Shadowing Practice: Can I Make a VIRAL Roblox Game Without AI? - Learn English Speaking with Video

It seems like anywhere you go on Roblox, you cannot avoid AI.

And I'd be lying if I said I wasn't using it to code.

But I want to stop.

The funny thing is, I hate using it.

And as a result of relying on it, I feel like my brain is now the size of a grave.

So I gave myself a challenge.

To make an entire game from start to finish on stream without any AI.

In an attempt to gain back the coding knowledge I lost and make the game viral.

And honestly, this might be the best game I've ever made.

Let's just hope my AI addiction doesn't get the best of me.

The first day was upon us, and I didn't have a game idea.

Okay, let's think of one right now.

Oh, hold on.

Tower Tycoons have been blown up again recently, with games such as Pickaxe Tycoon, Chicken Farm where you collect drops, turn them into cash, and merge them for better droppers.

Considering I love Tycoons, I wanted to make my own, and I knew just the theme to go for.

My idea currently is like a smoothie Tower Tycoon.

So you buy these droppers that drop like fruit, we drop them all into a blender, it all blends into smoothies and then you sell the smoothies.

Sounds like a plan.

And after getting the chat tuned into our scheme, I made a smoothie to track our progress.

So every time we complete a step of the game, a new sauce flavour is added.

But anyway, it was time to start off our challenge and obtain our first sauce.

The plot sauce.

As I mentioned in my last video, this is nothing new on the Duckable channel.

So let's just quickly lay out the plots, create a tycoon service.

Wait, guys, guys, get out of the way.

Encode everything up.

But it was obvious that the AI brain rot was already starting to show.

You have an error?

You set attribute?

Did I do something wrong?

Yeah, I did.

I'm such an idiot.

But now all we got to do is create a tycoon when the player joins. And...

Uh-oh.

Something's already wrong.

Ah, yes, yes, yes, yes.

There we go.

All right, let's try that again.

There we go.

And just like that, we already got our plot sauce.

But this system was by far the easiest in the entire freaking video.

So let's move on to something a little bit more challenging.

The tower sauce.

For this step of the challenge, we need to build a tower.

Create an automatic tower builder script for whenever we run out of space for droppers.

So let's build the coolest looking tower ever.

And I'm warning you guys, I'm really good at building.

Yeah, I totally lied.

I suck.

And because of that, I brought in Fischlz to help out.

He began working on building the tower design.

Leaving us to code in peace.

But embarrassingly enough, I was already itching to use AI.

The problem I encountered wasn't even hard.

When we add floors onto our Tycoon Sour, we need to get the coordinate of the top floor so we can place the next one.

For someone with six years of coding under their belt, this would surely be a breeze.

But I was already struggling thanks to AI dumbing down my beautiful brain.

I had to channel all of my energy into this.

So after typing if and sitting around for 90 seconds, yes, it did take me this long.

It finally clocked in.

Let's try it.

Let's see if it works.

Oh, look at that.

That's so cool.

Oh, it's embarrassing how excited I am by that.

Yeah, I totally wasn't overcomplicating everything or something.

But boy, was it satisfying to get it right.

And honestly, that's something I noticed I didn't get coding with AI.

It just does everything for you.

Removing any sort of struggle you feel, which also means that nothing you do ever feels accomplishing or satisfying.

But anyway, that's yet another sauce added into our smoothie.

But let's kick up the intensity and move on to a more challenging task.

Because we need some more practice if we want to tackle the other mechanics for this game.

Right now we have our infinitely increasing tower.

But we have nothing to place onto each floor.

So it's time to start working towards our dropper sauce.

Starting with getting the next available spawn point from our tower.

Before moving on to creating the prettiest dropper of all time.

And yes, officials will be making this look better.

In fact, I had a pretty sick idea for the dropper design.

I don't know if any of you have played Islands, but they used to have these totems that had a crop floating above it

and it spawned that crop around any farmlands nearby.

I think something like that could be cool for our dropper design.

But we can't do that without our trusty code.

