28 Tips To Make Roblox Games With Ai — Transcript

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1. 0:00These two games were made by the same
2. 0:01AI. The only difference is how I used
3. 0:04it. And I've now made tons of Roblox
4. 0:05games using Lord. So, here are 28 things
5. 0:07you should start doing if you make
6. 0:09Roblox games with AI. Before I start
7. 0:11though, this video is sponsored by Forge
8. 0:12GUI. I'll be using it in some of the
9. 0:14tips, but I'll label every single one so
10. 0:16you know exactly what's Forge and what
11. 0:18isn't. And to prove that all of these
12. 0:19tips actually work, every single one
13. 0:21will be directly used in a sword [music]
14. 0:23fighting game I'll show at the end of
15. 0:24this video. Number one, be specific
16. 0:26about your prompts. If you ask an agent
17. 0:28to make a sword, it has to guess what
18. 0:30sword you mean. And guessing is
19. 0:31typically where AI goes wrong. So try to
20. 0:33use the exact words. Instead of a sword,
21. 0:35a curved katana with a glowing blue edge
22. 0:38gives you a completely different result.
23. 0:40The more exact your words, the less it
24. 0:41has to guess. Number two, on the topic
25. 0:43of saying more, try talking instead of
26. 0:45typing. When I type, I write one lazy
27. 0:47line. When I talk, I ramble for a whole
28. 0:49minute. But why? Well, when you speak,
29. 0:51you usually give a lot more context than
30. 0:53when you type. And that rambling is
31. 0:54exactly what the AI wants. More context
32. 0:57means less guessing, which we've already
33. 0:58established is a very good thing. I use
34. 1:00Whisper Flow for this, so I just talk
35. 1:02and it types it out for me. They don't
36. 1:03sponsor me in any way. It's just a
37. 1:05genuinely good tool. But if you have no
38. 1:06whisper flow, well, no worries. Your
39. 1:08computer already has voice typing built
40. 1:09into it. And so do most AI asks. Number
41. 1:11three, before it builds anything, make
42. 1:13it ask you questions. Here, I've got the
43. 1:15same prompt for a cute wizard cat in two
44. 1:17different chats, but one of them
45. 1:18includes this line. Before you start,
46. 1:20ask me five questions. And the results
47. 1:22differ quite a lot, but all we did was
48. 1:23make a few extra decisions. Number four,
49. 1:26let's take that one step further. Tell
50. 1:27your agent where things go and how big.
51. 1:30If you just say at a shop, it decides
52. 1:31where it goes, how big it is, and
53. 1:33everything else. So, instead, say
54. 1:35something like make a shop next to spawn
55. 1:37facing the player, and about two times
56. 1:38as big as a Roblox character. Number
57. 1:40five, a picture beats an adjective.
58. 1:42What's an adjective, Dumble? Uh, what? I
59. 1:44I don't know. I dropped that out of
60. 1:45Hogwarts. Why do you think I'm making
61. 1:47these videos? Either way, telling an
62. 1:48agent to make it look cool kind of means
63. 1:50nothing. Cool can literally be anything.
64. 1:52Instead, paste a screenshot of what you
65. 1:54actually mean, and the agent gets way
66. 1:56closer to what you wanted. Number six,
67. 1:57this one might be controversial, but try
68. 1:59doing one feature at a time. Ask for 10
69. 2:01things at once, and you get 10
70. 2:02halffinish things. Ask for one, test it,
71. 2:05and then ask for the next. It's slower
72. 2:07on paper, but it's given me way more
73. 2:08polished results than you'd expect.
74. 2:10Number seven, never just say it's
75. 2:12broken. I used to do this a lot. Your
76. 2:14agent doesn't know what broke, so it'll
77. 2:16just guess or burn a ton of your usage
78. 2:18hunting for the problem itself. To avoid
79. 2:20this habit, instead paste a red error
80. 2:21from Studio's output window, or even
81. 2:23better, record the problem happening and
82. 2:25give it that with the error attached.
