Godot 4: Introduction to 2D Game Development

Name: Godot 4: Introduction to 2D Game Development
Rating: 4.7 (15 reviews)

Learn programming and software engineering principals through developing a 2D game in Godot 4

Created byTundra Feed and Supply Company

Last updated 11/2024

English

What you'll learn

Fundamental Godot concepts, such as Nodes, Scenes, and Resources
Basics of Godot's programming language, GDScript
How to create a project in Godot 4
How to debug in Godot to solve complex, unexpected behavior
How to use Godot's UI system to build customized user interfaces
How to build the complete game to an executable file

Course content

5 sections • 40 lectures • 6h 44m total length

Download Godot1:45
Creating your first project2:57
Getting familiar with the Godot Editor9:12
Introduction to GDScript best practices and style guide2:49
Style Guide Quiz
(Optional) Working with Source Control11:12
Explore why and how to use source control with Git and GitHub, create a repository, set up main and develop branches, and clone projects with GitHub Desktop.
Creating our game project5:04
Launch the Godot engine, create a new project, and name your game, choosing a save path. Select the compatibility renderer for broad device support and enable git for version control.
(Optional) Creating your first commit4:53

Introduction to Project Settings6:44
Creating our game scene5:02
Introduction to Nodes and Scenes7:41
Adding a camera6:25
Creating the paddle14:16
Creating our first script11:00
Getting input and programming our paddle26:26
Creating the ball9:18
Creating the paddle-bounce logic29:23
Learn to implement paddle bounce in Godot 4 by adding an area 2D hitbox, connecting area entered, and computing a normalized direction with a clamped max bounce angle.
Adding edges to the game and introduction to debugging10:42
Programming the paddle AI23:52
Integrating the AI behavior through custom signals15:35
Refactoring our AI paddle code13:52
Refactor the AI paddle code into smaller, readable functions such as get player input and calculate eye movement, introducing a paddle within destination bounds check to simplify and clarify logic.
Integrating our ball and paddles into a level manager16:03
Use a level manager to control game flow, instantiate paddles and ball from packed scenes, and set fixed start positions before adding them to the scene.
Adding reset match logic to our level manager14:37
Creating our score manager and tracking scores12:49
(Optional) Commiting and pushing your work to GitHub5:43
(Optional) Creating and merging your first pull request7:49
Merge develop into main to create a fully functional snapshot of your game, then review commits, resolve potential conflicts, and use pull requests to keep branches synchronized.

Creating our in-game UI8:34
Drawing the midline11:10
Connecting our in-game UI with our score manager7:45
Improving our text with a custom font7:02
Import the Pixel Sans font from Google Fonts, add it to assets/fonts, and apply it via the theme or project settings to preview the font in game text.
(Optional) Commiting the UI and font files3:02
Creating the main menu14:13
Styling our game through a custom theme10:54

AI polish - making our AI beatable through random number generation9:19
Master Godot 4 2D game development by teaching AI to be beatable through a random number generator, adjusting the paddle destination to create a balanced challenge.
Saving and loading player high scores with a save and load manager12:35
Integrating our save and load manager with our high score manager5:05
Displaying high scores on the main menu5:21
Integrate save and load manager with high score manager to read and save scores, displaying player one and player two scores on top left and top right in Godot 4.
Creating the pause manager6:30
Implement a pause system in Godot 4 for 2D games with a pause manager that toggles pause via the escape key or spacebar, using always process mode to enable unpausing.
Creating the pause menu23:29
Create a pause menu in Godot 4 by building a pause screen overlay with resume, main menu, and quit buttons, and connect UI signals with a scene manager.

Requirements

No prior experience with programming or Godot is required.
A Windows or Linux machine to develop on. While most of this should work on Mac as well, I have not been able to test on it.

Description

This course will teach everything you need to build a complete 2D game in Godot 4! We start from the very basics, downloading Godot 4 and program every single line together until building the game out to a .exe file. Some of the topics we will cover are:

Working with player input
Working across multiple scenes
Signals and subscribers
Creating and customizing the user interface
Saving and loading
Debugging
& more

The goal of this course is to familiarize yourself with the complete game development workflow through Godot. By the end of this course you should have a functional proficiency with GDScript and basic software engineering principals. You will be able to improve upon the game you have built in this course, build your own games, or even take your new skill set to other game engines or software projects entirely.

This course is ideal for you if you are looking to get into programming or game development. 2D games are a critical introduction to game development, even if you are looking to get into 3D game development. While this course was recorded on Windows, these processes are identical on Linux as well.

This course is action oriented and focused on the process of creating a classic 2D game from start to finish. While the game allows us to cover a wide range of topics in Godot, we do not cover things such as networked multiplayer, 3D, art and animations, etc. Please review the course content to see if the course would be helpful for you.

There are several lessons that are available for preview here on Udemy, please check them out ahead of time to see if my teaching style or the content of the course is right for you!

Who this course is for:

Beginners new to Godot or to programming
People interested in game development, whether they want to build their own games or just to learn how games are built

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Getting Godot and Setting Up Our Project7 lectures • 38min

Building Our Game18 lectures • 3hr 57min

Adding a User Interface (UI)7 lectures • 1hr 3min

Polish6 lectures • 1hr 2min

Exporting to an Executable and Conclusion2 lectures • 5min

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