Godot Engine game development projects : build five cross-platform 2D and 3D games with Godot 3.0 / Chris Bradfield.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bradfield, Chris, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Video games--Development.

Video games.

Video games--Programming.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (291 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

1st ed.

Distribution:

London : Bloomsbury Publishing (UK), 2024.

Place of Publication:

Birmingham : Packt Publishing, 2018.

System Details:

text file

Biography/History:

Bradfield Chris: Chris Bradfield has worked in the Internet technology space for over 25 years. He has worked in the online gaming space for a number of MMO and social gaming publishers in South Korea and the United States. In his game industry career, he has served as a game designer, developer, product manager, and team leader. In 2012, he discovered a love for teaching and founded KidsCanCode to provide programming instruction and curriculum to young students. He is a member of the Godot Engine documentation team and works to provide learning resources for game development students around the world.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Cover

Title Page

Copyright and Credits

Dedication

www.packtpub.com

Foreword

Contributors

Table of Contents

Preface

Chapter 1: Introduction

General advice

What is a game engine?

What is Godot?

Downloading Godot

Alternate installation methods

Overview of the Godot UI

Project Manager

Choosing filenames

Editor window

About nodes and scenes

Scripting in Godot

About GDScript

Summary

Chapter 2: Coin Dash

Project setup

Vectors and 2D coordinate systems

Vectors

Pixel rendering

Part 1 - Player scene

Creating the scene

Sprite animation

Collision shape

Scripting the Player

Moving the Player

About delta

Choosing animations

Starting and Ending the Player's Movement

Preparing for collisions

Part 2 - Coin scene

Node setup

Using groups

Script

Part 3 - Main scene

Main script

Initializing

Starting a new game

Checking for remaining coins

Part 4 - User Interface

Anchors and margins

Message label

Score and time display

Containers

Updating UI via GDScript

Using buttons

Game over

Adding the HUD to Main

Part 5 - Finishing up

Visual effects

What is a tween?

Sound

Powerups

Coin animation

Obstacles

Chapter 3: Escape the Maze

Project organization

Inheritance

Character scene

Animations

Collision detection

Character script

Player scene

Player script

Enemy scene

Optional - turn-based movement

Creating the level

Items

TileSets

Creating a TileSet

TileMaps

Level script

Adding more levels

Game flow

Start and end screens

Globals

Global script

Score

Saving the High Score

Reading and writing files

Finishing touches

Death animation

Sound effects

Summary.

Chapter 4: Space Rocks

Rigid body physics

Player ship

Body setup and physics

State machines

Controls

Screen wrap

Shooting

Bullet scene

Firing bullets

Rocks

Scene setup

Variable size

Instancing

Exploding rocks

Explosion scene

Adding to Rock

Spawning smaller rocks

UI

Layout

UI functions

Main scene code

Player code

Detecting collisions between physics bodies

Pausing the game

Enemies

Following a path

Moving the Enemy

Spawning enemies

Enemy shooting and collisions

Additional features

Sound/music

Particles

Enemy trail

Player shield

Chapter 5: Jungle Jump (Platformer)

Introducing kinematic bodies

Collision response

move_and_collide

move_and_slide

Collision Layer/Mask

Sprite

Shapes

Finishing up the scene tree

Player states

Player movement

Testing the moves

Player health

Collectible items

Collectible scene

Collectible script

Designing the level

TileSet configuration

Base-level setup

Designing the first level

Scrolling background

Dangerous objects

About slide collisions

Damaging the enemy

HUD

Attaching the HUD

Title screen

Main scene

Level transitions

Door scene

Infinite falling

Double jump

Dust particles

Crouching state

Climbing ladders

Level code

Moving platforms

Chapter 6: 3D Minigolf

Introduction to 3D

Orienting in 3D space

Godot's 3D editor

Adding 3D objects

Global versus Local Space

Transforms

Transforms in code

Meshes

Importing meshes.

Primitives

Multiple meshes

Cameras

Creating the course

GridMaps

Making a MeshLibrary

Drawing the course

WorldEnvironment

Finishing the scene

Ball

Testing the ball

Improving collisions

Aiming arrow

UI display

Scripts

Main

Hole

Testing it out

Improving aiming - option 1

Improving aiming - option 2

Camera improvements

Multiple cameras

Orbiting camera

Creating a gimbal

Tracking camera

SpatialMaterials

Environment options

Lighting

Chapter 7: Additional Topics

Using Godot's documentation

Reading the API documentation

Exporting projects

Getting the export templates

Export presets

Exporting

Example - Coin Dash for Android

Modifying the game

Preparing your system

Shaders

Creating a shader

Learning more

Using other languages

C#

VisualScript

Native code - GDNative

Language bindings

Asset library

Contributing to Godot

Contributing to the engine

Writing documentation

Donations

Getting help - community resources

GitHub

Godot Q and A

Discord / Forum

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Index.

ISBN:

9781788836425

1788836421

OCLC:

1044938686