83. 2:27Number eight, make the agent test its
84. 2:29own game because AI loves telling you
85. 2:31something's done and perfect when it
86. 2:32clearly isn't. So, whenever it says it's
87. 2:34done, ask it to press play in studio and
88. 2:36check itself first. And this works for
89. 2:38your R2. Instead of telling Forge's UI,
90. 2:40check your work, then check it again,
91. 2:42then check it again, you can just say it
92. 2:44in two words, fidelity passes. Every
93. 2:46pass gets noticeably better than the
94. 2:48last. and they all stack up into one
95. 2:50really good final result. Here's a chest
96. 2:52with no fidelity passes. And here's the
97. 2:54same prompt with three. But to push this
98. 2:56tip to its absolute maximum, print it in
99. 2:58your prompts like this. Make a game blah
100. 3:00blah blah. Put your game in for here,
101. 3:02but then use for its UI to generate
102. 3:04assets with no limit on fidelity passes
103. 3:06until the game is identical to the
104. 3:08referenced images. And this is the exact
105. 3:10method I used when I created my horror
106. 3:12game. Number nine, give it a notes file,
107. 3:14or as I like to call it, memory. Every
108. 3:16new chat you make, AI forgets everything
109. 3:18you told it in the last one. So, keep
110. 3:19one file with your game's rules and
111. 3:21style and have it read that first.
112. 3:23Claude calls this claude.md. And most
113. 3:25other AI tools have their own version.
114. 3:26If that sounds advanced, it really
115. 3:28isn't. Just tell it to add anything new
116. 3:30to its memory as you go. Now, all of a
117. 3:32sudden, you don't have to reexplain your
118. 3:33entire game every morning. Now, if you
119. 3:35want to look through how one of these
120. 3:36files actually look, I've got it free in
121. 3:38my Discord for you to just copy. Number
122. 3:4010. Anything you find yourself doing
123. 3:41more than once, turn it into a skill. A
124. 3:43skill is basically a saved recipe. You
125. 3:45write the steps once and it follows them
126. 3:47every time. Here I'm making a skill that
127. 3:49researches games like mine. It looks at
128. 3:50their thumbnails and gets Forge UI to
129. 3:52make concepts for our game using the
130. 3:54same structure. Now the whole job is
131. 3:56literally just one sentence. Number 11.
132. 3:58Connect your tools on its own. Claude
133. 4:00can't even see your game. But if you
134. 4:02connect it to Roblox Studio, suddenly it
135. 4:03can look, click, and test by itself.
136. 4:05It's basically a cable that lets Claude
137. 4:07use other programs. And setting it up is
138. 4:09usually just clicking a few buttons.
139. 4:10Here's me connecting for a GUI in under
140. 4:122 minutes. And once it's connected, this
141. 4:14is where it gets kind of crazy. I asked
142. 4:15Claude for a new sword for my game.
143. 4:17That's it. One sentence. Claude sent my
144. 4:18art style over to Forge UI. Forge made
145. 4:20the sword and Claude put it straight
146. 4:22into my game. I didn't even open a
147. 4:23single other program. Is it perfect
148. 4:25every single time? Well, no, of course
149. 4:26not. But going from one sentence to a
150. 4:28sword in my hand without leaving Claude
151. 4:30is the reason I actually use it. And
152. 4:32even if you never touch forge, connect
153. 4:34whatever tools you actually do use, as
154. 4:36these tools are literally game changers.
155. 4:38Number 12. If you've watched any of my
156. 4:39videos, you knew this one was coming.
157. 4:41multiple agents. Instead of one claw
158. 4:43doing everything, you split the work
159. 4:44between a few of them. One builds, one
160. 4:46tests, one does the art, and one
161. 4:48researches. It's faster, and each one
162. 4:50stays focused on its own job. But their
163. 4:52trick is one master agent. It hands out
164. 4:54the tasks and make sure nobody works in
165. 4:56someone else's area because two agents
166. 4:58editing the same thing at once usually
167. 4:59makes them like really angry and then
168. 5:01suddenly they start beating you up.
169. 5:02Number 13, effort matters a lot. You can
170. 5:05make AI think at different levels, but
171. 5:06more thinking isn't always better. Use
172. 5:08high effort for planning a whole system
173. 5:10and low effort for something like
174. 5:11changing a button color. Max effort on a
175. 5:13tiny fix just burns your usage and makes
176. 5:15it do crazy Einstein theorems on
177. 5:17something that needs one line of code.
178. 5:19What's an Einstein theorem, Dumble?
179. 5:20Dobby, I dropped out of Hogwarts. We
180. 5:22literally just went over this. Number
181. 5:2314. Before you go to sleep, give AI all
182. 5:26your personal information. That's a
183. 5:27joke. Don't actually do that. But do set
184. 5:29up its permissions before you leave so
185. 5:30it isn't stuck waiting for you to click
186. 5:32yes. I left mine running overnight once
187. 5:34and it needed my approval 10 minutes in.
