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Here are 15 free online courses on game development and related topics.

This is not a complete list of online game dev courses, just some that are relevant to this community. For a much bigger searchable catalog of all (free and paid) online courses on all subjects, along with ratings and reviews check out SlideRule -- a website that I co-founded.

Coursera

Beginning Game Programming with C# -- University of Colorado

Video Games and Learning -- University of Wisconsin-Madison

Gamification -- University of Pennsylvania

Online Games: Literature, New Media, and Narrative -- Vanderbilt University

General Game Playing -- Stanford

FutureLearn

Begin programming: build your first mobile game -- University of Reading

Open2Study

Concepts in Game Development

Udacity

HTML5 Game Development -- Udacity

Udemy

Game Development Crash Course with Corona SDK

3D Video Game Development with Unity 3D

Game Development Fundamentals with Python

Unity3d Environmental Series

Basic Video Game Design Elements

Game Programming A to Z: Space Rocks

Android Game Programming tutorials

Reminder that Udacity's HTML5 Gamedev course goes live on Feb. 4th

Thought it was worth reminding to this community. Class is here:

https://www.udacity.com/course/cs255

Reminder: Udacity's HTML5 Game Programming starts today

This should be a really interesting course: https://www.udacity.com/course/cs255

They are also offering another one on webgl starting March: https://www.udacity.com/course/cs291

EDIT: Looks like it isn't launching until the 5th :(

Udacity's HTML5 Game Development class is opening today. I plan to work my way through it in the coming weeks. Anyone interested in a weekly discussion thread?

After some advice on my next step

Hi. I'm a newbie to game development. I just released my third 1GAM game which is my third game ever. http://www.onegameamonth.com/andrew_affinity

All three of my games have been Python/Pygame games. I've made an asteroids homage and two platformers. For April I'm intending on doing something different and making an interactive story using Twine (http://www.gimcrackd.com/etc/src/).

After that I'm not sure what I'm doing. I haven't run into any major problems with Pygame although I've read a lot of people talking about Pygame limitations. Although Pygame has done fine by me I feel like I've got to know it quite well and would like to try something else.

My current plan is to go through html 5 game development on udacity (https://www.udacity.com/course/cs255) then to produce a few html 5 games.

Alternatively, I could get to grips with Unity.

I realize this is extremely subjective but is one option better than the other in some way? Is there a third path I should be considering?

Additional info:

I'm happy in the world of 2d for the time being.

It would be nice if any games I make could be playable in the browser. With my Pygame games people have to either clone a git repo or download a zip containing an exe and I'm pretty sure no one but my brother is that keen.

Although I'm new to games I have around a decade of programming experience. Over the years I've had jobs in C, C++, Java, C#, some Javascript here and there, some VBA and currently I work in PHP. To learn Python I did this (https://www.coursera.org/course/interactivepython) then figured out Pygame.

I'm not scared of complexity but I would like to stick to producing one game a month so whatever I do next can't require me to spend three months learning the basics before I ship anything.

As I have a programming job I'm very happy with I'm expecting making games to remain a hobby (although if I could make a few bucks that would not be unwelcome). I'm not asking "what will get me hired at Valve?"