Man… you just finally decided you wanted to go from being a gamer, and become a developer, I am so happy to welcome you to the crazy, fun, and exciting life of becoming a Roblox developer!
NOTICE - Everything I am about to mention is everything I wish I KNEW before I started developing here on Roblox, other developers will probably give you different advice then what I’ll tell you!
When I first got into Roblox, like many, I was interested in learning how to build, so below you will see that I speak about how to go into building correctly. The same processes will work with anything else such as modeling, gfx, and scripting!
The main thing I wish I knew before I started making games is that developing the “Next Hit” game is not as easy as it may seem. If you just got into developing, and maybe know a little on how to build, trying to immediately create the next hit Roblox game is definitely not going to work out (no offense). When I first got into developing, just like a lot of other new developers, I thought because I knew a guy who can script, and I barely know how to build, that we could create a front-page game in about a week. For the first two days, you and your friend will probably have a lot of fun thinking of cool ideas for your game, and you’ll probably start getting some progress done, but, just about every day after that, your idea slowly becomes less and less interesting. Sadly, I hate to tell you this, but your game probably won’t ever be finished 
Right as you get into development, practice what you are doing, spend hours figuring out how everything works, try building challenging things, not just things that are easy to build. Once you’ve spent around 50 hours just practicing your craft, now try making a map, a full-blown map that developers could use for a simulator, or a tycoon, etc. I recommend you spend days on this map, try to make it the best and hardest thing you’ve ever built. Once you do publish that game, show your friends, show your parents, you did it! Your masterpiece is finished… but not really, your friends and family are most likely going to tell you its amazing but, in reality, it won’t actually be thaaat good compared to other developers. What I recommend you do is post a forum here, or ask a developing group like Hidden Developers for some feedback! A lot of really good developers have good feedback for newbies, take their feedback, NEVER argue or go against anyone when they have feedback. Once you spend another week perfecting your masterpiece from all the feedback you’ve got, now, you will use this as your “Showcase”. What I recommend what you do from this point is to try to find some small developers that are in need of a builder, and work for them for R$1,000-R$5,000. Working for other developers that may have a little more experience then you will teach you so much more about development than you ever knew about. Work for them, and make connections with them, most likely, they will be your friend your entire Roblox career. Once you finish their project, work for someone else, and then work for someone else, then someone else. Keep doing orders, you will slowly start racking up that Robux, and you will make more connections! No one knows how important having good connections really is, because once you do start to work on your front page game, you’re going to need someone to do scripting, modeling, graphics, and help build for you. The more people you know, the better!
I know this will probably through you off guard, but I highly recommend using similar concepts to other bigger developers. Whether it is making your own simulator, tycoon, or whatever. You don’t need to be 100% unique, there are thousands of simulators all similar and they all make a lot of Robux. If you see a Roblox developer doing good, don’t be scared to use their strategies and maybe a few of their ideas (ex: quests for rewards, daily reward, etc).
WOW! You’re still reading! Anyways, let’s talk about how to utilize Roblox’s Keyword search system in the smartest way. If you are creating a game, I highly recommend you make it about something relevant to whatever is going on during this time. Let’s say for some reason the game “Piggy” on Roblox is blowing up, make a game such as “Piggy Tycoon” or “Piggy Obby”! This is the best way of getting a lot of Robux, quick. Because so many players are searching up the word “Piggy” into Roblox, if your game pops up on the third or fourth row, your game will probably get a good amount of players without any money spent for ads! If there become new trends, make a game based around it, I promise it works!
Honestly, this is something that I am still trying to figure out how to do… Something that a lot of top developers know what to do is how to advertise their game to the correct audience of people that would like their game. If you hire someone to create an ad for your game, make sure you advertise your coolest feature in your game, because then, people that find that certain thing interesting will
- Play your game for longer
- Have a better chance of buying a gamepass
- Like and Favorite your game
- Will come back
So please, please, please, do not make a friend request ad, or a flamingo ad, as those do bring in the best amount of players, it will not bring in the right group of people that will love your game!!
I know, I know, everyone always says this, but the most important part of creating a game is finishing it. I am going to keep this simple… If you have a game idea, write it down, think about it for 2 days on whether or not it is actually what you want to do, I see so many new devs think of a game idea, work on it for one day, then completely forget and never go back to it! Make sure you actually like your idea 100% before you start!
Man, this is soooooooo annoying!! Please do not go up to bigger developers and beg for them to hire you, donate to you, or invest in your idea. Chances are, we don’t care (I’m sorry)! We are busy on our own projects, we don’t really want to be bothered by a stranger wanting our money. If a top developer does a shout, or you know, is looking for developers, then feel free to contact them showing them what you can do, but don’t spam them!
If I knew all this information I just posted above, 7 years ago, I would have been able to create a good and profitable game 10x easier. If you are a dev and there is something you’d like to add, please comment below, I probably missed a few things that a lot of other developers run into issues with.
Goodbye and good luck on your journey!
Edit: I’ve uploaded some videos to my Youtube channel regarding game marketing, just go to “1Coal” on youtube and go to the video “How To Make More Robux With Your Roblox Games” and “How To Make Your Roblox Games Popular”! I promise those are super helpful!