So I created this drop packet that sends a signal to your client to activate the dropper.

The client then receives that signal and spawns the drop into the world.

This took a little bit of time without AI, but hopefully my rotified brain was onto something here.

All we had to do was test.

Okay, so it's not ticking.

No, this was it.

It's over man, my brain's too far gone.

Wait.

Oh my god, I'm such an idiot.

I'm such a f*ing moron.

You're the most intelligent one I've ever seen.

Bro, you can't say that after I just did that.

Yeah, that totally didn't take a whole ass menace to solve.

But the system should finally work now.

Okay, there we go, finally.

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Holy moly, man.

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We freaking did it.

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We managed to get our grubby little coat our hands on the dropper sauce.

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And honestly, I felt some coating knowledge come back to me.

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But unfortunately, we had an issue.

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Bedtime.

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So it was time to hit the hay and gain back my energy for tomorrow.

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Because I was gonna need it to make some of the coolest features I've ever made.

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It was day for day 2, wait what what?

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And I was pumped to get going.

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It was almost as if, you know, using AI ruins the fun of making games.

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But anyway, let's move on.

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In Tower of Tycoons, buying droppers, merging, depositing and collecting all rely on buttons.

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So naturally our next sauce is the button sauce.

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I worked up a simple button, basted them all over, made a big yellow one for merging before it was time to code them in.

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Shouldn't take too long.

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You know what else doesn't take long?

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Turning on a blender with people inside of it.

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Oh no, this isn't good.

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And that's what will happen if you don't subscribe.

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Okay, but like, not actually.

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We hit 130k on this stream and I genuinely think we can hit 200k by the end of the year.

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So I'd appreciate the help.

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And by the time we had this milestone, I was working on the button classes.

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Now I'd be lying if I said I didn't feel my brain unrotting.

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But I would also be lying if I said we didn't run into another issue.

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Okay, so our tycoon consists of five different buttons.

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But repeating a bunch of code is not the best way to do things.

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So I plan to use a little something called inheritance.

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Let me explain.

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Imagine a totally awesome car.

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It has wheels, a seat, a driving wheel.

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But what if we wanted a red car?

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Or even a police car?

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Well, you would take all the components of the base car and build off of it, like adding some red paint or giving it a siren.

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That's essentially what we're doing with our buttons.

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Creating a normal average button that you can press, but our red buttons spawn droppers and our yellow button merges them.

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This took a bit of time for me to lock down, even with help from the dev forum, but piece after piece.

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Okay, so if we press the button, we should get a print.

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Let's go.

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Yes.

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Okay, that's so cool.

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That's so cool.

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But we aren't done just yet, because pressing these buttons is so motherflippin' boring.

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We need something awesome, something tubular, something modular.

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Did someone say module?

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What in the flying f* are you?

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I am Modular Man.

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Woah.

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Here boy, I believe this will help you.

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Holy moly, thanks man.

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Wait, how did you get in here?

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Well, I best be off.

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Module Man, away!

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Fuck off!

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And help me!

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Okay, sweet.

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Uh, thanks to Module Man, we now have a cool script called Ripple.

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You know how in games like Catch a Brain Rot where you make things go boiii- Yeah, freaking watch this man.

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This is gonna be so freaking cool.

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Okay, okay, and boom, boom, boom, boom, boom.

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But let's not stop there.

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How about a little color?

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It should work now, it should work now.

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Ooh, look at that.

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And how about a little bit of flash?

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Boom, you can kind of see it a little bit.

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And there we go.

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It was safe to say that the button sauce was ready.

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But what's the point of buying all these droppers if you can't merge them?

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Let's quickly get working on earning that merging sauce.

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So basically what we need to do, we need to keep merging until there's no more merges able to be done.

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Correct!

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So let's barf out all those code into here.

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BLEAAH!

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Well that was easy, right.

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And then if we merge, we should have one pair on, right?

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Let's go.

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Three, two, one.

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No, something's wrong.

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Oh wow.

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We were not close to done.

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And my brain was getting absolutely backed by all this complex thinking.

