Game Development 2023-2024

You will learn beautiful and powerful C# programming language. C# is used in app and game development extensively, and is the main Unity game engine programming language.

Year 1, Semester 2, Feb-May

Unity is excels when it comes to mobile, web, 2D and 3D game development. Games like Among Us, Rust, Kerbal space program and Escape from Tarkov are made with Unity.

Year 2, Semester 1, Oct-Jan

You will get deeper into Unity C# programming. Programming is an important component of game development, which infinitely extends the possibilities for game logic.

Year 2, Semester 2, Feb-May

Final project. You will team up with other students to create a real-life game, publish it and participate in a real Game Jam! This is how popular games born.

Course details

Carefully designed study program, after which you can apply for a real internship or even a job!
Learn and master game development with Visual Studio, Unity, Asset stores and GitHub.
Live lessons, with live instructor and Discord server for live chat and questions
Accomplish the program and get your valuable certificate and portfolio of self-made games.
Live lessons once per week, Tuesdays 18:00 (GMT+3) (program starts on October 5, 2023).
The program is held in English language. Students who are not native English speakers over the program improve their English language skills significantly.

Instructors

Watch this short intro from Keron.

Lead Instructor

Keron

Keron Sepp is Unity Student Ambassador, streamer and teaches Unity games development at Datorium. He has graduated from Solent University(UK) with a degree in BSc Computer Games Software Development. He has previously worked professionally as a Unity3D developer in the United Kingdom and Estonia and was a mentor at Khan Academy. At moment Keron works in the cybersecurity and site reliability field in Estonian Energy company and is part of a indie game development team.

FAQ

Will lessons be live recorded?

The lessons will be delivered in real-time by the live tutor, where participants actively communicate, ask questions and work on their projects. After each lesson enrolled students will have access to video recordings of that particular and all previous lessons.

Any discounts and money-back guarantee?

Yes! You can get 15% off, if you make a yearly payment. Plus you get 100% money back guarantee, if you change your mind during the first month of the program!

What will be learned over this program?

You will learn object-oriented programming principles and practice with one of the most popular and powerful app development languages C# (C-sharp). That will follow by a semester of JavaScript learning, which will continue with powerful Node.js Express framework combined with professional grade database MongoDB. By the end of the course you will team up with front-end developers to create a real-life app project and deploy that in Heroku to make it available for the whole Internet world.

What is back-end development?

Back-end developers take care of application logic, database and all processes that happen in the server. For example, if you click on a like button in a social network, then the app should apply the logic and save this action in the database. This is done by back-end programming, which is very demanded skill and profession.

What is Datorium community?

Datorium community is more than 7500 students predominantly from Europe and aged 14-19. We informally call ourselves Datorians. Every Datorium student becomes part of this growing and strong international community, and gets excellent 24/7 support from its members. You can chat, ask questions, make suggestions, find team members, share your experience, get valuable ideas from other members and simply make new friends in the Discord server of Datorium community.

Every Datorian can earn tokens, called botCoins which accumulate to reputation and can be exchanged to valuable goodies. Accumulated botCoins also give users exclusive access to certain community giveaways and events.

Will you issue a certificate?

Yes, indeed, if participant completes at least 80% of the curriculum of the program. Certificate will be issued by the “European Coding School” (license number 3351803339) – an official Education Institution licensed by the Ministry of Education and Science of the European Union member country Republic of Latvia.