ForgeGUI - High-CTR Roblox Game Icon GFX's & Thumbnails (+More) Using AI

IamRoBuilder · April 26, 2026, 9:51pm

What Is ForgeGUI?

ForgeGUI is the first AI design platform for game developers. You describe what you want ~ a thumbnail, game icon, or even a full GUI layout ~ and it generates game-ready assets in seconds. No Blender, no Photoshop, no back-and-forth with a designer.

I’ve been using it across my own projects for a while now and it’s genuinely sped up my entire workflow. Thumbnails used to eat up a full day for me. Now I generate a bunch of options, test them, and get back to actually building.

The Thumbnail Problem

If you’ve published a game before, you already know this cycle:

You need a thumbnail that actually gets clicks
You either spend hours making one yourself or pay a GFX artist (100s of USD)
Wait for revisions, upload it, run some ads to test CTR
It underperforms ~ now you’re doing it all over again with less money and less motivation

The real issue isn’t making one good thumbnail. It’s that you need to test multiple versions to find the one that actually performs. When each version costs real time and money, most developers just settle for whatever they made first.

How ForgeGUI Changes This

Here’s what my process looks like now:

Type a prompt describing the scene I want (~1 minute)
Drop in a reference image if I have a specific style in mind (optional)
Hit generate (~30 seconds)
Download, upload to Roblox, test
Doesn’t hit? Adjust the prompt and generate again

The whole cycle from idea to uploaded thumbnail is under 5 minutes. I can test 5–10 variations in the time it used to take me to make one. When each attempt costs almost nothing, you can actually iterate until you find a winner.

What Makes It Different

I’ve tried other AI tools for thumbnails ~ Midjourney, ChatGPT, other Roblox-specific ones. The issue with general AI tools is they don’t understand Roblox. You get weird proportions, realistic-looking characters that don’t fit the platform, and compositions that don’t perform.

ForgeGUI was built specifically for this:

Proper R6 Characters ~ The characters actually look like Roblox characters. Correct blocky proportions, PBR plastic material, not the semi-realistic stuff you get from general generators
Two Style Modes ~ Choose between a cinematic Blender GFX style or a cartoony high-CTR style (the bright, bold, clean look you see on top-performing games right now)
Expressive Faces ~ Real facial expressions with detailed eyes, eyebrows, and mouths. Not the flat default Roblox face. Faces are the #1 click driver on thumbnails and these are built to read at small sizes
Reference Image Support ~ Upload an existing thumbnail or any reference and ForgeGUI uses it to guide the generation. Great for upgrading old thumbnails or matching a style you like

Thumbnails

Full 1920×1080 game thumbnails generated from a text prompt. Describe the scene ~ characters, setting, mood, action ~ and it renders the full composition.

Cinematic Style
The dramatic Blender GFX look. Volumetric lighting, detailed 3D environments, rim light halos, deep shadows. Works well for horror, story-driven, and high-production games.

Cartoony / High-CTR Style
Clean, candy-bright, bold outlines, anime-influenced character faces. This is the style dominating the top of the Roblox game page right now. Best for simulators, tycoons, obbys, and anything where you need maximum click-through. Say cartoony high ctr style at the end of your prompt to get this look!

Game Icons

1080×1080 square icons with the same quality and style options. Icons are the first thing players see when browsing ~ a readable, expressive icon at small sizes makes a huge difference in whether someone clicks or scrolls past.

Reference Images & Upgrades

You can feed in an existing thumbnail as a reference and ForgeGUI will recreate it at higher quality ~ same layout, same composition, just better. Useful when you have a thumbnail that’s performing okay but looks dated.

You can also use any image as a style reference ~ upload a thumbnail you like from another game and describe your own scene. ForgeGUI picks up the style and applies it to your content.

It Also Does GUI

This post is focused on thumbnails and icons, but ForgeGUI also generates full in-game UI designs ~ menus, HUDs, inventory screens, shop interfaces ~ from a text prompt. I’ve used it to prototype UI concepts for my games before building them out in Studio. Way faster than designing from scratch.