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It sucks how relying on AI kind of just ruins the whole process of making games for me.

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And that was ruining the experience when not using it.

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I was really struggling at this point and was worried for the rest of the challenge.

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So I made a decision.

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I'm gonna take a little break.

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Get a drink.

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No, not drunk.

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I'm not getting drunk.

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I'm getting drink.

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That was the worst typo ever.

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But as I took my break, despite my entire chat erupting with drunkable, there were some messages genuinely excited for this game.

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It was a really good idea and I couldn't let it go to waste just because AI rotted my brain.

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I had to lock the freak in.

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Merge.

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I created none.

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So I don't think it's creating any new droppers.

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I think it's deleted the old ones and it's still trying to access the old ones.

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I think I got it.

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I think I got it guys.

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We just got to do a little bit of this.

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Freaking done it.

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This should be it.

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This should be it.

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And you get to...

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Okay, now we merge.

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You're joking.

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This...

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Okay, no, we've made progress though.

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That's wrong.

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That's why.

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This might actually be it.

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This might actually be it.

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Come on.

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Please, please work.

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Oh!

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Oh, we did it!

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Oh, what a victorious end to the livestream.

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And we obtained our merging sauce.

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But it was getting late so I headed off excited for the next day

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and let my brain soak up even more of the coding knowledge I gained back

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because tomorrow would be one of the most fun days of this entire challenge

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Waking up on day three I was pumped to get going

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We need to obtain our next sauce the blender sauce But also does the game not feel kind of boring to play?

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Why don't we also make the game feel super nice while we work on the blender system?

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So like this will be a big freaking blender.

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Let's redesign this UI and add a fruit can that we drop into the blender.

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One thing that sucks about this game right now is how unsatisfying it is to pick the fruits up.

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If only I had something like, I don't know, a really cool module.

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Did someone say module?

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Whoa, are you good?

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You got a little something all over your face.

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Oh, yes, I kind of crashed through your window there.

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Did you not know it was there?

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Nope.

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And anyway, what have you got for me this time?

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For you, boy, I have brought Orbify.

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Awesome, thanks man.

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And now I must leave once again.

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Okay, uh, there's no winter anymore, right?

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No, no, it's gone.

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Okay, great!

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Here I go!

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Module man, away!

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Oh, mother f*ing bro!

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Yeah, that's great, thanks man.

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Okay, anyway.

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This is Orbify, a super cool module I created myself, meant to simulate collecting experience orbs.

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Kinda like from Minecraft, but after I click-collect some more code in, you'll notice that I can use more than just experience orbs.

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There we go, look at that.

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That's kinda cool.

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That's gonna frickin' sick, man.

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I even added some more special effects to the large buttons, but there was one final effect I wanted to add before the end of the stream.

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Right now you can deposit your fruits into the blender, and the soon-to-exist smoothies will be sold at the soon-to-exist stands to the soon-to-exist customers.

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But collecting cash right now is super boring, so let's put Orbify to use one more time.

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Okay, and check this out when I collect the cash.

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Now that is satisfying.

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Things were looking up for the big duckable.

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We made the game so much more satisfying, we gained back even more coding knowledge and we can now also obtain our blender sauce.

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But the game is going to get even more satisfying tomorrow.

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Day four was here.

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Now we were about to receive some legendary news from our builder officials.

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But first, let's go ahead and grab a super easy sauce for our huge ass smoothie.

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The ever changing global economy sauce.

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Basically in most Tower Tycoon games, there's a multiplier in the center of the map, but every 30 seconds, changes the total value of what you deposit to make money.

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So if I were to drop in 100 fruits during a 1.5x multiplier, I would get an extra 50.

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We had to implement something like that into our game.

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So after a quick break to chat to my chat, I coded my heart out, creating the multiplier service, before moving onto the massive GUI in the sky.

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It was honestly super refreshing to just make something simple for a change.

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Coding all of this without AI was extremely intense and was taking forever.

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And as much as I was itching to forget the challenge and use AI anyway, this definitely helped.

