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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.


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Popular Game Design Courses and Certifications


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    Packt

    JavaScript Foundations and Essential Concepts

    Skills you'll gain: Javascript, Event-Driven Programming, HTML and CSS, Application Deployment, Web Development, Full-Stack Web Development, Scripting, Programming Principles, GitHub, Application Development, Object Oriented Programming (OOP), User Interface (UI) Design, Data Validation, Data Structures

    Beginner · Course · 1 - 3 Months

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    University of Lausanne

    Healthy Urban systems Part 2 : Theories, models and tools

    Skills you'll gain: Health Systems, Systems Thinking, Health Policy, Public Health, Model Based Systems Engineering, Community Health, Simulation and Simulation Software, Systems Engineering, Systems Analysis, Mathematical Modeling, Sustainable Systems, Environmental Policy

    Intermediate · Course · 1 - 3 Months

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    University of Colorado Boulder

    Preparar Atividades PhET para Educação STEM

    Skills you'll gain: Mathematics Education, Simulation and Simulation Software, Design Reviews, Interactive Design, Experimentation, Chemistry, Physics, Biology

    Intermediate · Course · 1 - 3 Months

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    Packt

    Mastering Tailwind CSS 3.0 - Build Two Dynamic Projects

    Skills you'll gain: Responsive Web Design, User Interface (UI), UI Components, Front-End Web Development, Web Design and Development, Web Components, Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), Hypertext Markup Language (HTML)

    Intermediate · Course · 1 - 4 Weeks

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    Google Cloud

    Creating Derived Tables Using LookML

    Skills you'll gain: Looker (Software), Database Development, Database Design, Data Modeling, SQL, Exploratory Data Analysis, Data Visualization Software, Data Analysis

    Beginner · Project · Less Than 2 Hours

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    Coursera

    Synthflow for Beginners: Build a Voice AI Receptionist

    Skills you'll gain: Self Service Technologies, Automation, Setting Appointments, AI Workflows, Calendar Management, Prompt Engineering, Customer Service, Customer Inquiries, Customer Communications Management, Scheduling, Dental Care, Greeting Customers

    Beginner · Guided Project · Less Than 2 Hours

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    Coursera

    Разработка Расписания Проекта Методом Критического Пути

    Skills you'll gain: Project Schedules, Scheduling, Timelines, Project Management Software, Project Management, Workflow Management, Diagram Design, Dependency Analysis

    Beginner · Guided Project · Less Than 2 Hours

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    Packt

    Stylized Environments with Blender 4 Geometry Nodes

    Skills you'll gain: 3D Modeling, Storytelling, Animation and Game Design, Virtual Environment, Computer Graphics, Visualization (Computer Graphics), Graphical Tools, Post-Production

    Intermediate · Course · 3 - 6 Months

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    EDUCBA

    XHTML - Styling with CSS

    Skills you'll gain: Color Theory, Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), Typography, HTML and CSS, Web Design, Web Content Accessibility Guidelines, Semantic Web

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    Northeastern University

    Application Engineering and Development Part 1

    Skills you'll gain: Java, Software Architecture, Object Oriented Programming (OOP), Data Structures, Software Design, Computer Programming, Programming Principles, Application Development, UI Components

    Mixed · Course · 1 - 3 Months

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    Birla Institute of Technology & Science, Pilani

    Object Oriented Programming

    Skills you'll gain: Java Programming, Object Oriented Programming (OOP), File I/O, Programming Principles, Data Structures, Software Engineering, Unit Testing, Debugging, OS Process Management, Performance Tuning

    Intermediate · Course · 1 - 3 Months

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    Northeastern University

    Program Structure and Algorithms Part 1

    Skills you'll gain: Algorithms, Graph Theory, Computational Thinking, Programming Principles, Pseudocode, Theoretical Computer Science, Data Structures, Computer Programming, Performance Tuning, Scalability, Design Strategies

    Mixed · Course · 1 - 3 Months

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In summary, here are 10 of our most popular game design courses

  • JavaScript Foundations and Essential Concepts: Packt
  • Healthy Urban systems Part 2 : Theories, models and tools : University of Lausanne
  • Preparar Atividades PhET para Educação STEM: University of Colorado Boulder
  • Mastering Tailwind CSS 3.0 - Build Two Dynamic Projects: Packt
  • Creating Derived Tables Using LookML: Google Cloud
  • Synthflow for Beginners: Build a Voice AI Receptionist: Coursera
  • Разработка Расписания Проекта Методом Критического Пути: Coursera
  • Stylized Environments with Blender 4 Geometry Nodes: Packt
  • XHTML - Styling with CSS: EDUCBA
  • Application Engineering and Development Part 1: Northeastern University

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User Interface (18)
User Experience (16)
Software Testing (13)
Game Design (11)
Agile Software Development (10)
Graphics (10)
Virtual Reality (9)
Design Thinking (8)
Web (8)
Video Game Development (7)
Web Design (7)
Adobe Photoshop (6)

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