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How to pump out high-quality Roblox games fast. If you've ever wondered how top devs are able to just pump out such high-quality Roblox games really quick.
Learn how to rapidly produce high-quality Roblox games by mastering project management, hiring strategies, and execution tips from an experienced dev.
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Key Takeaways
- Execution and reliable talent are more important than ideas in Roblox game development.
- Building a strong personal brand and reputation accelerates hiring and project success.
- Lean, multi-skilled teams enable faster, higher-quality game production.
- Use social media like Twitter actively to find and vet developers.
- Early launch and iteration based on player feedback is critical for success.
What the video covers
- Top Roblox developers can release new high-quality games quickly by focusing on efficient project management and execution.
- Ideas are abundant and cheap; the real bottleneck is finding reliable, skilled developers who meet deadlines.
- Many Roblox developers are young and inexperienced, so building a good reputation and personal branding is crucial.
- Hiring via Twitter is highly effective, but requires active engagement and building mutual connections.
- Lean teams with T-shaped skills (specialized plus broad knowledge) are more productive and efficient.
- A clear Statement of Work (SOW) and upfront planning improve project clarity and delivery.
- Launching early to gather player feedback is better than overthinking and delaying releases.
- Personal branding through platforms like YouTube helps build trust and attract quality talent.
- Investing money without proper management and reputation often leads to wasted resources.
- Combining networking with making hit games is the best approach to success in Roblox development.
Chapters
- 00:00Introduction: How to Pump Out High-Quality Roblox Games Fast
- 00:52Project Management and Scoping in Roblox Development
- 02:51Challenges with Roblox Developer Talent and Execution
- 03:42Effective Hiring Strategies Using Twitter and Building Reputation
- 05:19Importance of Personal Branding and Making Hit Games
- 06:59Building Lean, Multi-Skilled Teams for Fast Development
- 07:47Using Statements of Work (SOW) and Clear Documentation
- 09:49Launching Early and Iterating Based on Player Feedback
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I'm talking a new game every week. This video is for you. And I'm going to get into like the entire process, like project management process that I think is the most efficient personally and talked to a top dev recently. He taught
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I'm talking a new game every week. This video is for you. And I'm going to get into like the entire process, like project management process that I think is the most efficient personally and talked to a top dev recently. He taught
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incredibly fast, okay? So, the point I'm trying to make is ideas are cheap and everywhere and execution is all that matters, okay?
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me most of what I'm saying in this video. I've also learned by just spending a lot of money on devs and being burned. All right, let's just [ __ ] dive straight in, dude. The reality is this platform moves
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marketing agency, which is a people business, so I understand project management, I understand scoping projects, I understand making sure things are met on deadlines. Am I a top Roblox dev?
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incredibly fast, okay? So, the point I'm trying to make is ideas are cheap and everywhere and execution is all that matters, okay?
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spent so much time and money trying to find good Roblox developers and it is easily the biggest bottleneck in this business, in my opinion. Ideas are everywhere, that's not the bottleneck.
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And this is coming from a guy that loves marketing, loves coming up with game ideas, loves doing the research, but execution is all that matters, all right? Now, why am I qualified to talk about this? Well, I used to run a
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as [ __ ] Just to cut it Just to put it straight to you. A lot of the Roblox talent is super lazy cuz they're 14 years old and they've never ran a business before, okay? Now, first tip I'm going to give you guys is
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marketing agency, which is a people business, so I understand project management, I understand scoping projects, I understand making sure things are met on deadlines. Am I a top Roblox dev?
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working on. You got to sound like you know what you're talking about. When I first got started, dude, I knew nothing about Roblox, okay? All I knew was just fundamental business principles from running an e-com agency. So, I just
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Not yet. We're getting there, okay? But, I want to help you guys in this video basically go over everything I learned when it comes to hiring. Let me save you a ton of time and money cuz dude, I've
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if you're an investor, cuz I actually had some investor bros hit me up, crypto bros, deep pockets, right?
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spent so much time and money trying to find good Roblox developers and it is easily the biggest bottleneck in this business, in my opinion. Ideas are everywhere, that's not the bottleneck.
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okay? I spent four grand on my first game and it was a very, very shitty game. We never even launched it and I got I'm not going to say anything about it.
