Metroidvania Toolkit: Make a 2D Action Platformer in Unity

The content of the previous courses is not complete enough and the demo content does not work in the correct way.

First of all, I want to say that the course is not bad, but certainly not for people who are not familiar with code. The instructor creates the code very quickly. In my perception, there was a lack of patience to explain what was being done. Another thing that really displeased me was the insertion of text in the video to correct or to make you notice something. If you want to follow the video programming along, you can't always look at the screen and with this format you might end up missing something. Another thing that displeased me and that I recently saw in the video, was in the middle of the video the instructor undoes several things he had done in the walljump to put another better solution, he asks me to correct it with him and ignore the parts of the code that he will show that have not yet been explained. However, there is a function that he even changed the name and is not explained. I stayed a while until I figured out which function he was talking about. For me, this could be avoided if the instructor re-recorded this part with the best solution, I felt laziness on his part. And finally, this thing about refactoring code after you've written a ton of code can even happen in real life, but in a course I think it's really bad. It feels like wasted work. Why not do it the way you already knew to be the best the first time? Why did you make me do it the worst way and then give me the best way? In a course I want to learn the best form the first time, if I wanted to know the worst form I wouldn't have bought a course.

This course is excellent so far. As someone familiar with code and game development on a smaller scale, this is my first experience with Unity for my team and I must say that the concepts are made really easy to grasp and the little challenges are not so hard and help to stay motivated. Keep up the good work and I hope that I can share my first game some day in the future !

Currently I am starting college classes in hopes of getting a computer science degree, and I decided half way through my first semester to try and learn some basics of the unity engine. I downloaded Unity prior to this, end immediately felt overwhelmed. This course seems very engaging and I am super stoked to dive right into it!

As someone with a couple decades of programming experience (albeit in other languages), minimal exposure to game development, and a love of metroidvania games, this course was definitely worth the money. The instructor uses a lot of best practices for C# with things like [SerializeField] private variables instead of making everything public, which are lacking in some other similar courses. They also have been very responsive in the Q&A section, which allowed me to fix some issues without having to ask my own questions. Some things that caused me to leave a 4 star review instead of 5: - A lot of the time anything related to Vector2/Vector3 methods came up, the instructor stated that they didn't understand the concepts behind the code being used, but that it "just worked" and to type it and move on. I get it, I don't like math either. But literally everything in video game development involves math. At some point you have to bite that bullet and obtain a basic understanding of the concepts, especially if you're trying to teach them to others. While not math-related, there's a part where the code is using a ternary operator to convert between integers and bools, and the instructor straight up says they have no idea why it works. Ternary operators aren't exactly an advanced concept and it would have been better to learn what they are before using them in the video. - As others have mentioned, there are a lot of text-only corrections to videos, which are easy to miss if you are more focused on listening and typing your own code. There are some video edits to interject voiceover corrections as well, and the combination of the two creates a feeling of inconsistency when trying to fix issues caused by the original recordings. A re-recording of the course with the fixes in place would greatly benefit students, especially given that it's now a couple years old and feels a little outdated. - Most of the content in the "Supplemental Learning" section is just from the instructor's YouTube page without any edits to make it more relevant to the context of the course. While it's nice to have more generic solutions provided toward the end of the course, it's a bit jarring to switch gears to 4 videos that aren't based on the work you've been doing, then going to the final video (character switching) which does expect you to be using the course project. A re-recording of those videos within the context of the project solution would be actual added value for the course, whereas right now there's a false perception that there's more course-exclusive content than there actually is. - While the instructor does have a high level of engagement in the Q&A section, there are a lot of recent answers that can be summed up as "I don't know what's wrong, go download the final project and copy my code and it'll work." That's the least helpful thing a new developer could hear as a response, and does not set them up for future success in the same way that asking probing questions and providing more targeted responses can. I get that you can't be expected to answer every inane question people ask without doing their own research, but telling them to copy/paste isn't the way to go either. Overall I got what I expected out of this course even with my minor frustrations noted above, and it put me in a good position to expand my knowledge further now that I know the right questions to ask.

One of the worst courses I've purchased on Udemy. It's a huge red flag when the "instructor" pleads with you to talk to him first before leaving a review. At best it only means he doesn't know how to present course material effectively, at worst it means he doesn't know the material at all. Considering the last post to the Q&A was months ago, I see no point in attempting to ask help. There are far better courses out there.

He explains everything in just the right detail without wasting any time going into tangents. Very direct and to the point, in addition I really like his teaching style.

Still haven't finished the whole course, but it's safe to say at this point that this tutorial has incredible value... Will make a more detailed review when I'm done (I'm at around 30%) but so far it's been stellar. Recommended!

Just finished the course. Overall the course was good and the instructor was effective at helping someone code out the core elements of a metroidvania. He uses bone-based approach for character and I was able to follow along uses sprites for my character. There is problem that other reviews have touched on: the lectures in this series have become a bit of a hodge-podge. 1. He goes back and splices in corrections to the videos 2. Sometimes he will just overlay text. So if you aren't looking at the video, you may miss the text. Sometimes there is a comical number of corrections, I think one lecture it happened 4+times (~10 - 20 min videos on average). This problem gets worse as the series goes on, and in the last sections I noticed some errors with the build that he did not address (likely because he is trying to address things retroactively with a complete solution build), so I had to figure those out on my own or ask a question. This makes for a somewhat frustrating experience, and Brent would greatly benefit from biting the bullet and re-recording this series with updates (such as what GameDevTV does). If he does do that, I would suggest putting more effort into the visuals to attract more students , fleshing out the AI section (bosses), integrating melee combat into the core lecture series, and having a lecture or two about adding art assets and maybe lighting. I don't regret my purchase, it is a good course.

Definitely a good match! I like how he explains and describes what we're doing. Very clear and concise.

So far this is way better than any course on YouTube well worth the price this could easily have been priced way more and would still be worth the price.

The Course is good and the subjects that I liked more was stuff like scriptable objects all the level manager scripts to change scenes all the minimap and map section but I would have like it more if it included melee attacks sounds on animations or pickups and more stuff but it´s a really well made up course

Teaching style and pace are perfect, and there are loads of great things in here. What I can't get over is the complete lack of a finite state machine, which should be the backbone of any game like this. Add that, and I'd be more than happy to 5 star this course.

Great Course for both people with no prior knowledge of coding and intermediates looking to expand into gamedev

Great course. Ive been doing game development for over 2 years and STILL learned some stuff from the first section. Thank you so much, Brent! :)