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, Game Design, Video Game Development, Animation and Game Design, Software Architecture, Object Oriented Design, UI Components, Scripting, C# (Programming Language), 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: Animation and Game Design, Video Game Development, Computer Graphics, 3D Assets, Animations, C# (Programming Language), Cross Platform Development, Development Environment, Software Installation, Content Management
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, Event-Driven Programming, Prototyping, Real Time Data
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
Status: NewStatus: Free TrialSkills you'll gain: Unreal Engine, 3D Assets, Virtual Environment, Video Game Development, Computer Graphics
Status: Free TrialUniversity of California San Diego
Skills you'll gain: Statistical Analysis, Experimentation, Usability Testing, Statistical Hypothesis Testing, Data Analysis, Statistical Methods, UI/UX Research, R Programming, User Experience, Human Computer Interaction, Statistics, Data Validation, Statistical Modeling, Regression Analysis, Logistic Regression
Status: Free TrialUniversitat Autònoma de Barcelona
Skills you'll gain: 3D Modeling, Video Game Development, 3D Assets, Unity Engine, Game Design, User Interface (UI) Design, Visualization (Computer Graphics), Animations, User Interface and User Experience (UI/UX) Design, Computer Graphics, Music, Aesthetics, Creativity, Data Import/Export
Status: Free TrialUniversity of Colorado System
Skills you'll gain: Video Game Development, Game Design, Programming Principles, Scripting Languages, User Interface (UI), Event-Driven Programming, Animations, Debugging
Status: NewStatus: Free TrialSkills you'll gain: Unreal Engine, Animations, Animation and Game Design, 3D Assets, Video Game Development, Computer Graphics
Status: NewStatus: Free TrialSkills you'll gain: Unity Engine, Computer Graphics, Visualization (Computer Graphics), Computer Graphic Techniques, C# (Programming Language), Linear Algebra, Scripting
Status: NewStatus: Free Trial
In summary, here are 10 of our most popular game design courses
- Build & Script a Breakout Game in Unity: EDUCBA
- Unreal Engine Blueprints – AI & Game System Architecture: EDUCBA
- MonoGame: Build, Design & Showcase Games: EDUCBA
- Unreal Engine Blueprints – Intermediate to Gameplay Systems: EDUCBA
- Designing with GenAI and Capstone Project: Xbox
- Unreal Engine: Design & Control Game Materials for Beginners: EDUCBA
- Designing, Running, and Analyzing Experiments: University of California San Diego
- Arte 3D y animación en videojuegos: Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
- Planning, HUDs, and Spawners in GameMaker: University of Colorado System
- Unreal Engine: Design Dynamic Particle Effects for Games: EDUCBA
