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I paid a top dev $300 to teach me how he finds Roblox game ideas. And if you think this is cap, let me just show you some quick proof, okay? This is me talking to 1 Coal. If you guys don't know him,
Learn how a top Roblox developer finds game ideas by analyzing popular off-platform games and demand signals.
Key Takeaways
- Successful Roblox game ideas often come from proven concepts outside the platform.
- Researching demand signals like player counts and content creator interest is crucial.
- Old Flash games and browser games are a rich source of inspiration for new Roblox games.
- Xbox Game Pass offers unique game concepts that can be adapted for Roblox.
- Understanding and fulfilling the core fantasy of a game is key to its success.
Summary
- The creator paid a top Roblox developer $300 to learn his method for finding game ideas.
- The first key method is checking if the game idea has been done outside Roblox and proven successful.
- Old school Flash games are a valuable source of inspiration for Roblox game ideas.
- Sites like Addicting Games, Coolmath Games, Crazy Games, and Newgrounds are recommended for research.
- Signals of demand include high ratings, number of plays, and content creator engagement.
- Xbox Game Pass is another underrated platform to find game ideas by analyzing popular games.
- The importance of understanding the core fantasy of a game is emphasized for ideation.
- Examples like 'My Singing Brain Rot', 'Hide or Die', and 'Quarantine Zone' illustrate successful game concepts.
- The video is intended as part one of a three-part series on game ideation methods.
- Future videos will explore the concept of core fantasy in more detail.
Chapters
- 00:00Introduction and proof of consultation with top dev
- 00:54First checklist item: Has the game idea been done outside Roblox?
- 01:38Method 1: Using old Flash games for inspiration
- 03:51Sites to find Flash games and signals of demand
- 04:39Importance of content creator engagement as demand signal
- 06:58Underserved markets and examples of game ideas
- 08:48Analyzing core fantasy and future video topics
- 12:22Using Xbox Game Pass to find game ideas
- 15:31Summary and closing remarks
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he basically made this game My Singing Brain Rot with almost 300 million visits, sold it for a bag to a big studio. He also has this game Hide or Die with almost a billion visits. I'm sure you guys have seen this on your homepage.
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And for all the haters, here's legitimately a screenshot. I don't know how I can make this any more clear, a screenshot of me paying this dude $300 via PayPal for some consultation. Okay?
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So, what he gave me is something called the checklist, okay? Now, my intention is to make this a three-part series.
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In this first part, we're going to go over the first thing in Coal's checklist, and that is has this game idea been done outside of Roblox before? And there's a caveat, and worked, okay? Okay, let's dive in. Has this game idea been done
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outside of Roblox before and worked? Simply what I'm going to do, guys, is I'm going to go over all of the methods that I've discovered on how to find Roblox game ideas.
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Stick with me till the end because I'm going to go over my favorite method and I think it is definitely the most untapped. Reason I say that is because this specific method that I'll end up mentioning towards the end
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is a method that I post about on Twitter and it pissed off the most people. So, usually when people get mad, you know you're hitting the right button.
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Anyways, the first method to finding Roblox game ideas off platform is called delete this, bro.
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Okay? I'm just [ __ ] with you guys. First place really is just old school old school flash games, man. This is not a surprise to some you season But, if you look at like The Forge, you know,
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Fire Attack, I think the dev's name is, he's talked about this publicly, that The Forge was heavily inspired by this Flash game called Jacksmith, okay?
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Now, a lot of you young kids probably don't even know what a Flash game is, man. Like, I'm unk as [ __ ] We grew up playing these games on our internet browsers, okay? In my day and age, dude, I grew up there was a
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shared family computer, dog, okay? So, take a guess how [ __ ] old I am.
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Anyways, The Abyss, again, inspired by a Flash game called The Fishercat, okay? How do you actually find these Flash games? Well, here's some sites, and again, I'm just making this so easy for you guys, okay? First one is Addicting
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Games, my OGs. You guys already know, man, I grew up playing this [ __ ] Bloons Tower Defense, for example, inspired this game called Papa Balloon, which is um made by another YouTuber. I can't remember the name of
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of his channel at the top of my head, but he's a G. Love his content.
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He even openly talks about this game being heavily inspired by Bloons Tower Defense okay?
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A sneaky one is Coolmath Games, all right? You guys already know, like, we played this [ __ ] in school cuz it wasn't blocked. If you just go here, top 10, okay? You can find games that are the most popular on this site.
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Now, when I'm looking on these sites, what am I looking for? Let me actually show you guys really quick. So, like, Tiny Fishing, this was a game I did it was playing with a while back.
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What I'm looking for is signals of demand. What do I mean by that? Okay?