I’ll cover the GUI side in more detail in a future post, but you can try it now on the site.

Examples

All of these came straight from ForgeGUI ~ no Photoshop editing, no touch-ups.

Pricing

ForgeGUI has a free tier so you can test it out before putting any money in.

Paid plans are available for developers who need more volume. Check current pricing here:

FAQ

How is this different from Midjourney / ChatGPT image generation?
General image generators don’t understand Roblox-specific design. They produce characters with wrong proportions, realistic textures that look out of place, and compositions that aren’t optimized for how players browse the Roblox game page. ForgeGUI is purpose-built for this.

Can I use these in my games commercially?
Yes. You have full rights to use anything you generate for your Roblox games, advertising, monetization, and YouTube content.

Can I edit the results?
You can regenerate with a modified prompt, use your previous result as a reference image to iterate, or download and edit in your own software.

How much does each generation cost?
Each generation costs 3-5 credits depending on what you are generating.

Does it only work for Roblox?
Thumbnails and icons are optimized for Roblox. ForgeGUI also supports UEFN/Fortnite and Minecraft but this post is focused on the Roblox side.

Videos

I’ve made a couple videos showing ForgeGUI in action if you want to see the full workflow:

Get Started

Website (Try it for free with the free trial): ForgeGUI.com AI Roblox Thumbnails and Game Icons

Drop any questions below ~ happy to show more examples or walk through specific use cases.

mrchunkberries · April 27, 2026, 5:50am

The first image made me think this just was some other ai crap, but the rest of the images actually look completely hand made, definitely worth checking out.

Chark_Proto · April 27, 2026, 7:09am

Gotta love that you’re outright lying.

I found this game with ease which is a near-perfect match to one of your AI slop examples.

game link

And here they are overlayed on eachother.

Anything here that isn’t transparent is completely identical. You can overlay the images yourself, and you will see, they are identical aside from the very few modifications the AI made.

So, what did your AI do? It stole the work, changed how it looked a little and vomited it back out.

Without a doubt this is what you’ve done for the other non-blatant AI images. Its an AI that steals and edits. I already have problems with AI using stolen material in their training data, but this is just outright insane.

This AI doesn’t “make” the images. It literally steals and rebrands. Cut the lies and cut the stealing brochano.

I do not recommend anyone use or pay for this because this is just stealing other people’s work on multiple levels, both in training-data and in the actual output results, at least those shown-off as examples of what the AI is capable of.

You’re either completely lying in your marketing in order to get sales, or you and/or your AI does infact steal other people’s work and you/your AI is labeling it as work of the AI, which is still false marketing.

Either way, your AI is not capable of what you say it is. And you’re trying to sell this for $15 a month. What a joke. It took me not even 10 minutes to find the original work of one of your images and to see how laughably whatever AI modified it. Its blatant that you’re just lying in some way.

I don’t see why people can’t do this for free with other alternatives. ChatGPT literally is capable of this.

You don’t drop-in reference, you drop in a base for it to modify on, and with how you’ve marketed this, it really seems like you’re trying to label it as the AI completely made it by itself, which just factually is not true at all. You didn’t even feed it original work either, you just took other people’s work and used it.

What you have made is literally just a slightly advanced stealing & editing tool that you have to pay monthly to use that also has completely free alternatives, that is probably also capable of spitting out the same generic AI slop we’re all used to and that we all hate.
Your marketing is deceptive at best, completely false at worse.

No matter how you look at this tool, to get good results from it (like you’re trying to market it as being able of doing), you already need the work done.

No one likes stealing thumbnails and its pretty blatant when you do. If the people using this tool aren’t looking for generic AI-Slop, given they’re not stealing like you are, they’re already going to have the skills required to make these images in the first place, which at that point, why even use this AI in the first place? You would have already made the base and edited it, you’d just be asking for a little less work for a significantly worse result.

IamRoBuilder · April 28, 2026, 12:47am

I Asked the site owners and it seems the image you are referring to WAS made by forge GUI here are the logs. the game you found was likely this users game!

PiguPhimu · April 28, 2026, 1:07am

Closed for duplicate.