I Made 3 Viral Roblox Games in a Row (Here's What I Wish I Knew Sooner) — Transcript

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1. 0:00This video is called I made three viral
2. 0:02Roblox games in a row and here's what I
3. 0:04wish I knew sooner. Guys,
4. 0:06most of my videos, you know, we're
5. 0:07celebrating wins, but in this video I
6. 0:09want to go over all of the lessons I've
7. 0:12learned, the mistakes I've made, the
8. 0:15failures for one of my games which I'm
9. 0:18going to get into.
10. 0:19That way you guys don't have to make
11. 0:21these mistakes yourself. If you're new
12. 0:22here, I mean, just look at my channel,
13. 0:24here's proof. Each of these videos I go
14. 0:27over
15. 0:28three different games. We have Hack a
16. 0:30Business, Build a Base and Steal, and
17. 0:31Raisin Domly. Those are my three
18. 0:33previous releases that went viral, okay?
19. 0:36Now,
20. 0:37without further ado, let's just [ __ ]
21. 0:39dive in, man. We got a lot to go over
22. 0:40today. I got screenshots, I got a lot of
23. 0:42validated data. I just want to chop this
24. 0:44up with you guys, all right? Let's start
25. 0:45here, okay?
26. 0:47Lesson number one, details matter a lot,
27. 0:50especially for onboarding. You can see
28. 0:52our game, Raisin Domly, it went viral
29. 0:54around last month, you know, Caylus
30. 0:56played it, Foltyn played it, etc., etc.
31. 0:59I want to be crystal clear about
32. 1:00something, all right? Time to be
33. 1:02radically transparent. You guys see this
34. 1:05title here?
35. 1:06I made another $44,000 month Roblox
36. 1:08game.
37. 1:09This revenue screenshot was taken on a
38. 1:14Monday after we had weekend revenue and
39. 1:17I extrapolated it out. I did expect the
40. 1:19game to make around 40 grand.
41. 1:22Full transparency though, the game is
42. 1:24now pretty much dead. You can see 235
43. 1:26CCU and here's how much total USD it's
44. 1:30made accounting for
45. 1:32DevEx rates. So, around 10 to 12 grand
46. 1:35short from what my video title said, but
47. 1:37that's just radical transparency. And
48. 1:39also, I'm moving away from simulators
49. 1:41for this reason cuz I just can't [ __ ]
50. 1:43sustain a family
51. 1:44by
52. 1:45making games that only survive for a
53. 1:47month. So, that's a whole different
54. 1:48story for a different day, but if you
55. 1:50are trying to, you know, make a nice
56. 1:52little bag here, this video is going to
57. 1:54be perfect for you, dude. I'm going to
58. 1:55break down, now that this game's dead, I
59. 1:57can like finally like go back and show
60. 1:59you guys everything. It's hard for me to
61. 2:01make videos cuz you guys just copy my
62. 2:02[ __ ] when the game's actively popping
63. 2:04off. But now that it's dead, good news
64. 2:05for you, I can share everything I've
65. 2:07learned along the way. So,
66. 2:10lessons learned from onboarding. Let's
67. 2:12take a look at our onboarding funnel
68. 2:14here. All right?
69. 2:15Here's the biggest thing.
70. 2:17Okay?
71. 2:18First things first, I've said this in
72. 2:19previous videos, but if you're new, I'm
73. 2:21going to reiterate here. You want to
74. 2:23track every single little step in your
75. 2:25onboarding. You can see first step is
76. 2:26always join, okay? Then we have steal
77. 2:29the egg, enter a safe zone, return to
78. 2:31plot, equip egg, place egg, hatch egg.
79. 2:34All right?
80. 2:35Biggest drop-off is steal the egg.
81. 2:37Reason being, our title was misleading.
82. 2:40I actually wish that we took this game's
83. 2:43core loop a different direction. I think
84. 2:45it was kind of a cop-out for us to go
85. 2:47with the steal the egg route. I think
86. 2:48there's a lot of potential with this
87. 2:49fantasy of raising an anomaly.
88. 2:52But again, lessons learned, right?
89. 2:55Lessons learned. Another huge thing when
90. 2:57it comes to onboarding, guys, especially
91. 2:58for these simulators, okay? We noticed
92. 3:01previously there was a drop-off with
93. 3:03like even just equipping the egg in the
94. 3:04hot bar. You guys would need to
95. 3:05understand
96. 3:07for the first 90 seconds, you want to
97. 3:08create a frictionless experience, okay?
