Master the Art of Game Development

Using Control and Container Nodes, we can layout our User Interface to meet the needs of our games, by presenting information clearly to our users. We can use these nodes to give us ultimate control over how we structure our views, and compose scenes together.

Ready to take your Godot UI skills to the next level? We'll delve into the powerful world of control nodes and show you how to master them for creating dynamic and interactive user interfaces in Godot.

I spent 1 week making a game about managing 4 survivors who are attempting to repair their vehicle while under attack from an onslaught of zombie hoards!

In this post we'll be performing a Feature Study of Diablo IV's Inventory system. We'll take a look at how the Itemization is composed and break down the elements with in the inventory and recreate a similar look and feel within Godot.

It's been over a week since GodotCon 2023 wrapped up. I wasn't able to make it in person, so I was excited to be able to watch all the recordings thanks to the work of Chaos Computer Club.

In this post of Godot Fundamentals, we'll be implementing saving for our User Preferences using a Custom Resource and the Resource Saver. With this we'll be able to track our settings for the music and sfx audio levels, our control scheme, and our custom control mappings for our Input Map.

In this post of Godot Fundamentals, we're covering how we can remap our input actions to different keys to allow our users full customization of how they play our game. We'll create a custom button that we can select in our menu to listen for our InputEvents and remap the action to the pressed key.

In this post we’re going to continue our series on Godot Fundamentals. We’ll be adding controller support to move our tank and navigate our UI. We will also be adding input scheme options within our game menu, controller vibrations when firing, and replacing our mouse cursor with a weapon crosshair when our input scheme changes to the gamepad.

In this post we’re going to continue our series on Godot Fundamentals. We’ll be creating a new main menu in which our game will start at and allow us to start and quit our game, as well as introduce some scene transitions when leaving and entering our menu.

In this post we’re going to continue our series on Godot Fundamentals. We’ll be introducing a Camera with different modes that will follow our mouse or focus a target. We'll also setup a custom cursor icon. Our Tank's turret controls will also be updated to always point towards the direction of our mouse.'

In this post we’re going to continue our series on Godot Fundamentals. We’ll be covering the TileMap and TileSet features within Godot and how you can setup Terrains, Layers, Auto-Tiling, Patterns, and Custom Data for your Levels. By the end we should be able to design our Level using the our TileSet, and see our Tank behave differently based on our current tile type we are interacting with.

In this post we’re going to continue our series on Godot Fundamentals. We’ll cover adding Audio to our Game to improve the overall feel. We’ll look at The Audio Bus Layout, Adding Audio via Audio Stream Players, and controlling our custom Bus volumes from our UI.

In this post we’re going to continue our series on Godot Fundamentals. We’ll be adding a simple User Interface to our game which will include a Score which will increase when we pickup our collectables. We’ll also add a reload indicator to visualize the weapon’s reload status.

In this post we’re going to continue our series on Godot Fundamentals. We’ll be improving our collision detection as well as adding interaction with our Tank and Bullets, by creating some additional interact-able objects such as a crate, pickups, and walls to collide into.

In just a weeks time we have another beta version for Godot 4.1 which includes some good bug fixes in preperation for July's stable release target for Godot 4.1

In this post we’ll be covering the basics of GDScript and how to use it as our primary scripting language within Godot.

Godot 4.1 enters the beta phase with it's first pre-release. With over 3 months of work from hundreds of contributors and over 1000 changes, the team are working hard to make Godot 4 more compatible.

We’ll cover how Godot composes Scenes using Nodes in the SceneTree for things large and small.

Godot closes out it's feature merging phase and prepares to enter it's feature freeze phase. Beta releases for Godot 4.1 are on the horizon.

We’ll cover an introduction to Godot. How to download and install. Go over the interface and the sections we’ll want to be familiar with, and the main concepts of working in Godot: Scenes, Nodes, the Scene Tree and Signals. By the end of this video you will have what you need to know to start your own project and understand where to begin inside the Godot Engine.

More progress has been made towards the 4.1 release, they are nearing a feature freeze.

I took part in the Godot Wild Jam 57 and wanted to provide a post mortem or retrospective on how it went.

With the team hard at work on Godot 4.1, we get some nice bug fixes backported as a maintenance release for 4.0.3

Stop using JSON and use Custom Resources instead. Godot's Custom Resources have many great uses, let's look at one together.

Following the announcement for a new development and release plan, Godot has released it's first dev snapshot for version 4.1