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.

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Skills you'll gain: Disabilities, Web Content Accessibility Guidelines, Education and Training, Adaptive Equipment, Hypertext Markup Language (HTML), Instructional Design, Visual Impairment Education, Law, Regulation, and Compliance, Microsoft Office, Advocacy
Beginner · Course · 1 - 3 Months

Skills you'll gain: Canva (Software), Layout Design, Virtual Environment, Graphic and Visual Design Software, Graphic and Visual Design, Design, Color Matching, Graphic Design, Marketing
Intermediate · Guided Project · Less Than 2 Hours

Skills you'll gain: Design, Graphic and Visual Design, Photography, Photo Editing, Photo/Video Production and Technology
Beginner · Course · 1 - 4 Weeks

Skills you'll gain: Wiring Diagram, Electrical Wiring, Electrical Systems, Schematic Diagrams, AutoCAD, Communication Systems, Computer-Aided Design, Engineering Drawings, Verification And Validation, Systems Design, Technical Drawing, Systems Integration, Safety Standards, Building Codes
Beginner · Course · 1 - 4 Weeks

University of Colorado Boulder
Skills you'll gain: Crisis Management, Climate Change Adaptation, Change Management, Business Continuity, Organizational Change, Engineering Management, Sustainable Development, Systems Thinking, Organizational Leadership, Risk Management, Leadership, Innovation, Cross-Functional Collaboration
Build toward a degree
Intermediate · Course · 1 - 3 Months

Coursera
Skills you'll gain: Collaborative Software, Meeting Facilitation, Virtual Teams, Telecommuting, Experience Design, Business Process Management, Virtual Environment
Intermediate · Guided Project · Less Than 2 Hours

University of Colorado System
Skills you'll gain: Data Warehousing, Database Design, Data Integration, Extract, Transform, Load, Data Modeling, Star Schema, Relational Databases, Snowflake Schema, Business Intelligence, SQL, Pivot Tables And Charts, Data Mart, PostgreSQL, Data Transformation
Mixed · Course · 1 - 3 Months

Skills you'll gain: Figma (Design Software), User Experience Design, Mockups, User Centered Design, Usability Testing, User Interface (UI) Design, Design Elements And Principles, Interaction Design, Prototyping, Technical Communication, Typography, Layout Design, Color Theory
Beginner · Course · 1 - 3 Months

Skills you'll gain: Photo Editing, Photography, Design, Design Elements And Principles, Layout Design, Graphic and Visual Design, Content Creation, Storytelling
Beginner · Course · 1 - 4 Weeks

Simplilearn
Skills you'll gain: User Flows, UI Components, Figma (Design Software), User Interface (UI) Design, User Interface and User Experience (UI/UX) Design, Interaction Design, User Experience Design, Usability, Prototyping, Animations
Beginner · Course · 1 - 4 Weeks

Board Infinity
Skills you'll gain: Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), HTML and CSS, Hypertext Markup Language (HTML), Responsive Web Design, Bootstrap (Front-End Framework), Web Design, Web Development, Front-End Web Development, User Interface and User Experience (UI/UX) Design, UI Components, Typography
Beginner · Course · 1 - 4 Weeks

DeepLearning.AI
Skills you'll gain: AI Orchestration, AI Workflows, Agentic Workflows, Generative AI Agents, Agentic systems, LLM Application, Tool Calling
Beginner · Project · Less Than 2 Hours