98. 3:11So, forcing the player to actually equip
99. 3:14the egg in their hot bar creates
100. 3:16friction. If you look at Stealing Egg,
101. 3:18you look at the biggest egg games, when
102. 3:20the player actually
103. 3:22brings that egg over the finish line,
104. 3:24okay, into the safe zone. A lot of those
105. 3:27games that are crushing it will have the
106. 3:29player auto equip the egg. Meaning, they
107. 3:31don't have to go into their hot bar to
108. 3:34actually select and equip the egg. All
109. 3:36right? That's very minor, but these
110. 3:37little things add up for a frictionless
111. 3:39experience for the first 90 seconds. We
112. 3:41did the same thing with the food.
113. 3:43Okay? Big lesson we learned with
114. 3:45onboarding is, you know, previously our
115. 3:47onboarding was player goes to steal egg,
116. 3:50they bring it back to the safe zone,
117. 3:52okay? They hatch the egg,
118. 3:54they go to the food shop, get food, feed
119. 3:57food to anomaly, and then go to
120. 3:59treadmill. It was too much friction.
121. 4:00Why?
122. 4:02Because we don't need to teach the
123. 4:04player
124. 4:05where food comes from until
125. 4:07they contextually need to understand
126. 4:10where food comes from. Let me give you
127. 4:11an example. What we did to change
128. 4:13onboarding is player brings
129. 4:17the anomaly, you know, back to their
130. 4:18plot via the egg, hatches the
131. 4:20We put food already in their inventory.
132. 4:23A lot of big games do this, okay? Food
133. 4:25is already in their inventory.
134. 4:27And when they get to that actual feed
135. 4:30the anomaly step, they don't have to go
136. 4:32to the shop to buy food. And we teach
137. 4:34where food comes from the moment they
138. 4:36run out of food. This is called
139. 4:39contextual tutorial, okay? So, what
140. 4:41would happen is
141. 4:43And man, I mean, this video might be
142. 4:44[ __ ] long cuz I'm explaining in in
143. 4:46detail all this [ __ ] But what what
144. 4:48would happen is the player has three
145. 4:50hamburgers in their hot bar, right? Once
146. 4:53they run out of those three hamburgers,
147. 4:55that's when we then teach them, "Hey, go
148. 4:57to the food shop. This is where food
149. 4:59comes from, okay?" A player could
150. 5:01theoretically just feed the anomaly
151. 5:02once, one hamburger, and
152. 5:05not learn where food comes from
153. 5:08until 5 minutes into the session when
154. 5:10they finally run out of food. You get
155. 5:11what I'm saying? All right? Another
156. 5:13thing we did during onboarding is, you
157. 5:15know, in our game when you feed the
158. 5:16anomaly, it gets bigger, but for that
159. 5:18first feed, we intentionally made that
160. 5:21first feed be a big wow moment. So, you
161. 5:24feed the anomaly and it gets like five
162. 5:26times
163. 5:27the size, right? It gets five times
164. 5:28bigger than it normally would in the
165. 5:30regular game just to kind of teach that
166. 5:32wow moment. This is the core loop, okay?
167. 5:35And feeding this thing makes it big.
168. 5:38Another thing I learned is introduce
169. 5:39them to the core loop and set them free
170. 5:40immediately, right? In the beginning,
171. 5:42when we're doing onboarding for this
172. 5:43game, we were just trying to do too
173. 5:45much, bro. We were trying to teach them
174. 5:46where food comes from. We're trying to
175. 5:48teach them, you know, how to operate
176. 5:50their treadmill, how to upgrade their
177. 5:51plot, how to get trails. It was just too
178. 5:53much. And another big thing I learned is
179. 5:56you don't want to context switch too
180. 5:57fast. Okay?
181. 5:59What I mean by that is if you just
182. 6:02taught the player, you know,
183. 6:04where anomalies come from, let them go
184. 6:06steal another egg before you're like,
185. 6:08"Hey, here's how to buy this and here's
186. 6:10how to buy this and here's how to buy
187. 6:11this." This is a big thing I see when
188. 6:12reviewing games is you guys will just
189. 6:15spam these players with just too much at
190. 6:17once. Like, teach them the core loop.
191. 6:19Here's how to get the thing. Here's how
192. 6:21to get money from the thing. And here's
193. 6:23how you can progress to go get more
194. 6:25things. Okay?
