My 9-Year-Old Built a Roblox Game Based on the Book

Roc is 9 and he just built his first Roblox game. Not a prototype. Not a test. A full experience with its own map, an index system, and bases for every character from the book.

It’s called Find the Noobsi Book Characters and it’s exactly what it sounds like: a search-and-find game where you explore the map, locate the book’s characters, and log them in your index.

Built by a 9-year-old

Roc has been tinkering with Roblox Studio for months. He watches tutorials, tries things, gets stuck, finds another tutorial and keeps going. He goes to a coding school where they teach Scratch, Minecraft, and they’ve barely touched Roblox Studio. But everything he’s built at home — this game and the ones before it — he learned on his own, through tutorials and trial and error.

My involvement was minimal. I was there when he got stuck, but the map design, the game logic, the index system, the character bases — all of that is his.

The map: every character base from the book

The game is a walkthrough with bases for every character from Noobsi Bedtime. Each base has a sign with the character’s name: aranda, jaxolot, Adrienaccion4, martiG, nomaraccion… All of them.

The goal is to explore the map, find the hidden characters, and register them in the index. You can check it anytime to see which ones you’re missing.

The frustration moment: the shaking map

It wasn’t all smooth. There was a point where the map started shaking for no apparent reason. Roc couldn’t figure out what was going on. He’d been adding things, testing scripts, and suddenly everything was wobbling.

He got frustrated. Fair enough. He’s nine and something that worked five minutes ago just broke with no explanation.

I sat down with him. We went through the last steps he’d taken in the game together. Undid changes one by one until we found the culprit: a script was causing the problem. We removed it and everything went back to normal.

The look on his face when the map stopped shaking was priceless. That mix of relief and pride you only get when you’ve solved something that had you stuck.

Playing together

Yesterday I played it with him. We walked around the map looking for characters, checking everything worked, and it reminded me of the early days when we first started playing these kinds of experiences together on Roblox.

Except this time, he’d built it.

Play for free

Find the Noobsi Book Characters is free on Roblox. If your kid has read the book, they’ll love spotting every character on the map. And if they haven’t read it yet, this is a good excuse to start.

Play Find the Noobsi Book Characters on Roblox

Want to meet the characters before playing? Check out the characters section of the book.

Frequently asked questions

What is Find the Noobsi Book Characters? It’s a Roblox experience created by Roc, a 9-year-old and son of the Noobsi Bedtime author. It’s a search-and-find game set in the book’s world, with bases for every character and an index to track which ones you’ve found.

Can a 9-year-old really create a Roblox game? Yes. Roblox Studio is a free tool that lets kids build their own games using Lua. Roc takes coding classes (Scratch, Minecraft), but with Roblox Studio he’s self-taught: he learns by watching tutorials and through trial and error.

Where can I play Find the Noobsi Book Characters? The game is free on Roblox. You can play it here: https://www.roblox.com/games/84919943820317/Find-the-Noobsi-Book-Characters