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I mean, basically, a quantifiable number that shows that people are actually interested in this core loop, okay? Here, you can see this game has 3 million ratings. Now, this is a 2D Flash game, okay? It's going to take a little bit of
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creativity to turn this into a 3D working Roblox game, okay? Speaking of 3D games, this one is personally my favorite place to find flash games or just like internet browser games. It's Crazy Games. Reason being is they have games made by the Unity
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engine, okay? So, what that means is some of these games are 3D. And they're already 3D, bro. Makes it even easier for you to translate it to Roblox. So, if you go here, you go to popular games, and just look through here, man, okay?
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I personally prefer games that are like, you know, maybe tycoony, simulator games, games that can be played with friends. Like, you guys can have fun with this, right? Go multiplayer, dig deeper into it. Um personally, I think a huge underserved
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market in Roblox is PvP kart games, and that's validated here. Like, if I click in here, you'll see this game has been played a ton. Um I've even talked to my buddy about this. This was actually one of his original ideas,
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but this is a great execution of it. And for some reason, Crazy Games just [ __ ] bugs my computer, dude. So, bear with me. But, yeah, if you look here, man, this is what I'm looking for is
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like 200,000 votes, okay? A bonus tip would be to scroll down and see if any content creators have made content on the game, cuz that's also a signal of demand, okay? 113,000 views 4 years ago. I'll show you guys like an example.
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And I guess I thought I was slick in my last video, but 20 you guys sniped this game that I'm prototyping.
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Airport Security, right? Great little loop this game has here. 85,000 votes, not much, but what was interesting to me is a big YouTuber played it, okay?
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Years ago. And that for me is signal of demand of either the core fantasy, which is like being an airport TSA agent, or just like it having hilarious funny clippable moments. 6.2 million views 4 years ago.
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These are the things you guys want to start look to look for is actual data that backs up that this is a good game idea. Not just being on most popular, but like dig a little bit deeper, see if
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content creators have played it. Ideally, it's not already executed on Roblox. So, like for this game, for example, like what I would do is then go look on Roblox, see what other airport security games exist, what genre they in, and then see if they're
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really fulfilling that same core fantasy that this game is fulfilling. And I'm going to make future videos about core fantasy cuz I'm starting to learn about it, and I think it's really, really powerful when it comes to game ideation.
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And yeah, that's a lot of yapping. Anyways, honorable mention, newgrounds.com. Dude, some of my old heads watching this, man, like we grew up on this [ __ ] dude. Old school, old school okay?
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You go here, you can go games, you can go popular, same kind of deal, right?
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Just look for signals of demand, okay? Now, again, what you're looking for, just to summarize, is how many people played it, you know, things like upvotes, content creators made videos about it, either Ideally, for me, I think it's good if it was years ago.
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That means that there was a point in time when there's demand for it. There probably still is demand for it, just no one has made a newer, updated version of that core loop, okay?
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Moving on to the next place to find game ideas off platform, Xbox and Game Pass, okay? Now, I just want to make a quick mention that what Cole told me here, he has said publicly, if you do some digging in
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YouTube videos he's been in, so Cole, don't hate me, bro. All right. [laughter] Um but Xbox Game Pass. So, I'm a PC gamer, I have Game Pass, I also have an Xbox.
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You guys probably have already spotted this, but again, pattern recognition, right? Quarantine Zone, The Last Check.
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Huge game, basically zombie border made the exact same game and I was playing this recently. There's actually a few games that came up on Roblox that use that same core loop.
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I literally think it's just called Quarantine Zone. Okay. Quarantine Zone. Yeah, right here. And he'll he literally even says this game was inspired by Quarantine Zone. I mean, Quarantine Border. Okay. [laughter] So, Xbox Game Pass, if you are like a
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console gamer, very underrated place to find game ideas. Okay? Again, demand signals, good reviews, play the game.
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Ask yourself, would a kid understand how to play this game? Cuz I think a real talent and skill that developers have is taking an adult game like Quarantine Zone, which is obviously rated M, a
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large audience on Roblox. I think that is a huge skill that very high-end developers have. Next one, Digging a Hole. Now, I don't know if this came before or after Roblox.
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So, don't get pissed off at me for this one, bro, but if you look at Dig to Escape, Dig the Backyard, right? Again, for this one specifically, I don't know which one came first.
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Whatever. Moving on to the next one, the most underrated and my personal favorite is TikTok Challenges. Okay? I posted about this on Twitter. If you're not following me on Twitter, um it's somewhere on my YouTube channel.
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You guys can follow me there. But, TikTok Challenges, okay? How to find game ideas that are TikTok Challenges, just [ __ ] scroll TikTok, bro. Like, I don't know what else to tell you. Okay?
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Look at Bomb Click, right? If you look at Bomb Click, 260 million visits, okay?
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Very easy mini game to make. This is why it's personally my favorite. All right?
