billy's voice can be heard!

[@JavonDevv9000]

I've been working on a roleplay game for 2 YEARS and im still not even halfway done, this has completely changed my direction, Thank you for the ideas because i was about done with roblox..

[@ElRababa]

Hey are you Mobius1?

[@ElRababa]

You sound familiar

[@auratrix5878]

Hey do you have twitter where you display some leaks?

[@JavonDevv9000]

@@ElRababa Uhhhh nope

[@JavonDevv9000]

@@auratrix5878 About?

[@differentfear]

I think its because most people work off the motivation. When you begin you will have a lot of motivation and its great to have this because it makes working on the game fun but in reality you just need self-discipline. You wont feel motivated the whole time and its important that when you don't, you still continue to work on the game. Lets also remember a lot of roblox developers are young. The largest project they have ever completed was their maths homework, so to create a full game is a big jump from that and thats why they often don't finish what they start/quit.

[@SmartyRBX]

Some very good points. If you rely on discipline and long term results rather than short term motivation, and use the strategy in the video, you can go far.

[@Pokerueieie]

​@SmartyRBX Hey, I was wondering if u make shirts bc I'm looking for a shirt creator

[@Pokerueieie]

​@SmartyRBX Was wondering if u can create me a shirt can u?

[@Pokerueieie]

​@@SmartyRBX Can you make it?

[@k1ng_chicken]

Now this man right here gets it

[@ItsPronouncedZGP]

Honestly the exact words I wanted to hear. Been so motivated to do something, then with the size, density, coding, being a one man army, it is beyond, its too much, so it just dragged me down and left. Its better to start small with something completely boring and get the hang of something overtime, than to jump into something you think your prepared for but you know deep down its going to be far too difficult.

[@axeldont]

Good luck for your journey, i am alone too and starting with small games.

[@MarzFromMars]

i used to be a solo dev but now im in a team. I feel like being in a team is way easier so u got my respect, being a solo dev is hard

[@bouncinglemur333-6]

It's alot of work for one person, it's to be expected once you note down all components needed for a 'decent' game

[@MasterDracer]

I'm alone too bro, and I'm pretty new, like creating games in roblox since 2 weeks and learned lua a bit but still learning. Wish I had a good mate who doesn't want only money to work instead just for the fun and when game goes crazy he would get lot of money anyway automatically. So you are not alone

[@Aleksandria_Nori]

This is very true knowing for most game developers on roblox. As a roblox game dev, it's pretty hard at first but it's fun. Even though I already archived like 3 or 2 games in a row, and got my account 1 day suspended due to the copyright music back then, it got me so frighten to make a game again that it almost made me give up on developing a simple game in the process. But from all that, I still get on my feet no matter how many times I post-poned my game due to lack of helpers or scripting experience. I stick on mostly on what I'm good at like building objects, animation, and npcs just for the sake of my social hangout game. For me, I wouldn't mind my roblox game to be low or trend, but for all of you as beginners in roblox game devs, what matters in game developing is that YOU'RE having fun.

[@aeea3306]

Not just for roblox and not just game dev literally everyone does this

[@DoubleLimee]

I honestly enjoy your videos a lot, most of the time videos can't keep my attention for more than a couple minutes but the videos I watch from you before I know it it's over. You make great points and explain everything perfect keep up the great work

[@tower9602]

Remember his words not only for the roblox development, but for the rest of your life. MVP is a very important thing in life when it comes to creating business

[@SmartyRBX]

You’re very right How have you been applying it?

[@tower9602]

@@SmartyRBX I read a lot of business literature and I know the concept very well.

[@SmartyRBX]

@@tower9602 That’s awesome, and where are you using it?

[@tower9602]

@@SmartyRBX whenever I grow up. For now I really have no opportunities to use it

[@SmartyRBX]

@@tower9602 I think you can use it

[@Cheesymembey]

I put hours and days onto a single just for it to crash. I spent 30 minutes to an hour making a game I put literally no effort into and it got 1 million visits and got me 1m Robux...

[@SmartyRBX]

Yeah its wild Truly works

[@xBaconzG]

it depends on the type of game u make I think

[@Andersstuff]

I made a Five nights at Freddy's roleplay game In 2019 and the morphs were free models, the pizza place and everything but the Morphs, Cameras, door systems, were built by me. It ended up capping at like 2,000 something and I ended up getting two Developer Crowns.

[@LucasOttewell]

It kind of depends what kind of game you're making and what audience youre targeting. If you really want a game to work well you need to plan it beforehand. Who is helping? where and how can I advertise this game? how much money am I willing to spend on this game?

