Learn to Program by Making Games in Unity (Udemy.com)

The navigation for the Udemy course isn't as intuitive as I'd expect.

Short Version: Course was good for a newbie but with no support from the instructor plus using an old version of Unity there are much better options out there.Long Version: I was looking for a Unity course for over the summer that was 1. Geared to absolute beginners in coding and Unity 2. Was good for a shorter completion time (summer break) and 3. You still would have a decent completed game to play when done. This course seemed to be a perfect match and I did enjoy it and finished the Pong game. I did download the older version of Unity the instructor was using in the course in case of any differences (and after using the current version of Unity with a different course I see there are coding differences) The instructor did a good job of explaining what the code was doing and why we were using it. Later on the coding explanations did start to get a bit brief and at times I did feel that I was just typing the code and not really understanding why.But the biggest issue came up in the second game Bricks. I was almost finished with it when the code wasn't doing what it was suppose to. I checked the code, it was correct. I added debug.log statements to it so that I could verify in the Console Window that the code was executing as expected and it was - it just wasn't activating the function in the game it was suppose to. So I posted in the Q&A section for the course. That's when I saw all the unanswered questions, some dating back over a year ago. Many of the questions that had a reply where the original poster posting the solution he found on his own later, or another user providing help. After more than a month my question never received an answer. In the meantime I was trying to Google for a solution and searching Unity's documents which brought up the other issue - all possible solutions or examples of code I found were for the current version of Unity. I could not get them to work in the old version I was using and could not find help for the old version. Every so often I would give it another go. 4 months later I figured out a work around instead of using the instructors code and have now finished the Brick game but am going no further in this course. During that time I started another Unity gaming and code course which has very responsive support from the instructors, great explanations so I'm learning the coding, and am much happier with.

He is a great instructor....easy to follow

This course is a very good way to enter in the Unity world. Well explained and very satisfying once you've completed the exercices!thank you james, make some more and i ll buy^^!

Really great course, thoroughly covers many features, very well taught and well paced. Was able to build all sample projects successfully and even had enough knowledge to extend the games beyond what was taught here. A huge thank you to the instructor for a flawless presentation of the material!!

James is a very good teacher learned a lot purchased some of his other courses. Only complaint is getting responses to questions seems very slow. Maybe his busy or other reasons? But because it is a good course and understandable i'm giving it 5 stars.

James was very good at explaining the subject and made it easy for a beginner like me to keep up and not get overwhelmed. I have learned a lot from this class and James has help me build my confidence to take more C# related classes with Unity.

Nice Course - it gave some good ideas how to begin with creating a game. Choosing these type of games help me a lot to find way to approach to my personal target.It was easy to follow the course - and it contained some good explanations which could help to avoid some additional work.After completing this i got the impression i am prepared to drive my own project further - even i got the impression that there is a good portion of trail and error - regarding balancing stuff - which gave a much better understanding why it seems so tricky for the bigger publishers and developers to get solid game for everyone.I will never reget the time i invested in this course due to it help me a to get a better view of the big picture.Honestly i'm not sure if the course will help if you had only basic understanding of programming - for me it worked due to i have some experience with other languages - so i only learn a new dialect. For an absolute beginner in programming i would not recommend it - even making those example games are fun and gave the right direction.For a beginner in game design this course is helpful and i could recommend it. In addition James had good way of presenting the content.

The course was good until there was an error and i had asked help for that particular error. It's been 8 months and i don't see a single response from the instructor. Moved on to do better courses in udemy.

Good course for beginners. The instructor has a good knowladge of the mechanincs and how to implement them. Only problem is the lack o good practices and patterns on the exemples. It would be a great oportunity to teach those to C# beginners.

I did the first two chapters (first 2 games) already and loved them because i always wanted to do this (Develop Games). I waited till now to place a rating because i wanted to see if i was being ripped off. Thank you for not ripping me off BUT great thanks to you for developing a skill withing me. I appreciate it sir.

James does a good job of explaining all of the code and features that he implements. I also like that he keeps in some of the typo errors that may be common when completing this type of coding to help demonstrate what might happen when you are coding. Well done.