195. 6:27That's a literally it. And then you can
196. 6:28fire contextual tutorials. What's a
197. 6:31contextual tutorial? Contextual tutorial
198. 6:33is basically like a mini tutorial that
199. 6:35you can fire, you know, 5 or 10 minutes
200. 6:38into the session. You don't have to
201. 6:39bombard them with everything all at once
202. 6:42in the beginning of the session, bro.
203. 6:44Okay? The way we would do this is
204. 6:47basically we would have a trigger in the
205. 6:48back end where it'd be like player
206. 6:51reaches, let's say,
207. 6:531K cash equals fire contextual tutorial
208. 6:56teaching, you know,
209. 6:59where to buy trails. Okay? Another
210. 7:01example is first time player reaches max
211. 7:05plot capacity.
212. 7:07Okay?
213. 7:08Equals teach how to upgrade plot. All
214. 7:12right? So, what we would do is like the
215. 7:13first time they go to place an anomaly
216. 7:15when their plot's already full, that's
217. 7:17when we would then teach them how to
218. 7:19upgrade your plot. Okay? That's what a
219. 7:21contextual tutorial is, guys. And you
220. 7:22should use them more often than not. For
221. 7:24actual onboarding, the first 90 seconds,
222. 7:26keep it super short, quick, and easy,
223. 7:29and just let them engage. Don't spam
224. 7:31them with arrows and go here and do this
225. 7:33and upgrade this and upgrade this and
226. 7:34also upgrade this. It's like if you
227. 7:36teach them,
228. 7:37in this example, how to upgrade a
229. 7:39treadmill, let them feel that upgrade
230. 7:41first before teaching them another
231. 7:44upgrade that they haven't felt how that
232. 7:46actually affects the gameplay. You get
233. 7:48what I'm saying?
234. 7:50Anyways, let's let's keep going cuz we
235. 7:51got a lot to go over here. Okay, number
236. 7:53two, and this is like the biggest thing
237. 7:55I've seen requested in my server. Do not
238. 7:58wing it with progression. Big mistake we
239. 8:01made with this game. Let me show you
240. 8:02guys something.
241. 8:03Okay? Look at our [ __ ] D1, bro, when
242. 8:07we first launched this game. This is
243. 8:08home wreck D1, okay? This is atrocious,
244. 8:11dude. 6%, 8%, 7%. Look at our D1 after
245. 8:16we overhauled progression.
246. 8:19Okay?
247. 8:20Now, this is going to get into balancing
248. 8:22cuz everyone's like, "How do you
249. 8:23actually balance a game?" Guys, am I the
250. 8:25perfect guy to ask when it comes to
251. 8:27balancing? No, but I use the same mental
252. 8:29model I've taught in all my videos,
253. 8:31which is looking at qualitative and
254. 8:33quantitative data to come up with a
255. 8:35hypothesis on how to improve a
256. 8:37bottleneck in the game. And we had a
257. 8:39huge progression wall for the first 5 to
258. 8:4310 minutes, okay? And this is my fault.
259. 8:46I made the mistake by not playing my own
260. 8:49game on a fresh alt account. Okay? I
261. 8:52kept testing the game on my account that
262. 8:54I already had stuff progressed. I
263. 8:56already had treadmills unlocked. I
264. 8:57already had [ __ ] unlocked.
265. 8:59And I made the mistake when we launched
266. 9:01by not playing the game on a fresh alt
267. 9:04account. Guys, when I play a game,
268. 9:07okay, and I'm testing progression,
269. 9:10let me just zoom this [ __ ] out.
270. 9:12This is what I'll do, right? I'll be
271. 9:14like, "Okay, minute one, okay? First
272. 9:17treadmill unlock, okay? Uh min five,
273. 9:20right?
274. 9:21[ __ ] zone three reached, okay? Min
275. 9:25six, you know, first trail unlocked."