[@Andersstuff]

what was the name@@DoobeeKind

[@explosionspilot4265]

as a small developer myself. its really motivating as a small dev if you have a group of friends who try out your projects and have gamenights in it and suggest more stuff. i just take coding tutorials from youtube to make copied scripts to make things work etc etc. the problem is worrying about the fact that there are no players visiting your game at all except just your friends... its as if you put all those work only for you to play with friends only and no other people. tbh developing has took alot of my time this year. i might stop sometime

[@kaminari02]

hmu bro maybe we can work tg

[@XanderJW]

you advertise them if you want to profit but if you made it for fun its hard to get players if you dont advertise them

[@explosionspilot4265]

@@XanderJW i might start advertising by making a community discord

[@ZettaiKatsu2013]

Yes, this is a business problem. You need more customers.

[@Z4ckStudios]

I'm most likely gonna resign from roblox developing as well.. it's such a pain to upload assets and audio files that don't even break the rules but get banned anyways not to mention that even though my idea for my games are amazing, I can't compete with the other games because I have so much going on in life but this won't be the end of developing for me because I still do web developing and actual game developing outside of roblox thank you for this video, I wish you, and all the devs out there good luck

[@SmartyRBX]

I’m not quitting! I understand tho. I’m just saying why people do

[@sngreal]

wanna work together

[@Z4ckStudios]

wait, who?@@sngreal

[@sngreal]

@@Z4ckStudios you and me

[@Rautatientori]

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[@collectorXVIII]

this is so true Ive been a dev for years I quit many times but I always came back

[@vrfrenzy8451]

thanks, needed this because I keep going for bigger projects than I can handle too quickly. Thanks

[@Akkerixx]

honestly ive thought of making simulators and making everything from scratch and scripting everything, i was a no free models because free models are bad kinda mind set and i realised i was completely wrong. Il try to make a "MVP" as you said in this video and i think this just motivated me even more. thanks for this great advice

[@Noasuuu]

I'm a pretty experienced developer and with your take on no free models, I agree you should NEVER rely on free models for your game. Only time I ever use free models is if its something I know I'm not capable of making and I don't have the time to learn it right then and there. Most of the time I never use free models but sometimes its okay. Good luck on your MVP!

[@Akkerixx]

thanks!@@Noasuuu

[@lunacraft5895]

Honestly making smaller projects can be fun, but it's not always for everyone, what i mean by that is that making a game that isn't interessing you isn't really great, basicly i'm doing the biggest part of my project, and when i get drain out of building for example i switch to modeling, then switch to animating, then back to building, then art design and then back at it, but i completly understand people that want to start small cuz seeing all the things you have to do to make a big game can be scary.

[@granddexroblox2783]

WOW! Developer here, I made a game years ago called Blox-verse Unlimited (Spiderman Game) in 2018. The game blew up and got a ton of positive feed back. I tried to keep the game updated but lack of funds kept me from focusing on it more and on top of that I was the only scripter and 3D modeler. I could not update it because I was burnt out, I could not enjoy programming it , since programming physics was soo Hard! So I kind of left it to die... I wanted to experiment other games, I wanted to get inspired and enjoy programming again! Recently I made a game called Dead Town, I Had put so much effort on it because the game was rather much easier to make! On release week, I could not maintain a single player! The game did poorly and I thought it deserved more, but all that work, all those lines of code, money i spent to make it (3 thousand dollars) and the time to make it (2 years), just for it to flop. I was solo on this project too. I wish this video showed up sooner, I really enjoyed the "MVP" part, it just makes sense. I hope this video helps other developers like me, Thank you for this video.❤

[@nineret]

damn... 3 thousand dollars.. you can just release 30 games on steam

[@XEOZXX]

Maybe you could teach me how to either script or 3d modeler

[@2pur]

i cant find your game Dead Town on roblox

[@TQRtr]

The MVP thing is so real, my dad tells me the same thing, "Make the minimum for your game so that you have a launch-point, and then update it from there" I'm currently making a border game and I'm making it as simple as possible I had some huge ideas for it with a huge map and stuff, but i think ill simply work to achieve the minimum now, and then after that when I start actually getting some players, update it.

[@bobi9928]

since im a beginner, i dont know anything about scripting, and tutorials are quite boring for me, but i found a solution to keep me motivated i make a mvp about a really good and simple idea. then, with many ideas collected while making it, i pick the simple ones and try to find a way to implement them i would like to have a moving button, so i go through the time to learn vector3. I wanna make my codes more complicated and tidier, i use locals. i develop both the game and me. this is really effective because your constantly developing the game, which is progress, and it feels really good, motivating you to continue further

[@SmartyRBX]

Thats an awesome idea. Cant wait to see it go great!!

[@bobi9928]

@@SmartyRBX bad part is the game im doing is so zero in gameplay, its just a hangout game lets see what it truly could be i guess

[@Arci]

Honestly thanks for this video man. I'm having a real nice idea of a game I wanna create (would be my first one btw), and I think some of the information is gonna help me out a lot.

[@max-f6c]

Great video. I've spent the last 5 years making advanced projects (a Jailbreak copy, a super advanced LMS racing platformer, a parkour clone, etc..) only for them to fail. Then, one day, in April 2022, I made a simple obby game based on roblox physics glitches. Guess what? It's my most popular project ever, it reached 10M visits, earned me 10M robux, and motivated me to work on more stuff. I didn't understand *why* the game got 200 players suddenly at first, but after that I realised that people just like playing simple games

[@SmartyRBX]

Thank you That’s awesome.

