In this post I want to document all the useful tips and gotchas I found when using Godot. It's a living document, so will be updated regularly as I learn more * Area vs StaticBody vs RigidBody vs Kinematic Body * Vehicle Body * Animated Sprite vs Animation Player vs Animation Tree * Animation

This is Part 6 of the Godot series. Read Previous Parts here. [https://new.pythonforengineers.com/godot-games-programming/] All the code is here [https://github.com/shantnu/godot-beginners], under Part 6 In this post, we will prety-fy our game a little– add game start and over screens, add a heads up

This is Part 5 of the Godot series. Read Previous Parts here. [https://new.pythonforengineers.com/godot-games-programming/] All the code is here [https://github.com/shantnu/godot-beginners], under Part 5 In this post, we will add an enemy to our game. The enemy will walk left and right, and we

This is Part 4.1 of the Godot series. Read Previous Parts here. [https://new.pythonforengineers.com/godot-games-programming/] Why do we need layers? Layers make sure we don't have situations like the enemy dying on a spike, or taking a coin. While we could write code for it, layers are

This is Part 4 of the Godot series. Read Previous Parts here. [https://new.pythonforengineers.com/godot-games-programming/] All the code is here [https://github.com/shantnu/godot-beginners], under Part 4 The problem in our previous code was if we fell over the edge, we kept falling. We need to detect

This is Part 3 of the Godot series. Part 1 [https://new.pythonforengineers.com/blog/getting-started-with-godot/]and Part 2  are here. In this post, we will start designing our level. All the code is here, under Part 3. [https://github.com/shantnu/godot-beginners] To start off, go ahead and delete

This post continues from the 1st one– Read Part 1 if you haven't [https://new.pythonforengineers.com/blog/getting-started-with-godot/]. In this post, we'll add player animation All the code is here [https://github.com/shantnu/godot-beginners], under Part 2 Player Animation Till now, our player moves, but isn't really animated.

In this post, we will start with a very basic Godot script, that will move a player left and right, add some gravity. All the code is here [https://github.com/shantnu/godot-beginners]. Part 1 is the directory with the code. I'm using Godot version 3.x for this tutorial.

So I've tried to get into game programming for a long time; I even learnt programming by reading thru the code of gorillas.bas [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gorillas_(video_game)], though I didn't understand much of it I tried and retried to get into games many times, and