276. 9:28And that's what I'll do. I'll take a
277. 9:30note of that, okay? So, I'll play it
278. 9:31myself. I'll also give it to testers,
279. 9:33which I'm going to get into, okay? But,
280. 9:36this is this was the problem with the
281. 9:37game. We had a huge progression wall
282. 9:41around minute 10 in the user's first
283. 9:44session. So, how did I actually solve
284. 9:46this? Cuz like look at this. This D1 was
285. 9:47[ __ ] right? Absolutely [ __ ] And
286. 9:49then after this, I think it peaked at
287. 9:51around like 16%. So, it just started
288. 9:52going up because that first 5 to 10
289. 9:55minutes, there was just two It was like
290. 9:56a downward spiral progression wall. It's
291. 9:58like it was too hard to progress in the
292. 9:59next zone. The treadmills were too
293. 10:01expensive, and they didn't know how to
294. 10:03upgrade their plot. So, they were just
295. 10:04stuck. Okay? So, I found that by first
296. 10:08testing on an alt account and then using
297. 10:09qualitative and quantitative data. What
298. 10:11is quantitative data? Quantitative data
299. 10:13is just numbers, bro. So, what I highly
300. 10:15recommend, and shout out to Scripted
301. 10:17Eli, he's the goat, you know, one of my
302. 10:19programmers, just absolutely cracked,
303. 10:22okay? Follow him on Twitter. Check out
304. 10:23my Twitter. You can see I yap about him
305. 10:25all the time. Anyways, what he did is he
306. 10:27set up funnels for us for progression,
307. 10:29okay? I actually had never done this in
308. 10:31my previous games. I was always just
309. 10:32focused on the first time user
310. 10:34experience, right? onboarding.
311. 10:36But, we started tracking actual, you
312. 10:38know, progression milestones, okay? When
313. 10:40did they buy the first treadmill? When
314. 10:41they buy the second treadmill? You can
315. 10:42see in this this screenshot was taken
316. 10:45around the same
317. 10:46time when progression was [ __ ]
318. 10:49is
319. 10:50dude,
320. 10:51only around 60% of people purchased
321. 10:54their first treadmill, okay? So, it's
322. 10:56like either it's confusing on how to
323. 10:58purchase a treadmill or we're not
324. 10:59introducing at the right time or the
325. 11:01first treadmill's too expensive. So, we
326. 11:02made the first treadmill cheaper. After
327. 11:04that, it just got progressively worse,
328. 11:05like the second, third, fourth, fifth,
329. 11:07sixth, seventh, eighth treadmills were
330. 11:10just like too expensive, okay? More
331. 11:12specifically, the early game.
332. 11:14All right? And then look at this, bro.
333. 11:17Only 26% of players were upgrading their
334. 11:20plot. So, again, the first plot upgrade
335. 11:23was too expensive, and they didn't know
336. 11:24how to do it. So, you want to track
337. 11:27[ __ ] everything, bro. Everything.
338. 11:29This is really good data to look at.
339. 11:31Okay? So, now I have two points of data.
340. 11:32I have
341. 11:34you know, my own personal anecdote like
342. 11:36testing the game, I felt a progression
343. 11:38wall. I'm actually looking at data here.
344. 11:40I can see that players are reaching a
345. 11:41progression wall, okay? And then what I
346. 11:44do personally, this is a hack, is I will
347. 11:46have my testers go and make an entire
348. 11:49[ __ ] document. You can see this.
349. 11:52Treadmill one, he it cost him 1K, he
350. 11:54unlocked it at 45 seconds. Zone one,
351. 11:56okay, he has 1K speed, he got to zone
352. 11:59one in 50 seconds. And then he takes
353. 12:00note, "SCP hits me even when I have the
354. 12:02required speed plus a little more."
355. 12:03Okay, that's a [ __ ] problem cuz he
356. 12:06can't even progress, the thing's too
357. 12:07fast. We had to nerf that several times.
358. 12:09Zone two, 10K speed, 5 minutes 40. So,
359. 12:13he'll go and note all of this. I'll
360. 12:15usually get like two or three guys to do
361. 12:17this and I'll pay them, you know,
362. 12:18anywhere from, you know, 1,000 to 2,000
363. 12:21Robux to just grind the game for like
364. 12:23three [ __ ] hours and make a big ass
365. 12:25document like this. And then I'll feed
366. 12:27all of this [ __ ] to GPT. I'll be like,
367. 12:30"Hey GPT, here's our reference game,
368. 12:32it's called Stealing Egg. Study how that
369. 12:33progression works. Here's all of our
370. 12:36data, okay?" I'll send it all the
371. 12:38screenshots and then I'll give it this
372. 12:39all of this information that my testers
373. 12:41laid out for me and I'll just be like,
374. 12:42"All right, let's brainstorm. How do we
375. 12:44[ __ ] balance this game, okay?" And
376. 12:46that's what we did. We fixed early game
377. 12:48and then we had an issue with mid to
378. 12:49late game and we had to smooth that over
379. 12:51and it's just like a continuous thing.
