Create 2 procedurally generated 2D roguelite in Godot 4.4

Name: Create 2 procedurally generated 2D roguelite in Godot 4.4
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Learn how to make game like Nuclear Throne or Enter the gungeon using Godot 4.4

Created byJMG Studios

Last updated 8/2025

English

What you'll learn

Learn the fundamentals of Godot 4
Learn how to create a procedural generation algorithm
You will learn the fundamentals mechanics of a 2D Roguelike game
You will build a prototype that you will be able to sale

Course content

6 sections • 84 lectures • 12h 36m total length

Setting up the level generation scene and node structure4:54
Creating all the variable needed for the walker9:03
Creating the procedural generation walker algorithm22:47
Generating the background with collision shape12:25
Making the level generation instant5:33
Creating the background terrain8:59
Calling the background terrain in our procgen algorithm11:00
Instancing the Player in the level generated with a Player handler object24:54
Placing exit in the level17:15
Placing object in the level part 113:10
Placing object in the level part 210:23

Creating the player node and animations7:49
Creating the player movement8:48
Calling the animations, flipping the player, adjusting the sliding5:39
Instancing our player to our level1:42
z_index and camera setting5:28
Adjusting the collision of the tileset so the player can pass behind tiles4:00
Creating the gun node and the gun class5:44
Making the gun rotate around the player11:24
Flipping the gun in the right direction5:52
Flipping the player in the direction of the mouse4:15
Creating a bullet scene and the script9:50
Creating the shooting mechanic14:54
Changing the cursor of the mouse9:18
Trigger on and off the gun and the mouse cursor9:27
Making sure you can't shoot if the gun is not visible2:03
Creating a sword attack6:05
Creating and activating the collision shape of the sword5:58
Creating the health system and gui12:42
Display the dead animations and restart the level10:55
Create a spike trap to kill the player6:43
Placing the trap in the level using object handler9:48
Creating the ammunitions system and display it in the gui5:41
Creating the ammo scene and place it in the object handler12:20
Creating an exit scene and place it in the level12:44
Screen shake when shooting10:41
Making bullet explode and gun invisible when player die9:02
Slashing spikes with the sword3:39

Refactoring code to shoot three bullet and creating gun ID8:26
Creating the triple shotgun scene6:12
Create the bouncing bullet scene2:24
Coding the bouncing bullet scene17:17
Create the single bounce gun4:18
Create the Triple bounce gun3:50
Creating the rocket launcher6:30
Creating the Rocket scene3:46
Controlling the rocket with the mouse11:10
Creating the gun items scenes to pickup11:50
Instancing the gun in the levels9:04
Creating and coding the gun inventory node10:17
Creating the bridge function and swapping guns collected using a key9:14
What's next?3:32

Setting up godot, importing our sprites and creating the main level5:21
Creating the player and its animations11:51
Player movement12:41
Creating the gun10:37
Aiming the direction of the player to the mouse cursor2:12
Creating the projectiles and coding the shooting mechanic14:37
Animating the mouse cursor and changing it to a target icon6:41
Setting up the death animation with state machine & hazards14:31
Fixing the up and down animation of the player1:39
Creating the GUI and displaying the amount of health and ammo14:54
Running out of ammo2:26

Creating the tilemap & tileset12:24
Coding the procedural generation algorithm23:44
Generating our level using the walker17:10
Setting the collision shape of our tilemap and collision layer3:18
Setting up the Ysort of our level2:56
Placing the player in our procedurally generated level4:24
Creating and placing an exit + ysort of the mouse cursor10:02
Creating a second tilemap for the floor + place randomly cosmetics tile7:30
Creating the enemy animations4:41
Coding the enemy movement14:40
Importing enemies in the level and placing them randomly7:24
Killing the enemies and instance an explosion scene8:29
Adding the explosion to the bullet2:23
Creating an ammo pickup and looting the ammo when enemies dies7:44
Create a scent trail7:32
Making our enemy chase the player through the scent trail16:27
Shaders to get hurt and killing the player or the enemy13:15

Requirements

A bit of programming knowledge is needed (knowing function, variable, etc), but I'll teach you the rest

Description

** THIS COURSE HAS BEEN RECENTLY UPDATED for GODOT 4.4**

In this course you will learn how to create a procedurally generated 2D Roguelike similar to games like Nuclear Throne or Enter the gungeon. We will use an algorithm called random walker that we will use to create automatically new levels: everytime we will load our level a new one will be automatically generated, which open the gate for infinite levels. We will learn how to place our player, groups of enemies and exit inside it, as well as instancing ammunitions when our enemy dies. We will also create from scratch a player with typical roguelike movement and shooting mechanic like having the rotation of our player and his gun based on the position of the mouse, we will learn how to configure a mouse icon that is animated, how to create enemies that can patrol randomly and chase you once you’ve been detected, and way much more.

Here is a list of the things we will learn together:

Generating procedurally a level that is autotiled with terrains and collisions shape
Rotating the gun and the player toward the mouse position
Instancing enemies inside the border of our generated level
Having our enemy chasing us
Being able to collect ammo by looting them inside our level
Having a countdown that restart the level when reaching zero
Creating shader to damage the player
Having screen shake when the bullet explode
Having a player life system
Having an exit portal that we need to find to continue playing the game

I’ve been enjoying making this new course as I am fascinated by procedural generation, and I hope that this course will be the right entry gate for you if you want to go deeper into that segment of programming that is rarely taught in a way that is complete and accessible for beginner programmer.

The asset will be provided with this course, so you just have to enroll and start coding.

So thank you for reading this and considering buying this course, and I’ll see you in the first lecture!

Who this course is for:

This course is targeted first for intermediate programmer but is accessible to beginner looking to learn more how works procedural generation

Create 2 procedurally generated 2D roguelite in Godot 4.4

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Creating the procedural generation algorithm (NEW COURSE, update for Godot 4.4)11 lectures • 2hr 20min

Creating the player (NEW COURSE, update for Godot 4.4)27 lectures • 3hr 33min

Creating the weapons mechanics (New COURSE update for Godot 4.4)14 lectures • 1hr 48min

Creating the player and the shooting mechanic11 lectures • 1hr 38min

Procedural generation and creating enemy17 lectures • 2hr 44min

Screen shake, Countdown timer, Controls, Bug fixing4 lectures • 34min

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