I’m learning the Godot Engine because it is powerful and free. Follow along as I share what I’m learning and doing. Watch games develop from start to finish.
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I just came across an excellent Godot 2D tutorial that would have helped a lot with trying to get stuff done for the Wowie Jam! game jam. There are so many things that I know must be possible (like having a title screen or global variables) but I don’t know how to do them in … Read more
There’s an Uncontrollable Spaceship in the Wowie Jam! Made it with a few hours to spare. I am so tired! And I have to wake up soon! If you want to see the game for yourself, it’s downloadable for Windows: Here’s a quick video showing how you control your ship by bumping into things: I … Read more
A big nicety is to make the game quit when a player hits the ESC key. Especially when one’s Godot game is going full screen so there isn’t a close button provided by the OS. This turned out to be pretty easy. I added this to the globals.gd file (see the previous update on making … Read more
I’ve read this documentation page on Singletons so many times. And so many other online Q&A’s about making Global variables in Godot. And those usually point back to that same documentation page. It’s actually SO simple that it needs to be explained more simply: Here’s what worked: Make a new script called globals.gd and save … Read more
Quick update: I added a BOOM! What would a pilot of an Uncontrollable Spaceship do if they got stuck? Throw a hand-grenade out the window and see what happens! The BOOM! button throws out a hand-grenade that explodes with random force in a random direction. If it bounces your ship so that you’re pointing in … Read more
February 3, 2019 at 7:45 am There are days when an enormous amount of stuff just easily falls into place. Yesterday was not such a day. There are too many things I don’t know about using Godot that make simple tasks take a ton of research. I posted what I managed to complete last night … Read more
With so little time (and so little Godot programming knowledge), I want to make a solid list of doable project objectives for Uncontrollable Spaceship. Gameplay I have a lot of ideas for Uncontrollable Spaceship and my original intent was that it would have many or all of these as game modes – it could be … Read more
I liked the awkward gameplay of the Uncontrollable Spaceship and I wanted to create a graphic to go along with it. I searched for astronaut clipart and found this image on Pixabay Starting with the vector version of the art, I cleaned it up a bit in CorelDraw (removing some hidden gook and making all the line weights … Read more