[@WD_WOZIRD]

I spent a month making a great game, 0 visits. I spend 5 seconds making a platform in space, Gets really popular, even Flamingo played it.

[@SmartyRBX]

Exactly what I'm saying man Great job on development

[@WD_WOZIRD]

@@sand2159 I archived it a long time ago.

[@BlueUnicornGirl]

Game name?

[@WD_WOZIRD]

@@BlueUnicornGirl I said that I archived it.

[@qhellopro]

I bet this is lying cus u can just unarchived

[@OneHotSkittle]

I can relate to this as someone who tried throwing all this stuff into 1 game only to learn harsh reality that 1 developer can't do a billion, trillion and killion things at once without getting burnt out. I'll be waiting on my new PC to come in then its all about that pivot lifestyle thanks to Smarty!

[@k1ng_chicken]

I did not know a killion was a thing til now. 10^3, would you look at that.

[@OneHotSkittle]

@@k1ng_chicken 😯

[@USBCord]

Thank you! I really look forward to seeing the video.

[@SmartyRBX]

You bet!

[@darkflame4691]

IM a new roblox dev, and i dont WANT to make a huge game. i want to make a good game that people will enjoy playing, even though only like, 3 people play it.

[@mysyvcic]

Mostly I was ambitious too, but I switched to GUI designing and ever since, I have been learning something new always.

[@Mechays]

I tried to hire devs for my game and I've had some of the absolute worst experience I could possibly have. Like, they do horrible work and they expect a big payment, or (in the rare case they actually do extremely good work and expect cheap) I paid a scripter $75 to do something and he isnt scripting it saying he'd script anything else and also I have been time wasted out of a month by these people saying they're working on it but they havent.

[@SmartyRBX]

Pay just part upfront

[@armaantoor6773]

I agree man hiring devs is such a huge problem that rarely gets talked about like it really is a nightmare

[@Noasuuu]

I'm actually in the hired position but its more I'm not getting paid lol. Basically I spent around 100 hours in studio on this one place building, coding, and making UI AND coming up with unique puzzles, all from scratch and I only got paid like 6k and I didn't want to like say "pay me more" cause it kind of sounds rude but I genuinely think that the amount I did deserves a bit more lol. But yeah I get what you mean.

[@SmartyRBX]

@@Noasuuu Yeah you should negotiate upfront and value yourself and work higher. Though, in the early phases sometimes there are compromises to get work in your portfolio.

[@Noasuuu]

@@SmartyRBX Yeah. The only issue is that I consider my co-workers/boss more as great friends then as, y'now, other developers and that makes it a lot harder to confront them without it sounding rude lol. Also thanks for the valuable information you are putting in these videos! For sure will help countless developers out there.

[@MolezaX]

As a dev who quitted like 5x i kinda agree but, The biggest wall we deal every day is: Script dind't work or you don't know how to solve the problem! sometimes all you wanted was- UNDERSTAAND how to create for example, an annoying perfect inventory IN YOUR STYLE , The way you wanted it, pickup system, pvp arena, COMBAT styles, how to make the freaking perfomance-wise gameplay without balls leak and lagging everyone so many details, and when everything is almost fine: we got Hackers, oh no, here we go again, imagine creating over 80k lines script, and needing to add more 40k just on security, i'm talking like that because the game i'm working on is an Mmorpg, like warcraft, deepwoken, some minecraft and terraria mixed together xd LOL! but way different, no copyrights, i just absorb some ideas, im smart, not a copier i really love the mmorpg games and sandbox ones, whenever i stop and start DAYdreaming about my game complete (5% of gameplay lol) i just enter in a voidzone of toughts and thinkings, then i get motivated all again, i'm 23 years old and i will continue my journey, because my dream is Make The Game, make it happen, i don't really care about popularity or smh, i just want to see what is to have a game made by yourself, oh yea im a Indie developer here, i'm doing all the tasks alone (ooof)

[@BuilderManStudios]

YES BRO. This is exactly what I needed to hear to get my game motivation up. Thanks a lot man definitely subbing

[@SmartyRBX]

Np man! Welcome!

[@SawThings]

I'm another youtuber with a small amount of subscribers that has been bullied in the past and has been bullied now, And Now I'm quitting my careers, Roblox doesn't care about what happens to its players on the game, That's why I am quitting my career. And It's so sad @SmartyRBX Oh wait haha you got trolled!

[@SmartyRBX]

@@SawThingsIgnore the bullies man! I’m sorry to hear that. Let it fuel you to reach bigger goals though. They’re just giving more attention to your channel.