188. 5:36That was 8 hours. I expected Claude to
189. 5:38work and I woke up to genuinely zero
190. 5:40progress. Number 15, make your agent
191. 5:42save a copy before every big change. The
192. 5:44AI can build your game in an hour. It
193. 5:46can also wreck it in a single second.
194. 5:48So, by saving a copy, you give yourself
195. 5:49a safety net if your agent suddenly goes
196. 5:51rogue. But without one, you'll have to
197. 5:53restart your entire progress if anything
198. 5:54goes wrong. Roblox Studio has this
199. 5:56already built in. It's called version
200. 5:57history. So, just tell your AI agent to
201. 5:59use that feature. Number 16, lock in
202. 6:01your art style before you make anything.
203. 6:03Otherwise, every model looks like it's
204. 6:04from a different game. Here, I gave
205. 6:06Claude a reference. of the art style I
206. 6:07wanted for my sword fighting game. So
207. 6:09whenever I need any new game assets,
208. 6:10it'll automatically give Forge's UI all
209. 6:13the context it needs to make the best
210. 6:14possible results. Number 17. On the
211. 6:16topic of having a distinct style, make
212. 6:18your UI as a kit, not one button at a
213. 6:21time. Otherwise, every menu ends up
214. 6:22looking different. Here I had for UI,
215. 6:24make a whole kit at once and use it as a
216. 6:26base for my sword game. Number 18,
217. 6:28sound. Oh yeah. Did you Did you hear
218. 6:30that? Did you hear how nice it felt?
219. 6:32Well, sound is half of how a game feels.
220. 6:34Here's collecting a coin with no sound.
221. 6:36And here it is with sound. A default
222. 6:38sounds claw grabs are pretty janky. So I
223. 6:40had for GUI make new ones. Literally one
224. 6:42prompt and the whole game feels way
225. 6:44different. Roblox free sound library
226. 6:46works too. It's just nowhere near the
227. 6:47quality that Forge is able to replicate,
228. 6:49which is why I primarily use it when I
229. 6:51overhaul my games with sound. Number 19.
230. 6:53Let's take the previous tip one step
231. 6:54further. Every action the player does
232. 6:56needs feedback. If I click and nothing
233. 6:58happens, did it even work? A prompt I
234. 7:00use to improve my game's feel usually
235. 7:02looks something like this. Every time
236. 7:04the player does something, add three
237. 7:06kinds of feedback. A sound, a shake, and
238. 7:08a little number popping up. Feel free to
239. 7:10use this prompt yourself as it can have
240. 7:12some pretty remarkable results. Number
241. 7:1320, test it on a phone. When making
242. 7:15games with AI, it usually focuses on the
243. 7:17PC side of things, but loads of people
244. 7:19play Roblox on their phone. Actually,
245. 7:21around 80% to be specific. So, as for
246. 7:23menus that scale and check them in
247. 7:25studios phone view before you ever
248. 7:26publish number 21, know your game's l
249. 7:29before you prompt. Don't say make a fun
250. 7:31game. Say what the player actually does.
251. 7:33players do this to get that so they can
252. 7:35unlock this. Also, side note, you should
253. 7:37be able to explain your entire core game
254. 7:39loop in less than two sentences. That's
255. 7:41kind of like an industry standard of
256. 7:42what makes a good game. Either way,
257. 7:44number 22. Give players something to do
258. 7:46in the first 10 seconds. Here's me
259. 7:47spawning into one of my old games, and
260. 7:49it's not very obvious where to start.
261. 7:51First impressions are everything. It's
262. 7:52one of the most important key details a
263. 7:55lot of developers overlook. Now, the
264. 7:56second a new player joins my Sword game,
265. 7:58they'll be immediately put into a fake
266. 8:00tutorial match that teaches them the
267. 8:01game's fundamentals. Making [music] your
268. 8:03game immediately rewarding can be what
269. 8:05sets it apart. Number 23. Put every
270. 8:07number in one setting script. Speeds,
271. 8:09[music] prices, how hard the bots are,
272. 8:11anything with numbers. Then you can
273. 8:12change them yourself instead of asking
274. 8:14every time. And trust me, you'll be
275. 8:15nerfing those bots a lot. Number 24,
276. 8:17make progress saving a top priority.
277. 8:19Make sure people can leave, rejoin, and
278. 8:21get all their unlocks back. Because a
279. 8:23player losing their progress is
280. 8:24literally the fastest way to lose them.