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Market research is not the bottleneck. It's finding good talent that can actually execute on time because something unique about the Roblox space is a lot of the talent is young, unprofessional, and will ghost you and doesn't get [ __ ] done on time, and lazy
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clout-chasing fest a little bit. What I mean by that is you need to have a good reputation for these people to trust you, okay? I can't tell you how OP me having a YouTube channel has been for hiring because people that I'm vetting,
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as [ __ ]. Just to cut it, just to put it straight to you. A lot of the Roblox talent is super lazy cuz they're 14 years old and they've never ran a business before, okay? Now, first tip I'm going to give you guys is
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you can come into Roblox just with a bag and no reputation, you're going to get cooked bro okay?
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hire from Twitter, okay? Twitter is goated for hiring. Now, here's kind of the caveat. You kind of got to larp a little bit on Twitter, okay? You got to post [ __ ] on Twitter, you got to talk about what you're
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[laughter] I I don't know how else to say it. Anyways, cuz this is what I found is and a top dev told me this, he said he doesn't hire anyone that doesn't have at least 30 mutual connections with them on
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working on. You got to sound like you know what you're talking about. When I first got started, dude, I knew nothing about Roblox, okay? All I knew was just fundamental business principles from running an e-com agency. So, I just
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way to build a good rep there's kind of two ways. The most obvious one is make a hit game.
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started taking what I knew from the e-com space and applying it to Roblox and just larping on Twitter and started to build a little reputation. Okay, YouTube, hella untapped. I've hired a few absolute chads from YouTube, great programmers, or mutual connections. Now,
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Now, Farmer D obviously, it's not a huge massive game, but 3.5 million visits, it's something and it's still making money. Okay? That's enough for a dev that I'm looking at hiring to know, "Hey, this guy's serious. He's ran games
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if you're an investor, cuz I actually had some investor bros hit me up, crypto bros, deep pockets, right?
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So, when I say larp on YouTube and Twitter, what do I mean? It's like, "Dude, just whatever you're learning, just just post about it. Like, don't be afraid to sound stupid, dude." Okay? If you look at my bio here,
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It's like we have 30K to make a game. We just want to pump out games. Here's the thing, dude, I tried to come in this space just thinking I could throw money around and it doesn't work like that,
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beginning? Like, hell yeah, dude. But, who cares? Like, don't be afraid to build in public. Okay? Don't be afraid to look like an idiot. And who gives a crap man?
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okay? I spent four grand on my first game and it was a very, very shitty game. We never even launched it and I got I'm not going to say anything about it.
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if you don't have a hit game right now, you got to start building a little bit of a presence, in my opinion. I think personal branding in the space is highly, highly underrated and super OP.
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I think I paid way too much for it, okay? Four grand is crazy for the game that we built there, but anyways, what I want you guys to understand is this Roblox base, since most of the kids are teenagers, it kind of is a
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I would kind of do both here. Okay? Network and work on making hit games. Combo of both.
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clout-chasing fest a little bit. What I mean by that is you need to have a good reputation for these people to trust you, okay? I can't tell you how OP me having a YouTube channel has been for hiring because people that I'm vetting,
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specialized expertise in one specific area, for example, a programmer, combined with a broad working knowledge and collaborative skills across multiple other disciplines. Okay? So, what this means is when you're hiring a programmer, see if he can also do
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they can see my videos, they can see I'm serious, they can see I'm not [ __ ] around and I want to make games and I want to make them fast, I want to make them high quality, okay? If you think
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literally just a two-man team. The programmer also did animations, also did UI, the builder also did modeling. Okay?
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you can come into Roblox just with a bag and no reputation, you're going to get cooked bro, okay?
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Now, he just runs a four-man team. A lot of these top devs I've talked to, they run lean and mean teams. You just need a dialed-in team, bro. Okay? First thing, again, make sure they're T-shaped. So, example, you hire a programmer, but he
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You need to have a little bit of a rep, so you kind of need to larp a little bit.
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I've deleted them, but like I have been able to hire same day within the hour sometimes. I probably deleted. Yeah, no, here we go. Looking to hire builder, modeler, blah blah blah, right? Hired this guy with in the next hour, like literally. Just cuz
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[laughter] I I don't know how else to say it. Anyways, cuz this is what I found is and a top dev told me this, he said he doesn't hire anyone that doesn't have at least 30 mutual connections with them on
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Okay? Now, something to note, which I'll get into, but always always sign a contract. Do not work with someone that is not willing to sign a contract. Okay?
