Unreal Engine 4: How to Develop Your First Two Games (Udemy.com)

Great to build real functioning products, but would have liked it more if time was taken to explain more as to "why" things are the way they are. Also, I understand that Epic Games has a very "strict" game style that they expect you to follow with Unreal. If you don't follow it, Unreal will be a real pain. It would have been great if this class went into the expected structure of a game Unreal is build for and some of the programming semantics. This would have helped guide the reasoning behind certain choices and also editor workflows.

Very good course for beginners. The tutor explained the basics very well. We started off with introduction to the UI, which many find intimidating in Unreal. However, the tutor explained it in a very structured, easy to use and with a case study that helped us to relate to what we were doing. From the very beginning we directly jumped to a 2.5D game development which introduced us to Blueprints in much more details. We learned how to code for event capturing, movements through Blueprints. The difficult part I felt during the entire course was the lack of detailed explanations provided for some difficult topics like material manipulation, collision and a few other things which appeared to be simplistically covered and we rushed through them. Another case was with understanding of Animation Montages in the second game example. Those are fairly complex topics, which should have been given due importance with slightly more detailed explanations. We, ourselves, would need to do some additional research on these topics to completely grasp it. This is not essentially bad, as it makes you self reliant and forces you to explore other support channels, something you'd need to use a lot after your course. Also, some of the interface elements appeared different due to the version difference. You will have to struggle and find some of the options, which are visible by default in the older versions - for instance a basic element like Modes Panel. One suggestion I would like to give is that at the beginning of each chapter, the tutor can provide a vision of what we are going to achieve by the end of this chapter visually, and not just orally. This would help us to visualize and follow exactly what we are doing and why we are doing. Since this practice was not followed, invariably, you'll have to watch each chapter at least twice - once to understand what is being done, and second to implement and understand why and how its done. Thus, you can easily consider the course duration to be easily over 80 hours!

This course was a fantastic visual introduction to Unreal Engine 4. It answered a lot of the questions I had about visual design and programming in the engine. I often slowed the videos down to 0.75 speed to make it easier to follow the instructions. When there were errors in the videos, usually caused by updates to the Unreal Engine that changed functionality, the instructor was active in the Q&A section and helpful. I really enjoyed this course!

This course does a good job of covering the basics. The instructor is great. I (unknowingly) asked a complex question, and they essentially made a mini tutorial in order to answer it. Given the janky nature of Unreal's physic engine; it would however be helpful if the pinball tutorial had more on how to tune the ball movement, hit reactions, etc.

Mostly an awesome beginner tutorial with a lot of useful content. There're lack of explanation at few points such as "Why we set blend depth to -5" or "Why AI running backward after setting focal point", but it's hard to cover everything when it comes to such complicated tool like game engine. This tutorial help me start my journey and I really appreciate it. 5 stars no question.

I am a hobbyist and really enjoyed this course. I wish Chris would go a little slower, especially in the Blueprint areas. I purchased this course because I was interested in the ArchViz and TopDown game. The TopDown game felt rush in the last few lessons but I enjoyed working on it. Be prepared to watch some of the lessons over again or use the slowmo playback options. Instructor was fast at times but very knowledgeable and responsive to questions. It would be nice if he did a layman's review of the more complex blueprints before moving on to the next thing. I almost gave up on learning UE4 and game design but this brought me back in the fold and got me excited about the process again.

This is my first course on Udemy and overall I am satisfied with the lessons. Christopher is clearly very knowledgeable and the fact that it is approved by EPIC themselves was what convinced me to purchase the course. PROS: -Mostly easy to follow. -Starting with learning the editor and moving into games I think helped. -The 2 game courses did seem to cover many of the Unreal features. -Instructor responds to questions in the comments, other students were the most helpful though. -The provided assets was nice. CONS: -There were certain functions and concepts I would have liked more explanation on. He moved a bit fast sometimes. -He leaves behind a few bugs without explaining how to fix them. Some weren't his fault, like the editor version was out of date.

This course offers a great starting point for learning how to use Unreal 4. The course is Epic approved, so you can be sure that the information you are getting is good. The difficulty curve is perfect. You never feel as though you are getting into something that you aren't prepared for and the instructor is very good about pulling out of blueprints and showing what progress you have made in the editor so that you can understand what is that you are doing. I highly recommend this course to anyone interested in learning how to use Unreal and Blueprints.

Great Course. I have a Unity 3D Game Engine background and found this course very helpful in bridging the gap between the two Engines. Having a background and programming definitely gave me an advantage, but the information is well presented and the instructor gives great explanations so that no prior experience is necessary. Section 3 is a bit of a whirlwind and the instructor kind of breezes through everything. I suggest watching the video, then attempting to emulate the work, as opposed to going along with him. It's easy to get lost and miss a small, yet vital element. The Unreal community in general has great support, and the Q&A with the course is fairly solid and still kept up to date. The instructor does challenge the users to figure things out based on what he's shown already, and no project is bug free so it's a helpful element of the course.

This course was a wonderful experience and a fantastic way to learn the Engine. Many of the tutorials and videos I could find on Epic's documentation page and Youtube didn't cover the wide array of topics Chris covered in this series. Before this class, I had taken many coding courses, but struggled through learning blueprints and Unreal's various functions. However, this course fully explained the blueprint system, animation system, and more.The class was generally an all around great experience, and I highly recommend it to anyone wishing to get into game development.