Make a 2.5D Game with Godot 4 (2025 UPDATED with Godot 4.4) (Udemy.com)

This course is appropriate for those just starting out in Godot, or interested in learning how to make a 2.5D game without much prior experience in 2D platformers. The assets are beautiful, and it is clear that the instructor has spent a long time carefully modeling, rigging, texturing, and creating all of the models, VFX, and levels for this course. However, these are provided as is, and as such the course is essentially diminished to demonstrating basic platformer mechanics in Godot and the student would be unable to recreate anything similar. The course material is beginner-intermediate level, and although I learnt a few little things there were some issues that I felt could hinder students progression into larger projects. For example, little consideration for scaling (i.e., in the way the nodes/scripts/signals are designed and linked together would make building larger projects/games difficult) or optimization (e.g., a VFX was preloaded everytime a function was called, which could have been every frame). On the plus side, I would say that the blending of the animations was done well (gave me some ideas), and the technical visuals are stunning. I think that at the very least there should have been a short lesson on building an actual level, rather than just being able to decide where to place the enemies, door and power-up in two pre-built levels. I suppose it does state your *first* Godot 2.5D game... but I think that most of us were expecting a little bit more about the actual design/generation of the levels... how do we create the lovely parallax scrolling backgrounds, those lovely animated 3D clouds, the VFX, the level assets, etc. ...

This was great introduction to Godot. The game assets were appealing and fun to work with. The runtime of the course, at about 5.5 hrs, was manageable for me to complete in a week doing a little bit everyday. I'd love to see more content, specifically how the levels were built and set up in Godot.

Overall the format of the course is pretty good. I am, however, disappointed in the fact that a lot of the scenes were just provided without any information on teaching the setup/creation. I was excited to learn how to utilize the assets by actually building up the player and level scenes as these are important skills to learn for doing any sort of 3d/2.5d game development.

Completed my first entire course in Udemy. Excellent teaching. Would appreciate the instructor more if he taught how to connect to 2 different levels via the door. Also, if he made a completely new course on "How to make assets in Blender". But otherwise a splendid course keeping in mind all the things he taught in a short amount of time.

If you want to create a video game this is an excellent course. If you want to learn about Godot in depth maybe you should consider other options. In general terms i can say it was worth it to me.

Good course, yes I am learning something but it ends just when I feel like I am just starting. It could have been detailed a little more and the mechanics could have been improved. As it is, yes, the visuals are very nice, but mechanically it is very weak. I did not deduct points because I respect your effort and you, but I would like you to consider this recommendation in your future courses. If necessary, the course fee can be doubled, but as long as we do not feel left unfinished. Thank you for the course.

So far its been as advertised. This is great as a crash course on making a game. I have no familiarity with Godot basics, so this may be a little bit out of my depth since I'm not familiar with some of the core concepts (Nodes, annotations, global variables, etc.) I think for explaining basic mechanics on animating and moving a character, this is doing perfectly fine.

overall for the price this course was great. One thing that would be nice to see is exporting animations and assets from Blender and bringing them into Godot and setting them up as individual scenes etc so they could be brought into the game. I am sure this could even be a course in itself.

I just finished the course, and I must say it was an excellent experience. The course was very easy and straightforward to understand, which made learning a breeze. The instructor had a fantastic teaching style, making the content even more accessible. Additionally, I had a question during the course, and surprisingly, I received a response the next day, which was really nice. Overall, I’m very satisfied with the course and would recommend it to anyone interested on godot.

Just starting this course but it seems like a fantastic introduction to Godot, which was exactly what I was looking for. Plus I really have to commend Ryan on his asset aesthetic, the provided resources look fantastic and make it so much more enjoyable to work on a game that has really impressive visuals right out of the box. I will update this rating later as I see fit but right now I'm extremely impressed.