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Discord. Okay? Unfortunately, that's just the nature of the game. That's just how this game works. It's really who you know or people know you from Twitter, they know you from YouTube. You got to build a reputation, man. And the only
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You as the game designer/producer, which is what my role is by the way. If you guys didn't know, I don't know how to code, okay? I'm a producer/designer. You need to get clear on what's called an SOW, statement of work, okay? It is your
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way to build a good rep there's kind of two ways. The most obvious one is make a hit game.
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I'm talking about for your programmer and your modeler, UI, everything. All the frames, all the models, everything you need to get clear on in terms of what's called an MVP, minimal viable product, okay?
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Okay? Or larp on YouTube and Twitter like me. Or do a combo of both. Okay?
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Is Is it even viable? A little hack that I've done recently, since I don't know how to program, is you can get a working prototype with AI before ever hiring a dev okay?
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Now, Farmer D obviously, it's not a huge massive game, but 3.5 million visits, it's something and it's still making money. Okay? That's enough for a dev that I'm looking at hiring to know, "Hey, this guy's serious. He's ran games
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before we get into basically the process of project management is just some tips for hiring, right? Always make sure that they're in the same time zone.
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in the past that make money and he's not [ __ ] around. He's not some 14-year-old that's saying, 'Hey, I will hire on percent.'" Okay?
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contract signed. Contract terms. This is what I've been taught. Paid upon completion is preferred. And again, devs will only do this if you have a trusted reputation, okay? Cuz there's a lot of scammers in the space, unfortunately, that ruined it for all of us serious
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So, when I say larp on YouTube and Twitter, what do I mean? It's like, "Dude, just whatever you're learning, just just post about it. Like, don't be afraid to sound stupid, dude." Okay? If you look at my bio here,
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It's terrible. Okay, 50% up front. I always prefer paid upon completion, but I mean, you don't have to be super strict. You can negotiate, but paid upon completion is the best. And in order for this to work, again, you need to agree
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what does it say? "Sharing my learnings." Okay? When I first got started, I just started sharing things that I thought were sauce or I thought that I had learned some stuff. Now, did I get flamed on Twitter a ton in the
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that's not in the original agreement or you're going to piss off your team. Okay, I know this cuz I've been a freelancer. I've also ran agencies, and I just know that when expectations are not met on either side, people get
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beginning? Like, hell yeah, dude. But, who cares? Like, don't be afraid to build in public. Okay? Don't be afraid to look like an idiot. And who gives a crap man?
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give them ideas, but try to refrain as much as possible and try to stick as much as possible to that original agreement as to not piss off your team because it will bog down your programmer, your builder. They'll just
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People will get to know you, all right? And it's important for hiring, bro. It is OP. If you look at all the top devs, they have a very good rep. And how they do it? They made a hit game. Okay? But,
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[ __ ] then get it done. Now, let's get into this. Okay, the whole process from ideation to actually building the game.
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if you don't have a hit game right now, you got to start building a little bit of a presence, in my opinion. I think personal branding in the space is highly, highly underrated and super OP.
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design document. Okay? Game design document basically outlines like, what is the game, what do players do in the game, how do players level up, economy, progression. It's basically just like an outline. It's I also use it as like the
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Okay? Cuz making hit game, this could take you a while, man. Especially if you don't have funds, you're just grinding, grinding grinding.
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document, and I'll just give it to AI. I'll say, "Hey, AI, just tell me out of this game design document what the programmer specifically needs to do, okay?" Now, once you have your game design document, this is kind of like
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I would kind of do both here. Okay? Network and work on making hit games. Combo of both.
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You're then going to take that scope, you're going to put it into Trello, okay? I like to make a column for programmer, column for builder, column for UI, just all the necessities. And I like to chunk down this game design
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Anyways, that point's over. Now, when it comes to hiring, best type of dev to hire is what's called a T-shaped employee. What is a T-shaped employee? Okay, let's do a quick Google search. A T-shaped employee is a professional who possesses deep
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in the e-comm space, cuz I used to manage a lot of web design and graphic design people. I mean, tons of different types of developers, okay?