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And I was feeling pretty refreshed to keep going.

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Awesome.

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That should be the system complete.

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The ever-changing global economy sauce has been acquired.

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Ignoring the time wasted on little particle effects, today was pretty short, I can't lie.

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But before we could move on to the most important aspects of the game, remember when I said that officials had some good news for us?

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Well, before we get to that, you might be interested in knowing that I have a freaking album dropping on the 7th of August called Aero Bubbles.

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It's full of dinky little beats that I'll be using in future videos.

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You're even listening to one of them right now, so if you want to take a cheeky listen then feel free to check it out in the description.

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Anyway, Fishles, let's see what he's made.

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Yo, it's our first two fruits.

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These are so cool.

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Let's try them out.

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Yes, dude, I'm so happy to finally phase out these boring balls.

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And there's plenty more where that came from, because there are dozens of fruits still to be added later on.

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So let's hit the hay and get ready for the next day.

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It was the final day of streaming and we still had two pretty hefty tasks to get done.

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With only 4 hours until my week of streaming came to an end.

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Let's try and get our crate sauce.

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Every so often in these Tycoon games a crate will drop and allow you to roll for a random rare dropper.

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And I thought our game could use something like it.

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So I prepped this delicious crate to fit our game, picked up a crate service, added a little RNG module on the side and even learn some new things.

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Extend.

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Ah, that is cool.

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That's what we want.

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I was finding out a lot more about ways I could improve my code.

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Now that I wasn't, you know, just sitting on a boring screen asking a chatbot to do it all for me.

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But as much as I was loving the lack of AI, there was still part of me that was missing it.

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Let's go by… Okay, so there should be a little pop-up menu on the right and it's not showing up.

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Things were starting to confuse me just a tad.

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I love being able to code all this myself, but having absolutely zero AI help was tough, I can't lie.

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I mean it's been what, three, four years since AI came around?

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That's a long time to go without problem solving on your own.

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How about I take a tiny break from coding?

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Hey, it looks like Fishel's finished up something.

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So this is our cool blender.

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Okay, after giving it a paint job, it was looking sick.

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But after looking at the time, I realized that I soon had to end my stream.

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I still had quite a lot to do, and it was looking like I was gonna have to start working overtime through the weekend.

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Oh, crit dropped.

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Yeah, okay, the pop-up still won't show.

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I'm so stumped on this, so I think we're just gonna have to leave it for now

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and I'll keep working on the game for the next few days.

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Things were not looking up for the big duckable.

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I was starting to struggle quite a bit without being able to use AI.

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It was honestly kind of embarrassing.

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I thought I was a talented developer, able to make some impressive systems and mechanics.

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I was worried that I wouldn't be able to live up to that standard anymore.

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Maybe Maybe AI was the reason I was able to do all those things.

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Whatever man, maybe I'm not thinking clearly.

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Never trust how you feel about your life past 9pm.

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Am I right?

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Let's hit the hay and try find a solution in the morning.

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I was feeling pretty rough on the morning of day 6.

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You know, it's not every day you wake up after a night of worrying

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that your self-worth is kinda going down the drain.

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But nonetheless, we need to persevere and get that great sauce.

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So that's the UI pop-up now working, but we need to now complete a cool opening sequence.

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So off I went, but not very fast.

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I was still pretty down in the dumps.

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Okay, so right now I'm trying to code the opening animation, and I want any crates you open to pop out from you and land in a random direction.

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I wonder where I can get something like that.

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Maybe in the form of a module?

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You called?

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Module man, wha-whoa.

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Man, you look really bad.

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Yes, I wonder why.

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Anyway, I need one more module.

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You've got it, my friend.

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For you, I have...

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JUMP ANIMATION!

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Oh, sick!

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Thanks, dude.

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And, hey, I'm really sorry about you flying through my window and all.

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I feel really bad about it.

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Yes, my face hurts, and like, every other part of my body.

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Yeah, I'm sorry, man.

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I promise there's no window this time.

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He kinda smashed into my backup.

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Well, thank you.

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I best be off then.

