Create a Complete 2D Survivors Style Game in Godot 4

Course Curriculum

Chapter 1: Starting Out

Lecture 1: Godot Download, Orientation, and Setup

Lecture 2: Creating the Player

Lecture 3: Player Movement

Lecture 4: Creating a TileMap

Lecture 5: Game Camera

Lecture 6: Checkpoint

Chapter 2: Building the Foundation

Lecture 1: Creating a Rat Enemy

Lecture 2: Creating the First Sword Ability

Lecture 3: Introduction to AnimationPlayer

Lecture 4: Targeting Enemies With Sword Ability

Lecture 5: Destroying Enemies

Lecture 6: Project Settings Tweaks

Lecture 7: Spawning Enemies Automatically

Lecture 8: Improving the Game Feel

Lecture 9: Creating the Game Loop Foundation

Lecture 10: Experience Drops

Lecture 11: Experience Tracking

Lecture 12: Creating a Health Component

Lecture 13: Implementing Damage

Lecture 14: Creating an Experience Bar

Lecture 15: Using Custom Resources for Upgrades

Lecture 16: Upgrade UI Groundwork

Lecture 17: Enabling Upgrade Selection

Lecture 18: Making the Upgrade Functional

Lecture 19: Improving the Scene Tree Structure

Lecture 20: Adding Player Health

Lecture 21: Player Health Bar

Lecture 22: Creating the Victory Screen

Lecture 23: Creating the Defeat Screen

Chapter 3: Gameplay and Visual Improvements

Lecture 1: Increase Difficulty Over Time

Lecture 2: Improving the TileMap

Lecture 3: Preventing Invalid Spawning

Lecture 4: Creating an Axe Ability

Lecture 5: Enabling Acquisition of Axe Ability

Lecture 6: Prevent Abilities from Being Chosen Twice

Lecture 7: Animating the Player

Lecture 8: Animating the Enemy

Lecture 9: Animating Enemy Death

Lecture 10: Adding a Wizard Enemy

Lecture 11: Using a Weighted Table for Enemy Spawning

Lecture 12: Animating the Wizard

Lecture 13: Animating the Experience Vial Pickups

Lecture 14: Adding a Custom Font

Lecture 15: Adding Floating Damage Text

Lecture 16: Implementing a Flash on Enemy Hit

Lecture 17: Adding Ability Damage Upgrades

Lecture 18: Introduction to UI Theming

Lecture 19: Finalizing Upgrade Card Theme

Lecture 20: Animating the Upgrade Card

Lecture 21: Improving the Upgrade Selection Screen

Lecture 22: Applying a Style to the Experience Bar

Lecture 23: Animating Victory and Defeat Screens

Lecture 24: Applying Styles to the Buttons

Lecture 25: Creating a Player Move Speed Upgrade

Lecture 26: Adding a Vignette

Chapter 4: Sound Effects

Lecture 1: Adding SFX – Part 1

Lecture 2: Adding SFX – Part 2

Lecture 3: Adding SFX to UI Elements – Part 1

Lecture 4: Adding SFX to UI Elements – Part 2

Lecture 5: Adding Victory and Defeat Jingles

Lecture 6: Adding Music

Chapter 5: Final Touches

Lecture 1: Creating a Main Menu

Lecture 2: Creating an Options Menu

Lecture 3: Styling the Options Menu Sliders

Lecture 4: Creating a Pause Menu

Lecture 5: Adding a Scene Transition Effect

Lecture 6: Creating a Meta Progression System

Lecture 7: Saving and Loading Meta Progression Data

Lecture 8: Creating the Meta Upgrade Card

Lecture 9: Allowing Player to Purchase Meta Upgrades

Lecture 10: Improving the Meta Upgrade Card

Lecture 11: Adding a ScrollContainer to the Meta Upgrade Screen

Lecture 12: Exporting the Game for Publishing

Lecture 13: Fixing an Enemy Spawning Bug

Lecture 14: Conclusion

Chapter 6: Bonus Content

Lecture 1: Adding Another Enemy Type

Lecture 2: Creating an Anvil Ability

Lecture 3: Adding a Health Regeneration Meta Upgrade

Lecture 4: Adding an Anvil Ability Upgrade

Lecture 5: Fixing UI Sizing and Increasing Enemy Count

Lecture 6: Adding Anvil Impact Particles