I’m working on a game called Time Travel Simulator and started sponsoring it 48 hours ago, currently my stats are very bad.
I’m using 35 credits a day and:
STATS BREAKOWN
How can I improve my metrics? I’m really struggling with pinpointing the issue.
Check out the GAME HERE
Feedback is GREATLY needed!!
add UIAspectRatioConstraints!
ok now to the actual points. it’s not super engaging.
the tutorial is ok, but it doesn’t tell me that the game is fun. just telling me to click boxes, build this, and repeat.
it’s pretty confusing too. i roll for the watches? the percents don’t add up, are their different crates? i really don’t know…
anyway, good luck with your game.
Yeah this is kind of the core gameplay loop, I think it’s not really that bad and is prety unique personally but I think this might have to go back to the drawing board for some touches
For the Aspect Ratio constraints, the game is made to run horizontally by design
People need results. Now-a-days players, typically the younger ones, need some type of reward very soon. Otherwise they become uninterested and leave. Also, I understand you’re trying to make a profit, but focusing a lot of it on “Pay To Win” versus “Free To Play” could discourage players. Again I totally understand though…
As I played the game it was very bright. It was very hard to see what the text labels said since they matched the environment. I’d suggest adding a UI Border.
First impression upon joining the game:
To the UI:
For the gameplay:
For the Map Design:
Final Opinion:
This game seems like just another cash-grab game, while creative and has it’s own spin, it’s entirely devoid of any character at all. I am constantly prompted to give you robux for what seems like a sub-par game that was thrown together with some free assets to gain monetary gain, rather than creating a game that individuals actually want to play and want to come back to play.
The game is doing poorly even with your ad campaign because it’s just flat out boring and unoriginal. I suggest putting your time and effort into an actual game that players will enjoy playing. I hope you take this entirely honest and blunt review as a wake up call to not follow in the footsteps of failed youtubers who make piss-poor content to try and make money. Roblox is not your get rich quick scheme and you should stop ultimately disrespecting the whole community of Roblox players with your low quality, low-work cash-grab game.
I will definitely work on UI Visbility!
I played for a little bit and I have some suggestions:
The punch animation and the highlights on objects will definitely make it more addictive to click.
I love the blunt truth here, believe it or not this is my first ever attempt at using roblox studio to make a PROPER full game with zero experience whatsoever, the entire game took 150+ days to make solo from the models to the icons to everything.
Going for a simulator style game with a simple game loop was my only choice to kickstart gamedeving because I can’t physically jump on a complex idea from the getgo.
I will definitely work on UI Visbility and trying to smoothen out the experience as much as possible though thanks for the feedback!
Yep I’ll definitely work on the skip button,
I like the punching animation idea but straight up it would look weird because of how you can click on slightly far away objects and go through them very quickly, will most likely reiterate on that idea!
Thank you for the feedback
To add to the other replies, i’d also like to mention that the clickboxes are very inconsistent. I don’t see why you can’t just click anywhere on the object and be able to damage it.
Epic, I do have an idea for a damage animation. You can reject this idea if you want but it is worth considering:
Time Master has a wond type object in his hand and he is wizard looking. So what if Time Master gave a wond to the player that specializes in breaking objects. This wond will always be in left hand just incase you want the player to have something in right hand. That way you can have an animation of the player using the wond to damage the objects from close up and far away.
Time Master giving the player a wond would also help the friendship between the player and Time Master, making him more memorable in the minds of the players. You can have a wond for each timeline too but that may be too much reworking so just one default would do maybe.
(I deleted one of my posts because I wasn’t naming Time Master correctly. I am sincerely sorry to Time Master for not saying your name correctly pls forgive me)
Firstly, I would suggest implementing Onboarding Funnel analytics to get a very clear picture of where people are actually dropping off. I bet the vast majority of your low session time is due to people not understanding within the first couple minutes, and then leaving. Below are my best guesses as to what is making players frustrated enough to leave so early.
I’d say focus on average session time/playtime. That’s the main metric that the others rely on - if people are playing for 3 minutes, it’s likely they aren’t coming back (they won’t become a paying user, they won’t contribute to retention, etc.)
Simulators succeed because they are very simple to play and the core gameplay is satisfying throughout, meaning there’s good feedback, low frustration, and a lot of clarity. You aren’t confused with what you need to do next.
In your game, in the first few minutes, I was confused.
Your tutorial area is bad. The map itself is nice and the models are great, but it should be used for a future zone. There is so much clutter for a tutorial and very little contrast, nothing that strongly guides you where to go:
Clicking on the items is not always consistent (guessing it’s the same for mobile). You have to click on certain spots to actually gather the time chips, which is really frustrating, especially if you don’t understand why or where to click.
The mystery chest should be moved elsewhere as it interrupts the tutorial, adding frustration when the player is likely already confused
The cost to build things should be ON the thing you need to build, not just below. It almost looks like that’s how much money you have. Could be improved by adding a bar instead of a percentage value, too.
Nothing changes when you reach 100%. It should feel like you’ve actually achieved something, But it does nothing other than showing you the arrow and relies on you knowing what it means when it wasn’t really very clear in the tutorial (majority of people will skip text if they can)
Starting with smaller numbers is more fun. It feels overwhelming having thousands of time chips to earn to start with.
The watch shop is too complicated and doesn’t guide you enough to the roll button. Roll button should be more central
Earning a watch should tell you its stats immediately
Watch inventory is unintuitive, you have to search through to find the watch. Ideally there’d be a list of the ones you own so it’s easier
Those are some of the basic points. I’d focus less on a written tutorial, too. Make it so intuitive that you can understand what to do without reading anything.
Overall though, if you can make the game a lot clearer, I think it could do quite well. Your animations for damaging etc. are fun, the environments are lovely. Just needs some work on the clarity.
This isn’t helpful or even true. There are a lot of factors that go into games succeeding. The unoriginal comment is reasonable, and I do agree a bit since it is still a simulator - but that’s not ‘the reason’ it’s not doing well.
If you only want it to be in landscape mode (horizontally) then please but ScreenOrientation to “LandscapeSensor” in StarterGui.
Yep onboarding has been a huge issue, believe it or not this tutorial is highly polished right now it wasn’t even this clear and required like 50,000 to finish the first stage
You are right because the onboarding funnels show that most people quit at the campfire stage, which is when they have to use that hint indicator. I’ll make sure that its way clearer what it does and fix watch shop UX
highly appreciate the feedback!
Thanks for pointing that out! it’s a bit embarassing but I’m so new at this I didn’t even know studio lets you do that
It’s all good, no need to feel embarrassed. We here to help each other. Super impressive you made this game by yourself with little experience. 
I made this quick concept image that changes the glasses to look way more like glass and not anything else.
Maybe it just me but what I saw looked pretty spooky.
yeah, basically all games are meant to run horizontally! but their aspect ratio can change. we got square monitor gamers and then samsung ultrawide gamers. you need to make your game fit for everyone’s device. (except for vertical phone gamers, screw that!)
please incorporate the UIAspectRatioConstraints though, it is fundamental in building UI!
i mean just imagine if you were on this ratio of a monitor, everything is stretched and looks weird.
and let’s not talk about the fact how it seems like 10 different artists made icons and it was put together here.
i understand you are a beginner though, so here’s another thing to learn on the way!