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Mortal Man, ORAAY!

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WOOOOOOHOO!

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Oh my god!

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I uh, I forgot about my automatic heat seeking missile launcher.

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Well uh, anyway.

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We now have Jump Animation.

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A module by StewieFing.

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All I have to do is slot it into here.

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Give us some parameters like where it'll spawn and how far it can be thrown.

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Now let's test it.

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Let's see.

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Oh nice, it works.

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And we have a cool little ticking sequence here which is cool.

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But I wasn't done just yet.

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Right now it looks kind of boring, right?

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We need some awesome hacking particle effects.

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Alright, let's test it now.

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Here we go.

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Yo, that's so cool!

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Infinitely better than how it was before.

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But now we need to add more crate variants for higher tier drops.

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And I think they came out sweet.

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With all that done, we had to do one final playtest to make sure everything works perfectly.

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Okay, go pick up one of these.

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And the menu pops up.

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Nice.

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First, let's try discarding.

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G-great, okay. That sucks.

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What about if I try and buy it?

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Nah, meh.

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What is going on?

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Let's try this again.

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Okay, so that's even worse.

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I was starting to get pretty frustrated.

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I was looking around everywhere to try and find where these errors were coming from.

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But to no avail.

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Maybe I was right.

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Maybe I kinda suck without AI.

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Maybe this whole challenge is just pointless.

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I mean surely just one prompt into Claude would fix this whole mess.

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Although that would mean I failed the challenge.

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I would let down all my fans who are inspired by what I do.

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But as my mind was going through the freaking trenches, I took a break and played around in what we had made so far.

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I would be lying if I said this game wasn't insanely satisfying.

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It's really cool that I've been able to make all of this to be honest.

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Looking around at what I made, the complex systems, the satisfying mechanics, I realized that I was honestly being a little bit hugely stupid.

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The game may not look great at the moment, but it was really impressive.

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And if I could finish something like this, then I'd be able to prove to myself that I don't need AI to be a legendary scripter.

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So with my motivation back at max, I went ahead and tackled this error one last time.

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Okay, and now we need to return this.

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That should fix the error.

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Let's see...

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Oh sh- and we did it, let's go!

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All I had to do was add a single word bro.

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I got so worked up and for what?

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And with that, the crate sauce was finally ours.

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So before hitting the hay and preparing for the most complex system of the video, I plopped in a bunch of new fruits officials made, polished up the blender, bombarded the game with monetization,

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and took a scary game break with the Bloxxers crew.

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Here you should, you know, certainly subscribe to it by the way.

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The game was honestly in such a good position.

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If we could obtain this final sauce, the challenge would be complete.

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And maybe, just maybe, I would be able to gain back all the coding knowledge I lost.

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So let's get that beauty sleep and hit the ground running tomorrow.

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Yeah, I get it, we're on day 9 now, it's taking longer than I thought, okay?

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Thankfully we have one final task to complete.

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But before we get started, we have some good news from Fischlz.

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We got a Tycoon design finally done.

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This is so sick man, let's get it implemented.

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Not only this, we got a totally awesome map done too.

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I mean, look at it.

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Our game was pretty sick right now, but at the moment our smoothie game has zero smoothies.

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So our final task of the video is to get the customer sauce.

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We're going to create a queuing system for each taikun that spawns in your friends to line up for smoothies.

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Every time you blend up a smoothie, a customer buys it and fades out of existence.

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This was by far the biggest challenge of the entire video

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because I've never done anything like it before and I didn't have Claude to help me out.

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But I was determined to get the game done.

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So let's get to it.

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Step 1.

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Smoothie stand.

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this bad boy, send it to the back rooms for a little while and yeah I think this works.

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Step 2.

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Cube.

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This part was pretty easy, we basically just have a bunch of attachments here, each is a point where the customer will stand in the cube.

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Step 3.

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Customers.

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Let's start off by getting the player's friend list, then spend way too much time trying to find Roblox's walk and idle animations.

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Now I'm just adding in a function that takes the customer template, gets a random friends avatar and applies it to the template.