380. 12:53Looking back, I wish I did this like
381. 12:55before we launched because we were on
382. 12:56home wreck, which is like absolutely
383. 12:58cooked D1 for about a week or two.
384. 13:01Not two weeks, it was definitely like a
385. 13:02week and it was just like [ __ ] us. I
386. 13:04think the game would have scaled and hit
387. 13:06a much higher peak. I think it's
388. 13:08all-time peak was around 20K CCU during
389. 13:10admin abuse, by the way, if you guys are
390. 13:11curious. But, yeah, man.
391. 13:13Progression, how do you actually do it?
392. 13:15Um, track everything, every single
393. 13:17progression milestone. If, you know, a
394. 13:19user in your game purchases treadmills
395. 13:21or it's like a pickaxe or whatever the
396. 13:22[ __ ] it is, whatever's that core thing
397. 13:24that allows them to progress, track
398. 13:26every single milestone for that, and
399. 13:27then have your
400. 13:30play testers go in there, pay them, you
401. 13:32know, some Robux, and be like, "Here is
402. 13:34the format that I want you to follow,
403. 13:36and just, you know, grind the game for 3
404. 13:38hours and tell me when you start feeling
405. 13:40like you're getting stuck." Okay? And
406. 13:42that's that's how I do progression. Is
407. 13:43it the best way?
408. 13:45I don't [ __ ] know, man. There's
409. 13:46probably some dude out there, some dev
410. 13:48that knows like calculus that uses
411. 13:50spreadsheets and and raw math to
412. 13:52calculate the [ __ ] That's That's not
413. 13:53how I do it, okay? I try to use several
414. 13:55different data sources.
415. 13:56Anyways, moving on. Launch with good
416. 13:58mono from the start, don't neglect it,
417. 14:00okay? NewFissy actually taught me this
418. 14:02recently in the server, and I'm I'm
419. 14:04starting to realize this, and this is
420. 14:05what we're doing for our next game. And
421. 14:06like I said, guys, I'm I'm getting out
422. 14:08of the sim market. It's just like it's
423. 14:09it's [ __ ] with AI. I'll make a
424. 14:11separate video about it. You can still
425. 14:12definitely make a bag from it. Like it's
426. 14:14definitely still a good time to make a
427. 14:15bag from it, but are these games going
428. 14:17to, you know, pay the bills for years on
429. 14:19end? Probably not, unless you have the
430. 14:21next Steel 'n Egg. So, that's just my
431. 14:22personal opinion, but let's let's get
432. 14:24into this. Launch with a good mono from
433. 14:25the start, because our game, the issue
434. 14:27with our game is, I mean, we had dev
435. 14:29products similar to Steel 'n Egg. I'll
436. 14:31just call it what it is, right? Player
437. 14:33goes on the treadmill, they can purchase
438. 14:35their speed upgrades, right? They have
439. 14:36speed multiplier. You can see here, this
440. 14:38is all of our best-selling products from
441. 14:39the past 29 days. And where I [ __ ] up
442. 14:41is I launched limiteds way too late. We
443. 14:44didn't have those whale products soon
444. 14:46enough. Okay? You can see, this is now
445. 14:48our second best-selling product. It's a
446. 14:50literally just, "Hey, here's this
447. 14:51character. It's a locust. We have a
448. 14:53thousand of them in stock. The scarcity
449. 14:55is real. It's not like we just like
450. 14:56restock them all the time. And it's for
451. 14:59a thousand Robux. You can see, it's
452. 15:01making us good money, right? But we
453. 15:03launched with this probably like 2 weeks
454. 15:06into the game being live, and added some
455. 15:08more products for whales, like the admin
456. 15:10treadmill. And listen,
457. 15:12listen.
458. 15:14Take this [ __ ] with a grain of salt,
459. 15:16okay? Cuz let's look at the facts. This
460. 15:18This game has died, okay? This game has
461. 15:20died. Most games like this die.
462. 15:23Could the game have been stretched a
463. 15:25little bit more? Did some of these
464. 15:26products potentially fry our economy?
465. 15:29Maybe. So, just keep that in mind, bro.
