What's wrong with game development courses?

Question

Game development

I thought about changing the type of activity to game dev. I started taking courses on devtudev and stepik. and most of the information is devoted to marketing and earnings analytics. Does everything in gamedev really come down to monetization or am I watching the wrong courses?

Answer 1

Good courses are rare. Oddly enough, there are much more interesting materials on programming and game design on YouTube.
Programming: Brackeys , Jason Weimann , Game Maker's Toolkit game design (nothing to do with the famous engine).
A year ago, I took a course on Netology , and although there were useless things, you can get quite a lot of knowledge there.
Marketing and analytics are also needed, of course, but I don't think that the authors of FTL, Into The Breach, Stardew Valley looked at trends much.

Answer 2

No. Not everything comes down to monetization. Most likely you are just watching the wrong courses, besides, for example, I make games for the soul, there is no monetization in them.