Fred

9+ years programming Roblox games

Proud Kenyan

year 1 of doing it on my own
excited to showcase my skills and journeys on here!!

[Fred @taknpersonal]

@psergiomr Is this a one piece game?

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@DudulopeRBLX @TizzzyRBLX Good work man

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@sico_xd What are your game metrics? Have you collected and measured the onboarding and game loop funnels for the game?

Keeping players requires understanding what makes them leave. And for that to happen, you need a scientific approach to release your game

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@44frogsdev of course!

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@blakedunno Im a backend kinda guy

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Links:
CharacterContract link: https://t.co/SXFGv35w7u
Discord: @taknpersonal (or DM me here on X instead)

[Fred @taknpersonal]

I spilt water on my 24 GB RAM laptop last week. Since then I've had to use my 4 GB RAM laptop.

This was a nightmare for me, because my productivity as a Roblox programmer had degraded x6, especially when testing!
🧵

[Fred @taknpersonal]

I recently made a module for this: CharacterContract, link below. It has a "CreateDummy” method that guarantees the dummy character mimics the player character conditions, the "contract”, perfectly.

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And here's a dummy actually getting tested - walking it to a target the same way a real player character would move.

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Here's the same mechanic rewritten. It now pulls in both real criminal characters and dummy characters sitting in the workspace, and treats them the same way.

[Fred @taknpersonal]

Write mechanics against Character instead of Player, and you can build Model instances that mimic a real player's character. Test with dummies the same way you'd test with real players.

That's how I went from a slow laptop to testing multiple multiplayer mechanics with ease!

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Then I found what I was doing wrong. That code only works with real Player instances, meaning testing needed real players and real servers.

The fix: decouple the mechanic from Player, use Character instead. Player is the "network identity". Character is the "physical presence".

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This was the code I was writing at the time. It checks if a part's getting touched by a criminal, and sets an attribute on the player.

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I was building an MVP: a game with two teams, cops and criminals. And to test if something was working, my only option was to spin up 2-player test servers in Studio every time.

This took about 10 minutes. Every single time. I was losing hours of time in a single day!

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@nonbinary Cant wait till they do this with multiple clients. My laptop be frying.

For my low-end laptop, I had to make a testing framework to avoid multiplayer testing for mechanics as much as possible.

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@DexxterDax How'd you do it? :sob:

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@chrisp_games That movement looks.. Chrisp.

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@DauntRblx I'm curious. Roughly how much have you spent on ads total?

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@fad This looks awesome. I didn't even notice they were rats..