Make a horror survival game in Unity (Udemy.com)

I'm sorry, but there are so many bad practices in the code that I just get annoyed and confused in half the lessons. Please explain more, weed out the unnecessary details, smoothen the learning curve and for God's sake stop teaching students to spaghettify the code 3 classes in. Edit: Nearing the end of the course now and I'm ashamed of Mr. Jepson's code and I don't consider he's qualified to teach programming. If you're having trouble with the course, do yourself a favor and find a different one, as this will teach you bad practices in most of the lessons that you'll have a hard time unlearning and will needlessly complicate your work.

It helped me a lot! I loved the way he explained things and it didn't get boring or too fast. Pete is a very good teacher. The course is more for absolute beginners, but if you know programming, you can improve the code yourself if you want. Thanks a lot Pete!!

This instructor genuinely surprised me in the best way. At one point, I was diagnosing a problem the wrong way in my head, and somehow he immediately identified exactly where my thinking was going off track — before I even fully realised it myself. I won’t lie, it kind of spooked me at first , but at the same time it made me recognise just how experienced and sharp he really is. What impressed me most is that he didn’t just give the answer. He guided me, asked the right questions, and then stepped back so I could process it myself. It was frustrating in the moment, but also eye-opening. It really made me realise how much more there is to learn and honestly humbled me in a good way. It “caved” my ego a bit — and that’s exactly what good teaching should do. You can tell he doesn’t just know the material, he understands how students think and where they usually go wrong. That’s rare, and it makes a huge difference.

Updated course review: Loving it so far, I'm really happy about the updated content, it's awesome to get new content and it shows that this teacher is committed to his students! I really appreciate that he gave info on how to optimize the scene at the beginning, as this was an issue for me in the old course, frame rate was pretty bad on my laptop. I look forward to finishing the course (again, hah.) Thanks. Old course review: I loved this course, I definitely learned a great deal, and I loved that it's aimed at someone with really no coding experience, i.e. no super complicated (to beginners like me at least) arrays and other slightly more advanced concepts. I was struggling to get my own horror game project going. I learned a lot on my own from isolated video tutorials, but I honestly wish I would have just started with this. Would have saved me from a lot of headache and frustration! Thanks!

I really appreciate the fact that Pete spent so much time and effort to create this course. He is always ready to answer if you have questions, doubts or issues. Unfortunately, I had issues way too often with the coding. The coding part is chaotic, and when you try to fix one issue, it really often creates other issues somewhere else. This can really be frustrating.. I completed the whole course and there are still plenty of things which just don't work as they should in the game, especially with the enemies AI. Another thing: The scripts which control player's movement and player's shooting are just grabbed from some free asset: i think it would have been better just to explain and write those scripts from scratch, for 2 reasons: 1) they are so important, that probably learners want to learn how to write them 2) trying to make those scripts fit in our game caused issues Since I bought this course for a very low price, i still think it was worth it, but unfortunately i also have to say that it could have been better. Anyway, thanks again Pete, i hope that you will take in consideration this notes for your future courses ;)

happy that this course exists :D

I did it!!! Seriously, never touched Unity and I had only programmed "hello world". I wanted to make a video game, because it's practically all my kiddos play or talk about and I thought it'd be a fun way to understand their world. It took me 8 weeks and I almost threw my computer out of my second-story window five different times out of complete frustration. It's probably the hardest thing I have done intellectually speaking in my adult life, the equivalent to a mental ultra-marathon. I had no idea what I was doing AT ALL, but Professor Jepson provides truly top-shelf instruction. This course is comprehensive, if you've ever wanted to program a game, know how they work or just wish to abuse your brain, this is the place for you. It was rewarding and fun. Best of all, after I completed the game, my wife tried it out and screamed twice! Priceless horror... my son high-fived me and laughed, it was the best. Thank you Professor Jepson.

This is a very good course!
If I had some questions they got answered very fast!

Wow, this class not only teaches how to make a horror game but how to take your game to the next level in a very easy to learn fashion. I have taken these lessons into VR and have done great things. Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge.

So far I'm learning some good stuff. Looking forward to seeing what else is in store.

The course is very good, there are a few moments where it is basically saying 'now do this and put it to this level' while I'm thinking 'ok, but what does it DO though!' Obviously this is meant for experimentation but there were a few moments where something was zoomed through and I had no idea why I was doing the thing that I was doing. However the tutor is very easy to follow and understand, and it has encouraged me to play around more rather than playing it safe and following instructions to the letter (which could be the intended course of action!) Only up to section 10 so a way to go yet, but thoroughly enjoying it so far!

I think it's a great crash course. I like that it starts off with the graphics, the rendering, the camera and the visual side overall. Knowing how to apply these is what separates a game that looks polished from ones that look unfinished. I would never imagine this is done so easily in Unity. And yet, because the teacher structured the course in this way, we get to see those effects with a ready made scene so early in the course. I had a real 'wow' moment the first time I've seen lights bouncing off the water and would never have guessed it's achieved with bloom. I like the end result of the course. It's way better than other courses which leave you off with some really weird looking end product. Here there is a lot of emphasis on atmosphere, even if the end result is not far from basic in terms of gameplay mechanics, it is presented with a level of quality that you won't achieve following other less thought out courses. Definitely recommended.