Godot 4 Beginners

Devlog

• Godot 4.3 and Physics
  October 02, 2024 by Bramwell

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  #Godot, #Godot 4, #course, #education

  Long time no see! This is primarily a maintenance update bringing the project up to date targeting Godot version 4.3. But there is one nice update I've been working on: The Physics Demo One area I've... Continue reading

  
• Wrapping up the NavigationServer
  February 12, 2024 by Bramwell

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  #Godot 4, #Godot, #book, #education, #course, #navigation

  Following the last update, the NavigationServer topic is now complete! The NavigationServer documentation now goes into detail on how I set up the demo scene. This includes orienting enemies to look t... Continue reading

  
• Navigation News
  January 11, 2024 by Bramwell

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  #godot 4, #course, #navigation, #gamedev, #guide, #education

  Long time no update! I’ve had a very busy couple months where I’ve struggled to get the right time in to finish off the next update to the course. So, here’s what I’ve got! The project is upda... Continue reading

  
• Volumetric Fog and God Rays
  September 12, 2023 by Bramwell

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  #3d platformer, #Godot 4, #Godot, #course, #education, #guide

  It is time for another update! With the making a 3D platformer chapter finished I've been able to return to the demo scenes and make improvements to the Volumetric Fog example, as well as finish writi... Continue reading

  
• Adding Videos: How to make a 3D Platfomer
  July 25, 2023 by Bramwell

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  #godot, #godot 4, #gamedev, #tutorial, #guide, #video

  Video Support: How to make a 3D Platformer With the How To Make a 3D Platformer chapter finished I'm finally in a spot to do some work on videos. The first three topics of the chapter were already fre... Continue reading

  
• The big 4.1 update!
  July 06, 2023 by Bramwell

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  #godot 4, #course, #tutorial, #guide, #gamedev

  Godot 4.1 is here and I have a load of new stuff! Godot has changed over to a 4 month release cycle, which is nice and fast, meaning we have a bunch of improvements over version 4.0 you can read about... Continue reading

  
• Checkpoints, Objectives, Particles, and the Roadmap
  May 10, 2023 by Bramwell

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  #Godot, #Godot 4, #guide, #tutorial, #3d platformer

  What have I been up to? I can only apologize for the relative quiet in the course over the last month, I needed some time to recover from burnout and after spending some time developing some skills I... Continue reading

  
• Collectibles and Animations
  March 13, 2023 by Bramwell

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  #Godot 4, #guide, #tutorial, #book, #platformer, #animation, #collectible

  New topics and free stuff! Since Godot 4's official release I've been thrilled by the community's reaction and the number of people trying out Godot 4 Beginners. I've spent the week and a half since h... Continue reading

  
• Godot 4 is here!
  March 01, 2023 by Bramwell

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  #Godot, #Godot 4, #release, #course, #guide, #tutorial

  Thankyou all! It has been a tremendously busy year for me, learning everything I could about Godot 4 and starting my solo career producing educational content. I am thrilled to announce that after usi... Continue reading

  
• Making a Platformer in Release Candidate 6
  February 27, 2023 by Bramwell

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  #godot, #godot 4, #course, #book, #source code, #platformer, #guide

  Release Candidate 6 Godot 4 has been steaming ahead with its release candidates in anticipation of an imminent official release, so the course has now jumped from targeting RC2 to the brand new RC6. Y... Continue reading

  
• Godot 4's First Release Candidate!
  February 08, 2023 by Bramwell

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  #godot 4, #godot, #tutorial, #guide, #book, #card game, #release

  Release Candidate 1.0! Godot 4 is out of Beta and officially in its first Release Candidate ! This means all the development focus is on bug fixes for this version over the next few weeks until it is... Continue reading

  
• Get Started With Godot 4 in 2023
  January 29, 2023 by Bramwell

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  #Godot, #Godot 4, #beta, #book, #course, #engine, #guide

  A New Chapter Happy belated new year! For my first update in 2023 I have been hard at work on a particularly important chapter for the course: Making a 3D Platformer in Godot 4. This part of the cours... Continue reading

  
• Vulkan, Shadows, and Beta 7
  December 09, 2022 by Bramwell

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  #godot, #godot 4, #shadows, #source code, #tutorial, #guide, #vulkan

  Vulkan I have an addition to the written side of the course, a new section covering why Godot 4 changed from using OpenGL to Vulkan, what that process involved, and what improvements this offers us. I... Continue reading

  
• Ducky, Paintings, and Beta 5!
  November 21, 2022 by Bramwell

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  #Godot, #Godot 4, #beta, #education, #gamedev, #gdscript 2

  Updating the decal demo Over the last couple of weeks, I have been hard at work on some exciting improvements to the course. The Decal level has been updated to no longer just give the player sprays a... Continue reading

  
• Water shaders and Beta 4
  November 04, 2022 by Bramwell

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  #godot, #godot 4, #guide, #tutorial, #source code

  Godot 4 Beta 4 is out! I am excited to announce the course is highlighted in the beta 4 official blog post ! Along with that the course itself is updated to run on Beta 4. Beta 3 was released while I... Continue reading

