Resources | Game Dev Nexus

Name	Categories	Pricing	Tags	Description
DigiPen	School		USA	DigiPen Institute of Technology has been educating the next generation of artists, scientists, engineers, musicians, and developers for over 30 years.
Laguna College of Art and Design	School		USA	(LCAD) Laguna College of Art and Design is a dually accredited private college located in Laguna Beach, California, United States.
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute	School		USA	Rensselaer's GSAS program helps you acquire a comprehensive understanding of interactive digital media, a balance of disciplinary competencies, and the mastery of a self-defined set of interrelated disciplinary challenges.
Ringling College of Art and Design	School		USA	Since 1931, Ringling College of Art and Design has cultivated the creative spirit in students from around the globe. The private, not-for-profit, fully accredited college offers the Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in eleven disciplines and the Bachelor of Arts in two. The Ringling College teaching model ultimately shapes students into highly employable and globally aware artists and designers.
SCAD	School		USA, France	Offering more degree programs and specializations than any other art and design university, SCAD is uniquely qualified to prepare talented students for professional, creative careers.
University of Utah	School		USA	The Entertainment Arts and Engineering (EAE) Program at the University of Utah is a top-ranked program in video game education and research and is a national leader in the nascent discipline of games. The program is contributing to the definition of a new interdisciplinary informatics field that deeply integrates art, humanities, social science and computational…
University of Southern California	School		USA	Recognized as one of the top game design programs in North America by the Princeton Review, USC Games represents an exciting collaboration between the School of Cinematic Arts’ Interactive Media & Games Division and the Viterbi School of Engineering’s Department of Computer Science.
University of California, Irvine	School		USA	UCI’s Game Design and Interactive Media program will prepare you to be an innovative designer, developer and industry leader. Taught by internationally recognized faculty and industry experts, early program requirements include hands-on courses in game programming, game design and development, visual design, interactive storytelling, data science, and game studies.
Full Sail University	School		USA	Full Sail University offers associate, bachelor's, and master's degrees on campus and online. Designed for the world of entertainment and media, our approach is centered on real-world industry experience for your entertainment production degree.
University of California, Santa Cruz	School		USA	A world-class public research institution comprised of ten residential college communities nestled in the redwood forests and meadows overlooking central California's Monterey Bay.
New York University	School		USA	Celebrates games as a creative practice, offering BFA, MFA, and public programs on the design, production, and study of games as a cultural & aesthetic form.
Rochester Institute of Technology	School		USA	Founded in 1829, Rochester Institute of Technology is a privately endowed, coeducational university with nine colleges emphasizing career education and experiential learning. The campus occupies 1,300 acres in suburban Rochester, the third-largest city in New York state.
Columbia College Chicago	School		USA	In the Interactive Arts and Media Department, you’ll work with new and emerging technologies to create the immersive experiences of the future. You'll cross-train with Columbia's talented faculty of user experience designers, animators, game developers, programmers, and visual effects artists who will become some of your best collaborators and help bring your ideas to life. With cutting-edge courses that keep pace with emerging technologies, you'll prepare for life as an immersive multimedia storyteller and be well-versed in new media industries.
Carnegie Mellon University	School		USA	The ETC is the premiere professional graduate program for interactive entertainment as it’s applied across a variety of fields. Our unique, two-year, Master of Entertainment Technology (MET) degree was founded as a joint venture between Carnegie Mellon University’s School of Computer Science and the College of Fine Arts. The MET is currently considered a terminal degree.
Acadmey of Art University	School		USA	Created by artists for artists, Academy of Art University is a top art school in the heart of San Francisco. Take art & design courses on campus or online!
Abertay University	School		UK	Abertay University is Sunday Times University of the Year for Teaching Quality. Browse a diverse range of courses and begin your journey today.
University of Advancing Technology	School		USA	Discover tech respect, earn a prestigious technology degree and prepare for a life of learning and innovation with UAT. Learn. Experience. Innovate.
Game Design Skills	Courses			Learn Game Design Skills from Game Industry Practitioners. Video game design focused educational and upskill resources by and for professional practicing game developers.
