Unity: From Master To Pro By Building 6 Games (Udemy.com)

Overall, learned some new things. - The GoKit is outdated, needing you to fix some of the code in those scripts to get rid of the errors. - Good variation of games. - Instructor seems pretty knowledgeable in the source material. - Spends a bit too much time in code in the last game before testing it. Had to post a few comments for bugs still in the code. - Sometimes doesn't keep a consistent naming convention of variables. - Would be nice if there were more comments added in the code as we go along - but guess we can add that ourselves. Still a good process to follow, esp. in more complex games. This course is in a very old version of unity, so some of the functions are obsolete - but there is a section at the end to address some of that (and this course is over 8 years old).

I'm a veteran game designer (ex-Criterion/EA and Sony) who wanted to get into coding small indie games. I found the AwesomeTuts courses to be the perfect way to get my head round how to create and code a game from scratch in Unity. Since starting these courses I have completed some small games and found a new joy in coding. I give this course 5 stars without hesitation. The videos are easy to follow and packed with useful knowledge. Learning to code by making some fun games is a great way to learn and stay motivated to stick with the course. It's kind of addictive! I would like to make one suggestion to anyone who's goal is to "learn coding with C#". By all means take these courses from AwesomeTuts - they will teach you a lot about C#. However, the courses mainly cover the features of C# that are used in each games development. I found it useful to simultaneously take another course here on Udemy that focused specifically on C#. There I learned some knowledge that was not covered in this course. If you want to learn to make games for iPhone and Android there is no better resource than this. A big thanks to Fahir and his team for making this course. It's so valuable that it exists. - Rich

I really enjoy Fahir lectures and the teaching pace. The instructor is very thorough at explaining concepts and the reasons why he has used a particular code especially when it comes to new concepts in his lectures. The instructor responds to questions very promptly and is very engaging, that is a great plus for me. The one thing I would like to see is a Game Design Document included in the course hence I haven't given it 5 stars. However taking Awesome Tuts courses is a worthy path to take in exploring and experimenting in Unity3D building complete games and I am engaging in all his lectures/courses.

I have already finished the course and it was very good and challenging. I edit my review because I have things to comment. I learnt a lot of this course and it was more clear this course than the first one when the author show how to use third party plugins, and it is a little confuse making all the scripts by one and then test the game, like happened in the last section of bean crusher, but I know it is the only way they can explain it. I hope you can make tutorials to introduce a 3D game or some pseudo 3D, like 2.5D games, it will be great. Congratulations for your great work!!! I hope to see more of your tutorials in the future

i just finish now the puzzle game and something that i need to say is this tutorial é good for someone who is new to unity. But after seeing the puzzle game i have one BIG problem with this tutorial series. First, is well made the logical to do the puzzles, but i thought in the first tutorials because of the simplistic of the games, the visual were really simple. but seeing the puzzle tutorial, the trainer made a poor decision in how to organize the rows, something that is expected from a youtube free tutorial, but not from a paid tutorial. i'm still getting disapointed with this tutorial series. the games aren't made in a professional way in terms of visuals(not confuse with beauty, but yes with functionality to make look great). Exemple: if the i need to create a new puzzle that the pieces are in diferent sizes, i need to reprogram the thing for that exclusive puzzle.

This course contains great information and shares many tips of how to make a game in Unity. The only issues that I have had was the speed of which the instructor completes tasks as you can sometimes miss minor modifications which can cause major debugging issues (not a problem when you can rewind the video, but make sure you have some previous knowledge of programming and Unity) and the fact that the instructor will name variables, continue with instructing, and then later will rename these variables causing it to be some what confusing (Not often but keeps you on your toes and can be helpful building debugging skills). Other then that it is a great course that jumps right into creating games; providing instruction on how to create games which are similar to some top grossing mobile games. I could see any of these projects doing very well on a mobile platform.

So, the projects we're building here are great: going forward in a game development career, this will add to your library of completed games and overall bag of tricks. That said, I found the content to be severely hampered by the teaching approach which follows a "Do then explain" format. Obviously, it is extremely important to know what you're doing and why before you start typing. In any programming situation, we address the desired outcome, then go about solving; this course does the opposite so that the teacher types a few functions and then says "I did that because...". To me, the overall impression is one of watching someone who has done this a thousand times do it once more with explanation added as an afterthought. All that said, there are a number of useful practices and code decisions I'm glad to have picked up here.

This review is based on my completing the Bean Crusher tutorial. The author appears to be a very experienced programmer and presents many advanced and important features of game design, like attaching data models to prefabs and like controlling animations - design patterns which were very valuable to me. The explanations what the classes and functions he was writing had much to be desired. On only one occasion did he supply an illustration of what he was trying to accomplish. It was in Lecture 86: Candy Manager Part 3 on which he describes the Horizontal and Vertical check. I was not sure what the point of these were until later in the tutorial when it became clear that it was to ensure that the game was not generated with no possible moves – a good idea. Code annotations would have been very helpful: //columnsWithMissingCandies: columns that have at least 1 null //create new prefab in any slot that has a null private AlteredCandyInfo CreateNewCandyInSpecificColumn (IEnumerable columnsWithMissingCandies) { AlteredCandyInfo newCandyInfo = new AlteredCandyInfo (); //iterate through all columns foreach (var column in columnsWithMissingCandies) { //get all positions that have a null var emptyItems = candies.GetEmptyItemsOnColumn (column); etc…

This is a great series from start to finish! It starts out with fairly simple but complete games and moves right into more and more complex fully functional games. This series covers many different concepts that are commonly used in all sorts of games, and each game in the series is quite different from the last! The instructor responds quickly and will help with anything you have questions about. I feel like this is a great place for beginners and has a lot of cool tricks for the more experienced developer as well. Towards the end of the class(the last two games) he moves extremely fast over certain functions and things start to look pretty messy, but if you study it and ask questions there is a whole lot of knowledge to be absorbed here!

This is not true on all of the sections, but on the Throwing Birds lesson, there is no incremental build up and testing. Instead of iteratively growing the codebase with incremental testing, we code the entire project in several lessons. Unless you are lucky enough to be perfect, a single defect could throw the entire game off. There is no way to know when the defect was introduced. This is frustrating. Without an iterative coding approach with occasional testing 1) It is not realistic practice to develop an entire application without testing along the way 2) too many concepts are covered without feedback 3) no reinforcement of understanding of the subject 3) Debugging is unrealistic. I might suggest adding verification of functionality along the way.