Mobile Game Art Design 2016

Rob M.

The title of this course leads you to believe you may learn something about the "design" of "art" for "games" - this would be an incorrect assumption.

The instructor is not a native English speaker which, in itself, is not a huge problem, but what is a huge problem is the incredibly poor standard of the recording of this material. There are so many occasions where the instructor makes mistakes with this words and then repeats his paragraph again. Ordinarily, you would expect that the instructor would edit the video content in such a way that these mistakes are removed, where-as here, we get a repetition of nonsense.

There are many occasions where the instructor seems quite concerned about the runtime of his video recording and keeps checking the duration. There are many occasions where the instructor says "I will see you in the next video" only to then, either intentionally, or by accident, carries on recording whilst he tries to figure out what is going wrong with the image he has been working on.

Section two of this course is utter gibberish, having just installed Photoshop and had an incredibly fast run through of some of the tools, the instructor goes completely off topic for an entire section. During this section, you are bombarded with flickering images which have been, presumably, taken from Haiku.com or Google images which may relate, slightly, to the over-arching course title but have no bearing at all on what the instructor is currently talking about.

In the following sections, you are introduced to the concept of copying images from Flappy Bird. I am still at a loss as to why you would painstakingly try to replicate, exactly, these images - if you wanted a copy, simple "copy" and "paste" it.

The audio in section 5 is attrocious, if you can imagine someone talking into a muffled baked bean tin, that is the closest analogy to the experience I could give.

The final lecture, lecture 25, has the familiar "See you in the next lecture" message at the end, when the following lecture loads, it congratulates you for completing the course on "mobile game design"?

All the way through this course there are many generalizations and assumptions and no clear instruction at all, which leads you to really question this instructors knowledge and experience. On a related note, whilst he introduces himself and Benjo Sabban, if you check the username for his course on Udemy it comes up under the name of /rafaeldebelen, seems odd.

A Google search of this instructor leads us to find that he has created about a dozen courses of all which have incredibly low ratings on Udemy, these are then linked to and re-appear on numerous other online training websites.

If there was an option to rate this course with a zero I would still choose the half a star option, as someone who had never used Photoshop before (although I have used other similar packages) there were a couple of snippets of information which I could take away and use, but these are very heavily outweighed by the poor flow, information, and instruction of this course.

I would not recommend this course to anyone unless you are considering creating your own course on Udemy, and want to see how "not" to do it. At best this course should be "free" on the Udemy marketplace, or more ideally, this and Benjo / Rafael's other courses should be reviewed by the Q&A/Standards Team at Udemy and removal of them all should be considered.

On a final note, an announcement was made 3 years ago which mentions the addition of two Flappy Bird images to the downloadable resources. These images do not appear to be available under a Creative Commons license and are therefore, presumably, subject to copyright laws.

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David A.

The levels of audio between lectures is very inconsistent. The author's running commentary many times has nothing to do with what or why something is being done. He just spent a great deal of time filling in an outline font. Not only did he take a long way around the process, it really makes me wonder just what the quality of his other instruction actually is.

After completing the course and trying to be fair, I strongly recommend this course that this course be renamed: How to watch a guy duplicate someone else's graphic. This is the first Udemy course that I have taken that doesnt come close to it's writeup. I find it very hard to see how it got its ratings.

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Mohammed O.

after buying the course he tell me that will be including the source code for this game. this is 5 month and nothing happened . thank you

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Sameer M.

Don't take this course. It's just wasting your money. If you're a beginner in Photoshop this course is an absolute nightmare.

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