Zenva Reviews 438

I enjoy learning on the Zenva website. It is a great system that has taught me much about game programming.

Date of experience: 29 January 2025

This is the next best thing closer to youtube

Date of experience: 23 January 2025

The HTML & CSS Instructor was very knowledgeable, the course material was very well laid out and useful and the quizzing along the way to make sure you understand the material was helpful

Date of experience: 15 January 2025

Very helpful for self-learning game development.
Clearly detailed explanation with examples and documents.

Date of experience: 05 January 2025

Activated the 7 days free try to check unity lessons and after completing two of them I verified that level is equal or less than free YouTube tutorials, so paying for them is a loss of money.
Due to Christmas holidays I forgot to cancel the subscription and immediately after receiving the payment confirmation email I cancelled.
But I discovered that refund is not valid for subscriptions, and even if I cancelled less than 2 hours late, just the time to return home and turn on my PC, the support simply replied that they will keep my money.
This kind of support doesn't help and is to me useless as the courses.
So actually I payed more than 40$ for a completely useless subscription.
if you're interested in learning Unity, save your money and check YouTube that is full of courses (even by Unity itself) that are complete, well realised and free.
Edit. I just received a second message from the support and the management exceptionally approved my refund, so I raised the vote from 1 to 3 stars and changed title, because support has been helpful but courses unfortunately not.

Date of experience: 26 December 2024

Fantastic courses, reasonably priced and clearly made with a passion with a game industry. I’ve used a lot of courses in my years of messing around with game development specifically on Udemy and none of those come close to matching the quietly and care that Zenva seems to have for its content and customers

Date of experience: 20 November 2024

The lessons are very thorough and well explained. Mostly well produced. The problem is that the lessons available are almost entirely beginner level with just a few intermediate courses.

For game dev, I can find a tutorial on how to make basic units and movement for an RTS game, but not how to build a data-driven unit system so I can expand the game and iterate its design.

I feel very stuck at the 101 and 102 level, need some 200 and 300 level courses

Date of experience: 01 November 2024

Im only doing the Godot courses, but I have found some of the systems dont really gel together....like for instance, ive been doing the open world course, and I have my "needs", but then when I did the combat system, you got us to make a different health bar. Ive also found myself having to pause the videos to catch up on coding, before the screen changes to something else.....or the transcripts are just not following the video well....over all though, its given me a good start. Need more Godot courses...maybe an RPG course?

Date of experience: 11 December 2024

I bought Godot courses from Humble Bundle on Zenva and I am very pleased to learn on this platform.

I already did about 7 courses and I am heading to finish the Godot pathway. I already learned a lot and Daniel Buckley is a great instructor.

Thanks.

Date of experience: 10 December 2024

Great platform to get hands on experience, tutorials tailored to the point and they are looking to satisfy their customers in every way. It is highly recommended if you want to learn fast exactly what you need and at the same time support a legit teaching platform that will provide you with updated lessons.

Date of experience: 03 December 2024

I am very satisfied with the Unity courses offered by Zenva Academy. The course content is highly educational, and the step-by-step guidance provides a great experience for beginners. However, in the course listing screen, there is no option to directly see which courses have been completed, such as a marking or filtering feature. Adding this feature would make it much easier for users to track their progress. Overall, the platform's quality and user-friendly design are excellent, and I highly recommend it!

Date of experience: 01 December 2024

Way better than udemy and skill share. why ? The notes, the slides and the PDF over view of the course. Also I like the AI, but its not as good as my chatgpt. I would like to see courses like "encrypting data" in godot and saving file with a "hash". Then sending that file via email to a recipient. Also another subject would be how to create a "game log" of a players moves and mouse click and etc... (exlcuding any passwords and personal data) and then sending that encrypted file via email. Also making a ingame console, so plays can enter cheat code would be nice to have.

Date of experience: 30 November 2024

I really like how flexible everything is and how you can take your take your time but I do think some of the Godot lessons are outdated and also there is not too many quizez in many of the courses

Date of experience: 25 November 2024

The task-oriented courses are great, but the general purpose courses are lacking. Still, the company has provided me a good way to find ways to implement common features as a beginner hobbyist game developer. Though i’d pair it’s courses with another company’s courses (and youtube courses) if i were you.

Date of experience: 25 November 2024

Bought a few humble bundles of courses from Zenva, I really enjoyed the experience of learning Godot with them.

Date of experience: 22 November 2024

game/code/graphics oriented courses that are great for my purposes

Date of experience: 21 November 2024

I think the Zenva courses are absolutely worth it!

These courses do help give you the foundational knowledge. They are a great tool to use along with reading the documentation. I can only speak for myself, but I get overwhelmed with trying to figure out what to do next. I resonate with creators that feel like they're stuck in tutorial hell and can't figure it out.

Zenva helped me personally by not only teaching a course about a particular feature/game mode I want to make or know how to do, but then you can challenge yourself to add onto it and learn new skills. First-person character controller can move/run/look, how about adding a timer for sprint?

Utilizing the courses in this way have lead me to great results. I too was looking for the magic potion. A course to take and just come out the other side a game dev god, but if you just take your time and challenge yourself instead of just watching, you can make the game you've always wanted. It takes time, but these courses have boosted my progress for sure.

Date of experience: 21 November 2024

I've enjoyed the lessons I've taken so far. They have been informative and fun. I like that the courses are not very long but but still have enough material and depth to be meaningful.

I've only had one lesson where the video was out of date and there was a note explaining how to make changes for it to be correct in the most current version of the program. However this not was inadequate and I had to find the solution elsewhere so I would like to see more care taken with these types of updates. However, things may have changed I may have changed before they had a chance to fix it again as the the new version is fairly new.

Overall I've.enjoyed my experice with Zenva very much and look forward to doing many more courses there as time permits.

Date of experience: 17 October 2024

the courses are very well designed! the video parts are easy to follow and everything gets explained perfectly. also reading the course files is easy and understandable.

Date of experience: 19 November 2024

Zenva Academy has been a phenomenal resource for my journey into game development and coding! The courses are thoughtfully organized, easy to follow, and packed with real-world projects that make learning both effective and exciting. I appreciate the flexibility they offer, making it perfect for balancing with my work schedule. The supportive community and responsive assistance from Zenva’s team have been wonderful.

Date of experience: 15 November 2024