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submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by astreus@lemmy.ml to c/godot@programming.dev

Before the humble bundle came out, I bought the GameDev.tv "complete" Godot course - I had a good early bird discount since I've used them for Unity.

Over the past few years, I have completed the 2D, 3D, and several of the RPG intermediate courses for unity as well as a Blender course so was super excited for this new one!

And then was super disappointed.

I start with the 2D course every time and this one was...hollow. Super empty. Maybe a quarter of the content as the Unity course with a lot of basic things missing and some really bad practice promoted. I did the whole course on 1.25x speed and still had to skip through a lot of waffle.

I'm now doing courses for free on Youtube and have learnt far, far more.

It really is a shame as I'm a fan of GameDev.tv, but they really missed the mark with the Godot offering.

EDIT: clarity

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[-] Chee_Koala@lemmy.world 5 points 4 months ago

That's a real bummer :-( . I use the Firebelley course on Udemy and I love it. I have little reference except all the free tutorial context, but I feel this tutorial is in depth, explains clearly and at a nice speed. Also like the guys voice but that will be pretty personal.

https://www.udemy.com/course/create-a-complete-2d-arena-survival-roguelike-game-in-godot-4/?couponCode=ST6MT42324

Only other paid course in Godot I took was a book for Godot 3.4, I liked it but updating the code to Godot 4 took too much time. I see Mr. Bradfield has updated his book to Godot 4 though!

Actually started looking around for Godot lessons the same time last year because I checked out the courses in the Humble Sale and they didn't inspire me, so I went out to see if there was any paid course that did :-).

[-] astreus@lemmy.ml 1 points 4 months ago

I'm slowly realising one of the joys of FOSS is the community driven aspect means free or ko-fi funded courses tend to be really good.

[-] Chee_Koala@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago

That's true! As an addition, I can recommend going over to the Godot discord. Sometimes reactions can be a bit annoyed or they will misjudge noobish questions for lazy questions but most of the time there one or two around that want to help! Sidenote: helping someone else with their project can be super fun and educational.

[-] astreus@lemmy.ml 1 points 4 months ago

I have a natural aversion to Discord. I use Slack all day at work, why would I want to use it in my spare time, you know?

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