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

  • kingthrillgore
    4•2 months ago

    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.