Unity Game Tutorial: Galaga 3D

I got it because i like remaking OLD games like galaxians etc, and was having trouble with enemy waves…this has just come at the right time and it was 15.. TO BE HONEST I WOULDNT PAY ANYMORE for ANY course.

Great course! Could get a bit bumpy but overall the amount of knowledge shared is huge. I would rate it 5 stars if it had more sections like a Ship upgrades system for example or a PowerUps system! wasFun true;

Great Course, easy to follow and learning a lot of new ideas, many thanks

First the good. The course teaches what it says it will. Some of the algorithms could be explained a bit better, but they work. You will learn how to make a Galaga clone if you take this course. What keeps this course from getting 4 or 5 stars? Mainly some of the coding practices, which do not set a good example for intermediate programmers, the intended audience. For an intermediate level course, I expected the code architecture to be better. An intermediate programmer should start learning to incorporate better organizational practices such as the Single Responsibility Principle. Instead, here functionality is dumped into large classes that try to do way too much, which leads to inconsistencies and tight coupling dependencies, which are further confounded by functionality packed methods with poor naming. For example, instead of creating a separate health script, health functionality is shoved into two gigantic classes for the player and the enemies. As a result, the TakeDamage() method ends up taking positive numbers in the enemy class while taking negative numbers in the player class. The instructor does this because he wants to allow for the potential for healing pickups, but they are never implemented in the course. In any case, why would you heal by calling a TakeDamage() function? This could have been avoided by having a separate health class that is attached as another component to both the player and enemy prefabs. Methods often do much more than their names suggest, making it difficult to go back and find specific functionality. Variables are often poorly named. There is also a lot of code duplication, which makes it error prone if you want to modify it. The method for spawning enemies of different types is a perfect example; you’re basically retyping the same thing for each type of enemy, which becomes problematic when you want to change something because you have to do change it for each enemy type. The organization also becomes a problem when the instructor wants to turn off enemy particle systems when they are in formation, but because the instructor packed a method with so much functionality, he was likely unable to see a simple solution to retaining the particles while they are traveling back to formation. I would recommend this course for someone who is more at the beginning stages of programming in Unity. Not an absolute beginner, but maybe for your second or third game tutorial.

This course exceeded my expectations. Very good. The application of the Bezier curve concept was excellent and I know I will use it in my future projects! Congratulations to the teacher.

This is one of my favorite games from the past and enjoyed recreating this game. This is just a basic framework to get you going on your own, which I will continue to work on and add all the elements to the game and put my own spin on it. The instructor explained everything well and he was prompt to answer questions. I got through this class fairly quickly. I especially liked creating a bezier curve path for the enemy. Seen this done with waypoints and animation, but not this way. Also liked the trails and some of the effects. If you liked Galaga, it is worth taking this class to make your own. Joe

Awesome course! Professor goes through all of the core functions of a good space shooter game, explains everything he does, even uses some drawings to teach better logic and programming concepts and always answers doubts.