Unreal Engine: Create an Arcade Classic!

I’m through approximately 80% of the course, and would highly recommend it to anyone who would like to learn how to translate game ideas into a functional game using the Unreal Engine 4 blueprint framework. Greg does a fantastic job explaining concepts and reasoning behind his design. He answers questions rapidly and enthusiastically and is very encouraging when students ask about extensions and alternate ways to accomplish design tasks, going so far as to mock up blueprint design ideas in the answers to the questions. By the end of the course I was jumping ahead and trying to guess how Greg was going to approach a task, and more often than not (especially the high scores part) he had more efficient or easier ways of doing things than I came up with on my own. You can tell Greg has a lot of experience finding eminently teachable ways of accomplishing goals. One problem with most YouTube tutorials out there is while they do achieve a working result, we as the viewer are often left wondering why one specific way of doing things was chosen and don’t get to benefit from the explanation why, which can often only come by asking the author, which you can do here, and in Greg’s case he always answers. Other little things include explaining keyboard shortcuts and how to find various things in the editor multiple times, so if you happen to miss the first way to bind an event to a button or change a variable name, for example, you’ll be exposed to it again and again until you could do it in your sleep. Thanks for a great course, Greg!

He goes through things really quickly so it is hard to learn. Great material though.

Good explanations, easy to follow along. Goes in depth on why he makes his decisions and what he wants to achieve. Project is fully beginning to end. Goes over all the aspects we come across and puts in effort/extra features to make the game more appealing. Which gives an insight into what real game development is.

Excellent training. My only regret is that you didn’t fix the problem with the eye that is down there when you move in axis x negative, I tried several things without result, but I’m an ultra beginner in EU4. I hope you will do more training on the same principle, but more in the Gallaga style:) I apologize in advance for my poor English, I use an automatic translator. Alain

He screws around too much doing things that he does not explain as he does them, saving them for later. That’s annoying. He makes a lot of time wasting mistakes. Also, he is doing this all in a hacky way, as opposed to doing it properly, like not having things properly aligned, and using the 3p character instead of creating the character from scratch.

Generally speaking, it’s a good intro into the Unreal Editor. But the teacher misses some basic understanding which leads to wrongly explanations. It’s a bit surprising as it are things one would expect to understand from someone experienced with game development. Also, he’s too hasty or casual in some explanations causing him to name things wrongly while he showed before knowing correctly what they are.

Greg is an excellent instructor and communicator, and the course materials are excellent. He spoke quickly and clearly and was able to cover a huge amount of material, while still attending to every detail. He had also done a lot of calculations off screen, so we didn’t have to sit through him winging it while building the assets, which is greatly appreciated. He also wiggles the mouse a lot, so you can tell what he’s doing in that overly complex editor a tiny detail, but it helped the students, and he makes sure to do it every single time. I have worked as a professional software developer for 30+ years, including going to countless training sessions and seminars, so I know what I’m talking about when I say: This course is the best I have ever seen.

Greg Wondra’s courses are second to none in this industry.

The audio is clipping a bit.

Some blueprint implementations presented here are simply hair raising to the experienced programmer, but that’s because Greg is not a programmer. Where this course really shines is that it shows you what creating a game is really about, a millions of menus and widgets etc., and more important, how to put it all together to make a complete game. Really really enjoyed this course, I was able to learn so much from this, awesome experience. Thanks for putting this up!

It was great! the explanations were simple and you leave having a better grasp of blueprint scripting!

Perfect for beginners.

You haven’t shared the completed project, please share your files with the students ! I’ll edit the rating when I can get a look at the whole file.

So far this course is awesome! Learning the unreal game engine and how everything works together.

A great course, went over many topics and final result is pretty awesome. The Instructor is very responsive in the Q&A section and I found answers to most of my questions there. By the end I definitely had a firm grasp of the concepts, and was able to add my own modifications to the game to really make it my own. Thanks Greg for this amazing course!

Bit early to tell yet, but looks promising. I wanted a complete n00b course to walk me through the bewildering array of options in UE to make a simple arcade game so this is a good match.

Great Instructor, great course ! Highly recommended for beginners as he goes through stuff at a beginners pace to follow.

This is great course. I learned a lot of things. Especially, [Saving & Loading] and [Top Scores] section was so useful(worthful) for me.

i am eager to build my own pac man like game it’s been a dream of mine