Unreal Game Development Mini-Degree

Build your own games with Unreal Engine!

Loved by indie and professional developers alike, Unreal Engine is the powerful 3D engine behind AAA games like Ark II: Survival Evolved, Kingdom Hearts IV, and Hogwarts Legacy.

 

 

With its unique Blueprints Visual Scripting System, Unreal lets you build games even if you’ve never coded before. It has advanced graphics rending capabilities – allowing you to easily create stunning visuals in real-time – and is free to use until your game earns $1 million, making it cost-effective for small studios and hobbyists.

 

The Unreal Game Development Mini-Degree

The Unreal Game Development Mini-Degree is the world’s most comprehensive collection of courses on building games with Unreal Engine. You’ll be guided step-by-step through the basics of Unreal 5, before creating a variety of games in popular genres:

 

These courses will put you on the game development fast track – once you’ve learned the basics, you’ll create your first game in 1 hour! The skills you’ll learn will translate to virtually every genre, so you can use them to build your dream games.

 

Learn All About
  • Unreal Engine’s features
  • Blueprints Visual Scripting
  • 3D environments with Quixel
  • Animations
  • Lighting
  • Enemy AIs
  • Game mechanics

…and more.

Your Unreal Portfolio

Create a portfolio of Unreal Engine projects, including:

 

Curriculum

Unreal Engine Learning Goals for Level 1

LEVEL 1: UNREAL BASICS
  • Tools overview
  • Objects, physics, & lighting
  • Blueprints Visual Scripting
  • Your first mini-projects

Unreal Engine Learning Goals for Level 2

LEVEL 2: YOUR FIRST GAMES
  • Player movement
  • 3D level construction
  • Collectibles & enemies
  • Interaction systems

Unreal Engine Learning Goals for Level 3

LEVEL 3: ARCADE GAMES
  • Grid-based movement
  • Plane-oriented movement
  • Moving obstacles
  • Scoring systems

Unreal Engine Learning Goals for Level 4

LEVEL 4: FPS GAME
  • First-person player & camera
  • Shooting mechanics
  • Animated enemies
  • Damage, ammo, & pickups

Unreal Engine Learning Goals for Level 5

LEVEL 5: ACTION RPG
  • Orbiting camera
  • Animation Blueprints
  • Attack & blocking mechanics
  • Terrain creation

Unreal Engine Learning Goals for Level 6

LEVEL 6: STRATEGY GAMES
  • Unit movement
  • Turn-based gameplay
  • Real-time gameplay
  • Strategy combat & puzzles

 

Why Learn Game Development with Unreal?

The games market is a multi-billion dollar industry, and this is expected to continue growing. Used by the world’s biggest AAA studios to create the world’s most popular games, developers who can use this engine are highly sought after.

The engine is so powerful that skills with Unreal are also in high demand in non-game industries, including film, architecture, training, simulation, and more – setting Unreal developers up for success across a wide range of sectors for years to come.

Bar graph showing number of companies in each industry using Unreal Engine

List of popular games made with Unreal Engine

Average salaries for various game dev related positions

Linechart showing the global games market forecast until 2025