[@zbritishteaman]

​@@SawThings what are you yapping about man not funny and makes zero sense

[@Jamal.frl_13]

@@SawThings what career? 😂

[@zandrielelks5392]

I agree with you more than anything, ego never resolve anything, we must start from the bottom, do not have a big ego to do that while do not let it go

[@UntilAshes]

Could not agree more, i started out as a small developer having just one skill, modelling using studio blocks. Planned a tokyo ghoul project that was meant to surpass the others in every aspect, i drew too big of a picture for myself and tried to make this huge detailed map with little to no skill. The models were fine it was just the time and lack of dedication from friends. I later settled on a new big project, Horizon. Which other then my previous few projects, actually worked in the way you said, minimal viable product. I made the games space craft fly and one with a gun and then i just played around with terrain editor and boom, simple warlike side assualt game. I did however lose motivation after my friend helping with gui just completely didnt focus and didnt help so i was stuck but i got somewhere. Now im making a new big project which is in my name. Its a deepwoken inspired system which helps me with referring and help by looking at how deepwoken works, it may not be the most original game ever on roblox but its certainly planned to bring a bit of fresh joy to deep players who are pissed off at the game. Currently were aiming for a basic combat system to just release the game on a small arena area, then later adding nee features and eventually full release with the planned map then we build off from there onwards on the next steps. The advice in this video could not be more true. Unfortunately i had to figure out this by myself in my time but im hoping people watching this can understand faster then i did ❤

[@ItsVicYT]

YOU MOTIVATED ME, I WAS QUITING DEVS A MONTHS AGO, BUT WHEN I WATCHED THIS VIDEO MY ENERGY CAMEBACK TO BE A DEV AGAIN.

[@Spypro]

I worked on an FPS game for over a year and released it only for it to get 0 active players lol. Roblox makes it extremely hard for small devs to get their game noticed even if it were to be better than the top page games.

[@toejammergaming]

For real, you could make a near-effortless skibidi toilet game and it would gain a lot of active players, and then you could make a game with actual effort in it and an interesting topic and it would get barely 5 players

[@pulsarmane]

Correct me if I'm wrong but I think would marketing be a helpful tool for attracting a player base for your game That's what I'm planning to do for my game later on

[@Jayhiggletonthe3rd]

Even tho am not a dev, if you want your game to do well you need to advertise it before and after you release it, you need to grow a community because if you don’t no one will even know your game existed

[@pulsarmane]

@@Jayhiggletonthe3rd that's true, and social media made this easy, you don't even need to spend thousands of robux on ads, just make creative content about your game and watch your player base grow 😎

[@v1ku390]

There needs to be a roblox game that mimics the front page but instead of the unoriginal front page games it shows underrated games and isn’t like a randomiser game

[@mutherbrotherHU]

My huge concept sounds like the biggest motivator: Similar interface as clash of clans but every troop/unit is actually their own player, with village owners customizing the interiors of their town halls & village layouts. The players together can also attack other villages. village population cap: 100 attacking player cap: 20

[@xxneweraxx7422]

it sounds like the kind of game that would be really cool with like 1000+ concurrent players but else just annoying, not to mention the insane balancing problems this would probably cause with P2W issues and shit, else the concept itself sounds really cool, just needs a bit of work (for instance, if u cant have players, u can buy bots/AIs that are slightly worse than players but still work to develop urself, that could be an idea for example)

[@exstacc1886]

I'm a former amateur Roblox Developer that worked mostly in the SCP Genre from 2015-2020, and now no longer do any creative work aside from things I do for fun; if I don't want to, I don't do it. When I first started developing, I was a modeler for an up-and-coming Foundation group that had just started becoming popular because of the high amount of content and overall gameplay design quality of its sites. Back then, I figure a lot of them took it a lot more serious because they were young and it was a lot of social pressure, but the stress I was under was immense, and all caused by a small group of people that were genuinely mentally disturbed. I worked with them for 3 years, but over time the command structure fell apart and people became husks of their former selves. Other developers fell through on deadlines, and eventually so did I and then after a while, I was one of the only developers left for the group. Everything I'd put my heart and soul into the past few years was just gone now, and it sucks because I didn't really open any doors for myself. I already have good developer friends either way, but my entire development journey has been seeing idea and creations I've spent a good portion of my life stressing on, working on, worrying about, fall to ashes and forgotten. I did some paid intern work for a larger game designer that I was put in touch with by a friend, but thats about as far as I got, made a few hundred bucks in a couple weeks though.

[@khpoon5424]

damn

[@AngelicaDeveloper]

I'm a lone developer that is working on a huge project that haven't got monetized due to the lack of funds but I started off with just 1 project and then when it got attention with no monetization.. I kind of pushed myself over the edge to pile up the projects and I'm still working on them and the update will be huge but it's taking time and months to work on so far but it was delayed due to studio acting up I'm currently working on it so I can get it done I couldn't of done it without my friends who motivated me to make it and to spread ideas to make it all happen this video is a true motivator to say that you got this and you can do anything since it does mean "powering imagination" so let your imagination soar!!

