Groupon Online Game Design Course

[ivrytwr3]

My lad is 12/13 - he has programmed using Scratch and Python which was covered at school and also from books i bought for home programming.

He is interested in the programming side, but i am stuggling to keep him occupied at home and i can see he is drifting more and more into playing games rather than understanding how they work and creating his own games - which he used to do!

I am not expecting this course to make him a programmer/designer etc, but hoping this will pique his interest and show him some other languages.

My question is, to the SME's is the stuff taught in this course relevant to todays market? I think if he had a target, goals and an end product, he should enjoy it and learn some skills along the way - for £29 i think it is worth a try.

https://www.groupon.co.uk/deals/school-of-game-design-2#tips

Thoughts?

 

[mid_gen]

Seems a little expensive for what it is. Personally I would just get stuck in with a proper engine like Unreal. It has a visual scripting system that is very easy to pick up the basics in.....as well as having the option of getting into C++ later down the line. This course is quite well regarded for a beginner.

https://www.udemy.com/unreal-engine-4-the-complete-beginners-course/

UnrealEngine is free, and scales from simply flappy bird type clones right up to AAA.

 

[d_brennen]

^^ I spent an ungodly amount of time in UnrealEd in the early 00's. It's way nicer to use these days and very well documented. There is also a bazillion tutorial videos too