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Game Programming with GDScript in Godot
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Game Programming with GDScript in Godot

Make your own 2D games with Godot 4, the free and open source game engine, and its language, GDScript. Find your way around the editor, build games out of scenes and nodes, and write GDScript with variables, types, functions and signals. Move a character with the keyboard, add gravity, jumps and collisions, then put together a complete small game with sprites, animation, a score on screen, sound and a game over screen. Finish by organizing your project, saving progress and exporting it to play on a computer, a phone or the web.

5 modules 10 lessons 4 h 250 questions
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Course content

1 Godot from Zero: Editor, Scenes and Nodes 2 lessons · 13 min
1 Meet Godot: Projects, the Editor and Nodes 6:29 2 Scenes and the Scene Tree 6:22
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2 GDScript Basics: Variables, Functions and Signals 2 lessons · 14 min
3 GDScript Basics: Variables, Types and Decisions 6:46 4 GDScript Basics: Loops, Arrays, Functions and Signals 6:58
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3 Movement and Physics: Input, Bodies and Collisions 2 lessons · 14 min
5 Input and Movement: Moving with Delta 6:43 6 Physics Bodies, Jumps and Collisions 6:53
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4 A Complete 2D Game: Sprites, Animation, HUD and Sound 2 lessons · 13 min
7 Building the Level: Sprites, Animation, Tiles and Camera 6:53 8 Score, HUD, Timers, Sound and Game Over 6:29
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5 From Prototype to Project: Organize, Save and Export 2 lessons · 13 min
9 Organize Your Project and Save Progress 7:00 10 Export Your Game: Computer, Phone and Web 6:05
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Tips

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Project and Export Export early, on every platform you plan to support Install the templates once and test the real build, not only the editor Project and Export Label your prints, then reach for breakpoints Know which value you are looking at and stop the game to inspect it Project and Export Save to user://, never to res:// The project folder is read-only once the game is exported Project and Export Keep data that outlives scenes in an autoload Score, lives and settings belong to the game, not to one level