Create Board and Video Game Design Projects – 4 Courses in 1

Gostei do curso, sou programador e j sei criar jogos, mas legal aprender sobre essa parte mais profunda e o porqu de cada elemento do jogo estar em cada lugar.

This course had a wealth of information and good recourses. I felt like the board and table top game sections could be a course by it’s self and the digital game part could be another course but I see why he combines them into one long course so this is easily a 4.5 star experience.

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I’ll start with a caveat that I have been designing tabletop games for years. However, I feel that I always have more to learn from anyone with experience in the industry and usually pick up something new in any blog, course, podcast or book that I consume. I cannot say the same for this course. Perhaps the digital game section is better, but this is not my focus and I only watched the videos relevant to tabletop games, and I did not learn one single new concept. I found the information extremely basic at best and inaccurate in some cases at worst. The presenter tries to be funny but fails. It just comes across as very awkward. He mispronounces words (dices) and the slides are filled with typos and grammatically incorrect sentences. There are also background noises (passing vehicles, etc.) in some of the early videos. I didn’t find the lectures professional. When he talks about getting your game published, he begins by mentioning that you as a designer will receive a percentage of the sales, however, he never uses the actual term, which is royalty. He then goes on to give an example of getting your game made where he says you as the designer will pay $10 per unit, then give this to the publisher for $12. This is just plain incorrect. If you sign your game with a publisher, they will pay for all art, manufacturing, etc., and you will be given a royalty (percentage on game sales). You will not pay to have your game made. This is not how the industry works. If you were to self publish your game (a method he speaks little about) on the other hand, then you would pay for art, manufacturing, etc. and get all the profit from crowdfunding, and if you got your game into distribution or directly in stores, they would pay 40 50% of the MSRP (distributors 40% and retailers 50%), leaving you with the rest as profit after you exclude all your costs. No other publisher would be involved in this case, as you yourself would be the publisher. There are much better resources to learn about game design, publishing, etc. Don’t waste your time with this incredibly basic and sometimes inaccurate course.

it’s an okay course, but it is too basic and far from the masterclass

Muito bom pra quem est come ando muito til.

I don’t feel mastering the game design after this class. It is indicated All Levels despite the fact that it is just an introduction (it should be to Beginners). It is more like an inventory of what exists without explaining the best practices and WHY. There are some tips that I will keep but I do not feel empowered by the course. About the form, the sound isn’t perfect, there are some montage mistakes and WAY TOO MUCH slide reading. Also 1 hour Construct 2 tutorial had nothing to do in a game design course…

Adorei o curso