466. 15:32Like, you don't want to make [ __ ] too
467. 15:33OP. Another regret I have with this game
468. 15:34is selling cash packs. I think that was
469. 15:36really stupid. I think that contributed
470. 15:38to frying our economy. Also, just
471. 15:40spammed the like good [ __ ] way too often
472. 15:42during admin abuse, okay? This This
473. 15:44video is just me yapping about like
474. 15:45lessons learned, okay? Um also, you
475. 15:47know, something I noticed looking at our
476. 15:49demographics we had around the time the
477. 15:51peak of this game, around 50% of our
478. 15:53players were female. So, I wanted to
479. 15:55launch a limited that was catered
480. 15:56towards the female audience cuz this guy
481. 15:58is kind of scary, right? So, I added
482. 15:59like a snake corgi for the female
483. 16:01audience, and it also sold decently
484. 16:03well, okay? Not as well as the locus,
485. 16:05but like decent, right? And then also,
486. 16:07what we did is like we have food in our
487. 16:09game. So, I just made the most OP food
488. 16:13more scarce cuz it makes sense for
489. 16:14balancing issues, and then I also jacked
490. 16:17up the price. So, there was actual real
491. 16:20scarcity in the game cuz we didn't want
492. 16:21people to just have this OP food all the
493. 16:23time. It would cook our economy. And
494. 16:25this ended up being our best-selling
495. 16:26food. So, I'm not surprised. So, what's
496. 16:29the actual mono strat? Spam consumables,
497. 16:32okay?
498. 16:33What's a consumable?
499. 16:35This is like the instant hatch. This is
500. 16:37like the uh well, yeah, instant hatch is
501. 16:39basically the only consumable. And then
502. 16:41you kind of want to have these um
503. 16:44what's it called? Cheap entry-level
504. 16:46products
505. 16:47that stack on top of each other just so
506. 16:49the player can get over that
507. 16:51player-to-payer
508. 16:53threshold. It's a psychological
509. 16:54threshold. A lot of e-commerce stores
510. 16:56will do this with something called a
511. 16:57loss leader, where they'll lose money on
512. 16:59the first purchase and make money in the
513. 17:00back end.
514. 17:01All right? So, we had, you know, the
515. 17:04speed multiplier tier one, look at the
516. 17:06volume, right? 61,000 sales, only five
517. 17:09Robux, and then nine Robux, and then it
518. 17:12stacked from there on, going up to I
519. 17:14think I think tier 12, okay?
520. 17:16Then we had our consumables here, which
521. 17:18is instant hatch, all right?
522. 17:21If you want to have even more sauce and
523. 17:23specifically just monetization, check
524. 17:25out this video. I think a lot of people
525. 17:26are new to the channel and like think
526. 17:27that I just repeat the same [ __ ] but
527. 17:29there's a lot of good early days sauce
528. 17:31on my channel that you guys are missing
529. 17:32out on. Watch this video, it's really
530. 17:33good in my opinion. I break down hacking
531. 17:35business, all the best selling products
532. 17:37as well. Let me show you guys our
533. 17:38ARPDAU, okay? This is right around where
534. 17:41we implemented whale sinks.
535. 17:44Okay?
536. 17:45ARPDAU was around like I think it was
537. 17:46like 0.9, maybe one. Implemented whale
538. 17:49sinks, boom, shot up to like 2.0, okay?
539. 17:52Started dying cuz you know, the game
540. 17:54started dying, and then boom, fixed some
541. 17:56mobile UX issues with the shop. Go check
542. 17:58our game, you'll see what I'm talking
543. 18:00about, and back up to around 2.0 ARPDAU,
544. 18:03which is not bad for a sim like this,
545. 18:07okay? What's next here? Player feedback
546. 18:10is everything. Something we did with
547. 18:12this game that I'd never previously
548. 18:13done, which seems so stupidly obvious,
549. 18:15is have an actual feedback proxy prompt
550. 18:19in the game. So, we have a little
551. 18:20mailbox in the game, if you can check it
552. 18:21out. Player walks up to it, they can
553. 18:23leave feedback, okay? This is a field
554. 18:25day for me cuz I love [ __ ] data,
555. 18:26right? Now, I can see even more
556. 18:28feedback.
557. 18:29Okay, so that's the first thing. You can
558. 18:30also like summarize here, guys. If you
559. 18:32go here, you'll see full report.
