How to Program Games: Tile Classics in JS for HTML5 Canvas (Udemy.com)

I've updated my rating but left in the comments. After working through some of these lessons after stepping away from coding for awhile and working on other stuff, I've found this series to be quite good in terms of what it does. I like the small, bite-size chunks of useful content that hits on the key topics. As I said, the comments below still hold up, but I'm viewing this from a different perspective. If you treat this series as more of a reference guide than an educational tool, I think there might be more value. That said, there it is useful for learning, but I do believe there just isn't enough explanation for topics that are mentioned. I suppose the trade off is that the videos, as I mentioned, are short and digestible. Here are some of the problems: 1. This is really more of a tutorial than a course. If I follow along step-by-step and copy his code, I'll end up with exactly what he's created, but what have I actually learned? Am I going to be able to go and create my own code based on these videos? 2. I don't know what's up with the editing. I'll follow along, my code is 100% the same, but then in the following video, there's code that somehow got into his program (like a function or variable in different places) that he didn't show in a video, so then my code doesn't work and I can't figure out why. 3. He could do a better job of explaining how code is being pulled from different parts of the program and being used. On the positive side, all course content (as far as I can tell) is included within downloadable files.

good course so far, learning and good explanation

sometimes it goes a bit fast but i guss that is good so we learn alot i like when you explain what the code does great work :)

Great course. I'm learning a lot about Javascript and programming.

Really a great course and good basis for coding games! Really impressive what I can do with this knowledge. I can only recommend it.

Yes. THis is an excellent course

Good Course For Some One Who Wants To Start Coding Games.

Good course...really enjoying it a lot

Definitely the most entertaining course I ever had!

Does a superb job of showing the fundamentals of classic game design even though I found some concepts tended to be explained a little too quickly and the short video duration can feel a bit choppy in the Udemy interface. Highly recommended.

Very enjoyable course. I have learnt so much about creating tile based grid games!
This course contains tutorials for creating a brick breaker and a racing game, then the third game is an adventure style game you create yourself with some short videos for guidance. Creating it myself did feel quite challenging at first, but it deepened my understanding of the concepts!
I am now feeling very inspired to create my own games and I have so many ideas from the videos in the last 2 sections of the course! The free ebook is also really good, it includes tutorials for the games featured in the course, plus a couple of new ones, and plenty of exercises on how to extend and improve those games yourself.
One small thing to note is that the course is a few years old now, and so does not use the latest JavaScript features, such as the class keyword. However being quite new to JavaScript I appreciated it as it showed me how things were done before the new features were added.

Awesome course, it teaches you some fundamental concepts that open you a lot of possibilities to create your own games, and even if the course is offered in JavaScript, those concepts could be implemented in any programming language and applied on any game engine. By the end of the course you will feel encouraged to explore what you have learned on your own projects. A must take either if you are just starting or just want to practice the use of tiles and maps in game development.