Godot Engine

Going forward in this series of Godot tutorials, we will often need to know when two objects come into contact with each other. In game development, this is known as collision detection. In this tutorial, we will learn how collisions work in Godot. When a collision is detected, you typically Read more…

In this tutorial, we’ll set up our player node to use Godot physics engine fo movement and write a simple script to use the keyboard or the joypad for player input. To start, let’s open the SimpleRPG project and pick up where we left off in the last tutorial. Reorganizing Read more…

Now that we have a smattering of how Godot works, in this tutorial we can start making a simple top-down RPG. We will use pixel art graphics, so we will learn how to set up Godot for this type of games. The first step in developing the game will be Read more…

In this Godot tutorial we’ll set up our first project: a simple GUI scene consisting of a button and a label. When we click the button, we will update the label with the traditional “Hello World!” text of every beginner tutorials. We will learn how to: Draw a very simple Read more…

Godot makes extensive use of object-oriented design concepts at its core. This Godot tutorial will help you understand how it works, examining its fundamental elements: Nodes and Scenes. Don’t worry if some concepts will not be clear to you when reading this post: in the next tutorials I will try Read more…

Recently I read a lot of articles comparing Unity and Godot game engines. Many of them encourage you to try the latter, especially if you want to develop 2D games. So, I decided to follow their advise and take a look at Godot. The next step obviously was to look Read more…