This thread includes information on how I believe will increase the amount of well-made original games and improve the site in general. This was written in hope to be seen by a ROBLOX Staff member who has the power to consider and possibly put some of my ideas into action.
*If you opened this thread and didn't read it, you aren't a real forumer, and you don't care about the quality of user-made games on ROBLOX.*
ROBLOX is a game that revolves around games made by the players. Each game usually has two main factors: Building and Scripting
As years pass there has been less and less well-made games on ROBLOX due to lack of motivation on the staff's part.
What the staff has done, is encouraged the overuse of every part of the site except ROBLOX Studio. Whenever they do talk about ROBLOX Studio, they do not mention the idea of a player become a better game maker by taking time to learn building and scripting.
Let's look at the recent blogpost. It discusses "Game Templates". Game Templates do not help people build, they do not help people script, they help people make unoriginal games that will all fall under certain genres.
It is hard to learn how to properly build and script by yourself. Let's face it, the majority of us do not read more than 5 different pages of the ROBLOX Wiki, per a year.
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To improve the individual building and scripting skill of each ROBLOXian willing to open up ROBLOX Studio and give it a try, we need a basic user-friendly interactive tutorial.
The tutorial would be in the actual Studio, I would recommend it being something like this:
1. You open ROBLOX Studio.
2. You click Edit on a game or make a new one.
3. A GUI pops up that reads the following: Would you like to take a tutorial? Yes No
4. After clicking yes, a game is opened in another place with a baseplate and some basic bricks.
5. A 2D speech bubble appears on the screen saying "Use this tool to move bricks around" It will indicate where the general move tool is.
The user will move around bricks if they so choose.
6. After the user is done experimenting with that tool, they click "Next". A box appears and indicates and describes the function of the resize tool.
7. After it goes through a couple more basic tools and options, a box will appear saying "You have completed the basic building tutorial! To learn more advanced building, go to the Tutorial section of the site."
There would be a new tab labeled "Tutorials". It can be in the "More" section of the site if the staff so chooses. This would contain advanced building and all scripting.
Again, this is because the ROBLOX Wiki is out of the way and not very user-friendly.
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For any and all who would like to state that game-making is easy, please consider the millions who would disagree with you if they forumed. This about the quality of games and the amount of quality games as a whole.
I honestly thought I could come up with something more than "interactive tutorials", but oh well. I spent a bit of time typing this, and I honestly think this will increase the amount of original games on ROBLOX made by the players.
Once they can build and script, all they need is their creativity. Which again, you cannot give to somebody in a "Game Template". |