[@AkuaBH]

I started recently and instantly wanted to make a super complex and difficult game, I soon realized that I should start with something easier and actually do able. Thats where I'm at now.

[@ricksa21_]

I started developping a month ago and i learned so much things by watching your videos, I'm creating a game called "Omni Obby Challenge" so basically, It's a game where you can play different types of obby to try your Obby skills and practice (chart difficulty, classic, no checkpoints, race, season themed...). I've added Power-ups and types of obby so it's not the same sh*t like the most engaging category and keeps the player active on the game like you said in your video. Thank you so much for helping me with your video because it gave me a HUGE adventage and i've made a pretty good game for now but it's not finished yet and i feel so proud of making this.

[@otterryy]

glad i clicked on this this is basically what im doign rn but with more steps instead of trying to make something so ambitious the first thing you should be doing is testing. what i want to do is slowly test some things and after that things will fall into place naturally. u actually give some good tips keep up the stuff i rarely sub but u earned mine

[@-TGVAlex-]

I was looking for a tutorial for smth for my game ASTROPLOHIC and I stumbled into this, I haven't lost motivation yet since I have my server to support me and push me forward as this might take 2 - 3 years to come out since it's just me working on it, this video really helped me out though!

[@LeapInno]

Game development takes a lot of work. But planning helps a lot.

[@Jesus-bs4iz]

very good advise

[@TafyRBLX]

As a Roblox developer, I have had MANY close calls to quitting, either because a script was too complicated leading to a stop in progress, or a time-consuming event causing me to forget the project. Many issues come into contact pretty soon, but issues are okay, they are pretty much just attempts until the real thing. Follow your dreams.

[@biltkv]

You know what I love about this channel? It's the fact that it doesnt really focus on the concrete informations that regard developing, he rather goes into the deeper stuff that you won't understand on first sight; in other words, this channel truly does try to accompagny developers towards actual success

[@tiny_dino3049]

I started with a big game my first time in the studios, even though I had no idea on the coding, and some studio stuff... Thus I never gave up on the studio. Now I know much about the studio and lua coding.

[@FinalMiro]

i entered 2 years ago in the game dev world, didn't quit once! Yet making projects is super risky, i have loads of abandonned huge updates that never ended up releasing.

[@Areodinamical]

I was aiming to create a rouge-like with multiple classes, but one day roblox stopped working on my device. Studio loaded forever, and regular roblox turned into a weird picture. To this day I don't know how to fix it. I'm also a person that lacks motivation to continue things. I continued on creating new projects, and that way I keeped learning.

[@grzyb11]

i used to be like that but now i started out organized and it’s going really good actually, just like you’re saying in the video i decided to make a simple semi arcade semi realistic survival game, then if it makes money i can buy my own pc (me and my brother share computers) and then i can work full time on my projects. my advice would first be to learn basics of coding (variables, loops, functions and statements) this might sound silly but starting with scratch is really good, then you can learn luau syntax, then learn about the roblox game engine (how to modify assets in certain ways) then go your own way.

[@fastboydomagoj]

Thank you so much for making this video, this is absolutely so true. Roblox is just almost impossible for smaller developers, the terrible dev-ex rates and etc. You have to be a big corporation to do this. Advertisement, catchy and addictive gameplay is needed, but motivation just wears down. I've switched from Studio to Unity though. Also, I feel like when I was using studio, I felt like I was not making that much progress, because advertisement is difficult for low robux, and it's usually a waste. After making 10K robux, it's just tiring and I cannot really convert it. The marketplace tax is just terrible.

[@Basedcope]

it takes a long time to update and people are impatient replayabilty is also a issue if it takes a long time the player count will drop so will your motivation

[@MadeOutOfGold]

This always happens to me on Scratch but I don't just quit, I just make another project and this repeats and that's why I have so much unshared projects, ty for the advice, I hope this helps me.

[@wavessplash]

I cant disagree but to say, this is true at first we all have like motivation to create such a game we are imagining like were planning out how it looks, how the game works, the plot, the UI and stuff, we are like so excited and motivated to do this so when we start making it on the first day, we have so much confidence, we make so much progress, then we take a break after the first part and the next following day, we develop on it again, we keep repeating this until to the point your slowly starting to lose motivation, this actually happend to me but the game turned out great, though its not released it has had a few testers and it goes good so far, my game has been in development for a month already, and it should be done by the point since a month is 30 days, and that is alot of time to work on and script on a game, though it may seem pretty early for just a month for a game to be released and other games take like, way longer but still, i could have done so much but yet lost motivation, the last time my game was ever developed on was like a week ago, im thinking if i should go on studio and make more progress onto the map and add more features, but yet i also dont have the motivation to, idk how to describe this technically but yeah. I've been pretty shocked by myself by seeing so much people quitting already, to the point it also has reached and affected me, but like i think the reason is like (not really sure) is the effort we put onto our games, and once it gets released, it barely gets recognized, so we think its not good enough and we need a new game, so we make another one and we keep doing it over and over, until we get a game that can actually sustain at a decent popularity, or yet atleast people playing it and liking the game so far, but it literally gets tiring.

