game Godot Tips 'n Tricks 'n Gotchas 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
game Add a UI to our Game and Export the Project This is Part 6 of the Godot series. Read Previous Parts here. All the code is here, under Part 6 In this post, we will prety-fy our game a little– add game start and over screens, add a heads up display to show how many coins we have etc. Let's
game Adding Enemies to Our Game This is Part 5 of the Godot series. Read Previous Parts here. All the code is here, under Part 5 In this post, we will add an enemy to our game. The enemy will walk left and right, and we will be able to kill it by jumping on it.
game Setting Up Layers and Masks in Godot This is Part 4.1 of the Godot series. Read Previous Parts here. 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 easy, as they enforce separation
game Adding Obstacles and Coins to Our Level This is Part 4 of the Godot series. Read Previous Parts here. All the code is here, under Part 4 The problem in our previous code was if we fell over the edge, we kept falling. We need to detect and correct this. There are multiple ways to do it:
game Godot: Level Design and Adding a Camera Object This is Part 3 of the Godot series. Part 1 and Part 2 are here. In this post, we will start designing our level. All the code is here, under Part 3. To start off, go ahead and delete the temporary "ground" we created: On Level1, press + and add a
game Godot: Player Animation This post continues from the 1st one– Read Part 1 if you haven't. In this post, we'll add player animation All the code is here, under Part 2 Player AnimationTill now, our player moves, but isn't really animated. Let's fix that. Open Player.tscn, and add a new node for
game Getting Started with Godot Game Programming for Complete Beginners 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. Part 1 is the directory with the code. I'm using Godot version 3.x for this tutorial. Install GodotFor those who come
game Why I'm Moving to Godot for Game Programming 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, though I didn't understand much of it I tried and retried to get into games many times, and each time I realised the same thing: Making
game Zombies vs Tanks: A Simple game in Python and Pygame Zero This post is a follow on from my last post which introduced gaming, make sure you've read it. The source code is here: https://github.com/shantnu/zombie_tanks So this time we'll build a slightly (but just slightly!) more complicated game: The new things this time are: The tank
game Your First Game in Python: Create an Arkanoid Clone in less than 30 minutes We're going to write a clone of Arkanoid (Breakout) using Python and PyGame Zero. In this post, I want to show you how easy it is to write a simple game. Let's get started! All the code is available here: https://github.com/shantnu/arkanoid-clone The images are from Kenney,
