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About the Course

If you love games and want to learn how to make them, then this course is your second step down that path. In this course you will learn the fundamentals of game design, including an understanding of the game world, storytelling, gameplay, user experience, and game technology. You will continue developing videogames using industry standard game development tools, including the Unity game engine. At the end of the course you will have completed a 2D Platformer game, and will be able to leverage an array of game development techniques to create your own basic games....

Top reviews

NP

Mar 26, 2022

Content and course design are excellent. Compare to any famous books and University.

The teaching video is also high quality knowledge in terms of knowledge and technology.

WG

Nov 15, 2023

Great course! It can be used as a starting point to create a very nice game project, since it provides a lot of resources and knowledge. Definitely recommended!

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By Neelaben P

Mar 27, 2022

Content and course design are excellent. Compare to any famous books and University.

The teaching video is also high quality knowledge in terms of knowledge and technology.

By Noah M

Oct 25, 2021

Week 1 of this course felt sort of overwhelming, it should be changed to week 3 as it sets the blueprint for Week 4. Also, I felt the instructor for week 1 went too fast when doing the tutorial. Weeks 2 and 3 dive deep into Game Technology and Storytelling. In my opinion, I think this course should break up the week 1 material and spread it out to the week 2 and week 3 material to make this course more balanced.

By Ryan D

Jun 21, 2022

I followed along and audited the 1st course assuming that they were going to explain the scripts and concepts they just tell you to use without explaining, this course just adds more concepts and scripts they have created without explaining it, so sure, you can make 2d games if you follow along, but you get minimal comprehension and are unable to apply it outside of this course, really a waste of time

By Alosh T

Aug 8, 2021

Brilliant with humongous amount of information. But there are a few hiccups to which are notified to the Author.

By Joe Z

Sep 7, 2021

It was fun. I'm still super annoyed with how peer graded assignments are supposed to be objective, but people will review them subjectively. With only two peers reviewing something it can affect your grade if someone doesn't find your game "fun" or "it's too hard", or they just flat out mark your score wrong (like does it include a screen shot?, how does one get that wrong?)

There is no way to run that up the ladder and and have someone take a second look. Very annoying. Also following the tutorials left me able to repeat some of the actions, but didn't really know the "why" behind it. I had to watch other free youtube videos to get a better understanding, what I found was content that was easier to follow on youtube.

By Frank P

Jul 17, 2021

This is a good follow-up course to 2D Shooter. As with the previous course, the project assignment encourages learners to be creative, yet the course does not teach learners enough skills to be creative. Be prepared to find other education materials in order to complete the project - although this is really not a big deal, since any learning is valuable. Keep in mind that you will still need to follow instructions by the same TA though the course's most important content.

By Muhammad F

Aug 8, 2021

I like the modification we need to make to the game, a lot of asset and script is prebuilt. The script is readable but I just wish more detail explanation for me. Overall this course teaches you to experiment but you need to find some of the specific part outside of the course.

By Mónica V S

Apr 26, 2022

Para los usuarios de habla Hispana: El curso es bueno. Aunque de momento la parte de código no se aborda tanto, si permite una buena exploración sobre la creación de escenarios, sprites y los titles. Tengan paciencia con su calificación suele demorarse un poco.

By Toại T C

Jun 29, 2023

Through this course, I have experienced a lot of experience in designing the game screen so that players feel interesting when playing. I also gained a lot of useful new knowledge of the Unity engine for making 2D games.

By Wojciech G

Nov 16, 2023

Great course! It can be used as a starting point to create a very nice game project, since it provides a lot of resources and knowledge. Definitely recommended!

By Diego F

Mar 13, 2022

It was overall a good course. I would have loved it better if we had made more things from scratch.

By Ryan P

Apr 19, 2021

Absolutely love it, wish I could have realized Game development was my true calling years ago!

By Сабирова А С

Aug 6, 2021

great teacher, I liked everything, great course

By Amir H A

Jun 9, 2023

the course teaches really usefull stuff

By Lefa E M

Oct 9, 2022

it is a fine course and perfect course

By vedant s

Oct 17, 2022

I got free course I am happy thankyou

By Will Y

May 16, 2022

Great follow-on from the first course.

By Arham A

Oct 5, 2022

Good for beginners !

By Win T

Nov 8, 2022

Fantastic course!!

By Subham P

Jul 22, 2022

Just Awesome! :)

By Rizaldy S

Aug 9, 2023

Amazing course!

By Kian N

Jul 18, 2022

It was awsome

By EasyKaos 7

Dec 29, 2023

Very good.

By Bindiya T

Jan 5, 2023

execllent

By AJ

May 24, 2022

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