Welcome to the Treehouse Community

Want to collaborate on code errors? Have bugs you need feedback on? Looking for an extra set of eyes on your latest project? Get support with fellow developers, designers, and programmers of all backgrounds and skill levels here with the Treehouse Community! While you're at it, check out some resources Treehouse students have shared here.

Looking to learn something new?

Treehouse offers a seven day free trial for new students. Get access to thousands of hours of content and join thousands of Treehouse students and alumni in the community today.

Start your free trial

iOS

Posted by Luqman Shah
Luqman Shah
3,016 Points

What's the difference between "designing" a game and "coding" a game?

So there are two courses on treehouse for creating games. One course teaches you how to design a game, and the other course teaches you how to code a game. Here's the link: https://teamtreehouse.com/space-cat

Now I am a bit confused, are these two courses two whole different ways on learning how to create a game? Or do I HAVE to take both courses in order to learn how to build games? So for example, if I'm more into designing, would the first course be for me without having to worry about taking the coding course on how to build games? Or do I have to take the game design course AND the coding course? I'm really confused. More simply put: do I have to take both courses in that link? Or can I just choose one course from that link to learn how to build games?

1 Answer

Grosshandler M
Grosshandler M
1,566 Points

Designing a game is making the sprites/characters and backgrounds for a game visually, i.e. in Photoshop/what have you Coding a game is making the characters move when the user presses a button and whatnot

In order to make a solid game, I would assume you would take both the design course and the coding course