Course: Let's Make a Game! - Brick Breakers

So the course is incredible and at first glance it is simple enough to follow along as someone with some experience in C# .NET development however as I got further into the tutorial there were inconsistencies with what is written and what is displayed in screenshots.

I also could not for the life of me get the camera and spline to line up as when I pressed play, sometimes the bat would be towards the right or left side of the screen, sometimes it would move along the spline correctly however the bat itself was rotated 90 degrees so it was very narrow.

There’s also no explanation on how to correctly move the actual spline, so that it lines up with the camera where I had to figure that out myself however crudely adjusted the points in the BP_Pawn_Bat viewport (I have no idea if this is the correct way to adjust it).

Despite having problems I wanted to continue the course to learn more but as I went further more and more game breaking problems arose with no understanding of how to troubleshoot them. The MetaSound section in particular was incredibly difficult to follow with even the sounds not matching what the videos displayed.

All in all, I can see that it’s a great course and I must admit it did teach me about the relationship between a pawn and player controller, How these interact with objects in the world however in terms of a finished playable game… I cannot recommend this course to a beginner like myself.

Thank you for your efforts <3 I hope one day to return to this and properly complete the project.

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