Strategy Game Development Academy

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:

 

Curriculum

LEVEL 1: INTRO TO UNITY 
  • Coding in Unity with C#
  • Building your first games
  • Simple game mechanics

LEVEL 2: STRATEGY GAME BASICS 
  • Strategy design principles
  • Basic resource management
  • Building your first strategy game
  • 2D procedural maps

LEVEL 3: RTS GAMES 
  • Selecting, moving, & coordinating units
  • Resource-gathering
  • Unit combat with state machines
  • Enemy AIs

LEVEL 4: POPULAR FEATURES 
  • City-builder mechanics
  • Multiplayer games with Photon
  • Turn-based games
  • Technology trees

 

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.

Bar graph showing Unity as the most popular engine

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: