Even when I play this game, I get bored easily. I don’t know why though. It’s odd. How could I improve it?
https://www.roblox.com/games/5186365872/Disaster-Survival-ALPHA
Maybe you should makes games that are more modern or interest you. But if you are adamant about this certain game idea maybe you should think about mechanics in the game that would particularly interest you.
I see a lot of things in your game that can be changed to be more fun.
Disasters
Disasters are the core mechanic in your game, so focus a lot on making them good. The current disasters aren’t exciting. For example, the giant zombie. It never moves. You could just stand around and get a free win. That’s the kind of stuff that’s boring. If it would move, I guarantee it’d be a 100 times better. Disasters are also very short. If you could make it longer without it being stale, you’d have players staying for a while.
I would put more examples of disasters here, but I randomly got banned from the game for exploiting, even though I didn’t exploit.
Environment
So you spawn in the lobby, and the lobby turns out to be the only map there is. Having only one map makes the game boring and stale. Look at other disaster games, they have many maps. That’s how they keep it more fresh every round. You may go through the same disaster, but you’ll need to get used to a different landscape.
Not to mention, there’s almost nothing in the map. Just some hills and shops and the spawn smacked in it. I’d suggest keeping the spawn, and shops out of the map, because the map is for surviving, not for walking around like it’s a city.
Quality
I’m trying to not sound rude here, but the quality for this game is poor. The music never changes, everything about the game is very simple and plain, and just unappealing overall. The items in shops are terrible looking. Just a part and a humanoid head to label it. I know you can do better than this.
Quality does influence how much fun you have. I’ll take a dumpster as an example. That dumpster could be really fun, messing around with garbage. But that dumpster is still a dumpster, you don’t want to play in a stinky pile of garbage, do you? Having satisfying effects will make you want to play it more.
All in All
Your game has a lot to be improved upon, especially the false exploit ban, that will get your game disliked fast. If the disasters were longer and always have you running on your feet, you’d have an exciting game. If you had different maps and kept the shop and spawn out of it, you’d have an even more exciting game. If the game had much better quality, you’d have a very nice game. I can see this game going well in the future, but right now, it can use some work. Just keep it up, and you’ll do fine.
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Look I played this game with another player. This game took me back to 10 years ago… especially with the hint message and text at the top. These have been deprecated for years now. There is no current point in playing your game.
First you can’t buy anything with your points, the shop doesn’t work along with Robux shop. As well, I wonder what the Premium access is for? What do you get by being premium?
The disasters hardly work and aren’t that interesting. The giant zombie doesn’t move, the car doesn’t move. The horde of zombies move so slow that they don’t reach you by the end of the round. You could go AFK and farm points.
Mixing your lobby and game area into one may not be the best idea since players just joining could land on spikes and instantly die. This also effects them from buying things from the shop / robux shop if they worked.
I can understand why you get bored because when I first joined, that’s how I felt. I may sound blunt but I would start over completely and create a modern version of this. You use BillboardGUIs in some places but you also use humanoid in other places, which makes it seem like you are using Free Models which isn’t inherently bad but if that’s all you rely on, it makes the experience less yours. Also you don’t need to have “Shutdown = Update” as ScreenGUI, it’s kinda annoying.
I would start over, plan from the bottom up and see what you can do with this idea. Though you are competing against other games like this and it may be hard to out compete them. I have to say that this game in it’s current form will not be played due to the bugs and rough gameplay. I wish you luck with creating your game but the game needs a lot of work, a lot of work. Sorry again if I sound blunt but I have nothing personal against you, just this game.
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Hi,
Your game is a start, however it needs improving.
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There should be different maps instead of the same exact map (which is the lobby).
This could be a factor why you are getting easily bored. In addition to this, you should add more things in the map, rather than just a hill and a few shops. -
The shop is broken, players are unable to buy any items with points. I really recommend fixing that.
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Please avoid using deprecated instances (hint and message). This makes the game feels ancient, you should use GUI elements such as TextLabels.
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Some of the disasters are broken. For example, the giant zombie stands still and does nothing. The zombie wave doesn’t follow players. And the deadly car isn’t really a disaster - perhaps you could make it chase people?
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Please do not use humanoid names, it really doesn’t look that good. By the way, in the shop, you can see the health bar.
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The music is extremely repetitive, and it doesn’t really fit the game genre.
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Points do NOT save, please fix this. You should use DataStore in order to save.
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The game icons and thumbnails doesn’t look good, if I saw a game thumbnail like this, I would skip it. Perhaps you could use GFX or add more stuff to the thumbnail, rather than a roblox player getting chased by a zombie.
Positive Feedback:
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The flash flood is really smooth - however, I recommend making rain particles in order to give extra detail.
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There is an invisible wall at the edge of the map, but you should cover the whole stone wall, not just the edge!
Overall, I hope you take not just my feedback into account, but everyone else’s on this thread in order to improve your game!
Good luck.
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Hi! I would like the play the game but within 5~10 seconds of me joining it randomly kicked me for exploiting. I think this was already mentioned above but the banning system is pretty faulty. I would love to give a rating on the game but obviously I can’t play anymore. I would appreciate if you fixed this, thanks in advance! 
So I really like the concept of the game, but i only got in a 2nd round when I was hit by a boulder and get slapped with this message:
U may need to fix this. I think it happens because your antiCheat thinks I’m flying whenever I get pushed by an object.
Same thing happened to me.
For the dev:
Maybe try detecting speed differences in a player, then checking if the speed is any different client-side. Usually an exploiter would only be able to change their speed on the client side, so if there is a constant/drastic difference between then you could ban.
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Instantly banned for “using exploits” you gotta fix the bugs first
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