You're wasting so much time
(and you don't even know it)

Are you lost amidst the sea of generic tutorials on YouTube, endlessly making the same boring games for the past months or years, and struggling to find the right guidance? And say you did make a half-decent game, are you not tired of seeing it go completely unnoticed, leaving you broke and discouraged?

It's time to break free from the cycle of disappointment and transform your game development journey.

While you dance around the bush, others are building massive success, both creatively and financially because they have followed a clear and highly effective roadmap that takes them straight to where they want to be: earning money making their dream games.
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Learn how to navigate this proven roadmap which we have carefully designed to take you from stagnating beginner to game dev rocketeer, and join the ranks of those who are making money doing what they love.

The choice is yours: continue down the path of frustration and missed opportunities or embark on a transformative journey. Start today, master the game dev holy trinity, and unlock the doors to a world where your game development dreams become a reality.

The holy-trinity to become a game dev pro

Code whatever you can imagine

Learn game programming in c# so that you can bring your imagination to life. Have the freedom and confidence to make anything.

Create irresistible eye-popping games

Master 2D & 3D game art to make stunning creations. Stop labelling yourself as a "bad artist" and learn this fundamental pillar.

Build an audience & market your games

Making fun and beautiful games is not enough. You need to learn how to build a following and market your game to make money.

We're Blackthornprod.

With over a decade of hands-on experience in creating games, we understand the arduous path of trial and error, countless days spent on forums, and the continuous pursuit of knowledge through long books and random tutorials online. As the creators of the renowned YouTube channel Blackthornprod, which has garnered a massive following of over 400K subscribers, we have empowered millions of individuals with the skills to create their own games. Furthermore, we take immense pride in successfully selling our own creations on the Steam platform. This course represents the culmination of our dreams - a comprehensive resource we wished we had during our own beginnings. Together, let's unlock your true potential.

Our Expert Instructors

Alexander Loukine

Online Multiplayer Expert

Creator of the hit online multiplayer title Paint Warfare that has over 400K+ downloads

gustavo rosa

3D art & animation specialist

Famous instructor & Blender veteran with over 20 years of experience

Benjamin Anderson

Pixel art pro

Creator of the HeartBeast YouTube channel that has over 210K downloads

narayan walters

Horror game specialist

Creator of the Miziziziz YouTube channel that has over 229K subscribers. Creator of successful horror steam games.

Introducing
The Game Dev Rocket

The Game Dev Rocket is a 60+ hours program, taught by industry experts, to turn your passion and dream of becoming a money-making game developer into a reality.

Get started!

Create your first game in 2 hours, getting familiar with the Unity game engine's interface and taking your first steps with C# programming.

Follow up by making your own city builder, learn how to create a shop system, implement sound effects, and work with UI.

Make your first game

Create a city builder

Create 3D games

Create your first 3D game: a fast-paced endless runner. Learn to store high scores, add post-processing to greatly enhance the visuals, and even publish your work on the web so you can share it with the world and begin building an audience.

Build even more momentum and add a stunning top-down shooter to your portfolio. We'll design intelligent AI, study animation, code a powerful enemy spawning system and more!

Build a 3D endless runner

Design a top-down shooter

Take your skills to the next level

Build a haunting side-scrolling adventure, complete with an epic boss battle!
We will learn about parallax, 2D enemy AI and even code a complete melee combat system.

Make a 2D platformer

Mobile game dev

Tailor to the masses and create your first mobile experience. Capture touch input, create responsive UI, and make an action-packed tower defense game!

Create a mobile game

Multiplayer Mastery

Learn to make an online multiplayer FPS game with a live chat system, cosmetics, online leaderboards

Multiplayer Mastery

Horror Game Mastery

Study the art of horror games while actually building one. Our guest instructor Miziziziz will teach you all about adding atmosphere to your games, jump scares, bone-chilling sound design and much more...

Horror Game Mastery

Sell your first game

This is where dreams become a reality, and your hard work finally pays off. You will create an impressive survival FPS - and sell your creation on the largest online game store: Steam.

Sell your first game on Steam

GAME Art

Become a artist. game artist

Take things even further with 30+ hours of game dev art content. From learning the "Blackthornprod art style" and pixel art to mastering modeling, rigging, and animation in Blender. These classes will give you all the tools to make your games look stunning.

2D game art fundamentals

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Make beautiful prototypes
Draw stunning 2D game art
Make your worlds pop with game juice
Full character design sessions

5h

Blender modeling & Animation

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Masterclass - By Gustavo

Understand the Blender interface
Master 3D modeling tools
Apply textures
Rigging
Animate objects

21h

Pixel art for games

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Masterclass - By HeartBeast

Make beautiful pixel-art for games
Use shapes, values, and edges to create forms
Create a palette using color theory
Animate pixel-art

5h

Thin Matrix

Build a following by creating devlogs

Thin Matrix will go over how to create engaging devlogs and build a social media following to gather whishlists and sale your game.

Thomas Brush

How to make money while creating your game

Thomas Brush will share you his secrets to secure a nice steady income, even before you game is ever released. Crowdfunding, publishers, email lists...you will learn it all.

Tarodev

The importance of prototyping and game jams

Tarodev will share his knowledge on the topic of prototyping and game jams. How to come up with interesting game ideas? How to make fast and fun prototypes? When to scrap the idea and when to percevere?

Code Monkey

Case Study: How Code Monkey Became a full time game dev

Code Monkey will share his story on how he became a successful game developer, bringing in passive income with his 8 titles sold on Steam.

Neverjam

Case Study: How his first game was a massive success!

Spider Heck's creator chats with us about how his very first game became a commercial success. We also dive into the topic of multiplayer and local multiplayer game development.

Lemon

The struggles & solutions to solo game development

Patch Quest's creator chats with us about how he made his game completely on hiw own for over 5 years. We go over the struggles of being a solo indie-dev as well as how to overcome them.

FILMon

The game design process

This incredibly talented game designer brings us through his complete game design process. How to come up with unlimited fun and original game ideas, what are the best game design exercices, how to overcome creative block, and so much more...

Jason Weimann

Working in AAA

Game dev veteran, Jason Weimann, will share his experience working in AAA. How to secure a job at a big game company, what the rectuters are looking for, the differences between AAA and indie game dev, and so much more...

Podcast

Access the Game Dev Rocket Podcast

We have invited talented game developers from around the world to share their expertise with our students.

 7 podcast episodes
 New podcast episode each month

Enroll Now!

What people are saying

Dani @DaniDevYT

You're like the guy I was watching when learning Unity haha! I'm still using layermasks for ground detection like you taught in a tutorial way back!

Kal O'Brien @kalobrien

Blackthornprods dedication to gamedev is unmatched especially when it comes to sharing that insight with others. As someone whose watched and followed their content from their earliest days, you cant go wrong with putting your trust in them to further your own development with game dev

Tarodev @tarodev

Your art videos are what pushed me to begin learning to draw. I remember heading out to buy a draw pad after finishing your video on how to draw monsters. It's a skill which has helped me immensely in my game dev journey.

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