Level Design Courses and Certifications

Unreal Engine: Open World Landscapes

1127 ratings at Udemy

Master Unreal Engine's Landscape editing tools to create massive environments like in "Breath of the Wild"

• Udemy
• 15 hours 47 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

EDUCBA Career Certificate

Unreal Engine Game World & Environment Design

15 ratings at Coursera

Build game worlds in Unreal Engine: sculpt landscapes, assemble interactive levels, create cinematic cutscenes with Sequencer, and optimize game-ready environments for 3D games and virtual production.

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

EDUCBA

Unreal Engine: Design & Build 3D Game Worlds for Beginners

14 ratings at Coursera

Build a playable 3D level in Unreal Engine: navigate the editor, manipulate actors, block out geometry, place lighting and Player Start, and polish with props.

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

Packt Career Certificate

Unreal Engine 5 - The Intermediate Course

Craft materials with dynamic instances, UV mapping and texture masking, sculpt landscapes using World Partition and Nanite, and animate skeletal meshes with blend spaces and Blueprints.

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

Packt Career Certificate

Unreal Engine — Ultimate Survival Horror Course

Build a complete survival horror game in Unreal Engine: player controls, HUD, interaction and inventory systems, flashlights, atmospheric lighting, and AI enemies that chase and jumpscare.

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

Packt

Foundations of Unreal Engine 5 and Basic Environment Design

Build a complete 3D environment in Unreal Engine 5: navigate the viewport, block out primitives, sculpt terrain, add Quixel Megascans assets, and apply UV tiling and materials.

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

Packt

Build a complete pixel platformer in Godot 4

Build a pixel platformer in Godot 4: animate a character with jumping and gravity, design Tilemap levels, add treasure, health, sword combat, boss fights, menus and save/load.

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

3D Design in Unreal Engine: Create a Realistic Environment

Build a realistic, explorable game world in Unreal Engine: sculpt terrain, blend materials and lighting, place foliage manually and procedurally, and prototype a navigable level.

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

Packt

Unreal Engine 5 - Environment Design

Design 3D environments in Unreal Engine 5: brainstorm and plan a scene, block out structure, place key assets, then refine with lighting and scattering.

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

Packt

Landscapes and Open World Creation

Build open worlds in Unreal Engine 5: sculpt and paint terrains, add foliage and splines, and optimize with World Partition, Data Layers, LOD, and Nanite.

• Coursera
• 6 hours 16 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Packt

Intro to Unity - Game Development Made Easy

Build 2D and 3D games in Unity: create scenes with tilemaps and prefabs, script player movement, collisions, enemy AI, UI, audio and combat.

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

EDUCBA

Unreal Engine: Master Interactive FX & Game Design

Build interactive gameplay systems in Unreal Engine Blueprints, manipulating arrays, implementing save and load, configuring spotlights and LUTs, and adding particle effects to environments.

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

Packt

Atmosphere, AI, Famous Horror Mechanics, and Final Touches

Build an atmospheric horror game in Unreal Engine: eerie lighting, fog and depth of field, Outlast and Resident Evil camera systems, and patrolling AI enemies with jumpscares.

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

EDUCBA

Unreal Engine: Design & Implement Landscapes for Games

Sculpt terrain, build layered landscape materials in the Material Editor, and paint foliage to assemble optimized, playable outdoor game levels in Unreal Engine.

• Coursera
• 3 hours 6 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

EDUCBA

Unreal Engine 3D Pacman: Design, Build & Animate Game

Build a playable 3D Pacman game in Unreal Engine 4: construct maze levels with geometry and materials, script Player, Enemy and Game Mode Blueprints, animate movement.

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