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Godot Engine Game Development Projects

By : Chris Bradfield
4 (1)
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)

Finishing touches

Now that you've completed the structure of the game, you can consider some additions so that you can add more game features, more visual effects, additional enemies, or other ideas you might have. In this section, there are a few suggested features—add them as-is or adjust them to your liking.

Sound effects

As with the previous projects, you can add audio effects and music to improve the gameplay experience. In the res://assets/audio folder, you'll find a number of files you can use for various game events, such as player jump, enemy hit and pickup. There are also two music files: Intro Theme for the title screen and Grasslands Theme for the level scenes.

Adding these to the game will be...