Godot 4 Game Development Projects: Build five cross-platform 2D and 3D games 2nd Edition [Team-IRA]

Cover
Title Page
Copyright and Credits
Contributors
Table of Contents
Preface
Chapter 1: Introduction to Godot 4.0
	General advice
		The secret to learning effectively
	What is a game engine?
	What is Godot?
	Downloading Godot
		Alternate installation methods
	Overview of the Godot UI
		Project Manager
		Editor window
	Learning about nodes and scenes
	Scripting in Godot
		About GDScript
	Summary
Chapter 2: Coin Dash – Build Your First 2D Game
	Technical requirements
	Setting up the project
	Vectors and 2D coordinate systems
	Part 1 – the player scene
		Creating the scene
		Sprite animation
		Collision shape
		Scripting the player
		Moving the player
		Choosing animations
		Starting and ending the player’s movement
		Preparing for collisions
	Part 2 – the coin scene
		The node setup
		Coin script
	Part 3 – the Main scene
		Node setup
		Main script
		Starting a new game
	Part 4 – the user interface
		Node setup
		Message label
		Score and time display
		Score and time display
		Updating the UI via GDScript
		Game over
		Adding HUD to Main
	Part 5 – finishing up
		Visual effects
		Sound
		Powerups
		Coin animation
		Obstacles
	Summary
Chapter 3: Space Rocks: Build a 2D Arcade Classic with Physics
	Technical requirements
	Setting up the project
		Rigid body physics
	The player’s ship
		Body and physics setup
		State machines
		Adding player controls
		Screen wrap
		Shooting
	Adding the rocks
		Scene setup
		Variable size rocks
		Instantiating rocks
		Exploding rocks
	Creating the UI
		Layout
		Scripting the UI
		The Main scene’s UI code
		Player code
	Ending the game
		Detecting collisions between rigid bodies
	Pausing the game
	Enemies
		Following a path
		Enemy scene
		Moving the enemy
		Spawning enemies
		Shooting and collisions
	Player shield
	Sound and visual effects
		Sound and music
		Particles
		Enemy trail
	Summary
Chapter 4: Jungle Jump – Running and Jumping in a 2D Platformer
	Technical requirements
	Setting up the project
	Introducing kinematic bodies
		Collision response
	Creating the player scene
		Collision layers and masks
		About AnimationPlayer
		Animations
		Collision shape
		Finishing the player scene
		Player states
		Player script
		Player movement
		Player health
	Collectible items
		Scene setup
		Collectible script
	Designing the level
		Using TileMaps
		Designing the first level
		Adding dangerous objects
		Scrolling background
	Adding enemies
		Scene setup
		Scripting the enemy
		Damaging the enemy
		Player script
	Game UI
		Scene setup
		Scripting the HUD
		Attaching the HUD
	Title screen
		Scene setup
	Setting up the main scene
	Transitioning between levels
		Door scene
		Screen settings
	Finishing touches
		Sound effects
		Double jumping
		Dust particles
		Ladders
		Moving platforms
	Summary
Chapter 5: 3D Minigolf: Dive into 3D by Building a Minigolf Course
	Technical requirements
	Introduction to 3D
		Orienting in 3D space
		Godot’s 3D editor
		Adding 3D objects
		Global versus local space
		Transforms
		Meshes
		Cameras
	Project setup
	Creating the course
		Understanding GridMaps
		Drawing the first hole
		Environment and lighting
		Adding the hole
	Making the ball
		Testing the ball
		Improving ball collisions
	Adding UI
		Aiming the arrow
		UI display
	Scripting the game
		UI code
		Main script
		Ball script
		Testing it out
		Option 1 for improving aiming
		Option 2 for improving aiming
		Camera improvements
		Designing a full course
	Visual effects
		Adding materials
	Lighting and Environment
	Summary
Chapter 6: Infinite Flyer
	Technical requirements
	Project setup
		Inputs
	Airplane scene
		Collision shapes
		Scripting the plane
	Building the world
		World objects
		Chunks
	Main scene
		Spawning new chunks
		Increasing difficulty
		Collisions
		Fuel and score
	Title screen
	Audio
	Saving a high score
		About file locations
		Accessing files
	Suggestions for additional features
	Summary
Chapter 7: Next Steps and Additional Resources
	Using Godot’s documentation
		Reading the API documentation
	Version control – using Git with Godot
	Using Blender with Godot
		Import hints
		Using blend files
	Exporting projects
		Getting the export templates
		Export presets
		Exporting
		Exporting for specific platforms
	Introduction to shaders
		Creating a 2D shader
		3D shaders
		Learning more
	Using other programming languages in Godot
		C#
		Other languages – GDExtension
	Getting help – community resources
		Godot Recipes
	Contributing to Godot
		Contributing to the engine
		Writing documentation
		Donations
	Summary
	Final words
Index
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