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I was on a freaking grind, coating my heart out.

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I even left a little comment in my recording notes about how much I was loving it.

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It felt like nothing could stop me.

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Maybe I was wrong.

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Maybe I really was a legendary scripter.

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Okay, I think we're done.

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Let's do, hopefully, one final test.

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Shhh, what have I done?

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Literally nothing is working on the client.

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Uh, okay.

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Let's just make a quick tweak and try again.

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Still nothing is working on the client.

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I do not know what has gone wrong.

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Oh, wait, I need to move this down to here.

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Okay, let's try this.

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Okay, now I'm getting proper errors.

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Out of nowhere, I completely dropped out of the flow state.

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I was running into problem after problem.

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Some help from Claude would have been real good right now, but I was set on figuring this out myself.

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I've come so far.

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There was no shot that I'm handing over the win to these losers.

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Man, I just gotta think.

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DINK!

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THINK!

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THINK!

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Wait.

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Oh my god, no way.

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I just need to add one.

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Oh my god, man, I'm an idiot, this is it.

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Okay, let's test, holy moly.

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Oh my god.

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But before we do the most important playtest of the video, I may have something to confess.

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But before I confess, I kinda had a revelation.

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I don't think AI actually made me dumber.

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Usually if I run into an error, I would just hit up my home slice claw and get the problem fixed in a couple minutes.

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But with this challenge, I was left to fend for myself.

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AI didn't make me dumber, it just made me forget how it felt to struggle.

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And yeah, I guess that's good maybe, but it also takes away from the satisfaction of coding you use it too much.

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I understand the appeal of having this tech that can do almost anything you want it to, and I don't blame people for wanting to use it.

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As a productivity freak myself, I find it great for saving time.

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But I also love the process of coding.

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So, after this challenge, will I return to AI?

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Yeah.

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I think AI is cool when used as a tool, not as a replacement.

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What I don't like is generating complete f*ing ass slop and stealing from hardworking thumbnail artists.

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Dude, I made this thumbnail myself in like one minute and it has 10% CTR.

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You have no f*ing excuse, bro.

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Oh, and uh, yeah that confession.

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I may have used AI.

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I'm sorry.

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I searched up something on Google and read the AI answer.

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I didn't clock it in.

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I'm sorry.

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If it makes you feel any better, the solution didn't work, man.

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But all that aside, I really enjoyed coding on my own again, and I'm praying that it now all works.

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So let's complete this playtest and see if I can live up to that legendary scripter title.

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Come on, come on, come on!

499

Oh, people are spawning!

500

Yes!

501

Oh my god, finally!

502

Finally, it's been three hours, man!

503

Look at everyone, they're all queuing up!

504

This is so awesome!

505

AI can f*ing suck it, man!

506

I still got the juice!

507

Or should I say, the smoothie.

508

Am I right, guys?

509

Hmm.

510

And with that, our smoothie is now complete.

511

The game will be linked in the description when it draws.

512

Anyway, uh...

513

Yeah, I don't know.

514

Bye.

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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson

This B1 speaking lesson is built on the video “Can I Make a VIRAL Roblox Game Without AI?”. This video has 514 sentences and 4797 words to shadow. The speech runs for 22:41. The speaker talks fast, about 212 words per minute, so expect linked and reduced sounds. Only 81% of the words are among the 3,000 most common in English, so the vocabulary is demanding.

Key vocabulary in this video

The 15 most advanced words in the video, with pronunciation and meaning:

