Previous post: https://itch.io/blog/620138/my-first-week-at-learning-game-dev-godot

Hi everyone,

2 weeks ago, I’ve decided to learn Godot and game dev in general, and after following almost all the godot 4 courses on the Humblebundle previously mentioned, I have decided to focus on my game idea and see what I can do and what I can’t do right now.

So let’s go !

I’ve started by adding some minor things like the color changing platform based on the answer and a small UI to see the score, dealing with that was pretty easy but then I’ve decided to add, as I had wrote on my first week a new type of Gamemode called “Rock paper scissors” when it’s a RPS when if you draw, you get a point, if you win you get 2 points and if you don’t win, you loose some HP. (Because I’ve also added a HP system)

This part was a bit of difficulty because I had to rewrite a lot of my code to be able to “easily” add gamemodes. For technical part, I’ve 1 .gd script per gamemode with each times some same functions than I can call using the .call() function than almost every node have and after a few hours, I have made this worked.

I’ve decided to add an environment to where the player is, before it was full empty and while thinking about what to put as an environment, I’ve decided to have a theatre when the player push button instead of going on platform. I’ve used this model by Cormac White via Poly Pizza to do the theatre. I have also have rework on the platform to transform it to a buzzer.

It wasn’t easy because I’ve needed to ask for help for using a node than I didn’t know how to use but it was good at the end.

After some polish, videos tutorials and testing with some nodes, there’s my progression now:

Next week I’ll focus on adding some power up and polish a bit and I should be good to like publish a v0.1 or maybe try a different game to explore more nodes and stuff, idk yet.

I enjoy a lot for now learning and testing, it’s really fun !