The Roblox Curated Discover Page - Find games by smaller developers!

Right off the bat it’s having problems

Only four games as well, that doesn’t feel right
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This is a good idea, but doesn’t execute very well. Discover pages exist by searching games, not by curating them. I feel like this would only work out well if you had a sufficient number of games.

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We’re still in the phase of adding games to the website. With that being said, I think it’d be a cool idea if every day the website just went through the entire “Popular” tab and published every game that was under 1,000 concurrent players, I know you can already check there but I feel like if a whole website was geared just for smaller games, they’d be visited more.

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Every game on the website right now are placeholders, so that users can test out the tags.

I completely understand your point and I could have waited to take in requests before releasing the website. But, my main goal is not to have a separate site full of small games from Roblox, but to make a statement that we need a better way of searching for games on the platform. This shouldn’t exist if it wasn’t hard to find new games on the platform.

However, I am accepting requests, and I do believe we’ll have more than 4 games on the site once I start adding games. (and I’ll continue to add games as long as the problem of game discovery on Roblox is not fixed)

(Darn, should have stuck with the name “Roblox Curated Game Page” hehe)

That would be hard since I wouldn’t have any way of attaching tags on them.

Which is exactly why I wanted to create this website. As I said on the website, I only find new games through social media or a person’s favorites. It’s hard to get recognized if you don’t have funds to advertise your game. But it shouldn’t work like that. The game itself should be able to do that.

this is very interesting, I hope more games are added :smiley:

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it’d be very nice if you had newer games and not games that havent been updated since 2016, perhaps it should check last updated, and only allow games that have been updated since 2019

there is also a place by pavel10 that appears to be content deleted.

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The Roblox Curated Discover Page is not in any way affiliated with the Roblox Corporation.

Made in 2021 by Anquilis

also, the site doesnt appear to have any ddos protection. which makes it easy for people with LOC to ddos the server.
add more tabs to the site as well
I will find possible way to break the site and find all bugs and flaws

ice world base is taken from old roblox trailer, zombie game is broken. so update it, if pavel10 is your alt, or just completely remove it

that gear game, brick battle dawn appears to break when rocket launcher is fired.

Thats all I’ve found, all games on the site area very broken.

I did include my first game on there just as a demonstration of how games are tagged.

Yes, I managed to put the wrong game id, but I won’t be fixing that until I start to add games to the website.

I don’t know if you can do that. I wouldn’t be concerned with DDOS attacks.

Again, all games are placeholder. Feel free to provide feedback in a DM. Please don’t place any comments about any of the games here, it is irrelevant to the topic.

I am currently taking in requests for games, and I will ensure you once I start adding games, they will be playable.

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a ddos attack is very easy, hell I can even do one right now. all you have to do is get onto your onion browser and get to a site that has the low orbit cannon

the website’s aesthetics is very appealing but it is very unintuitive. The only way to find out more about a game is to click on it and see it on Roblox’s page. You should consider showing more info about the game on your website as when you have for example, 100 games, then having to view the game on roblox to see more info about it becomes really unintuitive if the user is looking for a new game to play.

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The domain “.repl.co” is owned by Replit, not the repl owner, so there is really nothing @Anquilis can do about it unless they use a custom domain.

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Why is this called a “Roblox Curated” discover page? It’s only making the title look clickbaity.

Thanks for the responses.

Is it possible in the future you may add an application to add games so that it does not rely on the curators alone?

I understand the site is not very intuitive and I’ll accept that. We shouldn’t need another website to find games on Roblox, but since they currently don’t have the features to easily find games from smaller developers, I would take something that is unintuitive over nothing.

That is what I was going for when making these buttons. I don’t want the user to hang around on this site looking at game information that is already on the game page. It would be repetitive. This site is not meant to learn more about a game on Roblox, its about finding one to begin with. The tags are there to hopefully give users an good idea of what the game is and they should be able to make a decision to click on the button, learn more about the game and play it.

However, I do see where you’re coming from if for example there are 100 games on the site. Again, I believe that tags will be able to narrow down those games into a few you can easily choose from. I am keen on adding the game icon next to each game button to incite the user more to click on it, but nothing else.

I looked somewhere that Replit already has DDOS protection?

