The Ultimate Guide to making a 2D strategy game in Unity (Udemy.com)

I'm a software engineer who is learning game development on the side. What immediately stuck out to me when taking this course was a lot of the coding practices. Everything is very tightly coupled, all of the scripts have mixed responsibilities. Tile, Unit, and GameMaster class know how to handle too many things. There are a lot of inefficiencies, the code very lazily iterates over every tile for any action that takes place, it works but on a bigger map performance would really start to degrade. I will give some credit, this is a way to approach development, so in that sense I feel somewhat inspired, but the truth is this doesn't scale at all. I find it ironic in the last video there are a ton of suggestions that would be nearly impossible to implement with the current setup.

Props to BTP for presenting material that does not appear all that commonly in these beginner-friendly courses: grid-based movement, turn-based action, mouse controls, and so forth. Even though the course is only a few hours of video, it contains a surprisingly large amount of useful material. That said, there are some significant gaps. Examples: there is a (very brief) discussion of how to rig a walk animation, but no discussion of when to trigger it. No discussion of attack animations, even though the modular characters were clearly designed with this in mind. The depth of Units in the 2D scene is a recurring issue that could easily have been addressed early on (a reasonable solution is proposed later, but it is not included everywhere it is needed, e.g. in Unit spawning). The video on setting up the Stats Canvas is missing a brief comment on sizing a World Space Canvas that would have spared me a lot of consternation. Code overall is reasonably good, but variables are unnecessarily declared as public. Although I really like BTP's quirky, psychedelic art style, I didn't get a lot of value out of the art tutorial sections. This is just a personal preference, but I find that it's best to keep coding and art classes separate to allow students to work on these distinct goals independently. Overall, this is a decent course with a lot of useful content.

It's a great course. I understand the objective of not being overly explanatory (to have big course durations, as some do ) or explain every detail to allow for students to try for themselves, but the last third of the seems a bit rushed. I was trying to follow on my project, but I actually preferred to just see the videos anyway, and then I'll try to create something from scratch based on what I've learned (as this is not my first or only course). That said, it varies a lot from student to student - and it's a great course and a time well spent.

Pretty good but there are a lot of smaller details which are missed, and could have been put into a 'setup document' like setting the scale of objects to get the 1 unit placement, or how to group objects. Admittedly I'm coming at this without any Unity experience (33 Years Game Dev though) and you did sell it as an intermediate course, but would have been nice to get some extra setup info, even if it were just notes to read alongside the video content.

Loveable teachers and a fun and quick ride so far, but the coding could be better and the art asset creation could have been described more clearly and in more detail.
As a coder, the code quality is a little below what I would have expected and on the art side I'm kinda lost somewhat (especially without a drawing tablet).
I also fear that they might skip any kind of AI completely, but will update on this at the end.
Nevertheless, would recommend. :)

There are many tips and tricks you can learned from this course which is very good imo. However, the course does very little explanation on the approach but instead just allows you to follow along. You still get incredible value to create the core mechanics of a simple strategy game, but you would have to be innovative and go beyond to create your own original game or a slightly more complex strategy game.

For a three hour course it had some good information, but definitely needed slightly more in-depth overviews of how/what/why things were done instead of simply glossing over them.

This is the best tutorial i have ever went through:)

This course was exactly what I was looking for. It's not a survey course. They get straight to the point. Usually I'll watch tutorials on 2x speed... not with these guys. While the amount of video content may appear to be less than some the the leading courses, the content is very much on par -- it's just far more efficient. As someone who gets a bit distracted this has been perfect for me.

Spot on - covers all the bases, yet it is concise. The discord channel was a great help.

This course provides a good amount of variety of concepts but does not explain most things and if you want to deviate from the course in any way it is very difficult to by expanding some of the concepts introduced.

The overall course is totally awesome. But it become kinda rush at the end and skip few moves and I feel a lil confused.