Create Board and Video Game Design Projects - 4 Courses in 1

Discover game design careers across design, arts, technology, and business, and learn how the game designer coordinates ideas, the design document and canvas, and prototyping for 2D or 3D games.

Explore game programming careers from block-based work to C, C++, and C#, using engines like Construct and Unity for rapid prototyping and full games, plus marketing and sales basics.

Explore the game industry across studios, indie projects, and publishers, detailing budgets, roles from generalists to specialists, and the importance of finishing games and building a strong portfolio.

Design games for multiple purposes, enabling interactive experiences that transform players' minds, bodies, and lives. Educational games teach math or behavior, track progress with data, and balance fun with learning.

Discover how to separate game elements into layers such as gui, entities, collision, background, ornaments, and foreground, and apply them to organize assets, interactions, and visuals in your game.

Explore how to design effective tutorials for board and video games, balancing explicit and implicit approaches to suit different audiences, ensuring clear rules, meaningful learning, and engaging gameplay.

discover how to find free game assets while avoiding copyright issues by exploring freelancer rights, royalty-free options, and various creative commons licenses, including CC0 and attribution licenses.

Master the game design document (gdd) as a flexible, versioned guide that defines scope, roles, and production areas, and leverage templates and the game design canvas for effective project management.

Learn to crowdfund from fans using platforms like Indiegogo, Kickstarter, and Catarse, with high quality video, compelling rewards, and clear use of funds through digital influencers and blogs.

Publish your game across major platforms by selecting goals and using the Play Store, App Store, and Steam Direct, noting fees, review times, and revenue potential.

Discover the top 10 game designer mistakes and learn to prototype early, test with players, collaborate in teams, publish small games first, and balance technology with a complete game experience.

Learn to structure a good game design canvas—a table of contents—to organize and develop your board and video game projects, with instructor guidance and peer support.

Explore the game design canvas, a core framework that structures your game from purpose to core design and gameplay, with red, yellow, and green sections guiding development.

Use a structured brainstorming process for game design: set a time limit, collect and vote on ideas, build word associations and phrases, then sketch and finalize concepts as a team.

Create a complete game within 30 days using a game design canvas to outline a beginning, middle, and end; test with players and document a menu, credits, sound, and art.

Apply kanban project management for game development with Trello boards by organizing tasks into to do, in progress, testing, and done, and collaborating with a team.

Explore how games serve multiple purposes—from transforming minds to teaching math—through engaging experiences. Design educational, data-driven games with clear goals, measurable outcomes, and in-game advertising.

Explore platforms for board and digital games, compare production costs, prototype with cards and 3d printing, and adapt for classroom gamification and various digital formats.

Explore how the number of players shapes game design. Balance single-player, co-operative and competitive multiplayer for local and online play, considering AI difficulty, turn order, and engagement.

Tailor your game to a target audience by age and region, then adapt language, visuals, and pricing for casual and hardcore players and types: killers, explorers, achievers, exploiters, and socializers.

Assess how level duration influences player experience by mapping average length, campaign timing, and match options for casual, hardcore, explorer, and achiever players.

Explore how game genres define components, balance, mechanics, and themes across board and video games, and mix or adapt features to design your own balanced game.

Mechanics describe how things work in a game, from jumping and shooting to level transitions, covering basic, extra, adapted, and mixed mechanics with examples.

Explore a classic storytelling formula: introduce the world, present a problem, assign a mission to save the world, and end with curiosity about the outcome.

Explore how aesthetics blend visuals, audio, language, and pace to evoke players' emotional responses, using styles from 3D to minimalist, adaptive menus, and impactful sound effects.

Explore how to define clear game goals by identifying the main goal—how to win—along with secondary, side, and personal goals that guide play and design.

Explore how players interact with board and video games through diverse inputs—from analog dice and dialogue to digital touch and motion—and how familiar control schemes reduce tutorials and widen accessibility.

Define clear, readable rules in a rulebook using icons and images, test them with situation examples, and implement conditional game logic to govern player actions.