The Art of Doing: Video Game Creation With Python and Pygame (Udemy.com)

This course is very well structured and organized, making it easy to follow from start to finish. The topics are explained clearly and in a way that’s easy to understand, even for beginners. The instructor is precise and speaks with a clear, pleasant tone that is never boring — a great advantage for those who are not native English speakers. Overall, I’m very satisfied with the course and would definitely recommend it to anyone who wants to learn how to create game with Python using pyGame.

Thank you very much, Mr Eramo for this great course. I can highly recommend it to all beginning and intermediate pythonistas out there, and anyone who loves game design principles and programming. I really enjoyed the structure and the workflow when designing object classes for each component and the incremental approach of little by little assembling each project. There were just a few areas where I personally would have used methods like list comprehension or lambdas to shorten redundant code, but I think readability and grasping the fundamental concepts is more important for coders who just started out. All in all I really had fun, improved my python skills, got a refresher on kinematic equations and could even reinforce the design patterns learned by porting over some of the programs to other languages such as Blitz Basic. Again, thanks for teaching all this stuff. See you around at another one of your courses, Mr. Eramo, Sir!

Great, course! Instructor was great. Learned a lot even with a basic understanding of Python, and especially appreciated the repetition of typing things out (no copy/paste) particularly early on to solidify my own learning. My only critique was the last game, Zombie Knight had a lot of redundant code between classes, made for a long code. Seems like it could have been improved by moving some of the classes to their own files, and creating additional classes and/or functions to consolidate the redundant functionality. Overall, would recommend.

Nice introduction into pygame. However, especially at later stages of the course the code itself becomes really bloated and could be done much better. I think this will annoy experienced Python programers and teach beginners the wrong way of doing things. Even though the code itself works, it can become pretty much unreadable or hard to debug. For example copying the same line of code 60 times to load images that only differ in a number in their filename or the gender of the zombie in thefile path isn't really a proper way of implement this type of code. Utility methods (to handle such imports) would have been great to use as well! Also, it's a bit of a shame that inheritance was almost never used and every class was within the same script. Courses like these are pretty much perfect to introduce concepts of object oriented programming in my opinion. For example, it would've been quite easy to create a base class for e.g. "objects" or "creatures" which has base animate(), move(), ... methods, which can then be used and adapted by zombies, rubies, portals and so on. I am also a bit confused by the Advanced Pygame Tutorial, since you basically create the same platformer in Zombie Knight anyway? It felt a bit redundant. Overall this course teaches you the basics of pygame, but will not teach you how to really code a real game. I am sure (or at least I hope) that no successful, modern game has been written in a single script, or has this amount of redundancy.

This course was fantastic! It's perfect for beginners, who just learned the basics of python and like to go on with small projects. On top you get a basic understanding of how games work and how you can implement some basic OOP concepts into code. I had a lot of fun and will now try to code my own mini platformer. I just wish there were some real exercises to apply the learned concepts (with solutions) and maybe a second course (which dives deeper into some more physics concepts or stuff like creating whole levels, scrolling, menus, saving etc.) But nevertheless, after you've finished the course, you know almost enough to do a lot of this stuff on your own. Awesome teacher!

The course was a great beginners course, it included all basics for pygame and the instructor was great at explaining everything. I am have already a lot of experience with python so most of the times I was just skipping some parts of the videos so I could do it myself because I already knew what the main idea was so I ended up doing something else. I used the 2x speed because I of the same reason. Overall is a great starting point if you want to learn pygame and if you already have experience with python, If you are advanced python programmer it will be a little slow for you.

This was a really well put together course that gradually built skills in pygame by creating increasingly complex 2D games. I took this course directly after completing an general python boot camp and it was an fun way to further develop my programming skills (especially with OOP). The instructor is well spoken and clearly explained the required concepts. Throughout the course I developed the skills required to make some games of my own (including a brick breaker and a blackjack game complete with UI). I highly recommend this course to anyone with some background python experience looking to explore game creation.

The course teach you how to manage pygame library to create 2D basic games. You learn how to work a 2D game engine and how to work with this. So, many concepts can be extrapoled to another game engines. The pace of the course is not heavy and the explanations are easy to follow, except in some aspects where although the logic of the code is explained, you need to study it carefully by yourself to finish understanding it, for example the kinematics system. A negative aspect is that the course not deeper in more advanced concepts like custom events, camera movements, substraction sprites from one single image files, etc. But in a nutshell, the course helps you to lay a solid foundation of knowledge about pygame and 2d games, and also about python language ,saving you time. In general, I would recommend this course. It is a great course.

Very good introduction to Pygame. The instructor talked clearly and takes his time to answer questions in Q&A section. I really liked his tone throughout the course, I could hear his excitement, he's having a great time and enjoying what he's doing. I wish there was a section about using an external tool like Tiled to import a JSON file and parse it into Pygame, that would make the course even greater but I know this is beyond the course's scope. I'm looking forward for more courses from the author.

Excellent course. I have gone from knowing nothing to being confident I could make a game in pygame. I would highly suggest you have some basic knowledge of python objects, loops, functions and dict objects before starting this course. He does explain classes really well, but he assumes you know what a for loop or do while loop is. If you're not confident with those concepts you might struggle with this course.