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There's obviously balancing, it still takes talent to execute this, but I think the time required to actually dev a mini game challenge like this is very low. If you look at like games like Blind Shot, I mean Silent Assassin's,
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games like this. That's why it's my personal favorite and it's untapped in my opinion. So, if you guys know anything about the bomb chip challenge, like look it up on TikTok, it's all over the place. This dev was really smart and made it into a
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game, okay? Here's another example, the lying challenge. I don't know if you guys have seen this challenge on TikTok, but it's basically like person on the left describes what they have in their hands and then this person tries to guess it. From my
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understanding, I don't [ __ ] know, maybe I misunderstood that. I haven't watched videos like that in a while. I don't even watch this type of content, so don't get pissed off at me, bro.
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Whatever. Okay, 78 million visits, exact same thing, lying challenge. I mean, this is smart, dude, right? It's taking like a little cultural phenomena and then turning it into a game, right? Cuz people seeing this challenge probably want to do it with their friends, but
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they can't because maybe their friend lives in a different country. I don't know, dude. So, now they can play the same challenge with their friends, but in a Roblox experience. So, it's smart, man. Here's another one, rubber band
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watermelon, almost 20 million visits. Quick, easy games in my opinion, dude. So, highly, highly underrated. Just scroll TikTok, look at challenges, and yeah, man. Now, for some honorable mentions.
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Okay, the iOS and Google Play Store. A lot of devs probably know about this one already, but just see what's popping on iOS, dude. See what's popping on Google Play Store. If you guys have seen this game, like there's so many it's like a meme
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that this is like a fake bubble game, okay? Well, this dev actually turned it into a Roblox game.
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11 mil visits. It had like 13K CCU at one point. I I was watching this game like a hawk.
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Kind of died low-key, but hey, this guy got his bag, right? He capitalized on that [ __ ] so that was smart. Kudos to him.
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If you look at Cole's game, right? My Singing Brain Rot, it was based on this popular game called My Singing Monsters, right? Again, demand signals, dude. 50 million downloads, all right? This is already majorly a kids game, so there's
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not much you have to rework. He just skinned it for something that was popping at the same time. Super smart of him, man. I mean, he made a bag on this.
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Like, shout out to him, bro. So, super mega bonus, low-key, Minecraft mini-games, dude. Okay? I'm talking like Spleef, Bed Wars, [ __ ] like that. You know, you guys have seen this, right? Bed Wars in Minecraft. I don't
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know my old OGs. I used to Twitch stream [ __ ] Minecraft, dude, back in like 2014, I want to say, dog. Anyways, Bed Wars Minecraft mini-game. Um another one is old-school Garry's Mod games, okay? So, if you look at Cole's game here, Hide or
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Die, what is it actually? It's just Garry's Mod Prop Hunt, dude. Okay? This was a huge, huge hit back in the day.
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Again, demand signals, bro, right? Demand signals. And he, again, super smart of him, changed it and made it 6 v 6, okay? Cuz what happens is a lot of kids will see big YouTubers playing a game like Prop Hunt, let's
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say, for example. And Prop Hunt's only on Steam, and let's say, for example, Prop Hunt cost $20, okay? Well, maybe the kid doesn't have a PC, the kid doesn't have a $20, but he really likes the game, he watches content creators
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play the game. Okay? So, that is what I call a gap in the market. Where there's demand for the game for a younger from a younger audience, but no one is fulfilling that demand, and that's what Cole did here with Hide or Die. Super
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smart of him, dude, right? He saw comments on a YouTube short of a YouTuber playing Prop Hunt, and someone was commenting, "Where can I play this game? Where can I play this game? I don't have a PC. I wish I could play
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this game." That's another quick tip, guys is if you're actually watching some content creators play games, is look for Okay, look for comments like I wish I could play this game.
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Where can I play this game? These are again signals of demand, dude. Okay, these are signals of demand.
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And again, for me the winner out of all of these cuz we just went over a lot, dude.
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As promised at the end of the video, my personal favorite TikTok challenges, okay? Just to summarize, again, easy to make mini games. When I posted it on Twitter, I got the most comments. This is my favorite [ __ ] comment to receive,
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dude. [laughter] [gasps] Oh, dude, when I see this comment, that's when I know I'm hitting the right button cuz like, dude, I love talking [ __ ] I mean, it's all love at the end of the day, right? Everyone deserves to
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succeed, man. It's an abundance mentality. None of this [ __ ] should be gatekept because in my opinion, I game ideas are everywhere. They're super abundant, okay? What's actually difficult is execution and making sure that people do what they're going to say
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they're going to do and finding good talented devs to execute your vision. So, that's why I'm bullish on just sharing all this [ __ ] stuff. So, anyways, if you guys like this video, let me know in the comments below. Also,
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[ __ ] crazy, 2K subs in a week. I'm super grateful like, dude, I've had so many YouTube channels in my life. I've never had one blow up this fast. So, shout out to you guys. I really appreciate the love. I am going to make
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a Discord server soon. I'm just an old man and I might need help setting it up.
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And yeah, comment below. Let me know you guys thought of this video and stay tuned. This was part one. For part two, we'll go over some more of this stuff.
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And yeah, that's it.
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