Create a 3D multi-player game using THREE.js and Socket IO (Udemy.com)

One of the best courses on multi-player socket io and NodeJs. I watched the first time without any knowledge of all these mysterious words and got a running app. Now I watched it again after many years in game development and it all makes sense now. the course is extremely condensed and infos are in their essence shape. Short videos where every second contains important information.

At the beginning, the explanations could be better. When creating the socket_test folder, you had an html file in there randomly, which I had manually type out, just to find out it was similar (possibly identical) to one in nodeapps. I Just finished ThreeJS section, and the explanation for this part is VERY good. However, some explanations were cut short, such as how the mesh and grid get generated. And also having a visual difference of the lights. You explained it in detail, but never really shown a difference from having shadows versus not having shadows just as an example. I'm excited to learn more from this tutorial. Minus one star for the poor beginning, and minus .5 star for reading the code like a textbook rather than reading and showing the difference.

So far it was a very good match. I was already familiar with some concepts of threejs animation system but in all the example-files of threejs i could never find something as useful as the joystick for of Nik. I hope I will understand the socket.io part of the fireman that is soon to come as a Section.

Hay más explicaciones de lógica que de código y lo que venia buscando es ver el codigo en funcionamiento. Conocer el progreso y qué modificaciones hace cada linea de codigo. Sin embargo me encontré con el codigo ya finalizado y una explicacion muy por arriba sobre qué hace cada parte y no una demostracion de cómo se va construyendo ese codigo

This course covers a wide range of topics. I got just the exact information that I was looking for and with some working examples. For someone with previous knowledge about javascript, 3D graphics and sockets communications, this course has just what's needed to get up to speed and start developing multiuser web apps in 3D (I'm actually going to develop some WebXR demos using some of these ideas). For beginners, it would be great to have one or two extra intermediate steps just to better understand how the actual websockets communication is working. The chat example at the start of the course was great as a socket.io "hello world" example. It would have been useful to have something similar with simple 3D or 2D geometry showing the basics of synchronizing the game state amongst players, before diving into the more complete example that is blockland. Still I all the references to other websites and tools quite useful and informative.

This was more of a walkthrough of existing game code than building a game together with the teacher, and that's not my preferred learning style. It was hard to visualize exactly what the code does, and I was lost for some of it. It was also hard to stay interested. It's easier to follow along when you can see what each code block does on the screen step by step. The eye candy helps me to stay interested and wihtout losing context. It's also nice to get a little break from the code, too. I find that approach better for me than a long laborious lecture about code, with hardly nothing graphical to see until the very end. But it's definitely worth it especially if you are someone looking for example code/workflows, and great tips about technologies that can be used to help you build your own games. It's also useful if you are wanting to compare THREE.js with other JavaScript libraries before starting on a large project of your own.

It is about the right speed and content. A little confusing with some version changes, but easy enough to figure out. The video seemed to stop a few times (always at the same spot), but moving forward a few seconds and hitting play made it work again. Nik did a great job if explaining the detail and I will most likely take some of his other courses.

First course on Udemy (at least I could not find something similar at the time of writing) that covers these open source topics in combination with working examples. Also the teacher is using object oriented programming and does respond quickly to questions.

This course helped me a lot to finish my running project. I loved this course very much. It is probably the only course which shows the use of three.js to create a 3d game. It's socket.io implementation is amazing. I would surely recommend to enroll in this course.

I enjoy a lot the courses by Nicholas Lever. In general they are all VERY SIMPLE but VERY WELL INTO THE POINT. Other thing is: he focuses not on mainstream topics but in SPECIALITY, hard to find ones. Only observation about this course? Unfortunately it is NOT for All Levels as it claims - it is for Intermediate to Advanced. The amount of info that is skipped is substantial. Previous exposure to npm / node.js / Express + Socket.io + Three.js + Blender + 3D Animation as well as some practical knowledge of jQuery and OO-Javascript in ES6 is definitively REQUIRED for this course if you really want to profit from it. On the tutor defense, there is NOT such a course that will teach ALL that in a SINGLE course. It is not hours, but months of hard work. What this course does BRILLIANTLY is PUTTING ALL THAT TOGETHER in a simple but revealing project! So do your homework and study each topic as much as possible. THEN come back to take this and all the courses by Nik. You are going to ENJOY them.