Game Programming Courses and Certifications

Unity

Making Alba - How to Build a Performant Open-World Game - Unite 2022

Behind the scenes of building Alba: A Wildlife Adventure, from procedural world generation and foliage rendering to profiling performance on low-end mobile devices.

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

Chris Courses

Multi-Room Platformer Game Tutorial with JavaScript and HTML Canvas

Build a multi-room platformer with JavaScript and HTML Canvas, adding movement, collisions, sprite animation, hitboxes, doors, and level changes.

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

Chris Courses

Programming Pong in the Park - ASMR Canvas and JavaScript Tutorial

Build a Pong game with HTML Canvas and JavaScript, adding paddle controls, boundaries, randomized ball movement, and collision detection.

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

Chris Courses

Pacman Game Tutorial with JavaScript and HTML5 Canvas

Build a Pacman-style game with vanilla JavaScript and HTML5 Canvas, adding movement, collisions, scoring, ghosts, power-ups, and animation.

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

Code with Ania Kubów

Code Zelda in JavaScript with Kaboom.js

Build a Zelda-style game from scratch in JavaScript with Kaboom.js, adding sprites, levels, keyboard controls, player movement, and enemies.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 5 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Code with Ania Kubów

2D Breakout Game in JavaScript

Build and deploy a playable 2D Breakout game with JavaScript, HTML, and CSS.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 7 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Code with Ania Kubów

Doodle Jump in JavaScript

Build a Doodle Jump game in JavaScript with moving platforms, keyboard controls, scoring, and game-over logic.

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

Derek Banas

Design and Make a Video Game - From Concept to Code

Designs an original video game from concept and visual art through a complete JavaScript implementation.

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

Derek Banas

Make JavaScript Asteroids Game

Build a playable Asteroids-style game in pure JavaScript using canvas, trigonometry, animation, and collision detection.

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

Derek Banas

JavaScript Tetris Tutorial - Building a Classic Game from Scratch

Build a Tetris game from scratch in plain JavaScript using grids, collision detection, precise drawing, and user input.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 15 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Derek Banas

Game Design Tutorial - Creating Pong with JavaScript

Build a Pong game in JavaScript while learning input handling, collision detection, AI movement, interfaces, and sound.

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

Web Dev Simplified

Beginner JavaScript Game Dev Project

Build a beginner-friendly Pong clone in JavaScript with CSS animations, computer AI, and scaling difficulty.

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

Web Dev Simplified

Simple JavaScript Game Dev Project

Build a simple Flappy Bird clone while learning JavaScript game-development concepts like update loops, gravity, and collision detection.

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

The Cherno

Space Invaders Clone in C# - Code Review and Optimization

A code review of a C# Space Invaders clone focused on performance, abstraction, state machines, delta time, alien movement, and gameplay AI.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 11 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Traversy Media

Build Pac-Man Game With JavaScript

Build a browser-based Pac-Man game in JavaScript with classes, movement, collisions, scoring, and sound effects.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 43 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video