Game Development Courses and Certifications

Unity

Make a VR Multiplayer Game

1 rating at Unity Learn

Learn about how the VR Multiplayer Project Template for Unity 6 can be used to make your own VR game by reusing prefabs and creating new gameplay.

• Unity Learn
• Self-Paced
• Free Certificate

HP: A Complete Guide to Game Design

Explore game design from creative concept to playable system through mechanics, narrative, level design, playtesting, balancing, and prototyping.

• Swayam
• Available until Nov 15, 2026
• Free Online Course

HP: From Code to Creation: Mastering Game Programming

A beginner-friendly journey from programming fundamentals to Unity mechanics, game AI, 3D assets, animation, and production practices.

• Swayam
• Available until Nov 15, 2026
• Free Online Course

LCI Education

Introduction to Psychological Aspects of Game Design

Learn the fundamental concepts and practice of game design and the theory connected to it.

• edX
• 5 weeks, 4-8 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Free Certificate

LCI Education

Introduction to Game Design: Process and Creation

Learn the steps involved in the game design process⁠—turning the vision into reality.

• edX
• 5 weeks, 4-8 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Hewlett-Packard

Creating Universes: Game Art and Narrative

Design games that feel meaningful—not just playable. Learn how to engineer player agency, emotional engagement, and decision-making using narrative, visual direction, feedback, and real-time systems.

• edX
• 3 weeks, 3-5 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Introduction: Elements of Microgame Design

Design and build microgames in Perlenspiel: handle player input with its ten event functions, animate bead grids, and control color and audio through its JavaScript API.

• Kadenze
• 24 hours
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course

Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Synthesis: Realizing Game Ideas in Code

Build an adventure game with Perlenspiel's plane and sprite subsystems: generate colors procedurally, design map from image files, and add NPCs, doors, titles and endings.

• Kadenze
• 24 hours
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course

Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Exploration: A Closer Look at the Microgame API

Learn Perlenspiel's microgame API — bead, grid and status line commands, animation, faders, images and pathfinding — while scoping, prototyping and testing a game.

• Kadenze
• Self-Paced
• $500.00

Basics of Game Programming

Learn C programming through hands-on development of two-dimensional Windows games, building foundational skills for further game programming and engine courses.

• XuetangX
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course

Game Design: A Practical Approach Using Game Engine

This course will focus on the core technology of game engines, and will help you quickly familiarize yourself with and apply game engines to digital content development through a goal-oriented approac

• XuetangX
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course

LCI Education

Introduction to Game Design: Game Systems and Balance

Learn the deep mechanics of good system design that is both fun and rewarding for the gamer.

• edX
• 5 weeks, 4-8 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Free Certificate

LCI Education

The Basics of Level Design

Discover how to create captivating video games with not just your visuals and gameplay, but level design as well.

• edX
• 4 weeks, 6-9 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Free Certificate

LCI Education

Shooters and Game Engines in Level Design

Shooter games have been and continue to be the dominant genre in video games. Learn about this important genre in game design.

• edX
• 4 weeks, 6-8 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Free Certificate

LCI Education

Types of Games in Level Design

Explore the many types of video games and their level design considerations.

• edX
• 4 weeks, 6-8 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Free Certificate