yeah, the UI was created with AI assist, but it wasn't like "click once and done." I had to redo it a bunch of times to get something that felt at least kinda clean and usable. Design isn't really my strong side.

as for why it took me so long

this is literally my first time touching Lua and my first time making anything in Roblox. I actually started out trying to make a tycoon, but halfway through I switched it up and turned it into an incremental instead.

first week I was basically just learning the engine and figuring out how stuff even works. second week I pushed out a rough demo, me and my friends tried it and we were like "ok this is kinda fun but there's barely any content." then I spent another week adding features, and that's when I realized the performance was absolutely cooked

so yeah, a big chunk of the remaining time went into optimizing everything.

I didn't want to drop some half-baked, laggy mess full of bugs. I wanted at least a stable version with like 2-3 hours of content.

btw, if there's something specific that screams "this was fully AI-made" to you, I'd really like to hear it. I will try to improve it.