Great class!

I really enjoyed the course. The assignments helped me think about games in new ways, and I developed several that I will be able to use with my high school language arts students.

I have learned a lot. Very simple and direct to the point lessons and assignments were very helpful to deeply understand each week's lesson. All the peers are very open and helpful as well. A+ community!

Very useful and very clear!

I liked the course. It confirmed my knowledge and gave some nice perspective.

Instructor presents this course in a fun and interactive fashion - one of the best courses ive taken.

It is a great start to understanding some of the basics of Game Design. And Fran's videos are always fun to watch.

I was surprised at how difficult at first people made their simple games for the first few weeks. It was cool to see some really creative games that inspired and helped me with my ideas as well. The teaching videos were great and immersive that I laughed out loud at sometimes. Like "don't touch that there's a bomb" and then just touching the bomb and the puppet exploding. (2 ways to explain something in a game)

I loved the course and look forward to the second course! Thank you CALARTS!!!!

I like the course. It is fun and interesting. I need to apply what we learnt to the game we designed.

Excellent course. Basic and interesting

中国谚语：『万丈高楼平地起』（As the Chinese words： every skyscraper is built from the ground）

I like this class very much, the teacher is very interesting, the video is also very lively,

Full of fun!

Nice!!!

Great Teacher, Great Feedback.

Very good introductory course. Nice little assignments to complete. My peers were supportive and encouraging with their feedback. Would definitely recommend this course!

Entertaining, brings one's creativity out.

Awesome

This course starts off a bit degrading with the puppets and such, which can make you feel like you're being talked down to like a child, but if you stick with it, the course actually pans out nicely and has some decent topics to cover. I genuinely enjoy the instructor and actually went out to get a couple copies of his Deep Dark Fears anthologies; Fran's attention to detail and imagination is a joy to experience.

I found that the peers performing the reviews of my assignments were a bit too focused on the hard and fast requirement of the assignments, rather than keeping their eyes on the figurative prize, that being the "fun" factor; rather than focusing on the level of enjoyability, which I view as paramount, I found time and time again that my peers were steadfastly grasping the submission's guidelines until they got proverbial white knuckles.

The fact that not only the game board, but also the pieces and rules all on one sheet of paper must all fit to one single-sided sheet of paper is a catch 22 here, as whenever I crammed it all into one sheet, I got negative feedback that (nomater how much brevity was exercised) it felt cramped, whereas when I provided supplemental materials to address said issue, I was docked points for going beyond one single-sided sheet of paper.

I find this incredibly frustrating and in direct spite of the fundamental point being conveyed throughout this course. I very much expected to see the assignment allow for more sheets of paper as we progressed, so I found this incredibly limiting, and served as a distraction from the points I was meant to explore.

Great course, learnt a lot, especially from the assignments and peer feedback.

Recommended for beginner in game design

Amazing for anyone who is starting out on the road to making a game

I found the course to be very well structured and interesting; it was very exciting to learn all the basics of game design. The teacher was very engaging and the homework, while basic enough for beginners, was challenging enough to keep things interesting. My only suggestion is, if possible, also have a teacher grading our projects and not just peers. As much as valuable and important peer feedback is, I think it doesn't replace an expert's evaluation.

Surprisingly fun, and once the idea training got rolling on the game and theme is became pretty engaging.

Deceptively simple at first but becomes much more involved. Excellent through simplicity.

that was a good experience of learning because the topics are explaining in a simple way, thank you for all. this course has been so funny :)