Master Procedural Maze Generation - Unity 6 Compatible (Udemy.com)

Thank you very much to Penny for this course! It was extremely challenging for me with absolutely no programming background at all, but instructors like yourself I feel make it possible for me to actually learn about the theory and thought processes that enable these procedural ways of doing things, without having to enroll in a school environment. Being able to generate worlds procedurally really help to freshen each playthrough and I can see myself implementing it in many different ways! Also thanks to Mike's blender courses, which can get a bit overwhelming at times, but informative nonetheless!

After 7 years of making games and taking courses, I finally feel able to make my own games from scratch, and this is in huge part thanks to this course because the instructors, Penny and Mikey, really take the time to talk about the issues that other instructors don't take into account while making games, like the importing issues from Blender to Unity, or how to truly create modular assets, and of course, all the amazing algorithms and how to use them and reuse them for other purposes, using the A* algorithm to create mazes was mind blowing. If I could give this course a 10/5 stars rating, I would, it is the best game development course out there.

I've taken some great courses on this site, this has to be the best in terms of volume, clarity and thoroughness. In this course you will: 1) Learn several procedural generation methods 2) Learn some cool Blender functionality 3) Learn how to make a pathfinding algorithm I was only expecting number 1) but seeing how much extra stuff is here, I'm definitely coming back to go deeper and help some of the trickier stuff sink in. Can not recommend enough. Do this course now!

Great course. I’m nearly finished it so my rating is based on the whole course as opposed to reviewing it after watching one lesson (which Udemy asks quite often). I’d consider myself an intermediate coder and found this a healthy challenge. I’ve already started experimenting with my own algorithm for my game and it’s working. So yeah, I would definitely recommend.

This is honestly two courses in one. The procedural maze content is fantastic, but the unexpected bonus that made me really love this course is this is the first course I've taken that walks you through the entire process of building something in Blender and bringing it into unity; along with setting up textures and UV mapping. I've always felt pegged to using asset store assets because I didn't feel comfortable bringing my own assets in from Blender. This course has opened up a lot of possibilities on that end. The main area that could be improved is there are some areas where simple refactoring of the code would have saved me a lot of time following along with the lessons. I'm not too concerned about non-optimized code, but in this case there were several points where the course has you add new functionality, requiring you to go through big trees of if statements copying the same code over and over. A simple refactor to eliminate redundant code in a couple places would optimize the learning experience so less time is spent on updating code and more on learning the principles. But that's just an annoyance, the material here is absolutely gold.

Great idea to bring Unity and Blender together making this course a uniquely useful combination of scripting & design. Just perfect for the hobbyist like me who is still learning the basics of both aspects of game designing!

Once again Penny delivers very understandable and easy to follow course on algorithmic maze generation. This time she's accompanied with Mike Bridges who goes through the process of doing the modular maze pieces in Blender. Course structure is divided into two different logical parts where one part consists of understanding (and coding) the maze generation algorithms and other part is actually hopping into Blender and creating the pieces needed to visually represent the maze. I found everything very easy to follow and course was well paced. One piece of criticism is the lack of graph theory use as basis for the maze generation. Most of the presented maze generation algorithms are based on graph theory and it would have been good to start from that theory. It would have given the basis for experimenting with other algorithms e.g. circular mazes, rather than trying to work on the "count neighbors" -method. I would warmly recommend this course specially to people who are interested in getting started how to procedurally generate mazes and how to do the whole pipeline from both coding to the 3d modeling.

Un excellent cours sur la création de labyrinthes. La partie programmation est très bien faite et progresse doucement en difficulté. La partie Blender est par contre bien plus difficile à suivre (en tout cas pour moi) car le prof va parfois très vite et utilise des fonction qui me sont inconnues pour modéliser. Mais bon c'est normal car j'ai un faible niveau sur Blender, mais en faisant des pauses et en regardant plusieurs fois les passages on fini par maitriser le sujet. J'ai donc appris plein de trucs, c'est super merci :)

I am halfway through the course and I love it so far. Penny always delivers high-quality explanations of the logic behind every code. Very easy to follow and understand. I also learn something new in the Blender section regarding building modular pieces. But imo, this part definitely is not for beginners. It's quite fast-paced. I'd suggest taking some basic blender courses before jumping into this one. But you can always skip this part if you're not interested in building 3d models and the assets are all provided with the course. Thank you!

This is a fantastic course for learning the ins and outs of making procedural levels. Penny does a great job guiding you through the code side of generating mazes from simple mazes all the way through to giant dungeons. Michael brings things along guiding you through building the assets that can really bring your procedural levels to life.