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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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    Skillshare

    Adobe Lightroom Essentials Pt. 2: Organizing & Masking Tools

    Skills you'll gain: Photo Editing, Adobe Photoshop, File Management, Image Quality, Photography, Data Import/Export, Data Storage

    Beginner · Course · 1 - 3 Months

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    Packt

    Advanced Kitbashing and Prop Creation

    Skills you'll gain: 3D Modeling, Simulations, Aesthetics

    Intermediate · Course · 3 - 6 Months

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    University of Maryland, College Park

    Platform Product Revival

    Skills you'll gain: Sprint Retrospectives, Service Recovery, Drive Engagement, Technology Solutions, User Feedback, Customer Engagement, Product Lifecycle Management, Technical Product Management, End User Training and Support, Change Management, Active Listening, User Experience, Decision Making, Continuous Improvement Process

    Intermediate · Course · 1 - 3 Months

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    Coursera

    Automation with Ansible: Web Server Deployment

    Skills you'll gain: Ansible, Nginx, Web Servers, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), YAML, CI/CD, Servers, IT Automation, Scalability, Service Management, Verification And Validation

    Intermediate · Guided Project · Less Than 2 Hours

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    Packt

    Hands-On .NET Minimal API for Web Developers

    Skills you'll gain: ASP.NET, .NET Framework, Restful API, Application Programming Interface (API), API Design, C# (Programming Language), Back-End Web Development, Databases, Data Persistence, Data Validation, Data Mapping, Data Modeling

    Beginner · Course · 1 - 3 Months

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    EDUCBA

    V-Ray Lighting & Rendering in 3DS Max

    Skills you'll gain: 3D Modeling, Computer Graphics, Visualization (Computer Graphics), Computer Graphic Techniques, Virtual Environment, Color Theory

    Mixed · Course · 1 - 4 Weeks

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    Edureka

    Data Streaming and NLP with PySpark

    Skills you'll gain: PySpark, Data Pipelines, Apache Spark, Dashboard, Data Processing, Real Time Data, Data Visualization, Natural Language Processing, Distributed Computing, Data Transformation, Deep Learning, Performance Tuning

    Intermediate · Course · 1 - 3 Months

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    Coursera

    Azure Data Engineering: Cosmos DB, SQL & Analytics

    Skills you'll gain: Dashboard, Azure Synapse Analytics, Microsoft Azure, Data Storage Technologies, Microsoft SQL Servers, Data Storage, Data Presentation, Cloud Engineering, Data Store, Data Architecture, Data Infrastructure, Performance Tuning, Query Languages, Database Design, SQL, NoSQL, Data Processing, Process Optimization, Data Modeling, System Monitoring

    Intermediate · Course · 1 - 4 Weeks

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    University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

    Travail d'équipe et créativité

    Skills you'll gain: Creativity, Creative Thinking, Teamwork, Ideation, Presentations, Team Building, Innovation, Collaboration, Professional Development, Public Speaking, Persuasive Communication, Communication, Influencing, Decision Making

    Beginner · Course · 1 - 3 Months

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    Edureka

    Backend Web Development with TypeScript

    Skills you'll gain: Node.JS, Role-Based Access Control (RBAC), TypeScript, Authentications, Server Side, Jest (JavaScript Testing Framework), Back-End Web Development, MongoDB, Object-Relational Mapping, Web Development Tools, Web Applications, Unit Testing, Web Development, Database Management, Secure Coding, Application Programming Interface (API), Middleware, NoSQL, Javascript and jQuery, Development Environment

    Intermediate · Course · 1 - 4 Weeks

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    EDUCBA

    Develop a Movie Recommendation Engine

    Skills you'll gain: Feature Engineering, Applied Machine Learning, Machine Learning, Data Preprocessing, Python Programming, Predictive Modeling, Development Environment, Data Manipulation, Exploratory Data Analysis

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    Intermediate · Course · 1 - 4 Weeks

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    Skillshare

    Advanced Videography: Documentary and Promo Editing

    Skills you'll gain: Cinematography, Videography, Photography, Video Production, Video Editing, Design Reviews, Post-Production, Peer Review, Creativity

    Intermediate · Course · 1 - 4 Weeks

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

  • Adobe Lightroom Essentials Pt. 2: Organizing & Masking Tools: Skillshare
  • Advanced Kitbashing and Prop Creation: Packt
  • Platform Product Revival: University of Maryland, College Park
  • Automation with Ansible: Web Server Deployment: Coursera
  • Hands-On .NET Minimal API for Web Developers: Packt
  • V-Ray Lighting & Rendering in 3DS Max: EDUCBA
  • Data Streaming and NLP with PySpark: Edureka
  • Azure Data Engineering: Cosmos DB, SQL & Analytics: Coursera
  • Travail d'équipe et créativité : University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
  • Backend Web Development with TypeScript: Edureka

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