Indie Game Academy	Courses			Build your first video game in less than three months with Indie Game Academy. Indie Game Academy educates you on how to build and release your first video game in record time. Join our cutting-edge game development bootcamp to become a successful indie game developer and start your career in the gaming space.
CG Spectrum	Courses		USA	CG Spectrum offers online courses in Animation, Digital Art, VFX & Game Development. Get personalized training from industry artists. Start your new career today!
Udemy	Courses		Online	Enroll in online courses to learn game development from home. Master popular tools, such as Unity and C++, to create original games and apps.
Pixel Games Academy	Courses		Online	We are Islamabad based Academy that provides a collaborative learning experience in game design & production, game programming, digital art & animation, all led by local and international industry professionals. We provide online and onsite classes, both.
PlaygroundSquad	School		Sweden	PlaygroundSquad is a higher vocational education (yrkeshögskola), as designated by Swedish National Agency for Higher Vocational Education. We are the result of the real needs of the labor market and our goal is getting students into employment as soon as possible. Our advisory board and the games industry itself is what dictactes our curriculum, assuring that students are equipped with the correct knowledge to get a job as quickly as possible. We accept 35 applicants yearly.
Lake Washington Institute of Technology	School		USA	The Game Design and Development AAS and BAS degrees have a strong emphasis on game development and are also designed to prepare students to work in a variety of settings. Graduates will be able to create animated graphics applicable to gaming, marketing, advertising, educational, and interactive media that use 3D animation.
Future Games	Courses		Sweden	FutureGames is ranked 2nd best game development school in the world, based in the heart of Stockholm with hubs in Boden, Karlstad and Skellefteå. Focus Game Development, 2D & 3D Graphics.
University of Skövde	School		Sweden	Our University is a centerpiece of one of Europe's, and one of the world's, largest and broadest game education hubs. This encompasses about 500 students across twelve different game degree programmes and about 50 game faculty members & researchers. In addition, The Game Incubator next door (a part of Science Park Skövde) further supports our students and graduates realise their dreams. The major game developers in our town, including Coffee Stain Studios of Goat Simulator fame and Stunlock Studios behind Battlerite, were founded by our alumni.
Sweden Game Arena	School		Sweden	Sweden Game Arena offers individuals and companies an opportunity to develop through targeted community events as well as visualization and participation in the global games market. Sweden Game Arena is based in Skövde, and also has operations in Gothenburg.
National Film and Television School	School		UK	Do you want to create your own games? Could you run your own games company? NFTS Games aims to give you everything you need to make high-quality games across a range of styles, formats and platforms. There's no other course with this kind of approach. Graduate Ana Ribeiro, creator of Pixel Ripped.
Vertex School	Courses			Workshops and Bootcamp programs for Game Art
Linkedin Learning	Courses			Learn business, creative, and technology skills to achieve your personal and professional goals. Join LinkedIn Learning today to get access to thousands of courses.
eDX	Courses			Free game design courses online. Learn video game design, gamification techniques and more with free courses from top universities. Join now.
Full Time Game Dev	Courses			Learn everything you need to know about building a game from scratch, launching it on Steam, and securing enough revenue to become a full-time game dev!
Indie Game Business Workshops	Courses			Taking the next step in educating yourself shouldn't cost a fortune. We've built a series of webinars designed to dive deeper into some of the core subjects of the business of games.
Zenva Academy	Courses			Trusted by 1,000,000 learners and developers, Zenva provides world-class training on in-demand programming skills.
Game Dev Unlocked	Courses			Start, finish, and market your indie game
Code Your First Video Game	Courses			Try the Fundamentals Video Course.
HomeTeam	Courses			Make games. Make friends. Make things happen. All game makers and experience levels welcome.
Game Career Guide Schools List	List			List of schools that offer Games Industry related education programs
Princeton Reiew: Top 25 Game Design 2021: Grad	List		USA	Our 2021 Top Graduate Programs for Video Game Design list is based on institutional survey data, including quality of lab facilities, faculty credentials, career outcomes, and more.