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specialized expertise in one specific area, for example, a programmer, combined with a broad working knowledge and collaborative skills across multiple other disciplines. Okay? So, what this means is when you're hiring a programmer, see if he can also do
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Record a video, okay? This is super helpful for them to understand exactly what you want done. And if they're not doing what you want done, it's because you suck at communication. So, add pictures for references.
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building or see if he can also do UI. Okay? When you're hiring a builder, see if he can also do modeling. See if he can also do animations. This is the team that I ran for Farmer Dai. It was
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that has this system that we want to implement into our game, if that makes sense. And I'll record a video going over this, typically, okay?
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literally just a two-man team. The programmer also did animations, also did UI, the builder also did modeling. Okay?
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way, cuz I've tried hiring scripter and builder at the same time. And what I've been taught, and what I'm going to do for my next project, is I'm going to get all the models, builds, and UI done first, before ever getting a programmer
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You don't need a big team, guys. A big team is not a flex. All right? One thing that One Cool told me is like he used to have a big team.
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So, get your models, builds, and UI done before the programmer goes in, okay? Cuz what I've noticed with programmers is if they go into an empty studio workplace and they're just using parts and free models, it's not as motivating,
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Now, he just runs a four-man team. A lot of these top devs I've talked to, they run lean and mean teams. You just need a dialed-in team, bro. Okay? First thing, again, make sure they're T-shaped. So, example, you hire a programmer, but he
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And again, another reason why your team should be in the same time zone is cuz they'll end up motivating each other.
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also does UI. Okay? Or you hire a builder, but he also does models and animation. Now, again, how do you hire? I mean, larp a little bit on Twitter and just make a hiring post, dude. Let's see, I think
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So, that's how you keep momentum. Now, phase two, programmer gets in there, all builds and UI are done, they're going to bring the core loop to life. Now, and again, this is just for an MVP. What's an MVP?
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I've deleted them, but like I have been able to hire same day within the hour sometimes. I probably deleted. Yeah, no, here we go. Looking to hire builder, modeler, blah blah blah, right? Hired this guy within the next hour, like literally. Just cuz
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talking about scoping an entire game with a live ops and everything. Okay? I'm talking about getting an MVP out.
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I have a little bit of a following, 2.8k impressions. Now, you want to make these guys a um a reasonable offer. Like you need to understand the market rates, understand what's a good price,
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wrong. They overthink. I know that you guys get passionate about what you're building, but dude, just launch and see how players respond, cuz the quicker you can get live players in there, the quicker you can get data. Okay?
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Different schools of thought. Ideally, you can get play testers before you even go live. We'll talk about that in later videos. Now, is it good to launch? Yes, just [ __ ] launch that [ __ ] Start spending on ads, look at feedback. You
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can do beta mode if you want. I know you guys have tons of questions about beta mode, and maybe I'll answer in different videos, but we're talking about project management here. Okay? Is it good to launch? No.
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Personally, what I do, just to speed things up, is once the MVP is built, but I don't feel like it's fine-tuned enough, I'll download a copy, okay? A backup file of the game, and I'll use AI to tweak some
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things. Why does this speed things up? Well, because you got to think about communication slows things down, right?
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So, if I've a gut feeling like, "Hey, this game, it feels good, but it just needs this one thing changed." I don't want to have to wait for my programmer to then go change it, and then I play
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it, and then I have another request, and then he go change it, and I play it.
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That's going to slow things down. So, to reduce the headache for your programmer, cuz you guys got to stick to scope, or they're going to get pissed off, right?
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It's just not fair to them. What you can do, again, download a copy, a backup.
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If you have ideas, just tweak it with AI and get it feeling right, and then once it feels right, then you can go back to your programmer, okay? After several different iteration cycles, maybe two or three, you can go back to programmer,
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"Hey, this is exactly what I know needs to get changed in order to add that next level of polish for this game, okay?" So, once that's done, again, you just bring it back back to the programmer, and then is it good to launch? No, go
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back to prototyping, okay? You can prototype in a in a silo with AI. All right? And then bring it back to your programmer to make sure that it actually functions in the the code scales, okay? So, that was a lot of yap,
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a lot a lot of yap. Hope this was helpful, man. This is a video that I hoped I wished that someone showed me early days when I was just trying to figure out, "How do I actually pump out these high-quality Roblox games
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fast, okay?" Hopefully, that answered you guys' questions. If you have any questions, let me know in the comments below. What do you want to see next in a video? And that's it.
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Peace. Love y'all.
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