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I clicked on the doc link from within the native editor. It is less of a tutorial than I had hoped. Do you have a suggestion for getting started with it?

by xrd 6y ago

jszymborski 6y ago
The step by step docs have been very useful for me: https://docs.godotengine.org/en/stable/getting_started/step_by_step/index.html https://docs.godotengine.org/en/stable/getting_started/step_... If you're a "work bacwards from a finished project" kind of person, this tutorial is quite great as well https://docs.godotengine.org/en/stable/getting_started/step_by_step/your_first_game.html https://docs.godotengine.org/en/stable/getting_started/step_...
- xrd 6y ago
  That's great. And, I love that the examples all specify /home/ubuntu as the home directory, so the author is clearly using Linux. This is really cool.
  - hnick 6y ago
    Yes "Your First Game" is a fine place to start even if it tells you to read some other things first. I'm a big fan of diving in to get something running, then searching or backtracking to learn the fundamentals if you need to. There were a couple of typos in there that I ran into, it shouldn't be too hard with a little programming experience to notice these. I didn't download the finished files because I think typing it out is a much richer learning experience.
truncate 6y ago
I recently got started by following couple videos on YouTube which are not hard to find. I've just followed very basic lessons, mainly to get familiar with non-programming aspects (scripting part is very easy if you already know programming). There is also a Humble Bundle out there right now where you can get some basic lessons as low as $1[1] [1] https://www.humblebundle.com/software/learning-game-coding-and-development?hmb_source=navbar&hmb_medium=product_tile&hmb_campaign=tile_index_7 https://www.humblebundle.com/software/learning-game-coding-a...

I clicked on the doc link from within the native editor. It is less of a tutorial than I had hoped. Do you have a suggestion for getting started with it?

by xrd 6y ago

I clicked on the doc link from within the native editor. It is less of a tutorial than I had hoped. Do you have a suggestion for getting started with it?

jszymborski 6y ago

The step by step docs have been very useful for me: https://docs.godotengine.org/en/stable/getting_started/step_by_step/index.html https://docs.godotengine.org/en/stable/getting_started/step_... If you're a "work bacwards from a finished project" kind of person, this tutorial is quite great as well https://docs.godotengine.org/en/stable/getting_started/step_by_step/your_first_game.html https://docs.godotengine.org/en/stable/getting_started/step_...

xrd 6y ago
That's great. And, I love that the examples all specify /home/ubuntu as the home directory, so the author is clearly using Linux. This is really cool.
- hnick 6y ago
  Yes "Your First Game" is a fine place to start even if it tells you to read some other things first. I'm a big fan of diving in to get something running, then searching or backtracking to learn the fundamentals if you need to. There were a couple of typos in there that I ran into, it shouldn't be too hard with a little programming experience to notice these. I didn't download the finished files because I think typing it out is a much richer learning experience.

truncate 6y ago

I recently got started by following couple videos on YouTube which are not hard to find. I've just followed very basic lessons, mainly to get familiar with non-programming aspects (scripting part is very easy if you already know programming). There is also a Humble Bundle out there right now where you can get some basic lessons as low as $1[1] [1] https://www.humblebundle.com/software/learning-game-coding-and-development?hmb_source=navbar&hmb_medium=product_tile&hmb_campaign=tile_index_7 https://www.humblebundle.com/software/learning-game-coding-a...