Game developers of all kinds are quickly discovering the power of the completely free, no-royalties, no-strings-attached Godot game engine. Now, in just 24 lessons of one hour or less, readers can learn all the skills and techniques they'll need to write great games with the new Godot 3 release. Each short, easy lesson builds on all that's come before, helping readers master all of Godot's essentials, and use it to build 2D or 3D games for mobile, desktop, or HTML5 web platforms. Godot in 24 Hours, Sams Teach Yourself is packed with up-to-the-minute examples and modern game development…mehr
Game developers of all kinds are quickly discovering the power of the completely free, no-royalties, no-strings-attached Godot game engine. Now, in just 24 lessons of one hour or less, readers can learn all the skills and techniques they'll need to write great games with the new Godot 3 release. Each short, easy lesson builds on all that's come before, helping readers master all of Godot's essentials, and use it to build 2D or 3D games for mobile, desktop, or HTML5 web platforms. Godot in 24 Hours, Sams Teach Yourself is packed with up-to-the-minute examples and modern game development techniques. By the time students are finished, they'll be comfortable using Godot to create virtually any game they can imagine.
Ariel Manzur is co-creator of Godot and is currently maintaining the open source project. George Marques is a full-stack developer at Open Journal Solutions. He is an active contributor to the Godot game engine. His projects include the plugin to import Tiled Map Editor levels. He is the author of two blog post on Godot published by Packt Pub titled, “How to create a breakout game with Godot engine,” and “How to make 2D navigation with Godot engine.” He is a former student of Information Systems at the University of São Paulo and his interests include general programming and writing. He can be found on Github at: https://github.com/vnen.
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Foreword Preface HOUR 1: Introducing the Godot Engine Installing Godot Creating a Project Using the Visual Editor Setting Up a Main Scene Summary Q&A Workshop Exercises HOUR 2: Scene System Nodes and Scenes Resources Combining Scenes Managing Subscenes Summary Q&A Workshop Exercises HOUR 3: 2D Graphics Sprites and Draw Order Vectors and Transforms Cameras TileMaps Summary Q&A Workshop Exercises HOUR 4: Scripting Node and Script Relationship Introduction to GDScript Signals and Groups Summary Q&A Workshop Exercises HOUR 5: Game 1: Space Shooter Concept and Design Making the Scenes Summary Q&A Workshop Exercises HOUR 6: More Scripting Notifications Singletons and Autoloads Summary Q&A Workshop Exercises HOUR 7: Handling Input Input Basics InputEvent Class Keyboard and Joystick Input Mouse and Touch Input Input Mapping InputEventAction Summary Q&A Workshop Exercises HOUR 8: Physics System Bodies and Shapes Types of Physics Bodies Areas and Presence Detection Ray Casting Navigation and Path Finding Summary Q&A Workshop Exercises HOUR 9: User Interface Control Know Your Controls Containers Making an Interface Theme Custom Control Summary Q&A Workshop Exercises HOUR 10: Animation Animation Editor Timeline and Keyframes Blending and Transitioning Animations Summary Q&A Workshop Exercises HOUR 11: Game Flow After Launching the Game Pausing the Game Switching Scenes Background Loading Handling a Quit Request Summary Q&A Workshop Exercises HOUR 12: File System Special Paths Game Configuration Dealing with Files Dealing with Directories Summary Q&A Workshop Exercises HOUR 13: 3D Graphics Spatial Node Importing Meshes and Models 3D Editor Cameras Summary Q&A Workshop Exercises HOUR 14: Project Management Importing Resources Organizing Project Directories Version Control Software Summary Q&A Workshop Exercises HOUR 15: Materials and Shaders Canvas Item Materials Spatial Materials Shader Basics Summary Q&A Workshop Exercises HOUR 16: Lights and Shadows Light Sources Shadows Lights in 2D Summary Q&A Workshop Exercises HOUR 17: Game 2: Bloxorz Clone Concept and Design Making the Scenes Scripts and Input Summary Q&A Workshop Exercises HOUR 18: Environments World Environment Global Illumination Reflection Probes Summary Q&A Workshop Exercises HOUR 19: Sound Playing Sounds Positional Audio Audio Buses Area Effects Dynamic Audio Summary Q&A Workshop Exercises HOUR 20: Particle System 2D Particles 3D Particles Summary Q&A Workshop Exercises HOUR 21: Viewports and Canvas Viewports Canvas Layers Split-Screen Summary Q&A Workshop Exercises HOUR 22: Networking TCP, UDP, and Why It Matters Managing Connections Remote Procedure Call Remote and Sync Keywords Slaves and Masters Visual Script Summary Q&A Workshop Exercises HOUR 23: Game 3: Networked Bomberman Clone Concept and Design Making the Scenes Scripts and Input Enter Multiplayer Synchronization in Player, Bomb, and Explosion Summary Q&A Workshop Exercises HOUR 24: Exporting the Project Platform-specific Considerations Export Presets Export Options Summary Q&A Workshop Exercises BONUS HOUR 25: Native Code GDNative Summary Q&A Workshop Exercises 9780134835099 TOC 2/21/2018
