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.

 

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  • 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

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

 

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.

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:

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!

Check out what our learners think below:

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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.

This curriculum is suitable for complete beginners with no prior coding experience.

Why should I learn programming?

We’re living in the age of technology. In every industry, demand for developers is high and continues to rise, yet there’s a shortage of skilled developers. As a result, there’s a huge number of exciting opportunities out there for developers who want to take them.

By mastering the skills taught in these courses, you’ll prepare yourself for roles in a wide range of industries. Whether you want to work in a startup or a Fortune 500 company, you’ll learn in-demand knowledge and techniques that will help you to succeed.

What will I achieve by taking these courses?

You’ll not only learn the most in-demand modern languages, frameworks, and tools, but also how to apply them to your own projects and real-world situations.

Additionally, as our courses are primarily project-based, as you learn you’ll develop a rock-solid professional portfolio that can be used to impress potential employers.

Technology changes quickly. What happens if the content becomes outdated?

We’re committed to providing you with the most up-to-date, relevant content. If one of our courses becomes outdated due to modern practices, we’ll update it. Often, we’ll even remake it entirely using the latest versions of the languages, tools and frameworks.

We’re committed to keeping up with cutting-edge developments in the industry, and turn this knowledge into new courses, which we publish every month.

I’m an absolute beginner who’s never coded before. Can I still do these courses?

Yes, you can! We have entry-level courses on all key topics, and each of our curriculums feature guided learning paths that show you what courses are needed to reach your goals.

Additionally, if you need a little extra help, we have expert mentors on hand to answer any course-related questions that you might have.

What time commitment is needed?

We get that you’re busy, and so we’ve designed our courses to be completely flexible, so you can learn at your own pace and fit your courses around your schedule.

While we recommend that you put in at least a few hours a week (the more hours put in, the more you’ll get out!) there are no time limits or deadlines that you need to worry about.

Will these courses help me to change my career?

Many of our students have been able to successfully change their careers, land their dream job, get promoted, and even start their own businesses… and you have the potential to do the same!

You can also combine your existing skills with your new tech skills, and expand your career, rather than changing it completely.

Our courses have been designed to teach you highly transferable skills, and leave you with strong projects that can be added to your professional portfolio – whatever you want to do, we’ll help to get you there! 🙂

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