281. 8:26I learned this the hard way when 2 days
282. 8:28into my slime game, people apparently
283. 8:30lost all their skins when they turn
284. 8:31sound effects off. Yeah, I still have no
285. 8:33clue how that happened. Number 25. If
286. 8:35anything is random, show the odds.
287. 8:37Players trust it more and Roblox wants
288. 8:39odds shown on paid random items anyway.
289. 8:41Oh my gosh, that was one terrible
290. 8:42sentence. But either way, ignoring this
291. 8:44core Roblox guideline can get your game
292. 8:46banned or even worse, land you in legal
293. 8:48trouble. Number 26, watch someone play
294. 8:50your game and try not to help because AI
295. 8:52can't really feel if a game is fun, but
296. 8:54people can. Every time you want or have
297. 8:56to explain something, that's a thing to
298. 8:58fix. Try making the experience as
299. 9:00frictionless as possible for the best
300. 9:01chance of having a successful Roblox
301. 9:03game. Number 27. Package your game like
302. 9:05a YouTube video. Your icon and
303. 9:07thumbnails are the first thing anyone
304. 9:08sees on Roblox. If they don't spark
305. 9:10interest straight away, nobody's going
306. 9:11to click it. So, make a few different
307. 9:13versions, not just one. What I do is I
308. 9:15look at the best performing games and
309. 9:16take inspiration from their structure.
310. 9:18Not their game, their structure. Then I
311. 9:20do it with my own game. I make my
312. 9:22versions with Forge due to its stupidly
313. 9:24good Roblox thumbnail capabilities. A
314. 9:26free alternative though would be to just
315. 9:27set up a camera feature inside your
316. 9:29Roblox game so you can take screenshots.
317. 9:31This is honestly a good tip either way
318. 9:32as you get more control to take any
319. 9:34screenshots of whatever you need without
320. 9:36your UI or character getting in the way.
321. 9:38Number 28, ads. And this one's a mistake
322. 9:41I actually made. I spent $20 on ads in
323. 9:44three days. And apparently that's about
324. 9:46the worst way you can do it. It works
325. 9:47better to spend smaller amounts over
326. 9:49longer times. That gives Roblox ad
327. 9:51system time to learn who actually likes
328. 9:53your game. So, remember that game I said
329. 9:55every tip was going into? Well, this is
330. 9:56the Sword game when I started, and this
331. 9:59is it now. And we're in. This is how the
332. 10:01game currently looks. You can actually
333. 10:02put away your knife if you want to.
334. 10:04There's still some claw stuff over here,
335. 10:06but most of this was just generated with
336. 10:07Forge, which I really like. You can also
337. 10:09just cut the slimes in the lobby, which
338. 10:11I think is such a fun little feature.
339. 10:12Either way, let's actually get into a
340. 10:14game. Here you can change some of the
341. 10:15maps. And once you're in, it's very
342. 10:17similar to Fruit Ninja where all you
343. 10:19have to do is essentially just cut the
344. 10:21slimes. And it really does depend on
345. 10:23where you also cut. Oh my gosh, these
346. 10:25are too many. Here's a bomb. If you cut
347. 10:26those, you actually lose a life. You can
348. 10:27also see the enemy in the top right
349. 10:29there. Oh gosh, I'm hyperfocusing on
350. 10:31cutting everything. The game needs a lot
351. 10:33of work, but with 28 fixes, this is
352. 10:35pretty darn good. A lot better than the
353. 10:37first version. And you can now actually
354. 10:39open a create as well. And you get cool
355. 10:41tools all generated with Forge. Every
356. 10:43single tab is also interactable.
357. 10:45Everything from news to play time. So
358. 10:47you can claim things to incentivize the
359. 10:49viewers actually playing this game even
360. 10:50further. This goes to show that just
361. 10:52using these tips genuinely does improve
362. 10:54your game. And this game literally took
363. 10:56like what one day of effort. So imagine
364. 10:59if you spend a week OR EVEN A MONTH. And
365. 11:01it's live right now. The link is in the
366. 11:03description if you want to play it.
367. 11:04Dobby actually helped. Dobby, you asked
368. 11:06me what an adjective was. you didn't do
369. 11:07anything either way. So, those are the
370. 11:0928 things you should start doing when
371. 11:10making Roblox games. And if you want the
372. 11:12prompts and assets from this video,
373. 11:14they're all going to be in my Discord.
374. 11:15And thanks again to Forgui for
375. 11:17sponsoring this video. You can check
376. 11:18them out at the top of the description.
377. 11:19And if you want a part two, tell me in
378. 11:21the comments,