Hey, i want to learn how to use the godot game engine to act upon my game design dreams.

Only Problem is i never used a game engine. I have limeted experience creating games in dosbox with python.

And i am looking for fun beginner challenges that i can finish within around an hour! what do you think i should do in godot to learn the fundamentals?

For example: Create a character that needs to jump to win. Challenges of that sort. Hope to get some achivable, creative promps :)

  • KoboldCoterie@pawb.socialEnglish
    2·
    10 days ago

    Make Minesweeper.

    • Board size should be configurable on both axes
    • Number of bombs should be configurable
    • First click should always be ‘safe’
    • User should be able to mark unsafe tiles as bombs
    • Game should detect a win and a loss

    It’s a surprisingly simple game to make, but it’s great for learning arrays and user input and Godot’s GUI system (the board can be a grid container.)

    • insomniac_lemon@lemmy.cafeEnglish
      1·
      5 days ago

      Make Minesweeper

      Similar (I don’t know how much more difficult/different it’d be to implement):

      Somebody recently made a newer version (free on Itch) called Dragonsweeper. I never really understood the appeal of Minesweeper, but this version makes it click for me (aside from more elements, the math and piece logic allows for more deduction). That, and it probably helps that you can make informed guesses (particularly further into a game) as the mines are not the main focus.

      Their version is highly engaging, though does not currently include configuration or even a replay (after win) button.

      It’s got me thinking that I want to make my own version, half as an excuse to make polygonal* art.

      The first-step oversimplified version of this would be like normal minesweeper, though you:

      • sum the value of cells (not just checking if full/empty)
      • allow marking with numbers, not just a flag
      • have mines be a value of 100 instead of 1
      • add smaller-value tiles and a system to pace their removal (some freedom, can still lose here)
      • re-sum neighboring tiles when a tile is removed

      *= I have done 2D in-engine, 3D via blender+vertex colors, plus general material/shader tinkering.

    • SorryforSmelling@lemmy.blahaj.zoneOP
      2·
      10 days ago

      honestly reading that, id assume that must be somewhat hard to make ^^" But ill trust your word of it not beeing so. Perhabs after i am familiarised with godots script ill give it the go.

      • KoboldCoterie@pawb.socialEnglish
        3·
        10 days ago

        It’s not too challenging at all - just break it down and take it one item at a time.

        • Make scene that is a single tile. (It doesn’t need to do anything at this stage, just be a square.)
        • On your main scene, make a grid container and a way to populate the grid container with instances of your tile scene
        • Make your tile able to do all the things a tile should do (respond to user input, hold a ‘revealed’ / ‘unrevealed’ / ‘marked’ status and display that status, etc.)
        • Make a function that’s called when starting a new game that places bombs randomly on the grid (use an 2d array or nested dictionaries to hold this information)
        • Make the tiles reference that array to determine their own status
        • Make the tiles able to display the adjacent bomb count when revealed (if a bomb is a ‘1’ in the array and a safe tile is a ‘0’, this is as simple as summing the values of all tiles in a 3x3 area centered on the one clicked)
        • etc.