[@watercoolerromance]

Thank you, I have that motivation right now to just make a simple chill game you can explore. Of course, i'll try my best to only do one thing at a time and not rush myself.

[@ap.pl.e]

I had tried to make a game once, the game was inspired by item asylum, it was called Weapon Randomization. I’am now a coding and game dev veteran. I used to help out with newer and novice game devs on Roblox. Weapon Randomization was published but took down a couple of months later( by me ) and discontinued, because people were nagging me for bug fixes more weapons. But I realised, item asylum has a group of professional devs, I’m on my own. I can’t revamp, update, bug fix and make new weapons, bosses, Xbox, ps support basically anything out in a potent pace. I ran out of motivation to continue helping people and to continue my game. This is my story.

[@ordinary6965]

This is what I needed, thank you very much and I am truly grateful that I stumbled upon this video.

[@SmartyRBX]

So glad!

[@GuyWhosBoredLol]

I made dragon ball fighting game for example - cinematic cutscene/screen - impact frame - skill - story gamemode - pvp gamemode - badge characters and story characters i made the game with my friend i am scripting and testing the game and my friend is animating for skill animations But my game wasn’t popular at all And no one was played my game 😔

[@kellyduckling5729]

OMG this is true, when I work super long on a game, I even make details and MAKE my own sprites that I haven't done before to then have the most random game to blow up is really random. I'm working on one now with my own sprites and I might actually make the most simple put together game and then after a while shift the gui cause it's so ANNOYING!!

[@user-dp2ed5mz5l]

I was learning how to code but I was loosing motivation to actually continue but I keep learning to make a new game but I dont really want to fall off so I kept learning. I was about to quit but thank you!

[@MyNameIsntLong]

I actually have such a good idea (im not going to say it because i dont want anyone to steal it) and i started ages ago with my friends, we worked on it for some time but it was just really hard to code everything since im the only one that knows how to code but its really basic and we just stopped working on it, but i still want to finish it idk when but im hoping that once i finish it a bunch of people start playing it

[@GreatRamilYT]

Omg, i also have big motivation to start big project, but all the time is just too big so im becoming lazy to keep making it. There's 1 project i had enough motivation to make main scripts, lobby gui. Let's say its just like apeirophobia lobby system and so on, you create room, name it, maybe add password or just lock it, maybe add people to black list or white list (white list allows players to bypass password of the room or lock, so you can make locked room and add friends to white list so they join), the kick system and so on. It was really hard to imagine how to make, but i just started and the main things done! But... As not super experienced developer, i just used all motivation i had, and its happened that game has alot of bugs. I added players becoming monster, animations, the really cool death screen, the start screen and it super perfect for me, but trying to do such hard things resulting making so much bugs, + i just copied 1 game idea and assets from 1 game off roblox, and i realised this is not a huge deal i stopped working on that project. I wanted to start huge project right now, i made map, models and it were looking perfect! But when i realised that this is just 1%, and when i gonna script the entire game which will make alot of bugs and will take like month or even more, i just want to think about that. This is just too hard for me, and that's why i never finished one of my games, but i have so much of them, but now they just rot in my games list without me joining them like for few months - few years.

[@MasterDracer]

The worst things which demotivates me is my game even don't get any players so why should I make games? But I love your motivation video bro!

[@SmartyRBX]

Yes. Why aren't they getting players? Self reflect and be critical and honest. It's key!

[@scholschol-g8e]

MVP is a concept that should be adopted in every case; not only in this environment but those outside of the scope of this simplistic engine too, but isn't. You're describing an agile approach which many

[@OverDooge]

I have been making a game for a year, I have not even finished modeling the map because I am making 4 other games. The problem is, I can't script. The project I am working on is a Remaster of Find the Doges, I thought I could finish it in 2 years, but I'm starting to think it's gonna be 3 years. Thank for this help, because although it might be the same amount of time as I just mentioned, this could help me learn how to make the game and hopefully learn a little bit of scripting. Thanks.

[@johan.522]

This is the best video I've ever seen with this topic. I'm about to start a new roleplay community and this has helped and motivated me alot actually. Thank you.

[@Mohsin-t8s]

Literally the best youtuber in terms of giving correct knowledge about Roblox out there

[@dortesmller-holmstrstefan]

man that is the highest quality advice tysfm

[@sraiaan]

as an ex-dev i relate i made a lot of a really high quality tower defense game but gave up halfway through development because i ran dry of motivation and summer break was ending

[@Kobg25]

2 days ago, i started work on a simple horror game called "A night at crossroads" and it's just a simple horror game, this is half way through day 3 and i added the forest, idc if i get views, I'll forever be motivating myself

[@TJ-hg6op]

There was a game on roblox called Vibrant Venture and it was a 2d platformer not seen basically anywhere else on the platform, you basically quick switch between 4 characters with their own move sets mid jump to do complex maneuvers, it was extremely high quality. They; however, stopped working on the game on roblox. It is now a game made OFF roblox that can be found cheap on Steam. It is still currently in development and is AMAZING. Very high quality and far surpasses the roblox version. It has a level editor and everything, it is SORELY underrated and I want more people to know and buy the game. It sucks as a lot of these devs go off roblox just to be forgotten about. Roblox takes massive cuts from their devs and also practically lock them in this toxic relationship.

