Game Engines & Frameworks Courses and Certifications

Unreal Engine

Simulating Large Crowds in Niagara - Unreal Engine

Learn how Unreal Engine’s Niagara system uses smart mesh particles, vertex animation, and animation modules to render massive real-time crowds efficiently.

• YouTube
• 34 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Unreal Engine

A Guided Tour of Gameplay Abilities - Inside Unreal

A hands-on tour of Unreal Engine’s Gameplay Ability System, using melee abilities, effects, attributes, gameplay cues, multiplayer, and AI.

• YouTube
• 3 hours 21 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Unreal Engine

Water System Deep Dive - Inside Unreal

Explore Unreal Engine’s water system through custom waves, runtime mesh rebuilding, water materials, blends, translucency, and environmental effects.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 30 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Unreal Engine

Building Worlds with Landmass - Unreal Engine

Learn to use Unreal Engine’s Landmass plugin and Landscape Layers to create non-destructive terrain, build custom Blueprint brushes, and iterate on game-world environments.

• YouTube
• 28 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Unreal Engine

Unreal Engine AI with Behavior Trees

Build stealth-like enemy AI in Unreal Engine with Behavior Trees, AI Perception, and Environment Query System queries.

• YouTube
• 27 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Unreal Engine

Advanced Niagara Effects - Inside Unreal

Explore advanced Niagara techniques for flocking bats, insect swarms, and position-based dynamics simulations in Unreal Engine 5.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 37 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Unreal Engine

Performance Optimization for Environments - Inside Unreal

Learn to diagnose and optimize Unreal Engine environment performance using profiling tools, rendering techniques, scalability settings, and performance budgets.

• YouTube
• 2 hours 35 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Stylized Station

Building Stylized 3D Environments in Unreal Engine

Learn how a stylized Unreal Engine garden environment is concepted directly in-engine and shaped through lighting, modeling, and texturing.

• YouTube
• 35 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

UNF Games

Unreal Engine 5 Beginner Environment Tutorial - Step by Step

Build a game environment in Unreal Engine 5 from scratch using landscapes, materials, scanned assets, lighting, atmosphere, and a small cinematic.

• YouTube
• 3 hours 55 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

UNF Games

Unreal Engine 5 Environment Tutorial for Beginners - Create a Forest

Create a game-ready forest environment in Unreal Engine 5 using landscapes, procedural foliage, set dressing, lighting, optimization, and collisions.

• YouTube
• 2 hours 49 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

UNF Games

Unreal Engine 5 Environment Tutorial for Beginners - Creating an Island

Create a stylized island game environment in Unreal Engine 5 using landscape, water, foliage, set dressing, materials, and lighting.

• YouTube
• 2 hours 3 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

UNF Games

Unreal Engine 5 Environment Tutorial for Beginners - Creating Castle Ruins

Build a castle-ruin environment in Unreal Engine 5 by modeling damaged brick walls, assembling reusable level assets, and adding foliage, materials, physics, and lighting.

• YouTube
• 54 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

UNF Games

Unreal Engine 5 Landscape Beginner Tutorial - Learn to Create Open Worlds

Learn to build open-world landscapes in Unreal Engine 5 with terrain sculpting, Gaea imports, procedural materials, virtual texturing, and landscape biomes.

• YouTube
• 3 hours 48 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Max Novak

Turn Anyone into a AAA Quality 3D Character in 20 Mins

Create a custom MetaHuman in Unreal Engine 5 from a face mesh, customize its appearance, and drive facial motion capture from a phone.

• YouTube
• 21 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Keith Galli

How to Program a Game in Python

Build a simple dodge game in Python with Pygame, adding keyboard controls, falling enemies, collision detection, scoring, and increasing difficulty.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 10 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video