Learn Godot Making a Fun Pirate Trading Game (Udemy.com)

Clearly the teacher knows how to program, and knows some pretty advanced software engineering techniques. But, to be honest, and I'm a 30 year vet of software development myself, I feel the game is just a little too over engineered. In my opinion there's an over use of classes, and it's easy to get lost and wonder where a variable gets its value from, or how one object relates to another object. And this right here is a huge detractor. It's a challenge to put this down and pick it up later, with the needless confusion added in. I'd kindly suggest staying away from the classes and just sticking with lists and dictionaries. Just regen the data when arriving at port. Otherwise Taipan is a fun game. I'm personally going to re-engineer it as a dope wars game. Maybe call it "GoDope Wars" or something. It has all the parts there. Also the instructor has another class about idle clicker games. That's a good one too. I re-engineered it as "Bootleg Empire" a AdVenture Capitalist rip off. Thanks teacher!!!

Very well made tutorial. I really appreciated you taking the time to explain some better design principles and WHY you'd want to do it that way. I would encourage a new course on taking that even further.

Data-focused game design was what I was looking for in a course. May not be a complete course nor was it free of mistakes in lectures, but the content covered was what I needed to learn that I didnt get from other courses without sitting through the basics first.

Yes I love the fast pace but still keeping the detail needed, it would be useful to have references to further reading on certain subjects but that could be me just being lazy. One thing I noticed was the issue in City.gd line 9 where the new() statement wouldn't work on later versions, are there many instances that new versions break older code and is there a way of writing so that you code doesn't break?

Der Moderator/Dozent selbst scheint sehr neu bei der Godot Game Engine zu sein. Nahezu jede vorgestellte Änderung erzeugte beim ersten Testlauf einen Fehler. Godots "GDScript Style Guide" zum Schreiben von sauberem und lesbarem Code wurde wahrscheinlich nie vom Moderator gelesen. Alle Grafiken, Skripte und Soundeffekte sind unorganisiert im Hauptordner gespeichert. Es gibt auch keine Diagramme, die einen einfachen Überblick über die Programmstruktur ermöglichen. Ich bin überrascht, dass der Moderator angibt, er habe 30 Jahre Programmiererfahrung. The moderator/lecturer himself seems to be very new to the Godot Game Engine. Nearly every change presented generated an error during the first test run. Godot's "GDScript Style Guide" to write clean and readable code was probably never read by the moderator. All graphics, scripts and sound effects are stored unorganized in the main folder. There are also no diagrams, which allow a simple overview of the program structure. I am surprised that the moderator states that he has 30 years of programming experience.

I have done the Python version of this course (which I recommend ) because I was curious about the difference between the Python language and GDscript. It's very similar. I must admit that I preferered the Python version of the Pirate game. This course is still very good, but the way it was edited after the lesson 11 make this course confusing and frustrating. The teacher should have explained how he did the 3rd refactoring between video 11 and 12. You still have access to the file in the ressource but expect extra work to understand and make it work. Also, some last minute edit make this course a bit difficult to follow by moment. I'm a bit disappointed by the lack of clarity of this version of the course because I really like it. All because of bad video edit.

The author does know how to program, but at times I felt like he was lost in what he was doing himself. There are several lessons that "skip" over a bunch of content, I believe, would have been beneficial to learn. For instance, why did you refactor something the way you did? Why not do it another way? This way or that way. Some items like "queue_free" I had to lookup myself on what they do, which could have been 15 secs of explaining in the lesson. In the end, I deviated so far off the lesson and just got it working to match his working lesson. Overall this is average and could have been much much better.

This is really great. The concepts are extremely complicated, but this course is definitely worth while! The reason I say so, is because I was not able to find any other course or documentation on how to implement these concepts. It might be in your best interest to have prior experience in programming though, especially in Python (to all the students). Well done!

I am an experienced programmer, so found the course ok. Most of the videos can be followed and paused to copy what the lecturer is teaching. When you get about half way, you start getting asked to refactor the code which may be a bit daunting for novices. I had to pause several times to review the changes in the video and work out the refactoring. The 'final' version is available at the end as a zip, but this is after several refactors. Might be an idea to provide the intermediate code after each lesson for novices to review.

Great educational series! It's teaching me a lot about this fast, fun open-source game engine development environment. I like how the teacher shows how to track down errors and doesn't shy away from introducing some more complex ideas along the way. Highly recommended.