[@matiasgrief]

What I did was start a huge project, begin, realise it's too difficult, start a easier project, begin, realise it's too difficult, etc. until I find the perfect difficulty for me.

[@funnystertheplayer2352]

I am making a game abut exploring dimensions (this is lore) where most of things dont really make sense with our real world. First we start out simple, it is boring, too easy. But as we progress, lore and difficulty gets higher too. If someone wants to try it, ask me. Now this sounds like ALOT fun but it doesnt have alot quality. I focus more on gameplay than visual effects.

[@2_iska268]

after i first played slap battles back in 2021, i always wanted to make a fighting game. however, even knowing how to code really well, it was still painful to make. errors, glitches, bugs everytime. test, a bug, fix, test, another bug, fix, test and more bugs come in the way. its also the fact that i see so many lazy effortless games like sol's rng or "escape diddy simulator" that get tons of players which makes me think "what's the point? im working so hard to make my dream pvp game but no one's gonna play it." so i stopped for like 4 months now. it is sad cuz i was doing really good. even got the bombastic crown itself. i was confident that i'd make a big pvp, guess not.

[@Pancake_Bunny1]

to be honest, it also might be because of funding and ect, most game developer's want to make money of doing what they love however with roblox, you can't really do that since you can't get actual money easily to live you're life, so they might of either went to a different game engine (like unity or unreal engine) to make money so they are able to get essentials like food and water in the future, or it could be because of burnout, since alot of the time when i try to make roblox game's, i can barely even get through 10% of the game, and it's been happening so much to me that it's kind of just getting annoying that im unable to finish anything. However this could not be the case, we don't know.

[@SmartyRBX]

That's what this frameworks solves, it can help you reduce costs

[@thiseagleguy]

I've known some of these already but glad other people think the same

[@AlteFore]

I think about quitting because of the endless bullsh|t and policy changes that ROBLOX throws at us. The biggest example being the marketplace policy change debacle that happened back in September, and so far we still haven't really gotten closure on it. Other example being things like the ad changes coming in 2024, audio policies, asset privacy, ect... I'm constantly wondering if my games going to get deleted because of a policy change that forces me to update my assets within 7 days and a few slip through the cracks, or if an image we have in it looks slightly too much like something from a copyrighted ip, or even if a moderator is just having a bad day. Constantly asking myself "Is it worth doing this if there's a risk of it just getting taken away out of nowhere?" isn't something I want to do on this platform, but that's what I do because this is ROBLOX. That's why I find myself losing motivation. Because why would I bother doing this if ROBLOX makes it as hard as possible to be a dev here, and that's not even talking about their extortionate taxes on sales.

[@arthxrbeats]

Thank you so much for making this video! You are a huge inspiration to me and you help me so much! Thanks man.

[@tallmallyg]

I’ve been developing my game for a couple years now and just cant seem to get people to join my game even with all the ads and sponsors but this video helps show to just keep trying Thank you

[@oddjr]

What's the name of your game ?

[@tallmallyg]

@@oddjr it’s called flex your avatar by tallmallyg

[@oddjr]

​@@tallmallygI see what you mean. I can't even find your game on Google :(

[@Guofu.9.1.5]

this guy probaly just saved our entire game!

[@GreenBey56]

Planning on selling my 60M+ visits that i have been deving for 2 years to gamefam, it just doesnt feel good to be deving under whats considered a “game” itself.

[@ItzXCubed]

Holy sh, when you told me to view at this video, I didn’t expect this. Remarkable once again Smarty 👍

[@ThatOneA380]

My advice : take your time on things, build neccesary things first then work on it so it can be abandoned when its playable

[@JINTOU_]

very late to this video unfortunately but i have my own little story with developing on roblox for a time i remember when i started my hobby as a game dev back in roughly 2018 and i used roblox as my primary platform for a couple of years and began working on a project that lasted for roughly 3-ish years ( the game was remade like 3-4 times because i would have massive jumps in improvement and then scrap my visual assets. very bad practice ofc and it wasted so much time but i was still very inexperienced and wasnt really taking game development as seriously at the time ) the entire premise was initially to be a roleplay game i would play with my friends but the focus then shifted to combat which ended up adding an ungodly amount of complexity to the game however i ended up really falling out of it in late 2022 because i was starting to realize how this platform wasnt really suited for what i wanted to do and i wanted to be respected more as an indie dev than a roblox dev, so i ended up switching through a few different game engines before finally picking up Godot and remaking the game from scratch roblox is an okay platform for making games, but its definitely not for everyone

[@slitzworld]

my friend quit dev he’s going to finish his project and that’s it.. I’m sad because he’s a very good modeller.

