Godot

I bought a gamedev.TV course on kickstarter and found the content to be pretty unimpressive but the marketing and community to be cultish. I was personally disappointed but some of the class acted like it was the bee's knees.

My gut check when I see pricing like this is that its a scam!

I think free to access educational materials make a lot of sense for products like Godot, do you have any you would recommend?

Edit: I used some GDQuest content back in the early 3.x days and found it pretty good. I haven't been able to do much lately so I haven't seen his recent stuff but this looks like it would be worth a look for anyone getting started.

https://youtu.be/GwCiGixlqiU

With Brackeyes returning and getting into Godot there's hopefully going to be more better tutorials. But yeah, I'd expect something pretty extensive for paid educational material.

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 :-).

I've bought the $1 tier to get into shaders and I sort of agree. I took the Unity 2D course when I was starting out game development and it was excellent, really gave you everything you need to know to understand and learn how to make real games.

I'm 75% through the shader course (which is fairly short, like ~2 hours long) and it's just okay. It gives you a decent introduction on how shaders work, teach you a few simple effects like distortion and dissolving and color swapping, then you're on your own. I didn't feel like I learned enough to be confident making my own shaders and I still only have a surface level understanding of it. Not great for a paid course, I'm starting to think that's the reason it was only $1 in the bundle.

I still 100% recommend their 2D unity course but it seems like how good the course is depends on the instructor. Rick is the best instructor they have, the new ones aren't cutting it. Maybe I should make my own tutorials because a lot of Godot offerings currently are lacking.

I'm willing to give them some wiggle room because Godot is still new (new as in, nobody was using it until literally last year when Unity did us all a solid) and they need to get with trends, and fast.

I'm doing their early access shader class (because I suck at shaders and I don't have much time for it) so we'll see how it shakes out. In most other things, I'm already well beyond the tuts and am mostly scraping YouTube and the Godot Docs.

If someone asked me to recommend Godot tutorials, I'd pick GDQuest every time. I've been with Nathan since day one, and he's been involved with Godot about as long.

brackeys incoming soon : D

I'm curious what details you felt are missing? And what really bad practice did they promote?

I have no experience with their 2D course but I have been enjoying the 2.5D C# course so far. Admittedly I'm only about half way through it so probably too early for a proper opinion, but I've learned a lot about using the engine and C# interactions to build scalable mechanics. Not to say the course is perfect, I've hit some annoying issues I've had to solve myself that apparently didn't effect the instructor but it's more cohesive than anything I've found in public.

I am really not liking the pace myself, but I do have a programming background. I am watching at 2x speed just.

If you want to learn about Godot shaders, you can try these video tutorials.