Game Design Courses
Game design courses can help you learn level design, character development, storytelling techniques, and game mechanics. You can build skills in prototyping, user testing, and balancing gameplay to enhance player experience. Many courses introduce tools like Unity and Unreal Engine, that support creating interactive environments and implementing game logic. Additionally, you might explore programming languages such as C or C++ to bring your ideas to life, along with graphic design software for creating compelling visuals.
Popular Game Design Courses and Certifications
Status: NewStatus: Free TrialSkills you'll gain: Unity Engine, Video Game Development, Animations, Game Design, Development Environment, C# (Programming Language), UI Components, Scripting, Debugging
Status: Free TrialCalifornia Institute of the Arts
Skills you'll gain: Game Design, Conceptual Design, Animation and Game Design, Virtual Environment, Storytelling, Visualization (Computer Graphics), Design Strategies, Aesthetics, Design Research, Creativity
Status: Free TrialUniversity of Colorado Boulder
Skills you'll gain: Design Elements And Principles, Graphic Design, Design, Storytelling, Layout Design, Typography, Adobe InDesign, Design Research, Information Architecture, Color Theory, Adobe Photoshop
Status: NewStatus: Free TrialSkills you'll gain: Unreal Engine, Game Design, User Interface (UI), Video Game Development, User Interface (UI) Design, Animation and Game Design, Scripting, Prototyping, Real Time Data
Status: NewStatus: Free TrialSkills you'll gain: Game Design, Object Oriented Programming (OOP), Video Game Development, C# (Programming Language), Computer Graphics, User Interface (UI), Debugging
University of Colorado System
Skills you'll gain: Object Oriented Design, Unity Engine, Game Design, Software Design Patterns, Data Structures, C# (Programming Language), Video Game Development, Programming Principles, Graph Theory, Software Architecture, Algorithms, Debugging
Status: NewStatus: Free TrialSkills you'll gain: Unreal Engine, Game Design, Performance Tuning, Video Game Development, Performance Testing, Programming Principles, No-Code Development, Object Oriented Design
Status: NewStatus: Free TrialSkills you'll gain: Video Game Development, Game Design, Animation and Game Design, C# (Programming Language), Object Oriented Programming (OOP), User Interface (UI), Prototyping, Debugging
Status: NewStatus: Free TrialSkills you'll gain: Video Game Development, Unreal Engine, Game Design, User Interface (UI), Prototyping, Visualization (Computer Graphics), Artificial Intelligence, User Interface (UI) Design, Animations, Debugging
Status: NewStatus: Free TrialSkills you'll gain: Unreal Engine, User Interface (UI), Data Persistence, Video Game Development, Game Design, Interactive Design, User Interface (UI) Design, Human Machine Interfaces, Animation and Game Design, System Testing, Development Testing, Artificial Intelligence, Debugging
Status: NewStatus: Free TrialSkills you'll gain: Unity Engine, Game Design, Video Game Development, Animation and Game Design, Software Architecture, Object Oriented Design, UI Components, Scripting, C# (Programming Language), Debugging
Status: Free TrialSkills you'll gain: Peer Review, Adobe Firefly, Game Design, Generative AI, Adobe Creative Cloud, Graphic Design, Responsible AI, Adobe Photoshop, Design, Design Research, User Experience Design, Oral Expression, Prompt Engineering, Creativity
In summary, here are 10 of our most popular game design courses
- Master Unity: Design & Develop a Gem Collector Game: EDUCBA
- World Design for Video Games: California Institute of the Arts
- Basic Elements of Design: Design Principles and Software Overview: University of Colorado Boulder
- Unreal Engine Blueprints – Intermediate to Gameplay Systems: EDUCBA
- MonoGame Development: Build & Implement Blocks: EDUCBA
- Data Structures and Design Patterns for Game Developers: University of Colorado System
- Unreal Engine Blueprints-Advanced Gameplay and Logic Systems: EDUCBA
- Brick Breaker Game Development with MonoGame: EDUCBA
- Unreal Engine Game - FPS Prototype: EDUCBA
- Unreal Engine Blueprints – AI & Game System Architecture: EDUCBA