[@devandyEsp]

Bro casually *reminded* me that I have homework to do and a 9-5 work waiting for me

[@nahby]

Right now, I’m making a game about a cat you click that creates meme sounds. That’s literally it, but i plan on extending it slowly, like adding a simple score feature, then making it into a currency feature, then I can snowball it into something big maybe.

[@Cgflwwww]

That's not gonna be popular because blox fruit hog the player

[@Tommyknocker.]

I thought rebuilding scaled-down San Francisco wouldn't be that hard, but it went too depressing when I realised how hard it is to make normal terrain. I wonder how the MVP supposed to look like lmao

[@zqurzero]

fun fact jailbreak started out as a game with a prison, one escape, and one robbery (the bank) there were 2 cars and that was it

[@RedfoxOriginals]

I quit because roblox wouldn't let me sponsor my experiences, to be truthful none of my friends played it alot, the only ppl who did were the ppl who clicked on the ads, I JUST WANTED TO BE LIKED! 😥 Now I have to wait 2years!?! And by then roblox would have messed it up even more, all that's keeping me on roblox is my yt, and my only friend.. but I don't even know if she's a real friend, SCREW ROBLOX

[@zirenmc]

i stopped developing for a few months since i didnt have any ideas and all my ideas ended up not getting popular, but ever since i have seen this video i went back and now im working on a horror game that might take me months (im solo developing it)

[@ikenbike8844]

Quick question how did you learn to code did you take a class?

[@EddwaYT]

I am staying strong with my development, i am working on a huge project right now, and i aint quitting, i have been planning this for 2 years

[@MonoDidiot]

thanks for helping me write me essay. Never knew I have been doing all those things without knowing what they are.

[@shinzo5744]

smarty u should try making games on rec room you can make quite a lot from there aswell

[@arnoldwillhauntyourdreams1882]

i almost quit making a physics game that had calculations about momentum and velocity of an egg, but it only took 8 days before i realized that nobody is gonna play that game. i still finished.

[@arnoldwillhauntyourdreams1882]

jk i forgot that the formula i use should be "mass x velocity / time(time for egg to change velocity when landing)" and it's not just "mass x velocity"

[@Dragonanimation-so8uh]

now i understand why i got motivated in making my own obby game wich was simple and took less time but when i tried making a tower defense game i always get errors on stuff telling me theres something wrong with my codes but they look fine thanks for teaching me that

[@Giviee_]

The thing with me is that most developers don't even have enough robux or money to advertise their game. This might not be a problem for people with money but for people who aren't allowed to pend money on roblox, it's essentially impossible for the game to get any players.

[@zrizzy6958]

It's because of low pay, bad algorithem, trusting a company with bad reputation ext...

[@SmartyRBX]

If you play it right it pays a ton I know

[@zrizzy6958]

@@SmartyRBX I just don't like the idea of a company that I don't own that has bad reputation, and takes almost all of my money. I prefer building my own (I'm a web dev now), and going to start making a yt channel

[@SmartyRBX]

@@zrizzy6958 Completely understand web dev is cool!

[@mosshivenetwork117]

It's important to start small.

[@JVBrawlStars]

I had an amazing game idea and I really thought it was gonna work but the script didn’t work and I gave up

[@pulsarmane]

Recently I decided to make a roblox game despite the fact that I NEVER had any experience with roblox studio at all, except for making asset flip games for me and my brother years ago 😅 But I've been working on a serious game recently, and at the moment the map, assets and other important stuff are being worked on atm. I want to thank you for making content like this because it brings me so much knowledge about roblox development which is very helpful for me, really appreciate it bro 🤝🤝

[@greeeek_]

Hey SmartyRBX! I have a question. How do I get game ideas (that aren't taken, watched your video and a majority was taken)

[@jimhalpert0]

Chatgpt but it’s better to make game ideas that are taken.

[@greeeek_]

​@@jimhalpert0 how if you make a game that already exists

[@pulsarmane]

You could use another game idea but add your own twist to it For example: there are tons of FPS games in roblox, but if you could add something to your game which will make it stand out, either by changing the core gameplay, visual fxs or mechanics/game modes, then it would be your own Be creative and it should work! Good luck on finding an idea for your future game 🤞🤝

[@greeeek_]

@@pulsarmane Thanks alot man!

[@MD-kv9zo]

Well maybe it's the fact that every game I try to make, Even just testing, randomly decides to stop working(scripts don't work, it's not just about making a mistake, I loaded up a new game and it worked). Maybe it's the updates. I first thought of a big game. I've dumbed it down(made it simpler), as I started understanding roblox studio, I'm sure it will be even more simple by the time I finish learning scripts(my idea of the game that is).