This course is rather informative for beginners, it teaches students some basics of the Game Design. You are able to get information from the course, or while working on your own game, or while reviewing the games of other people. Unfortunately, the feedback from other students is not always useful.

The course itself was fantastic! I feel like a learned a lot, and it's a good basis for getting into the world of game design. My only complaint was the peer reviews took quite a while, resulting in late grades, and having to push the deadline further because I didn't get the peer reviews I needed.

Very useful for those who want to understand how ideas are created in GD. Mild pace, wonderful style of lecturing, great usage of practical examples. Would be better to have like 1 lecture in every topic about common mistakes in documents. Anyway, solid basic skills and knowledge for beginners

This course is a very good intro course. The instructor Fran is both informative and funny. Fran really offers some great advice on how to think in terms of ways to develop and test your game in different ways. I thought it was certainly worth it and I think you would think the same too!

Course is largely informative. However, the weekly assignments are peer graded. One other student plagiarized my work and tried to pass it as his own. I reported it, but Coursea has not responded. Not sure if they care. It seems like you can get away with anything.

I liked the course, but I found it a little too simple, for the price of the course I would have expected something more, but in any case, the teaching is excellent and the content clear and informative. Perhaps together with the other courses it's enough.

The course material is funny and easy to follow, it breaks down important aspects of game design into easy chunks and assignments. As for reviews I feel like you get back what put in, if you make the effort for someone else you will get in return.

Even if it is a really simple course, I found it interesting and fun, even the homework were really funny to do. Much better than the second one.

I just say that pricing is too high for a course that actually put 1/2 basic concept for each video.

I think the classes were awesome and the assignments were very cool. However, the quality of feedbacks I received in the peer-reviewed assignments left much to be desired.

This is a good first course for someone who is stepping into game design.

Good course, I enjoyed the fact that there was a lot of hands-on work rather than just lectures, however, there could be more of the latter aswell. Quizes would be nice too.

The quality of the course is very high. Thank you for this course. :)

I enjoyed the video lessons. Liked the instructor and the puppet.

At first I had a challenging time thinking digital yet creating paper games. But it didn't take long to make the adjustment.

Feedback from other students was not very helpful.

I liked the fact that the course starts from and covers the very basics. The videos were fun to watch and the course taught a lot through the assignments. With very less time commitment , the course taught me to make my first board game.

The course was quite helpful. I've been trying to make games already, but never knew where to start designing the game. Unfortunately it's quite short which was disappointing. I would never pay 80$ for a couple hours of video with basics

Very basic course, so it is quick and easy to finish. Peer review system is luck of the draw with who you get to review your projects. I had to re-submit two assignments because of one person who didn't know how to click a PDF link.

it was fun, but i feel that there wasn't enough content, it was a really basic intro.

The missions were fun.

It was a very easy intro course to game design.

Should be skipped if you have any previous experience in game design

Simple and fun method of education. short length videos, kind instructor and fun assignments.

I have learned some basics in game world. I like this course. thanks to coursera, calARTS, Fran and his cool puppet friend :)

Really enjoyed the video lessons and assignments set up by CaLARTS for this course. I would give it 4/5 stars because the assignments are peer reviewed and most people don't bother sharing constructive feedback.

I think this was a great course for a person like myself who wanted to start learning about Game Design but really had no experience. I enjoyed to class and love the flexibility with being able to take it all on

Instructor was fun, but a little stiff. It's his first time teaching, so I can forgive it though. The work was a little tedious. I wish there was more variety in the assignments than just updating the same game.

A very basic course to start off the game design career. Great if you want to start right from the ground stage and make your way up! Complex concepts broken down and put ever so simply! Try it out!

Really good introduction to game design and to the rest of the courses.

It does not have five stars because the task could be felt as repetitive if you started with a more developed idea from week 1.

good course, really an introduction =)

But the teacher is always reading a "Teleprompter".

He is not spontaneous... Except when He uses RPG to demonstrate an example ;-)

But the content is great

Nice way to explain and cool exercises to do if you are interested on the course. The only thing that isn't that good is the peer calification system, not everyone takes the course seriously.

Simple, clean course that focuses beautifully on the core of what is being taught.

Also very enjoyable vibe to the instructor and the assignments; there's a puppet as a TA... enough said. :)

There's only peer review in this course, which didn't provide the evaluation on your actually level on design skill. It's really just a 4 weeks intro, super easy to achieve the full marks.