Multiplayer Game Development Mini-Degree

Build your own multiplayer games with Unity!

Multiplayer games like Minecraft, Fortnight, and World of Warcraft top the charts as some of the world’s most-played games – making multiplayer skills essential for game developers.

The Unity Engine is the perfect choice for creating multiplayer games. It features comprehensive networking capabilities including built-in networking APIs and easy integration with popular multiplayer frameworks, making multiplayer functionality easier to learn and implement in your games.

 

 

The Multiplayer Game Development Mini-Degree

The Multiplayer Game Development Mini-Degree is the world’s most comprehensive collection of courses on creating multiplayer games in Unity and Photon – the fast,  reliable, and scalable networking solution used by AAA studios including Ubisoft, Square Enix, SEGA, and Oculus.

You’ll build real, portfolio-ready games in the most popular genres, including RPGs, battle royales, and strategy games, all while mastering skills and techniques that can easily be applied to your own personal projects!

 

 

Learn All About
  • Networking basics
  • Lobbies & menus
  • Real-time chat
  • Tile-based worlds
  • Genre-based mechanics

 

Your Multiplayer Portfolio

Create a portfolio of multiplayer game projects, including:

 

Curriculum

LEVEL 1: UNITY BASICS 
  • Coding in Unity with C#
  • Build your first 3D games

LEVEL 2: INTRO TO MULTIPLAYER
  • Networking with Photon
  • Lobby browsers
  • Unity’s UI system
  • Timer systems

LEVEL 3: BATTLE ROYALES 
  • Player health
  • Pickups
  • Customizable force fields
  • Spectator cameras

LEVEL 4: RPGS
  • Dynamic, tile-based worlds
  • Chatbox communication
  • Generating enemies

LEVEL 5: TURN-BASED GAMES
  • Unit stats & attack ranges
  • Grid-based movement
  • Turns & winning conditions

 

Why Learn Game Development?

With a multi-billion dollar market and strong career opportunities, the games industry is full of great opportunities for developers who have the right skills. Unity – the engine used in this course – is one of the most popular engines in the world – so you can be confident that the skills you’ll learn will set you up for future success.

 

Bar graph showing Unity as the most popular engine

List of various facts about Unity

Average salaries for various game dev related positions

Linechart showing the global games market forecast until 2025

 

WHO CAN TAKE THESE COURSES?

We start with the absolute basics and go through everything step-by-step – so even if you have zero experience in programming, you’ll be able to easily follow along.

More experienced? Whether you’re wanting to brush up, expand your skills, or learn a new technology, our courses are structured in a way that makes it easy to skip ahead to the lessons that are relevant and interesting to you.

REINFORCE YOUR LEARNING

Zenva’s courses feature quick challenges that will speed up your learning.

Access live coding lessons where you can practice coding right in your browser, and instantly see the results of any changes you make to the code: