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Godot Engine Game Development Projects

By : Chris Bradfield
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Book Image

Godot Engine Game Development Projects

4 (1)
By: Chris Bradfield

Overview of this book

Godot Engine Game Development Projects is an introduction to the Godot game engine and its new 3.0 version. Godot 3.0 brings a large number of new features and capabilities that make it a strong alternative to expensive commercial game engines. For beginners, Godot offers a friendly way to learn game development techniques, while for experienced developers it is a powerful, customizable tool that can bring your visions to life. This book consists of five projects that will help developers achieve a sound understanding of the engine when it comes to building games. Game development is complex and involves a wide spectrum of knowledge and skills. This book can help you build on your foundation level skills by showing you how to create a number of small-scale game projects. Along the way, you will learn how Godot works and discover important game development techniques that you can apply to your projects. Using a straightforward, step-by-step approach and practical examples, the book will take you from the absolute basics through to sophisticated game physics, animations, and other techniques. Upon completing the final project, you will have a strong foundation for future success with Godot 3.0.
Table of Contents (9 chapters)

Additional features

The structure of the game is complete. You can start the game, play it through, and when it ends, play again. In this section, you'll add some additional effects and features to the game to improve the gameplay experience. Effects is a broad term and can mean many different techniques, but in this case, you'll specifically address three things:

  • Sound effects and music: Audio is very often overlooked, but can be a very effective part of game design. Good sound improves the feel of the game. Bad or annoying sounds can create boredom or frustration. You'll add some action-packed background music, and some sound effects for several actions in the game.
  • Particles: Particle effects are images, usually small, that are generated in large numbers and animated by a particle system. They can be used for a countless number of impressive visual effects...