560. 18:36Very valuable, like AI will summarize,
561. 18:38you know, lag issues, inventory
562. 18:40management, game balance, okay? And this
563. 18:43is another thing that I'm doing with my
564. 18:44new game that I wish I did sooner is
565. 18:46have a dedicated group of testers before
566. 18:48you launch, okay? The issue with this
567. 18:49game is we kind of launched it, and then
568. 18:51we started like patching daily after it
569. 18:54was already live in algo, and I think it
570. 18:56kind of
571. 18:57bit us in the ass, honestly. I wish we
572. 18:59had testers go in there and find all
573. 19:01these bugs before we launched. So, keep
574. 19:04that in mind. And also, you're always
575. 19:07going to want to have a dedicated test
576. 19:08place,
577. 19:10okay? That's published to Roblox, so you
578. 19:12can test on live Roblox, not Studio
579. 19:15because there's going to be bugs on live
580. 19:16Roblox that don't show up in Studio,
581. 19:19bro. Another thing to note, guys, if you
582. 19:20make good games and you treat people
583. 19:22well, testers will follow you through
584. 19:24all your games. Like we have the same
585. 19:26testers follow us throughout our games
586. 19:28and they just love us and we love them.
587. 19:29Shout out to them. And testers are how
588. 19:33we found major game-breaking things that
589. 19:36were just frying our economy. Like one
590. 19:38of our testers is a sweat and he just
591. 19:40spammed like the best toy ever and got
592. 19:43like one quadrillion
593. 19:45freaking in-game cash and just like
594. 19:47climbed to the leading leaderboard way
595. 19:50too fast. So, shout out to that tester.
596. 19:51So, fifth and final thing here,
597. 19:54you are responsible for the
598. 19:57final outcome of the product. What do I
599. 20:00mean by product? I'm talking about your
600. 20:02game, bro. Okay? If your team sucks,
601. 20:05it's your [ __ ] fault. Take ownership.
602. 20:08Suck it up, buddy.
603. 20:10Huge issue with this game. Okay, huge
604. 20:12issue with this game. We chewed through
605. 20:14probably, I [ __ ] you not, this is not
606. 20:16even an exaggeration, probably eight
607. 20:17different modelers for this game. Okay?
608. 20:20Here's where I [ __ ] up as the project
609. 20:24manager {slash} producer {slash} game
610. 20:25owner, whatever you want to [ __ ] call
611. 20:26me, okay? Is I contracted these modelers
612. 20:30and I just told them, "Hey, here's like
613. 20:32a loose idea. We kind of want plushy
614. 20:33style for anomalies and yeah, cook up
615. 20:36whatever comes to your mind, full
616. 20:37creative freedom." The result was we
617. 20:40have three different art styles. We
618. 20:41didn't even use these models. I paid
619. 20:43$800 for these models from two modelers
620. 20:46that I found out later were completely
621. 20:48using AI and just were terribly rigged,
622. 20:51animations were cooked. It was just
623. 20:53[ __ ] dude. So, $800 down the drain,
624. 20:55right? This modeler, great art style. We
625. 20:57loved it. You know, then my third
626. 20:59modeler here was just kind of doing his
627. 21:00own thing. And this is my fault, okay?
628. 21:03This is completely my fault because I
629. 21:04let the modelers come up with their own
630. 21:06art style. The result was three
631. 21:08different art styles, bro. So, guys, use
632. 21:11AI to give references from the start,
633. 21:15okay?
634. 21:16If you have a talented team member
635. 21:18that's not delivering the outcome you
636. 21:20want, usually it's because you're not
637. 21:21communicating clearly enough exactly
638. 21:23what you want. You need to use AI, take
639. 21:26some time to give them clear references,
640. 21:28okay? If they're good, they will get it
641. 21:30done. Here's another lesson. Hire fast,
642. 21:33but fire faster. Issue I had, early days
643. 21:36with this game, we had an entire map we
644. 21:37had to scrap. I wasted $300. I mean,
645. 21:39this [ __ ] happens to me all the time
646. 21:41because I hire someone, I think they can
647. 21:42do the job, and then it ends up they
648. 21:44can't do the job. I just got to get them
649. 21:46out of the [ __ ] team, okay? So,
650. 21:48here's an example, you know, one of my
651. 21:49modelers said they'd have 25 models done
652. 21:51by X time. Let's say they're like, "Hey,
653. 21:53by Wednesday next week, I'm going to
654. 21:54have 25 models done." Wednesday arrives,
655. 21:57they have four models done. I'm like,
656. 21:58"Bro, I'm on a time crunch. This is a
657. 21:59trend game. I need this game launched by
658. 22:01end of week." Like, this happened
659. 22:03several times, several broken promises.
