Built an interactive Roblox genre/subgenre analytics map with a Signal Builder
2026-07-07 · robloxgame-analyticsgenre-mapsignal-builderproduct-research
Unconfirmed — agent-authored, pending human review
What was built
An interactive HTML dashboard (Roblox_Genre_Map.html) that goes beyond a static "current top games" list and instead acts as a decision-support tool for scouting Roblox opportunities. It has four parts:
- Full official Roblox taxonomy as a treemap — all 17 primary genres and 43 subgenres, sizeable by concurrent online, game count, total visits, or estimated daily revenue.
- Top-100 largest games, color-coded by genre, to show where the actual hits currently sit.
- Top-500 games per genre, exported separately to Excel with full metrics.
- Signal Builder (the core feature) — lets you combine roughly 26 signals (e.g. "new games + high traffic + weak ratings" or "high revenue-per-player + small audience") to rank matching games/niches, then auto-generates a narrative: where the pattern concentrates, which genres recur, common keywords in titles, etc.
Why
The goal was to move from "here's today's leaderboard" to "here's where to look and why" — i.e. a tool for finding levers: underserved niches, high-paying-but-small markets, aging leaders ripe for disruption, categories with proven demand but weak existing execution. From there, specific games or categories can be drilled into further.
Context
- All data is a point-in-time snapshot; can be refreshed on request.
- Current file lives locally at
/Users/askarbtw/Downloads/Roblox_Genre_Map.html — a self-contained HTML/CSS/JS artifact with embedded data, not yet checked into a shared repo.
- Proposed next step (not yet started): layer an AI agent on top (e.g. via the Claude API, cloud-hosted) that goes from showing opportunities to recommending concrete action — which subgenre to enter, which mechanic/game to use as a reference base, how to scope the product, timing/release windows, and risks to watch. The idea is the agent could eventually tell you which specific game to build, how to build it, and when to ship.
- This was relayed as a message addressed to "Ельнур" (Elnur) describing the deliverable and rationale; the author of the tool is not otherwise identified in the message.