Princeton Reiew: Top 50 Game Design: Ugrad	List		USA	Our list of top college programs for video game design is based on institutional survey data, including academic offerings in game design, faculty credentials, career outcomes, and more.
Girls Make Games College Resources	List			Choosing a college can be one of the most difficult decisions we make, and while rankings offer some insight, we believe the best way for you to know for sure is to spend some time on campus, or to interact with a current student/alumna.
LeetCode	Courses			Level up your coding skills and quickly land a job. This is the best place to expand your knowledge and get prepared for your next interview.
CodinGame	Courses	Free		CodinGame is a challenge-based training platform for programmers where you can play with the hottest programming topics. Solve games, code AI bots, learn from your peers, have fun.
University of Central Florida	School			UCF is an emerging preeminent research university in Florida & one of the best colleges for quality, access, impact & value.
Skillshare	Courses			Skillshare is an online learning platform with thousands of creative courses and classes taught by experts to help you learn new skills.
GameDev.tv	Courses			GameDev.tv Courses - Learn to Code Games -Blender, Unreal, C#, C++
Coursera	Courses			Join Coursera for free and learn online. Build skills with courses from top universities like Yale, Michigan, Stanford, and leading companies like Google and IBM. Advance your career with degrees, certificates, Specializations, & MOOCs in data science, computer science, business, and dozens of other topics.
ESA Foundation Scholarships	Scholarships			To inspire future creators in the video game industry and encourage diversity in Science, Technology, Engineering, Art and Mathematics (STEAM), the ESA Foundation established a scholarship fund providing support for women and minority students across the United States.
Breda University of Applied Science	School		Neatherlands	BUas, formerly NHTV, offers professional and academic programmes in the field of Facilities, Games & Media, Hotel, Logistics, Tourism & Leisure and Built Environment.
World of Level Design	Courses			Hundreds of tutorials for level design and game environment art. Tutorials include level design, UE4, UDK, CryEngine 3 SDK, Source Engine, 3D Modeling, Maya, game texturing and much more.
IGDA Foundation Academic Scholarship	Scholarships			To apply for the Diverse Game Developers Fund: Academic Scholarships, applicants must identify as a person from an underrepresented background– which may include but is not limited to LGBTQIA+, people of color, people with accessibility needs, marginalized genders, veterans, neurodiversity, or others. Students must be pursuing a degree program at an accredited institution.
Pro Game Marketing	Courses	Free		The complete guide to creating a Steam page that consistently attracts shoppers, earns wishlists, and sells more copies of your game.
Code Coven	Courses	Free		The first games industry-focused classroom and accelerator. For people like you.
Limit Break	Mentorship	Free		Limit Break is a mentorship program aimed at underrepresented people working in the UK games industry. Participants are paired with a mentor who is an established professional in their field. Applications are open to both mentors and mentees who can commit to 6 months of mentorship!
Level Up U	Internship	Free		We are excited to announce the inaugural class of level Up U, a 3-month training program for engineering candidates who are passionate about our games and want to launch their careers in the gaming industry. Participants will have the opportunity to learn directly from some of the most accomplished engineering talent across our business, including leaders from Activision Publishing, Blizzard Entertainment and King.
How To Make A Steam Page	Courses	Free		The complete guide to creating a Steam page that consistently attracts shoppers, earns wishlists, and sells more copies of your game.
John Paul Catholic University	School			JPCatholic’s Game Development program features industry professionals, hands-on projects, and rigorous preparation for your gaming career.
Full Cycle Game Academy	School			Innovative game development education specializing in Unreal Engine. Founded by Gamecan.
Girls Make Games	Courses			We're proud to offer both in-person and virtual summer camps! Our 12th round of summer camps are scheduled this July in 4 locations around the US and virtually for students based all over the world!
Outscal	Courses			Enroll in the best game development courses at Outscal. Be a master in game engines such as Unity, Unreal, and C++ with our experienced real-world industry experts. Learn game development in India now.
Skillshub.Life	Courses			Build your voice acting career with real coaches, guided paths, and trusted resources. SkillsHub.Life offers expert-led support - no gimmicks.

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