Making a game with codeless programming

Get to grips with the basics of games development.

Key details

Location

Penryn Campus

Course duration

2 days

Course overview

Come and get involved with this fast-paced 2-day course where our Games Academy team will teach you about essential skills for games development, providing a starting point for your journey into games design or into a more technical career.

We’ll start by introducing you to Unity and showing you how to build logic with visual scripting. Then you’ll put everything you’ve learned into practice with a supported games jam challenge. There’ll be a chance to play each-other’s games at the end of the course, and you’ll leave with the game you’ve created.

Tuition fees per individual: £300

Location: Games Academy, Penryn Campus

Duration: 2 days

How to apply

See course dates below that are available to book.

Upcoming Short Courses

Wed 20 Aug 2025

2-day course | 20 - 21 Aug | Price: £300

Making a game with codeless programming

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Making a game with codeless programming

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Course details

This is a quick-start course to take you from complete beginner to creating your own basic game in two days. Our specialist Games Academy team will introduce you to Unity from scratch, walking through building logic with visual scripting and teaching you how to implement art assets and build worlds using assets.

By the end of day one, you’ll have all the fundamentals covered that you will need to create your first game.

On the second day, we’ll start the morning off with an ideas generation round. Following this, with a strict time limit, you’ll be supported to make a game that follows the chosen idea / theme.

You’ll work individually within a group of likeminded people, in a creative and supportive environment to spark ideas, test knowledge, and encourage you to challenge your abilities.

At the end of the course you’ll all get a chance to submit your games for peer review and will be able to play each other’s creations after the course. You’ll take the copy away with you of the game you’ve created.

Taught by our Games Academy team and located in our fantastic facilities on our Penryn campus, this course includes all materials and equipment needed, along with refreshments each day. Please bring a packed lunch with you.

This is an outline of what we’ll cover on each day of this course:

Day one

Basics of Unity Engine
Basics of Visual Scripting tools
Implementing assets into Unity Engine
Building and sharing games to explore and test knowledge

Day two

Game Jam

Ideas generation round
Create a small playable game within a short period of time
Share the game with others

Course team

Archie Andrews

Archie is a Games Engine and Version Control Technician. He studied Games Development Programming and worked freelance on building tools and mobile games. Archie has also taught games development at different levels of education ranging from an after school game making club at Stoke Damerel Primary School in Plymouth to the technical workshops under the Games Academy at Falmouth.

Outside of teaching, Archie maintains a tool for the Unity Game Engine called Prefab Brush+ and tinkers with making small games and hacking together hardware for automating gardening work.

Archie Andrews

How you'll learn

You’ll learn via a series of taught workshops and will get hands-on straightaway. On the second day, you’ll get stuck in to developing your own game with full support from our technical team.

Who is this course for

This course is suitable for beginners who are interested in games, programming, software or IT generally who’d like to broaden their skillset; or for creative people who are interested in moving into a more technical career and want to experiment with digital tools in a supportive environment.

It’s also suitable for people who enjoy making games already who would like to expand your knowledge and take on a games jam challenge in a collaborative environment.

Expect a fun, intensive, quick-start course with hands-on activities each day.

Arrival each day: From 9am 

Teaching starts: 9.30am 

Teaching ends: 5pm 

All materials and equipment you’ll need are provided. Please remember to bring a packed lunch with you.

Tea/coffee is included each day. Please bring a packed lunch, or visit one of our on-campus cafes.

This course is taught in our Games Academy on our Penryn campus.

There is plenty of parking available on our Penryn campus and you can also reach us via a range of public transport options. You can find out more, here.

For campus maps and information on visiting us, please visit our How to find us page.

A reasonable level of familiarity with computers and basic IT skills, but no prior games knowledge is required.

Accommodation is not included in this course cost. If you would like to book accommodation, please see our accommodation for short course students page for a range of options. 

How to apply

To apply for this course, make your selection from the available dates below, this will take you to an event page where you will be able to book yourself onto the course via the Book now link.

Tuition fees per individual: £300