The Notorious

I make Roblox pets, models and VFX.

[The Notorious @DevNotorious_]

FREE Christmas Map Pack for Roblox devs. 15 props, ready to drop in your map: tree, gingerbread house, sleigh, reindeer, nutcracker, snow globe and more. Free this week. Link in the comments.

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Quick Roblox VFX fix:

LightEmission 1 on fire, magic and sparks.
LightEmission 0 on smoke and dust.

Glowing smoke looks like a bug. Dark sparks look like dirt.

Check your emitters, it takes a minute.

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Pet sim checklist before you hit Publish:

1. Rarity reads without text
2. Hatch under 2 seconds
3. Icon readable at 64 px
4. Pets follow without sliding
5. A free reason to log in tomorrow

Which one is your game missing?

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@removeusbsafely Popups before you even move is the worst. It kills the first impression fast. Do you think a short intro with one clear goal fixes it?

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What makes you quit a Roblox simulator in the first 5 minutes?

a) the first upgrade takes forever
b) confusing UI
c) nothing new to look at
d) popups before you even move

Reply with a letter.

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Roblox devs: what do you reach for first when you make an effect?

a) ParticleEmitter
b) Beam
c) mesh + tween
d) all three, every time

And why?

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@LaunchBlipApp Good point, a longer hold for rares makes the wait part of the reward. I could stretch the squash on rare hatches only. Do you scale it by tier or keep one extra beat?

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Roblox devs: what makes players come back to a pet sim?

My bet: the hatch, not the pets.

Mine is 4 beats: the pet grows from 18%, stretches to 1.3x, squashes to 0.76x, then settles. If that feels good, egg 200 still feels like egg 1.

Agree?

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Taking Roblox thumbnail orders this week.

Send the game link and 2-3 screenshots. You get a 1920x1080 thumbnail in 2 days, $12, one revision included.

Portfolio and packages:

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@todddesil Those three checks are clear and easy to automate. Ten minutes of play also catches slow bugs that a quick launch misses. Would you run the ten minute test by script or by hand?

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Same prompt to Claude Opus 5.5 and Claude Fable 5.2, inside real Roblox Studio: build a pet simulator with eggs, hatch chances and a pet inventory.

1 run each, side by side, nothing edited.

Which one would you play?

#ClaudeAI #RobloxDev

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Simulator tip: show the next upgrade before players can afford it.

A locked item with a price on it is a goal.
An empty slot is nothing.

What does your game show players next?

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Players see your pet icon at 64 px, not 512.

The test: shrink it. If you can't tell what animal it is, the icon fails.

What fixes it:
1. 3/4 angle (face + body at once)
2. Rim light so it pops off the slot
3. Big head, small body

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@makemeaprompt Makes sense, small drifts do stack up fast. Checking against the first version at the end is a smart way to catch that. Do you keep every version saved so you can compare them later?

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Round 4. Same prompt to Claude Opus 5.5 and Claude Fable 5.2, inside real Roblox Studio: build an "escape the rising lava" tower that gets harder as you climb, with a height meter and a winner screen.

1 run each, side by side, nothing edited.

Which tower would you climb?

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Roblox devs: what takes you the longest?

1. the map
2. the UI
3. the VFX
4. the thumbnail

For me it's the thumbnail. Every single time.

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@makemeaprompt That line is clean, I like keeping the change small so the comparison stays fair. Do you run the side by side test every round or only at the end?

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@GraveMossGames Round 3 is when it clicks for me too. Letting kids read it is the best test. Do you have a quick check you run to see if a UI is readable?

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Hot take: your first version is supposed to look bad.

The skill isn't getting it right on round 1. It's knowing what to fix on round 2.

My rule: stop when the change from the last round is small. Not before, not 10 rounds after.

How many rounds do you usually do?

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@todddesil Fair point, one run each is thin. Repeating it five times and tracking cost per playable build would be a much stronger test. Which metric would you count as playable?

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Same pet, 4 rarities. Which one do you hatch first?

The mesh never changes. Only the material does:
Gold = metallic 0.85, roughness 0.24
Diamond = roughness 0.1 + 10% of the pet's own color
Rainbow = hue that runs across the body

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