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Game Design Courses

Game design courses can help you learn level design, character development, storytelling techniques, and game mechanics. You can build skills in prototyping, user testing, and balancing gameplay to enhance player experience. Many courses introduce tools like Unity and Unreal Engine, that support creating interactive environments and implementing game logic. Additionally, you might explore programming languages such as C or C++ to bring your ideas to life, along with graphic design software for creating compelling visuals.


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Popular Game Design Courses and Certifications


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    New York University

    MOST from a Methodological Perspective

    Skills you'll gain: Clinical Trials, Experimentation, Sample Size Determination, Research Design, Continuous Quality Improvement (CQI), Program Evaluation, Research Methodologies, Statistical Analysis

    Intermediate · Course · 1 - 3 Months

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    Skillshare

    Modern Frontend Web Development: HTML & CSS Foundations

    Skills you'll gain: Responsive Web Design, HTML and CSS, Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), Hypertext Markup Language (HTML), Web Design and Development, Front-End Web Development, Web Design, Maintainability, Web Development, Semantic Web, Web Content Accessibility Guidelines

    Beginner · Course · 1 - 4 Weeks

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    Coursera

    Essential Online Collaboration Skills

    Skills you'll gain: Virtual Teams, Meeting Facilitation, Team Motivation, Collaborative Software, Collaboration, Team Management, Team Leadership, Team Building, Telecommuting, Teamwork, Rapport Building, Team Performance Management, Conflict Management, Communication Strategies, Trustworthiness, Communication

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    Intermediate · Course · 1 - 4 Weeks

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    Coursera

    Eine Einführung in die Finite Elemente Methode mit SimScale

    Skills you'll gain: Finite Element Methods, Simulation and Simulation Software, Data Validation, Simulations, Engineering Analysis, Verification And Validation, Engineering Design Process, Cloud Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Scientific Visualization, Physics

    Beginner · Guided Project · Less Than 2 Hours

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    Packt

    Introduction to Next.js Ecommerce - Setting Up the Basics

    Skills you'll gain: Full-Stack Web Development, Responsive Web Design, Data Validation, User Interface (UI) Design, JavaScript Frameworks, Authentications, User Interface (UI), PostgreSQL, Web Applications, React.js, Object-Relational Mapping, TypeScript, Development Environment, Databases, User Accounts

    Intermediate · Course · 1 - 3 Months

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    Coursera

    Facilitate Organized Online Dialogue with Considerit

    Skills you'll gain: Discussion Facilitation, Community Organizing, Interactive Learning, Driving engagement, Content Management Systems, System Configuration

    Beginner · Guided Project · Less Than 2 Hours

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    University of Colorado Boulder

    Temporal Logic Model Checking

    Skills you'll gain: Computational Logic, Verification And Validation, Theoretical Computer Science, Systems Design, Model Evaluation, Simulations, Algorithms, Safety and Security

    Beginner · Course · 1 - 4 Weeks

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    Google Cloud

    Architecting with Google Kubernetes Engine: Production 日本語版

    Skills you'll gain: Kubernetes, Google Cloud Platform, CI/CD, Cloud Infrastructure, Cloud Security, Continuous Integration, Application Deployment, Cloud Storage, Continuous Delivery, Role-Based Access Control (RBAC), Database Management, Authorization (Computing), Authentications, Identity and Access Management

    Intermediate · Course · 1 - 3 Months

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    Institut Mines-Télécom

    Cybersécurité : comment sécuriser un site web

    Skills you'll gain: Threat Modeling, Cyber Risk, Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP), Cybersecurity, Cyber Attacks, Application Security, Security Testing, Vulnerability Assessments, Exploitation techniques, Secure Coding, SQL

    Intermediate · Course · 1 - 3 Months

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    Coursera

    Diseña infografías con Prezi

    Skills you'll gain: Infographics, Data Visualization, Graphic and Visual Design, Graphic Design, Marketing Communications, Digital Marketing

    Beginner · Guided Project · Less Than 2 Hours

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    EDUCBA

    Build A Data Warehouse in Azure

    Skills you'll gain: Azure Synapse Analytics, Data Warehousing, Power BI, Data Integration, Data Architecture, Data Visualization Software, Microsoft Azure, Apache Spark, Database Management, Data Pipelines, Performance Tuning, Data Processing, Data Security, Scalability

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    Beginner · Course · 1 - 3 Months

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    EDUCBA

    Project on PyQt - Creating a Calculator

    Skills you'll gain: Object Oriented Programming (OOP), Application Development, Development Environment, User Interface (UI), Python Programming, Integrated Development Environments, User Interface (UI) Design

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In summary, here are 10 of our most popular game design courses

  • MOST from a Methodological Perspective: New York University
  • Modern Frontend Web Development: HTML & CSS Foundations: Skillshare
  • Essential Online Collaboration Skills: Coursera
  • Eine Einführung in die Finite Elemente Methode mit SimScale: Coursera
  • Introduction to Next.js Ecommerce - Setting Up the Basics: Packt
  • Facilitate Organized Online Dialogue with Considerit: Coursera
  • Temporal Logic Model Checking : University of Colorado Boulder
  • Architecting with Google Kubernetes Engine: Production 日本語版: Google Cloud
  • Cybersécurité : comment sécuriser un site web: Institut Mines-Télécom
  • Diseña infografías con Prezi: Coursera

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