When I first chose the name for the website, I included the word “curated” because I thought it would clearly describe that the games that are on this website are chosen by hand, and not through an algorithm. I looked up definition just to make sure, and it doesn’t seem misleading as the definition here says, “carefully chosen and thoughtfully organized or presented”. ← thanks Mr. Obvious for defining curated lol

I was typing that while I realized you were were quoting Roblox and curated together. It see that it can seem a little clickbaity, but my intentions were not to make it seem like Roblox themselves curated the games on the page. I just wanted to make it clear that the games on this page are all from Roblox. I hope I made it clear in the website that this site had no affiliation with Roblox and that it was unofficial. It wouldn’t make sense if Roblox made a different website outside their own platform anyway.

I’m maybe open for name changes if some people think that it is clickbait. (inb4 someone suggests Ro-Tag)

Maybe. I was thinking about @Y35X’s idea last night and it was pretty clever but I think it defeats the purpose of the website. I would need to put them all in one tag (under the “Popular” tag for example) to make them accessible, but that would mean that there would potentially be hundreds of games under one tag, without any ability to narrow it down. (unless the creator of a game on there comes up to me and submits a form)

I am planning to speed up the process in which games are accepted and speed up the amount of games that being added by having volunteers to help out approve games and maybe even reach out to different developers to add their games. (nothing set in stone yet) So far, I like interacting with different devs, playing their games, and even provide a bit of feedback for the game they submitted, and I would like to keep it like that way.

The only downside is it does takes time, and it could be a good solution to automate some games in as well as have games be manually put on there just to have content inside the website. I guess time will tell. (Roblox should really just see me struggle to make this work, so that they feel bad and add tags to games, hehe)

Thank you for all your feedback and thoughts!

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If it helps, here is an already existing game list I have:

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The website is very interesting and also the amount of unique games is astonishing. I give credit to this discover page.

Good couple of recommendations is to make the website more nice looking, and also have more info on the games?

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Hey everyone! Yesterday, I added the first 11 games to the RCDP!

Thank you to everyone who submitted a game, I enjoyed playing each one of them, and I hope I get to see more submissions soon.

But, as expected, the number of submissions has slowed down, and for the past few days, I’ve only received 1 more game. That is why I’m planning to have myself and a couple of volunteers reach out to different developers outside the DevForum, in hopes of having a few more games on the page.

But, playing each game along with reaching out to the developer about their game takes time. It took me 4 days to get through 17 submissions, which will not be possible to do once I go back to school. I think having a small group of volunteers would be great to help me out speed up the process, but then again they will still have real-life responsibilities.

I will be looking for volunteers on my Discord server, so if you want to help out make sure to join. If you don’t have a Discord, DM me and we’ll try to make it work here!

So, I’m not expecting too much games to be added each month after August. That’s why I’m hoping to have at least 30 games around the end of the year, which doesn’t seem like a lot, but I’m not sure how I’ll keep it alive with a busy Fall semester.

Again, I’m always hoping for an announcement from Roblox to improve game discovery.

Thank you again for the support and feedback! Feel free to send feedback/bugs for the games that are on the site so that I can forward them to the devs!

Special shoutout to @kaiyellow2008 for creating the Discord bot in the server and helping me out with the game submissions! He’s become a big part of planning the future of the website, and I can’t thank you enough for reaching out to me since day one!

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I can’t wait to submit my game to RCDP, then I’ll finally get some players! :slight_smile:

Hi everyone! I slightly improved the readability of the site, highlighted all the links, and added a favicon! The huge paragraphs of text in the “About” page are now split up into more readable chunks.

Thank you to @QuasiliusYT for the suggestions for improving the readability of the site! I also realized that all the text was center-aligned, so that is also fixed, making everything a little more cleaner.

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Hey amazing site. I am the developer from super hard obby! I may have already suggested you this but I think the site may need a cleaner interface closer to roblox less confusing.

Also maybe a feature where we can make our own themes?

Anyways looking forward on seeing this grow!

This is a great idea! This will allow players to find new games to play and will help small developers find an audience.

One suggestion I have is possibly making a player curated page where players can submit and vote for games. This should definitely be in another page that is not Discover, in case some of the suggestions are botted. You can also make a way for players to vote for games to be reviewed.