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.

Skills you'll gain: 3D Assets
Intermediate · Course · 1 - 4 Weeks

University of Colorado Boulder
Skills you'll gain: Design Elements And Principles, Graphic Design, Graphic and Visual Design Software, Graphic and Visual Design, Visual Storytelling, Design Software, Design, Storytelling, Layout Design, Adobe InDesign, Color Theory, Adobe Photoshop
★ 4.7 (1K) · Beginner · Course · 1 - 4 Weeks

Skills you'll gain: Unity Engine, Animation and Game Design, Game Design, Video Game Development, Animations, Virtual Environment, UI Components, Interactive Design, User Interface (UI), Software Development Tools, Course Development, C# (Programming Language), User Interface (UI) Design, Functional Design, Usability, Scripting, Design, Debugging
★ 5 (13) · Mixed · Course · 1 - 4 Weeks

Skills you'll gain: Responsive Web Design, Video Game Development, HTML and CSS, Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), Game Design, Web Design, Animation and Game Design, Hypertext Markup Language (HTML), Animations, Frontend Performance, Front-End Web Development, Web Development, Interactive Design, Web Applications, Computer Graphic Techniques, Event-Driven Programming, Computer Graphics, Javascript
Beginner · Course · 1 - 4 Weeks

Advanced · Course · 1 - 3 Months

Skills you'll gain: Unreal Engine, Animation and Game Design, Video Game Development, Game Design, 3D Assets, Animations, Computer Graphics, Virtual Environment, Scripting, Event-Driven Programming
Intermediate · Course · 1 - 4 Weeks

Skills you'll gain: UI Components, Scripting, Unity Engine, User Interface (UI), User Interface (UI) Design, Animation and Game Design, Event-Driven Programming, Interactive Design, User Interface and User Experience (UI/UX) Design, Game Design, Video Game Development, Animations, Design Elements And Principles
Mixed · Course · 1 - 4 Weeks

Skills you'll gain: Unity Engine, Augmented and Virtual Reality (AR/VR), Game Design, Augmented Reality, Video Game Development, Virtual Reality, Application Deployment, DevOps, CI/CD, Collaborative Software, Build Tools, Configuration Management, C# (Programming Language), Version Control
Intermediate · Course · 1 - 4 Weeks

Skills you'll gain: Design Reviews, AI powered creativity, Peer Review, Adobe Firefly, Game Design, Generative AI, Adobe Creative Cloud, Graphic Design, Responsible AI, Adobe Photoshop, Graphic and Visual Design, Design Software, Design, Design Strategies, Design Research, Oral Expression, Design Elements And Principles, Prompt Engineering, Creativity
★ 4.4 (15) · Beginner · Course · 1 - 4 Weeks

Skills you'll gain: Video Game Development, Game Design, Animation and Game Design, 3D Assets, Computer Graphics, Visualization (Computer Graphics), User Interface (UI), Animations, Computer Graphic Techniques, UI Components, User Interface (UI) Design, Event-Driven Programming, Python Programming
★ 4.7 (15) · Mixed · Course · 1 - 4 Weeks

Universidad de los Andes
Skills you'll gain: Game Design, Video Game Development, Functional Specification, Unity Engine, Animation and Game Design, Interactive Design, Software Documentation, Software Design Documents, Interaction Design, Prototyping, Design Elements And Principles
★ 4.6 (149) · Beginner · Course · 1 - 4 Weeks

Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
Skills you'll gain: Video Game Development, Game Design, Unity Engine, Animation and Game Design, Software Design Documents, Design, Experience Design, Design Elements And Principles, Usability, Storytelling
★ 4.6 (333) · Mixed · Course · 1 - 4 Weeks