  
• Compute Shaders and Beta 2
  September 30, 2022 by Bramwell

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  #godot, #godot 4, #guide, #tutorial, #source code, #compute shader

  Compute Shaders After weeks of personal struggle , I have finally got the compute shader demo up and running in Godot 4 Beginners! In the shaders demo, there is a new area with a button to enter the c... Continue reading

  
• Godot 4 Beginners on Beta 1
  September 18, 2022 by Bramwell

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  #Godot, #Godot 4, #guide, #course, #compute shader

  Godot 4 Beginners and Beta 1 Following the announcement of the Godot 4 Beta release on the 15th of September I have been hard at work updating the course to the latest beta version, and it is availabl... Continue reading

  
• The Godot 4 Beta!
  September 15, 2022 by Bramwell

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  #godot, #godot 4, #beta, #course, #guide, #tutorial, #gamedev

  Godot 4 is in Beta! I just released a video covering Godot 4 finally having its first beta release and marking the end of the alpha updates. https://godotengine.org/article/dev-snapshot-godot-4-0-beta... Continue reading

  
• Alpha 14 update
  August 17, 2022 by Bramwell

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  #godot, #godot 4, #guide, #tutorial, #source code

  Godot 4 Alpha 14 is out! And with it are a whole host of exciting new features you can read about in the official blog post and download here . So, I have updated the course to support this new versio... Continue reading

  
• Cards of Mallardy!
  July 16, 2022 by Bramwell

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  #godot, #godot 4, #card game, #roguelite, #guide, #tutorial

  Cards of Mallardy is now available! One of my greatest desires for this project was to have some full examples of small games made with Godot 4 so you can see how a more complete project is put togeth... Continue reading

  
• Alpha 9 and Shaders!
  June 12, 2022 by Bramwell

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  #godot, #tutorial, #guide, #alpha, #book, #course, #godot 4, #gdscript 2, #education

  Godot 4 Beginners now supports Alpha 9 ! This version seems stable in my experience, so I recommend trying it with the latest source code. New Content Content wise I have spent the last few weeks work... Continue reading

  
• I'm back!
  May 23, 2022 by Bramwell

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  #alpha, #book, #course, #education, #godot 4, #godot, #gdscript 2

  Tweens and Decal Guides Apologies for the delay! Unfortunately, over the last month I have been struggling with Covid and its aftereffects which has seriously affected my ability to produce content. B... Continue reading

  
• The Tween overhaul
  April 13, 2022 by Bramwell

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  #godot, #godot 4, #tutorial, #guide, #tween, #gamedev, #engine

  Godot 4 Alpha 6 Yet another new Godot 4 alpha released so we have a maintenance release, to make the course compatible. The Tween overhaul We also have all new source code! Note : I am having exportin... Continue reading

  
• Godot 4 Alpha 5 Update
  April 04, 2022 by Bramwell

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  #godot 4, #guide, #alpha, #tutorial, #godot, #gamedev

  Godot 4 Alpha 5 is out This release updates the target of the course to alpha 5 as well as greatly improving the quality of the first bundle of guides. If you want to update projects to Alpha 5 there... Continue reading

  
• Transitioning to GDScript 2.0 - Guides release!
  March 26, 2022 by Bramwell

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  #godot 4, #godot, #gdscript 2, #guide, #tutorial, #education

  New Guides are out! If you download the latest folder for course materials the whole chapter on making the transition to GDScript 2.0 is out! Covering the sweet new tools in Godot 4 . Not to mention t... Continue reading

  
• Navigation Server Demo and Mac support
  March 21, 2022 by Bramwell

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  #godot, #godot 4, #gamedev, #guide, #tutorial, #education

  NavigationServer Update! The demo and source code has a new example added showing off how the new NavigationServer works, as well as adding a bunch of core systems for creating Mario style enemies, st... Continue reading

  
• Particle Physics and Alpha Update
  March 14, 2022 by Bramwell

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  #godot, #godot 4, #guide, #tutorial, #book, #source code, #course, #gamedev

  Godot 4 Alpha 4 has released The course has a new build target, thankfully updating the course from Alpha 3 to Alpha 4 was a trivial process. But now you can use all the materials with the latest Alph... Continue reading

  
• Official Roadmap and Source Code on Sale!
  March 07, 2022 by Bramwell

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  The journey has started! The early access content is officially on sale - you can now buy the course giving you the source code for the demo as well as the introduction for the written guide portion o... Continue reading

  
• Update for the Godot 4 Beginners Demo
  March 06, 2022 by Bramwell

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  #godot, #godot 4, #gamedev, #tutorial, #guide, #course

  I have a new video that just released about decals in Godot 4 and why sprays are HARD for gamedevs. I am also pushing all the interactive content for you to get down and dirty doing graffiti with Duck... Continue reading

  
• Godot 4 Beginners pre-production!
  February 26, 2022 by Bramwell

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  #godot 4, #gamedev, #tutorial, #guide, #education

  I'm beginning work on my first solo course ! I've been working at GDQuest for the last year creating leading educational content, and am starting the journey to producing my own content about my big p... Continue reading