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Game design
Designing the game itself: the first ten minutes, onboarding kids actually finish, progression and pacing, combat feel, ethical monetization and the analytics to check it all.
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Every promptPaste this
Prompts to copy into ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude or your coding agent.
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Learn why
The rules behind it, most of them measured in Studio.
- 01Game design overviewHow to design Roblox games for kids that are fun, low friction and monetized ethically.
- 02Design checklistRun this before every release that touches the first hour, the shop or the balance. Each line links to the page that explains the bug behind it.
- 03The kid's first-10-minutes auditA repeatable way to see the game the way a new 8-to-12-year-old sees it. You can do it by playing a fresh save or by reading the code path (an AI agent can do the code version without a playtest).
- 04OnboardingHow to get a new player (often 8 to 12 years old) from "joined" to "I get it, this is fun" with no confusion, no dead ends and no store in their face.
- 05Tutorial templateCopy this page into your game's docs, fill in the table, and build it with snippets/tutorialsteps.luau. The reasons behind each rule are in onboarding.md.
- 06Progression and pacingHow to keep a player moving toward the next tier, and how to prove with a simulation that they can't get stuck.
- 07Combat feelFor any game with simulated fights (armies, mobs, tower defence, vehicles). Most of this came from measuring real battles in a harness, not from guessing.
- 08Monetization and complianceMake money in a way that a parent would be fine watching. Most rules here exist because a specific bug charged a kid, surprised a kid, or broke a Roblox policy.
- 09AnalyticsInstrument onboarding so you can see exactly where new players quit. Uses Roblox AnalyticsService.
- 10ProcessHow the developer, a playtesting collaborator and AI agents work together on design changes.
- 11Review areasThe 15 areas for a parallel read-only review (see process.md). Give each reviewer one row, the shared brief, and the "look for" list.
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Skills, packs, kits and snippets for this job.
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Real output made with the tools above.
Progress you can see: one plot, four levels