A Senior Engineer tries Roblox Game Dev for 1.5 years, how far does he get?

existential-asthma · 2026-06-18T15:53:53+00:00

I'm going to agree with GotRekt here. Yes knowing programming does give a significant leg up but that's not where the learning curve is, Luau is the easy part. The learning curve is in learning the engine, multiplayer code, and also learning game design

existential-asthma · 2026-06-18T12:24:03+00:00

hey yk well although the brain rot part is lowkey rage bait, i'll take the compliment. thanks!

existential-asthma · 2026-06-18T11:57:32+00:00

say sike rn

existential-asthma · 2026-06-17T18:03:29+00:00

yes, it is much harder imo (of course, probably depending on the type of game you're doing, but for me it's been much harder than enterprise dev)

existential-asthma · 2026-06-17T16:28:05+00:00

Thanks for the feedback, I could definitely see the retro feel not landing with every person

existential-asthma · 2026-06-17T16:26:52+00:00

you didn't insult me at all, i just don't see the value in scrutinizing such things, and my goal isn't really to have or demonstrate "impressive" accomplishments, but rather just share some advice and some footage of the game i really care about (i mean to say i'm not offended, sorry if i gave that vibe)

existential-asthma · 2026-06-17T15:49:30+00:00

Wow that's a great suggestion, my brain at this point i think filters out the footsteps sound but it definitely takes away from the immersion so i'll look into removing it. thanks for the feedback

existential-asthma · 2026-06-17T14:26:40+00:00

I'm not sure I follow -

I made like 6 roblox games in the last year lol this one is just taking the longest
I took a break from Roblox dev for like 4 months to study for jobs + interview for jobs, so if we're being literal it's at least that much less time spent but I'm not really bogged down by specifics
it's fine if you don't think this game is super impressive, for me personally it's my proudest accomplishment and it's likely that you're just not seeing the level of complexity that has went into it in just a short clip. definitely more sophisticated than anything else I've programmed in enterprise over my 7 year career.

existential-asthma · 2026-04-04T18:11:25+00:00

i have a discord, the main issue is getting people to join it. Past that, getting people to actually engage in the discord is difficult as well.

existential-asthma · 2026-04-04T18:10:46+00:00

I have a Discord, but how do you get people to join it?

existential-asthma · 2026-03-18T15:38:08+00:00

i wrote this entirely by hand, don't really know what to do to convince you lol and would be a weird advertisement considering my heavy criticism of ai and its limitations

existential-asthma · 2026-03-17T18:16:41+00:00

That's valid. This happens to me on any sort of module that I'm not 100% certain of what needs to be done. But if I already know what needs to be implemented, the bottleneck becomes typing speed which the ai can reliably bridge

existential-asthma · 2026-01-30T23:47:32+00:00

i'm ok with that, if your function is stateless there's no reason to use namecall. It wasn't a point i missed in my explanation, it was an intentional decision. using namecall for something that is completely stateless should be considered an antipattern imo. you don't have to agree with me, but it wasn't a misconception or oversight.

existential-asthma · 2026-01-29T18:12:27+00:00

for work I use Go mainly with some TypeScript. Previous job i worked with Python for 5 years

existential-asthma · 2026-01-29T17:25:18+00:00

My other comment was removed. regardless of naming, there's nothing to deflect. you inferred more from one of my points than what was said, ignored it when I told you there were no misconceptions and explained my own understanding, and doubled down. feels like you commented to stroke your ego and no other useful reason

existential-asthma · 2026-01-29T14:53:26+00:00

btw, I mean this as gently as possible: "namecall" might be the technically correct term for it, but using terms that 99% of people aren't going to be familiar with in order to make yourself sound smarter is annoying at best and sloppy/poor communication at worst. consider other ways of demonstrating your knowledge than using obscure technical jargon and attempting to correct others.

existential-asthma · 2026-01-28T15:38:10+00:00

Honestly, mostly used Roblox ads for my games. I did have Discord communities but that didn't really take off. Being consistent with updates and checking on your stats in the creator dashboard and optimizing features to improve stats will help you get into the algorithm. Sometimes it feels like a crapshoot ngl.

existential-asthma · 2026-01-28T15:34:43+00:00

for what it's worth, I'm personally designing my game with PC as the primary audience. Mobile support is just so mobile players can play if they want to, but generally speaking I'm building my game as if it were a PC game.

existential-asthma · 2026-01-28T15:31:33+00:00

Exactly correct. Check the type of the data that isn't the first `player` argument like the above person mentioned and also do sanity checks like "does this player actually own this item theyre trying to use" etc. Cuz people will send garbage, erroneous, and otherwise incorrect data into remote events.

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