Build an FPS Zombie Game From Scratch - Unity 6 Compatible (Udemy.com)

As someone who had no knowledge of video game development, this course was exactly what I was looking for. I flew through it in about a month, and by the end I not only had a (mostly) fully functional game to show for it, but I also now feel like I have the basic knowledge required to make any game. The course shows you so many foundational things that can be applied to most games - from coding a player character, to creating environments, interactions with objects, combat, enemies, enemy AI, lighting and postprocessing, C#, and so much more. You won't be an expert in any of these areas by the end, but the course gives such a good foundation that you will feel confident that you will be able to make something of your own. Highly recommended!

This course gives such a wealth of information and inspiration. I had an idea that as I went through the course, I would have two projects on the go. One would be to follow along with Penny's game using her assets and materials. The second one would be to use a different environment, different main character asset and guns, along with alien-type assets and produce a dark, atmospheric horror/xeno shooter. I was delighted with the content of Penny's course and while I didn't always complete all of Penny's challenges as such, my challenge was to take what I learned from the course and use it to construct my own game. I am so pleased with the results. Never let it be said that a senior cannot learn something new in retirement. That I ended up making a game is in large part due to the outstanding quality of this course. Penny's delivery is spot on, with excellent pacing and sufficient levels of explanation that served as a superb basis for going further into an aspect of making the game and manipulating it to my own needs. I particularly like the fact that Penny devotes time to explaining the fundamentals behind the sections on animation, the use of audio and particles (for example). Something that other courses I have taken skim over. In short, this is a very worthwhile course and you will learn a lot here; certainly enough to serve as a very sound springboard for taking the ideas, concepts and techniques covered here so that they can be further developed for your own use. If you are a prospective student wondering whether to enroll in this course, my recommendation equates to a resosunding "Yes!".

A lot of good information to be found here. A couple of bad practices, but not enough to tip the scale. In the first quarter, the use of many audio sources is cumbersome, it would have been better to go with the normal approach (one audioSource, array of sounds). This is discussed in the comments and simpler solutions are proposed. The way the code is organized could be greatly improved. I understand it's aimed at beginners and the idea would be to keep things simple. My opinion is that it's better to teach good practices. Or at least be explicit and state "while putting all code in one method is not optimal, we are going to do it this way for simplicity". Or just do it properly without explaining the patterns, and point to the patterns course. On the other hand: - covers A LOT of topics and to me it seems the topics are explained well enough - many assets are provided - the challenges are useful to apply what is being explained - while each section has a lot of useful information, the Design Principles for Aesthetics is a gem on its own While there is room for improvement, quite happy with the course!

This was a very good and useful course! I had limited Unity knowledge and experience beforehand, and this helped me understand it much more. From animations and UI design to player control and AI programming, I gained much from this course. Not only will this help me for the future of game production, it also helped me with some of my college courses. While working on a project for a software engineering course, I realized that writing code for multiple classes felt more natural than before. While I enjoyed many of the "pause the video and figure this out" sections, some of them required me to make changes to my code without telling me certain things I needed to know. One of the things this course mentioned at the start was to try and copy many of the variable and attribute names from the course in order to not get confused later. Some of the aforementioned sections of the course required me to make new variables or attributes without mentioning their names, meaning I would have to go back and change parts of my code to match what the class wanted me to have. Because of this, I felt less inclined to make my own variables and experiment on my own. It wasn't a deal-breaker, only a minor annoyance at times. While certain parts of the final product from the class were unfinished, such as zombie AI missing a few components and an issue with the walking sound effect while jumping, I appreciate the fact that the instructor mentioned that this was a stepping stone for us. If I have issues with the product, I can solve them on my own. Overall, I would highly recommend this course for people who want to learn how to make games, whether you have experience in this field or not.

This is a great course for learning the basics of several key programming functions. The FP controller instruction gives you a good model for character control, the introduction to terrain design and particles is great, and the animation lectures are fantastic. The instructor takes the time to explain everything to you and gives you challenges to test your learning. The instructors are responsive to questions (although sometimes you need to be patient and wait for them to get to you) and can assist with tweaks you want to make to the code to capture the feel you are looking for. This class will not teach you everything. You will definitely need an introduction to unity and C# before jumping in. However, you will learn a lot and have a tutorial you can go back to when you need reminders. Thank you Penny for the great job!

Penny is a greate teacher and goes at a comfortable pace, she sets regular challanges. However I didn't end up following all the code in the course because it ended up being a bit speghetti, some of the code was repeatedly copy and pasted in areas (functions?) and makes it hard to maintain going forward.

In my opinion, the course is very well-structured. Each sections serves as building blocks to the next section. Each sections, with a little bit of Googling, also serves as excellent launch points for a more in-depth learning of Unity's features. The animation tutorials in section 3, for example, combined with various google search results, allows me to independently understand, learn and use the Animator Blend Tree and Layers (at the beginner level, of course). One topic that I have wished for in this course is an introduction to inverse kinematics. Just enough information to scratch the surface. The topic should relate to the gun-fitting demonstration in section 3.

There was no doubt in my mind that this would be a five star course, even before I managed to finish the first couple of videos. Penny's teaching is really engaging and it managed to keep me motivated and interested for the duration of the course! I loved the challenges and also the way she tackled even the most overwhelming subjects (personally, I dreaded the math stuff, but she did make it as clear as humanly possible). I am now fueled with confidence and passion to dive into creating stuff of my own and of course continue studying and improving my programming skills! I will most definately be taking more of Penny's courses in the near future. For people who want to explore game development, this course is an ABSOLUTE must have, so please do yourselves a favor and enroll. Thank you very much Penny!!!

I cannot stress this enough, Penny is BY FAR one of the better instructors and delivers a better game programming class. I have purchased 4 game programming classes to date and have been unable to complete any of them. This is primarily due to the fact that the instructor is not able or not willing to see the course through the eyes of the student. Especially, a student with no C# programming experience. In addition, Penny is focused on game design and not designing her own game while the student watches, and tries to keep up. She focuses on the design of a game - I cannot speak highly enough about her and her course. I have already recommended her to friends.

This course is worth every minute spent on it - especially for $10! Penny makes great use of challenges to help stimulate your brain and develop the muscle memory that's needed to be a good game developer. The overall flow of this tutorial was well planned out. Every section built upon the prior and had just enough repetition to practice with yet not get bored. I gave this review 5 stars because I walked away with so much that I keep buying more of Penny's courses. However, there are two things I would note: 1) This is not a "Complete" course. There are some things I would/did expect from a "Complete" First Person Shooter Game, i.e. some sort of progress tracking system or even a point system that could be saved in the Player Prefs so you could save/pause the game and then resume. Penny did include a "Waypoint" system but its lost when changing scenes or closing the game. Even a Highscore table would be nice. Fortunately, there are several YouTube videos that cover such things. 2) Penny, please organize your folders! Make a "Scripts" folder and put all of your scripts in there. Make a "Prefabs" folder and put all of your prefabs in there. Need I mention materials, sprites, etc...? I otherwise love(d) the course and I'm starting another right... now!