Learn Godot 4 by making 2 games

Course Curriculum

Chapter 1: Creating our 2D Metroidvania

Lecture 1: Installing Godot and overview of the interface

Lecture 2: Creating a simple camera

Lecture 3: Creating the player animations

Lecture 4: Coding the player movement

Lecture 5: Creating a tilemap and autotiling

Lecture 6: Coding the jump mechanic

Lecture 7: Calling the right animation through code

Lecture 8: Coding the double jump

Lecture 9: Coding the sword attack

Lecture 10: Creating a Finite State Machine to handle our states and animations

Lecture 11: Bug fix, creating an object to destroy with our sword, Signal, Area2D, Coroutine

Lecture 12: Create the background and understanding the ordering of layer with Z index

Lecture 13: Creating the enemy

Lecture 14: Coding the enemy movement

Lecture 15: Killing the enemy

Chapter 2: Finessing our 2D Metroidvania

Lecture 1: Creating the health system of the player

Lecture 2: Bug fix and Creating the GUI

Lecture 3: Coding the GUI

Lecture 4: Using shader

Lecture 5: Create a coin to collect

Lecture 6: Display the number of coin collected in the GUI

Lecture 7: Coding the camera movement

Lecture 8: Creating a door and switch system

Lecture 9: Opening the door with the switch and custom signal

Lecture 10: Changing levels

Lecture 11: Importing sound effect

Lecture 12: Importing music and make it loop through code

Lecture 13: Create a breakable platform

Chapter 3: Adding UI, Saving system and a map system to our 2D Metroidvania

Lecture 1: Creating a map and pausing the game

Lecture 2: Creating a saving system

Lecture 3: Saving your game at a specific location (hollow knight bench system)

Lecture 4: Create a Title Screen

Lecture 5: Create a wall jump

Lecture 6: Wall slide and adjusting the collision layer

Lecture 7: Last fix for the wall slide and the title screen

Chapter 4: Creating a 2D RPG

Lecture 1: Creating the player and its animations

Lecture 2: Calling the animations through code

Lecture 3: Setting up the collision shape of the sword

Lecture 4: Creating a finite state machine

Lecture 5: Slash a crate with our sword and setting up collision layer

Lecture 6: Creating an autotiling tilemap with different layers

Lecture 7: Creating an animated tilemap with animated flowers and water

Lecture 8: Creating an animation tree to better control the player animations

Lecture 9: Call the animation tree through code

Lecture 10: Create a camera following the player and stopping where the level end

Lecture 11: Create a house and make it transparent when the player walk behind it

Lecture 12: Create a coin to collect

Lecture 13: Loot coins when we are slashing the crate

Lecture 14: Creating trees and sorting the scene

Chapter 5: Creating a 2D RPG – Creating GUI, enemies, doors, keys, saving system

Lecture 1: Creating the GUI and creating a Global script to display the coins collected

Lecture 2: Display the life of our player in the GUI (Zelda heart system)

Lecture 3: Creating animated spikes to hurt our player

Lecture 4: Creating a shader and code a hurt fonction for our player

Lecture 5: Killing our player

Lecture 6: Create checkpoints

Lecture 7: Create an enemy that can throw laser

Lecture 8: Create a variation of this enemy

Lecture 9: Damage the player with laser and create explosion

Lecture 10: Fixing the laser enemy

Lecture 11: Creating the crawling enemy and its animations

Lecture 12: Creating the enemy script with inheritance

Lecture 13: Changing the direction of the enemy randomly

Lecture 14: Setting the collision of the enemy, creating plots and killing the enemy

Lecture 15: The enemy hurt the player

Lecture 16: Creating a chest looting a key and updating the GUI

Lecture 17: Creating a door we can open with our key

Lecture 18: Closing door when we are entering an area

Lecture 19: Creating a "defeat all enemies" door

Lecture 20: Create a saving system