Learn to build strategy games with Unity!
Claiming massive hits like Civilization VI and Clash of Clans, the strategy genre is a pillar of game development.
Knowing how to work with this genre will set you up for success, and when it comes to building strategy games, the Unity Engine is the perfect choice. It’s powerful, versatile, and includes a range of features that are essential for strategy game development – including AI systems, cross-platform support, and multiplayer functionality.
Strategy Game Development Academy
Strategy Game Development Academy is the world’s most comprehensive collection of courses on building strategy games with Unity. You’ll be guided step-by-step through creating your own projects, including:
These courses will put you on the fast track to building strategy games – once you’ve mastered the basics of Unity, you’ll create your first strategy game in just 75 minutes! You’ll learn reusable systems like technology trees, along with turn-based and real-time gameplay, resource management, and multiplayer mechanics – all skills that can be applied to building your own unique projects.
Learn All About
- Resource management
- Enemy wave spawning
- Unit movement & combat
- Procedural maps
- Turn-based & real-time formats
- Enemy AI & state machines
- Technology trees
- Multiplayer with Photon networking
Build Strategy Games
Create a portfolio of strategy game projects, including:
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. Unity also uses C# – an easy-to-learn programming language – and features an intuitive interface, making it a great choice for your first game engine.
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.
Curriculum
- Coding in Unity with C#
- Building your first games
- Simple game mechanics
- Strategy design principles
- Basic resource management
- Building your first strategy game
- 2D procedural maps
- Selecting, moving, & coordinating units
- Resource-gathering
- Unit combat with state machines
- Enemy AIs
- City-builder mechanics
- Multiplayer games with Photon
- Turn-based games
- Technology trees
UNDERSTAND THE CONCEPTS BEHIND GAME CREATION
These courses don’t just cover surface-level content. You’ll gain a solid understanding of the concepts behind coding and game creation – that way, you’ll more easily be able to apply them to making unique games of your very own.
REINFORCE YOUR LEARNING WITH CHALLENGES
By practicing your new skills, you’re more likely to remember them later. That’s why our courses feature quick challenges – they’re the perfect way to cement what you’ve learned.
Courses by Unity Certified Experts
Our course instructors aren’t just fun to learn from – they’re also serious gamers, qualified coders, and have been formally certified by Unity Technologies and CompTIA for their excellent programming and teaching skills. That way, you can be confident that you’re developing strong, modern skills that will set you up for success as a game developer.
As a Unity Authorized Learning Partner, our courses are confirmed as being of the highest quality, and as being relevant in today’s industry.
Why Develop Strategy Games?
With a multi-billion dollar market and strong career opportunities, the games industry is full of great opportunities for developers – especially if they know how to make strategy games, one of the most popular genres on the market.
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.
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:
Reinforce key concepts with in-course quizzes, which appear throughout courses:
COURSES BY THE WORLD’S BEST
Our course instructors aren’t just fun to learn from – they’re also serious gamers, qualified coders, and have been formally certified by Unity Technologies and CompTIA for their excellent programming and teaching skills. That way, you can be confident that you’re developing strong, modern skills that will set you up for success as a game developer.
YOUR COURSES, YOUR WAY
Learn with project-based courses that are designed to be flexible – access them 24/7, fit them around your schedule, and choose the learning materials that suit you best.
With an online platform optimized for all modern devices, you can even learn on the go!
✅ Watch video lessons
✅ Download course printouts
✅ Explore interactive lessons
✅ Practice with source code
✅ Build real projects
✅ Earn completion certificates
ACHIEVE REAL RESULTS
Our community of 1,000,000+ learners and developers have used the skills learned with us to publish their own games and websites, land their dream jobs, and even start their own businesses – and you have the potential to do the same!
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MIHIR PATEL
I love the lectures, concise course objectives, and how they not only teach you enough to get started, but prepare you for the advanced stuff later down the road.
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MONICA MANCUSI
With Zenva, I started learning a more accurate way to approach problems and develop solutions. It’s full of interesting topics that I love to learn in conjunction with my work.
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CRAIG BICKFORD
I chose Zenva because of the large selection of topics and the fact that I can choose what courses I want to take whenever I want to take them. That level of freedom is unique to Zenva.
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ANDREA CARDENAS-ROEDER
The Unity courses at Zenva helped me achieve a level of comfort with game development that I didn’t think was possible. They give you the confidence to expand your skills, and were so easy to understand.