Word	Pronunciation	Meaning
dropper noun	/ˈdɹɑ.pɚ/	A utensil for dispensing a single drop of liquid at a time.
smoothie noun	/ˈsmuːði/	A smooth-talking person.
merge verb	/mɝd͡ʒ/	To combine into a whole.
module noun	/ˈmɑd͡ʒul/	A self-contained component of a system, often interchangeable, which has a well-defined interface to the other components.
blender noun	/ˈblɛn.dɚ/	A machine with sharp rotating blades in a bowl, for mashing, crushing, or liquefying food ingredients.
tycoon noun	/taɪˈkuːn/	A wealthy and powerful business person.
satisfy verb	/ˈsætɪsfaɪ/	To be enough (for)
bore verb	/boɹ/	To inspire boredom in somebody.
spawn verb	/spɔn/	To produce or deposit (eggs) in water.
legendary adjective	/ˈlɛd͡ʒ.ənˌdɛɹ.i/	Of or pertaining to a legend or to legends.
duckable adjective		Capable of being ducked, i.e. avoided by moving the body underneath it.
moly noun	/ˈməʊli/	A magic herb or plant used by Odysseus to overcome Circe.
multiplier noun	/ˈmʌltɪˌplaɪəɹ/	One who multiplies or causes something to increase.
playtest verb		To test a newly developed game by playing it or having it played.
scripter noun		A programmer who uses a scripting language.

Phrasal verbs you will hear

Word	Pronunciation	Meaning
pop up verb		To come up with a "pop" sound.
pick up verb		To lift; to grasp and raise.
start off verb		To begin.
worked up adjective		Excessively emotional, excited, aroused or angry.
blow up verb		To explode or be destroyed by explosion.
come around verb	/kʌ.məˈɹaʊnd/	To change one's mind, especially to begin to agree or appreciate what one was reluctant to accept at first.
come out verb	/ˌkʌm ˈaʊt/	To be discovered; to be revealed.
find out verb		To discover, as by asking or investigating.

Sentences worth repeating

Short, complete lines from the video that you can reuse in everyday conversation:

Did I do something wrong?
You know what else doesn't take long?
Wait, how did you get in here?
Did you not know it was there?
How about I take a tiny break from coding?

Grammar in this video

The structures the speaker uses most, with the exact words from the video:

Structure	In the video
Present perfect have/has + past participle — a past action that still matters now	I've ever made · have been blown · have played
Passive voice be + past participle — the focus is on what happens, not who does it	have been blown · is added · was pumped
Past continuous was/were + -ing — an action in progress at a moment in the past	wasn't using · was already starting · was already itching
Advice with “should” should + verb — saying what is a good idea	should finally work · Shouldn't take · should get

Pronunciation to watch

The speaker uses 97 contractions and reduced forms, such as I'm, don't, didn't. Say them the short way, as you hear them.

The “th” sounds: smoothie /ˈsmuːði/, thumbnail /ˈθʌm.neɪl/, nonetheless /ˌnʌnðəˈlɛs/
The “sh” and “zh” sounds: animation /ˌæn.ɪˈmeɪ.ʃən/, refresh /ɹɪˈfɹɛʃ/, confession /kənˈfɛʃən/, revelation /ˌɹɛv.əˈleɪ.ʃən/, accomplish /əˈkɑm.plɪʃ/
Long words — get the stress right: legendary /ˈlɛd͡ʒ.ənˌdɛɹ.i/, animation /ˌæn.ɪˈmeɪ.ʃən/, infinitely /ˈɪnfɪnɪtli/, genuinely /ˈd͡ʒɛn.ju.ɪn.li/, parameter /pəˈɹæm.ə.tɚ/

How to practise with this video

Listen to the whole video once without speaking and note the words you do not know.
Start at 0.75× speed, shadow it sentence by sentence, then go back to normal speed once it feels easy.
Record yourself and compare with the original, paying attention to words like dropper, smoothie, merge.

What is the Shadowing Technique?

Shadowing is a science-backed language learning technique originally developed for professional interpreter training and popularized by polyglot Dr. Alexander Arguelles. The method is simple but powerful: you listen to native English audio and immediately repeat it out loud — like a shadow following the speaker with just a 1–2 second delay. Unlike passive listening or grammar drills, shadowing forces your brain and mouth muscles to simultaneously process and reproduce real speech patterns. Research shows it significantly improves pronunciation accuracy, intonation, rhythm, connected speech, listening comprehension, and speaking fluency — making it one of the most effective methods for IELTS Speaking preparation and real-world English communication.

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