So the first module was about Development Practice and involved a lot of critical reflection with the aim of setting personal goals. It included a couple of rapid ideation sessions to fuel this reflection where we had two weeks to build a prototype based on a theme (essentially a game jam). I've decided to use Godot to make these mini games and we had to make videos of them. These are the videos:
(unfortunately there was some bug with Godot when spawning and scaling particle effects when moving the camera leading to the flashes you see..)
They were 100% done by myself, as one of my goals is to also get better at drawing and animation. Programming is my main skill, but I think if I want to be a serious game developer I need to branch out a bit! Although we had two weeks to work on each they were only really done in one week due to my other commitments, so in all I was quite happy with the result.
The assessment involved maintaining a critical reflection journal in the university platform and creating a 10 minute video presenting the journal, rapid ideation and goals. The quality of the games themselves were not evaluated as they were just the means to an end. I got 76 in 100, so not too shabby! The feedback was very encouraging too!
The next module begins this week and now I'll have to create a full game (or vertical slice of one) in 3 months. I'm thinking in using Unity this time.
@eastmen this course does not really teach you anything technical directly. We have no formal classes. It's pretty much on the student to do their own learning with support and guidance from tutors. The actual learning content is a bit more academic, as in what are games made of (some of it might be common sense..), how everything comes together, etc. But there are no drawing classes, Unity classes, etc. For me it's a mix of getting that theoretical knowledge together with having an incentive to keep going, as most of the technical knowledge I could probably get myself without it. It's also good to network with other like minded people. So your mileage may vary depending on what you are looking for. If you are only looking for technical skills it's not the best. Some people have already dropped because of that.
