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Roforco

Creating viral AI consumer apps and games

Roforco is one of the top game studios on Roblox. The team has launched 7 original titles played by over 100 million users and reaching a peak of 10.2 million monthly active users. Top games include: * https://www.roblox.com/games/10975855395/Korrupt-Zombies-UPDATE * https://www.roblox.com/games/9746160797/Sunsilk-City * https://www.roblox.com/games/4983678402/Disney-World-Magic-Kingdom-Theme-Park * https://www.roblox.com/games/6497455705/UPDATE-Iron-Seas Roforco drives virality through social reach, with 100K+ TikTok followers, 64K+ Discord members, and tens of millions of views across TikTok and YouTube. Founded by two 17-year-old high school dropouts who’ve been building viral consumer products since they were 12.
Active Founders
Brain Xiang
Brain Xiang

Brain Xiang, Founder

Dropped out of HS to join YC at age 17 as the 3rd youngest yc founder in history. Building viral consumer products since age 12, with over 100 million users and 10 million MAU. Founded and scaled Roforco to $500k revenue in 6 months and raised millions from top investors. Background in Math Olympiad, ML and game development.
Artem T. Middleton
Artem T. Middleton

Artem T. Middleton, Founder

3rd youngest alum in YC history (YC @ 16). Called "half-cooked Bill Gates" by PG. Built consumer products with 10 million MAU. Grew a SAAS from 0>$150k ARR in 3 months. Advised F500s/Finance. Closed $200k deals with F100s. CEO to a global team of 35. Managed a $600k capital pool, deployed $100k w/ 2.4x ROI (20k MRR). Designed fashion items w/ over 2.8m units sold. Built companies in tech, advertising, gaming, fashion and consulting. Now - Closer. Generalist fixer. Hired gun.
Jobs at Roforco
San Francisco, CA, US / Remote (US; CA)
$40K - $80K
Any (new grads ok)
San Francisco, CA, US / Remote (US; CA)
$40K - $80K
Any
Roforco
Founded:2021
Batch:Summer 2022
Team Size:4
Status:
Active
Location:San Francisco
Primary Partner:Jared Friedman
Company Launches
Roforco — The game studio without hit-risk.
See original launch post

TL;DR: Roforco is a Roblox game studio that creates consistent hits by mass producing games - like a game factory! We acquire and complete unfinished projects, then cross promote them within our portfolio.

Hey ! 👋 Tom and Brain (aka. the Roblox guys) here to introduce Roforco!

🧨 The Problem

There’s over 200bn$ in (video) gaming. Individual games can pull in hundreds of millions annually. Investors love this opportunity, but it’s impossible to predict if a studio’s next title will be popular, make money back or land well.

Games are expensive to make and are inconsistently successful.
This is called hit based risk, or as we dubbed it ‘hit-risk’

🤔 Why Roblox?

There will always be at least one popular platform people make games for. At the moment, it’s Roblox with a 2bn$ market and over 200mm MAU. We’re also deeply familiar with the platform, having previously built an agency that grossed 500k$ of revenue in 6 mo and partnered with brands including Unilever.

🔎 The Insight

Indie game developers have a tendency to never finish projects they start. After doing the fun parts like the game loop, closing out the game for release is often too difficult, boring and resource intensive. Every game developer (on Roblox) that we know has at least 2 unfinished or abandoned projects.

There are 10 million developers registered on Roblox in comparison to 44k on Steam. Compared to the years AAA takes to produce one title (or 6-18 months in mobile), on Roblox the average time to develop a game can be as little as 2-3 months.

🎉 There's a Solution!

We work with these unfinished/abandoned games and we’re able to acquire/ receive a share of these projects, while partnering with the original developer who is usually glad to work together just to see their vision come to life.

This gives us a much bigger market of unfinished games to acquire and mass produce for faster and cheaper. Meanwhile, the original developer gets to make money back from their idea at a fraction of the time and effort.

Effectively - it’s the revenue of gaming with the predictability of B2B SaaS!

🤯 What next?

Once at least a game takes off, it proves the validity of it’s idea. Then we can dedicate larger, longterm resources and grow the game’s IP exponentially, turning it into a multimedia franchise (movies, toys, etc) building more revenue streams beyond the game.

📊 Our Stats & Games:

  • 51,828,645 total play sessions
  • 84.6% average like ratio
  • 497,554,992 hours of engagement (#roadto1B)
  • 190,608 daily active users
  • 331,595 favourites
  • 4 original games
  • 3 brand partnership games

Thanks so much!
tom@roforco.com
roforco.com

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