Create a Complete 2D Platformer in the Godot Engine

Create a Complete 2D Platformer in the Godot Engine, available at $74.99, has an average rating of 4.57, with 65 lectures, based on 891 reviews, and has 15778 subscribers.

You will learn about 2D platformer mechanics – double jumping, dashing, collectables, and enemies Polish & Game Feel – particles, camera shake, scene transitions, and sound effects UI – main menu, pause menu, options menu, and other elements Publishing – exporting the project executable, updating the executable icon, and changing the boot splash Godot Engine Concepts – leveraging a variety of nodes, structuring scenes, signals, and more This course is ideal for individuals who are Intermediate programmers or Intermediate game developers or Beginner game developers with programming experience or Individuals who are looking to push their project over the edge by adding polish and game feel It is particularly useful for Intermediate programmers or Intermediate game developers or Beginner game developers with programming experience or Individuals who are looking to push their project over the edge by adding polish and game feel.

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Summary

Title: Create a Complete 2D Platformer in the Godot Engine

Price: $74.99

Average Rating: 4.57

Number of Lectures: 65

Number of Published Lectures: 65

Number of Curriculum Items: 65

Number of Published Curriculum Objects: 65

Original Price: $29.99

Quality Status: approved

Status: Live

What You Will Learn

2D platformer mechanics – double jumping, dashing, collectables, and enemies

Polish & Game Feel – particles, camera shake, scene transitions, and sound effects

UI – main menu, pause menu, options menu, and other elements

Publishing – exporting the project executable, updating the executable icon, and changing the boot splash

Godot Engine Concepts – leveraging a variety of nodes, structuring scenes, signals, and more

Who Should Attend

Intermediate programmers

Intermediate game developers

Beginner game developers with programming experience

Individuals who are looking to push their project over the edge by adding polish and game feel

Target Audiences

Intermediate programmers

Intermediate game developers

Beginner game developers with programming experience

Individuals who are looking to push their project over the edge by adding polish and game feel

Please note that this course is for Godot 3 and has not been updated for Godot 4. The skills you will learn in this course are largely transferrable to Godot 4, but please be aware of this before you purchase!

This course will cover everything you need to know about creating a small 2D platformer from start to finish in the Godot Engine. This course covers all aspects of creating a complete platformer game in Godot including:

Game mechanics like player movement, collectibles, and basic combat

Hazards like spikes and enemies

A seamless game loop and transitions between levels

Scene structure and project organization

Sound effects

A main menu, pause menu, options menu, and other UI elements

Finishing touches like camera shake, basic shaders, particle effects, and UI animations

This list is not exhaustive – please see the course outline for a glimpse into the topics that are covered.

The goal of this course is to show you how to take an empty project and turn it into a small, complete game. In doing so, this course will expose you to many aspects of the Godot engine from input handling, to tilemaps, to particles, to audio, and more. By the time you complete this course, you will feel comfortable working on your own projects in Godot. You will walk away from this course with a solid foundational understanding of making games that are not only functional but also fun.

This course will help you greatly if:

You have some game development knowledge and want to learn Godot

You have some programming knowledge and want to make games

Your games feel sterile and lack polish

You struggle to complete games and want to start and finish a project

You regularly participate in game jams and want to improve your ability to craft a fun but short experience

Please note that this course is focused purely on the start-to-finish process of making a game. As such, there isn’t any time spent explaining fundamental programming concepts. Familiarity with programming is strongly recommended before taking this course. Any programming experience is fine – GDScript is easy to use.

Course Curriculum

Chapter 1: Creating the Foundation for Development

Lecture 1: Introduction

Lecture 2: Setting Up Godot

Lecture 3: Getting Ready for Development

Lecture 4: Rough Player Controller

Lecture 5: Tightening Player Movement

Lecture 6: Tilemap Autotiles

Lecture 7: Light Reorganization and Tweaks

Chapter 2: Developing the Core Mechanics

Lecture 1: Camera Follow

Lecture 2: Animating the Player

Lecture 3: Coyote Time

Lecture 4: Double Jump

Lecture 5: Adding Collectables

Lecture 6: Adding Spikes

Lecture 7: Player Death and Respawn

Lecture 8: Creating an Enemy

Lecture 9: Making the Enemy Dangerous

Lecture 10: Adding Player Dash Movement

Lecture 11: Making the Player Dash Destroy Enemies

Lecture 12: Making a Test Level

Lecture 13: More Player Tweaks

Lecture 14: Win Condition

Chapter 3: Finalizing the Game Mechanics

Lecture 1: Section Introduction

Lecture 2: Preventing Player Void Death

Lecture 3: Coin Counter

Lecture 4: Level UI

Lecture 5: Level UI Continued

Lecture 6: Enemy Respawns

Lecture 7: Changing Levels

Lecture 8: Level Complete UI

Lecture 9: Level Complete UI Continued

Lecture 10: Fixing Scene Load and Font Height

Chapter 4: Game Feel and Polish

Lecture 1: Camera Shake

Lecture 2: Triggering Camera Shake

Lecture 3: Player Death Animation Part 1

Lecture 4: Player Death Animation Part 2

Lecture 5: Player Death Animation Part 3

Lecture 6: Enemy Death Animation

Lecture 7: Enemy Spawn Animation

Lecture 8: Player Dash Trail

Lecture 9: Footstep Particles

Lecture 10: Adding Tile Variety

Lecture 11: Clouds

Lecture 12: Creating More Levels

Lecture 13: Animated Button

Lecture 14: Main Menu

Lecture 15: Screen Transitions

Lecture 16: Pause Menu

Lecture 17: Game Complete Screen

Lecture 18: Animating UI Panels

Lecture 19: Options Menu

Lecture 20: Tutorial Signs

Lecture 21: Player Victory Animation

Lecture 22: Extending the Level Complete Screen

Lecture 23: Mouse Cursor

Lecture 24: Final Player and Display Tweaks

Chapter 5: Sound Effects and Music

Lecture 1: Section Introduction

Lecture 2: Random Audio Stream Player

Lecture 3: Audio Buses

Lecture 4: Adding Sound Effects Part 1

Lecture 5: Adding Sound Effects Part 2

Lecture 6: Music

Lecture 7: Adding Volume Controls to the Options Menu

Chapter 6: Preparing the Game for Distribution and Final Words

Lecture 1: UI and Sound Fixes

Lecture 2: Exporting the Project

Lecture 3: Conclusion

Instructors

Firebelley Games
Professional Software Engineer

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2 stars: 7 votes

3 stars: 53 votes

4 stars: 259 votes

5 stars: 569 votes

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