660. 22:06Where I [ __ ] up as a leader is I just
661. 22:08let him get away with it, okay? And if
662. 22:10your team fails, it's your fault. So, I
663. 22:11had to let this guy go. All right?
664. 22:13Because he just could not keep up with
665. 22:15the pace in the workload. And And that's
666. 22:18my fault. I think I put too much on him,
667. 22:20okay? I was asking him to create unique
668. 22:22characters in a compressed time window
669. 22:25when he was just not the guy for the
670. 22:26job. It doesn't mean he's not talented,
671. 22:28it just means like it was too much for
672. 22:30him specifically at the time. He had a
673. 22:31lot on his plate, right? So, I need to
674. 22:34recognize that and just like peacefully
675. 22:35let it be. Hey bro, I'll pay you for the
676. 22:37models. Thanks for your work. Boom,
677. 22:38let's cut it here. Lessons from
678. 22:40management. Give your art style guide
679. 22:43from the [ __ ] start. Or you're going
680. 22:46to get three different art styles, and
681. 22:48it's going to be major bottleneck for
682. 22:49you. Do not settle for mediocrity, bro.
683. 22:52>> [laughter]
684. 22:53>> We had this kid that I hired for a map,
685. 22:57and, you know, he's saying, "Yeah, you
686. 22:58know, I'll get the map done." I And I
687. 23:00like, "Bro, you really need to like get
688. 23:01on this. Like, what are you doing?
689. 23:02You're lacking. He's like, I have a test
690. 23:04I have to study for Monday.
691. 23:06He sends me a video of the map, bro. You
692. 23:08know, showing off the work he's done.
693. 23:09And I can hear him [ __ ] playing
694. 23:11Roblox in the background of his video.
695. 23:14Right then and there, I'm like, yeah,
696. 23:15it's wraps, dude. It's wraps. Like, you
697. 23:17no integrity, you're making [ __ ] up,
698. 23:19you're making up excuses. You know, kid
699. 23:21was a young kid. So, do not settle for
700. 23:22mediocrity. Fired him. Boom, got a new
701. 23:24builder in there, right? One bad seed,
702. 23:27guys, can poison your entire team's
703. 23:30culture. Okay? This same kid was like
704. 23:34giving weird feedback to other team
705. 23:36members, you know, kind of like teasing
706. 23:38them, saying weird [ __ ] about their
707. 23:39their work, and then just kind of like
708. 23:41moaning and groaning and be like, oh, I
709. 23:43don't want to do this. Can I have an
710. 23:44extension on this and blah blah blah?
711. 23:45And I'm just like, hey, bro, like, I
712. 23:47don't want to deal with this. It's
713. 23:48wraps. Let me pay you for what you've
714. 23:49done. Get the [ __ ] out of here. Okay?
715. 23:51All love, but like, we're This team is A
716. 23:54players. We move fast. And if you're in
717. 23:56here complaining, it brings down the
718. 23:58vibe of the entire team. And this is
719. 23:59your fault as a leader for your studio,
720. 24:02whatever you're running here, you can't
721. 24:04settle for that [ __ ] dude. Okay? If
722. 24:06I showed you guys the map he built, I
723. 24:08mean, it's it's it's a night and day
724. 24:09from the new builder we hired. We got a
725. 24:10new builder on.
726. 24:12Fault to Deep, shout out to him.
727. 24:14Bro cooked up
728. 24:15an exceptional [ __ ] map. I mean, just
729. 24:17look at the game within like 2 days. No
730. 24:19excuses, right? So, that's it for this
731. 24:21video, guys. This is
732. 24:23all of the things I wish I knew sooner.
733. 24:25Kind of sharing all the lessons for
734. 24:27Reason Anomaly. We got a new game coming
735. 24:29out, FPS game that we've been working on
736. 24:30for almost 6 months now. Super stoked.
737. 24:32Should be releasing this Saturday. If
738. 24:34you're curious, maybe we'll play test it
739. 24:36in the Tizzy Town server. But, yeah,
740. 24:38man, I'm moving on from Sims. It's just
741. 24:40too much for me. Like, I'm not trying to
742. 24:41pump out slop monthly. Rather pump out
743. 24:44some high-quality [ __ ] and innovate.
744. 24:46That's That's no no shame. Use slop,
745. 24:48stack cash, and then work on those
746. 24:50passion projects, guys. You got this.
747. 24:52Much love to y'all. Peace.