Game Programming Courses and Certifications

Packt

Implementing Movement and Decision-Making Systems

Program AI-driven game agents in Unity: configure wheel colliders and waypoint circuits, set up NavMesh agents, and build finite state machines for patrolling, chasing, and evading.

• Coursera
• 4 weeks, 2 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Packt

Foundations of Inventory Systems and Player Interaction

Build a full inventory system in Unity: scriptable objects, item pickups and drops with physics, 3D item previews, and a UI synced to player inventory.

• Coursera
• 5 weeks, 2 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

EDUCBA

MonoGame Development: Design, Build & Animate Games

Build a complete Brick Breaker game in C# with MonoGame: sprite rendering via SpriteBatch, 3D model transforms, collision detection, scoring, lives, and multi-level progression.

• Coursera
• 6 weeks, 3 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Packt

Effective Game Design Patterns - Unity 6 Compatible

Implement the Command, Flyweight, Observer, Prototype, Singleton, State, and Object Pool patterns in Unity 6 to build scalable, maintainable, performance-optimized games.

• Coursera
• 9 weeks, 1 hour a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Packt

Vectors and Intersections in Game Development

Apply vector math to 2D and 3D game objects: dot and cross products, normalization, look-at rotation, line-plane intersections, reflections, and collision detection in Unity.

• Coursera
• 2 weeks, 4 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Packt

Game Time 2024 – Build a JavaScript Game with Random Order

Build a JavaScript card-matching game: lay out a board with CSS Grid, load card data via Fetch and async/await, shuffle with Fisher-Yates, and animate flips.

• Coursera
• 6 weeks, 1 hour a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

EDUCBA

MonoGame Development: Build & Implement Blocks

Build MonoGame gameplay step by step: structure Yellow and Blue Block classes, load textures, refine ball rebound collision detection, handle scoring, and code level transitions.

• Coursera
• 2 weeks, 3 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

University of Edinburgh;  Universidad ORT Uruguay

Code Yourself! An Introduction to Programming

11 ratings

Learn to program in Scratch: build and remix games using loops, events, procedures, cloning, message broadcasting, and testing and documentation practices.

• Coursera
• 5 weeks, 2 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Career Certificate

C++ Programming for Unreal Game Development

213 ratings at Coursera

Learn to program Unreal Engine games in C++, from language basics through class development and intermediate object-oriented programming.

• Coursera
• 8 weeks, 10 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course
• 4 courses

Scratch Game Programming

5508 ratings at Udemy

A fun guide to programming for parents & teachers who want to help kids learn to code.

• Udemy
• 6 hours 40 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course

JavaScript Game Development Course for Beginners

1 rating

Build browser games with vanilla JavaScript through sprite animation, collision detection, enemy behaviors, state management, and a final endless runner.

• freeCodeCamp
• 10 hours
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Intro to Game Development with JavaScript - Full Tutorial

1 rating

Build a 2D brick-breaker game in JavaScript, covering canvas rendering, input, game loops, movement, collision detection, menus, pausing, and level completion.

• freeCodeCamp
• 1-2 hours
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

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