According to the visitors of the BE OPEN Academy platform, the best online course in Game Design offered by California Institute of Arts is Character Design for Video Games, which explores concepts and approaches involved in creating successful character designs that can be applied to video games.
The other entries in the poll were:
- Introduction to Game Design that introduces primary concepts of gaming, and explores how these concepts affect the way gamers interact with our games
- World Design for Video Games that investigates key components of environment and level design as well as strategies designers use to define gameplay
- Story and Narrative Development for Video Games that examines how storytelling acts as a vital mechanism for driving video gameplay forward
- Game Design Document: Define the Art & Concepts that guides you to distill and improve the foundational aspects of your game