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About the Course

If you love games and want to learn how to make them, then this course will start you down that path. Making games is a creative and technical art form. In this course you will familiarize yourself with the tools and practices of game development and well as the process. You will get started developing video games using industry standard game development tools, including the Unity 2020 game engine. At the end of the course you will have completed two hands-on projects, including an Intro to Unity project and a 2D Shooter game, and will be able to leverage an array of game development techniques to create your own basic games....

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EL

Jul 10, 2023

This course is a great way to get into game development and programming as a whole. The concepts are easy to understand and you finish with a solid project that gives you a sense of accomplishment.

AP

Feb 16, 2021

Excellent introduction to Game Design and Development! I already feel that I can do so much with Unity, even when I know there is still a lot lot more to learn, but this was a fantastic start!

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By lila b

May 21, 2021

nice one

By Abdullah S

Aug 23, 2021

amazing

By JASKIRAT S

Sep 4, 2021

good

By Tibor L

Mar 19, 2023

gut

By İsmail K

Nov 29, 2022

First half of the course was excellent. Tutorials were enough for the assignments and it was very helpful. But I can't tell the same about the second half. Assignment requirements were a little too much compared to the tutorial lessons. I felt overwhelmed and course content wasn't enough for me. I had to watch some YouTube tutorials to complete my assignment. I have reviewed 14 peers and I can clearly tell the tutorials weren't enough for them aswell. I really dislike the Peer-Graded Assignment system. Yes, I learned a lot from my peers but I think there are some issues with the system. For example, I had a pretty good description of my project and I clearly had more than two screenshots but somehow my reviewers decided not to give me any points for it? So, does that mean If my reviewer is having a bad day I may even fail my assignment? This feels unfair and all I can do is re-submit my project and get new reviewers.

By David K

Apr 4, 2022

This is a very good intro to Unity course. For weeks 1-2 it's a real good getting your feet on the ground tutorial. For the week 3-4 the 2d shooter project, it depends on what you want out of it. I think the goal of this part of the class isn't so much to have you make a 2d shooter game, but to give you a basic one pre-built and teach you how to make a few mods to start with figuring that later classes will teach deeper changes. Which is fine and useful. But if you want to make it more your own, just know you'll need to be prepared to scour the Unity manual, internet and any friends you have who code because there is almost zero instruction on how to do any C# scripting at this stage of the class. Which is fine since that's not really the goal of this intro class. It's a good intro first class.

By BUONOMO L

Jan 4, 2022

Main teacher Brian Winn has a clear voice and is really simple to follow the lessons even if I'm not so skilled in english. Second teacher instead and a voice that is difficult to follow and sometime I needed to read the lesson transcription to understand. Finally I found some minor issue in assets for 2D shooter game: the particle effects used for explosions result in a weird glitch after using it in my assessment game. Second issue was the player movement that overcome the barrears after changing game assets. I used a youtube tutorial to understand the C# component issue on physics usage and after the modification the player worked well smoothly. Apart these two minor issues the course is interesting and helped me a lot to understand basic Unity game engine concepts.

By Raul A A A

Oct 2, 2021

Como un curso introductorio para comprender la interfaz de Unity, conocer un poco de los tipos de objetos y las diferentes funcionalidades que ofrece esta herramienta sin tener que preocuparse por saber programar o los assets para usar considero un excelente curso. Incluso se toca un poco el tema de programacion para esta herramieta.

By Timothy W H

Sep 29, 2021

Good until 2d shooter. When I made a mistake, it was almost impossible to backtrack and figure out what I did wrong, had to restart from scratch multiple times. Too much icing and not enough fundamentals, too much 'I like' or 'I prefer' from the instructor.

By Muhammad H S

Jan 9, 2023

Great course, and an excellent idea to begin game development for anyone who has yet to learn more. While there were a few problems in Week 3 with the TA, the instructor really did a good job explaining concepts and ideas.

By Musa A

May 3, 2021

Mainly focused on game design and development but I think there should be a little description of each script that we are using that would help us understand and implement what script we are using and how its working,

By Kirill D

Nov 10, 2021

2D Shooter game is too complicated. We have game with events, GUI, some methods and we don't understand all this things( It will be better if we create this step by step learning some new things about Unity and С#.

By Keith H

Apr 4, 2023

Overall a great introductory course. However, the use second instructor was discouraging. By comparison, the TA was hard to follow, often lacking descriptive explanations and less structured guidance.

By Supun D

Sep 3, 2021

Good course with an useful syllabus. the teacher and the instructor is great. however peer to peer assignments take too long time to get a grade. this is the only complain to me about this course.

By Jamil P

Mar 27, 2021

The course is good intro to Unity and C#. It's not perfect especially on the voiceover in the basics of using Unity which the audio changes which makes the cuts between voiceovers obvious.

By Rohan A

May 25, 2021

I liked the content in the course and the way of teaching. Though, some more examples with every points would be better. Overall, it was a great course and a worthy experience.

By John C R

Jan 5, 2022

The professor was great and it was a good course but I just would like that course could teach us more about the programming area in Unity for 2D games. It was great anyway.

By Dante A

Nov 28, 2021

Overall this course its great, however i think it is necesary to improve videos in order to explain more details about 2D development process.

By Shoug A

May 10, 2021

the course is great as an introduction, but more scripting videos would have been helpfule.

By Johan S D H

May 20, 2021

Bueno, falto ver la programacion con objetos de unity, como ejemplos

By Aniket S

Dec 1, 2021

week 3 was a bit confusing but rest all was very nice

By Humberto R M

May 20, 2021

The 3rd week is not that great

By Prakhar P

Apr 25, 2021

good couse

By Christina F

Sep 11, 2022

This course was great! I learned a lot about Unity and about making games! However, week 3 was a huge setback. It was taught by the TA who was using a different version of Unity, I also lost hours of work because of this. The TA also spoke fast and brushed over a lot of topics, making it difficult to understand.

The part of the 2D shooter project that asked for 3 modifications was extremely difficult if you have never used Unity before (this class says it is for beginners for haven't used unity before). Most of the modifications asked for us to create our own artwork/music or use assets that were not provided to us. We were not shown how to create our own assets or find assets elsewhere. We also weren't shown how to add new behaviors that weren't provided to us or add things like powerups.

People with expereince in Unity or other game engines were able to do this and make great games that had 3 or more modifications. However, those of us that are using Unity for the first time and are relying on what we are taught, were left with barely any modifications we knew how to do and our grades suffered for it. I would have loved to do several modifications and make a great game that followed the assignment but I just wasnt shown how.

Overall I did enjoy the course and learned a lot! The professor that teaches this course is great!

By Moritz G

Jan 2, 2023

Good course. The main teacher has a good way of explaining and keeping you motivated. I got a good first overview of working in Unity. There are some caveats however that I have to point out.

- The lessons given by the TA (which are like a third of the course) are very confusing to follow and are of considerably less quality than the others.

- The introduction to programming in C# was very rudimentary.

- I"d have preferred the final project to be something simpler (say pong) but where you have more understanding of the mechanics you're working with. Like this it felt like re-skinning a game that is based on pre-written components made by others without knowing what you are really doing.

Still I'd overally would recommend this course.