Godot Top-down Shooter Tutorial - Part 1 (Intro and Project Setup)

This is part 1 of a tutorial series for how to create a top-down shooter in the Godot engine. In this video you'll learn how to create a project in Godot and how to create a basic player character with a sprite and collision shape.
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In the How to Make a Top-down Shooter tutorial series, we're walking through how to make a 2D top-down shooter in Godot. We'll go over how to setup the project, create a player character that can move and attack, add enemies, handle pathfinding, add AI, and create capturable bases. We'll be using Godot 3.2.
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[@jmbiv_dev]

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[@orionburch5860]

Just wanted to say I'm really enjoying this tutorial series. Its my favorite one I've tried so far.

[@millbitchell]

This is great. Looking forward to watch the series.

[@jmbiv_dev]

Thanks for watching!

[@onedevnoarmy1592]

Great series, man! Thank you for it.

[@jmbiv_dev]

No problem, glad it's been helpful! Thanks for watching.

[@ghostlyblaze7793]

Commenting for any future newbies out there. When I was watching ep. 2, the rotation part stumped me (looking at mouse). Make sure you align your character with it's own scene if that makes sense. Notice at 12:30, he aligns the sprite on that axis crosshair. That looks like the origin point for all scenes. I didn't realize this and had my character offset more bottom right and therefore, rotation was funky lol. You don't have to have the scene origin on that axis crosshair, you just have to make sure your character & scene are aligned with one another. Was stumped for 20 min 'till i made this realization (google couldn't help me lol) so don't be like me.

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[@jmbiv_dev]

Thanks so much for saying that, it means a lot! Hopefully the channel will get there one day 🤞 but in the meantime super glad that this has been helpful for you. Thanks for the support!

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Nice series, I like how you explain everything you do and the reason behind it!

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[@jmbiv_dev]

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[@jmbiv_dev]

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Amazing tutorial!Thanks so much!

[@jmbiv_dev]

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Fantastic videos. Thank you.

[@jmbiv_dev]

Glad to hear you liked them!

[@Onox4]

Thanks a lot for this tutorial ! 👍 A suggestion I’ve seen in another tutorial : on your Player node, you can click the button “Makes sure the object’s children are not selectable” to the right of the lock button in the top bar (just under the tabs). This prevents you from accidentally dragging the Sprite and CollisionShape2D without moving the KinematicBody2D itself

[@jmbiv_dev]

This is a great suggestion, thanks for posting it! I tend to not select things via the scene view (usually the scene tree instead), so I always forget about that option, but it's a really helpful one to use.

[@amirvelasquez7874]

thanks bro, I ama begginer in godot ,but with your videos I`m learning really fast!!

[@jmbiv_dev]

Thanks for watching, glad that they're helpful! You'll be a pro in no time 👊

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Thanks for the help and tutorial. If I come to a good place in the future, I will definitely talk about you.

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[@jmbiv_dev]

Thanks for watching and the kind words!

[@muyuatogames8175]

Great!

[@jmbiv_dev]

Thanks for watching!

[@ailius1520]

This is the exact tutorial needed for that 'second step' for when the programmers have already done the basic tutorials.

[@jmbiv_dev]

That's what I was going for! Glad you enjoyed it.

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[@jmbiv_dev]

Thank you!

[@plskyuwu]

Nice, finally tutorial for top down shooter. This is awesome!

[@jmbiv_dev]

Thanks, so glad you like it!

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[@zephyr7]

+1

[@jmbiv_dev]

Thanks for watching!

[@ottomortadela8040]

In the sprite properties for our character, we can check off the "centered" checkbox under Offset. You move the player instead, is there any difference between centered/not-centered?

[@jmbiv_dev]

Hitting the "centered" button causes the origin of your sprite to be the center instead of the top-left, which is the default origin. You would see a difference if you were rotating your sprite, for example, but because we do all of our movement and rotating on the player itself (the kinematic body), rather than the sprite, we don't need to check it. I'm assuming you're talking about when I move the player into the screen around 15:18, so correct me if I'm wrong, but in that case "centered" doesn't actually put the player in the center of the screen, so we had to move it down a bit so we could see it. Hope that answers your question!

[@ottomortadela8040]

@@jmbiv_dev Yes I was talking about around 15:18 and this is a great answer, thank you!

[@realdanielpeach]

He’s using Godot :) He’s a software dev focused on architecture! :):) He’s on a Mac!? :):):):)

[@jmbiv_dev]

The holy trifecta! 😂

[@CoryPelizzari]

I've been stuck in the twilight of not being able to even complete a top down movement script because I'm constantly seeing others do it in different ways, which leads me to ask why. Then I get conflicting answers over what's the best practice and then I find myself here, literally 2 months into learning game development and I haven't made a single movement script because I'm afraid of scripting something that's not optimized. Then the keywords start to fade from memory and I feel like I know less than before, then I get depressed. Having a mental illness doesn't help either. Let's just say I'm having very acute difficulty with learning how to program a game and it's getting me down.

[@pokemonXD1]

unless you're making a AAA game on a game console, you don't need to worry about optimizing. Just make something that works and do a little bit of optimizing/cleanup after you've got that bit of code going. The next time you make something similar, you'll already have an idea of how you like/dislike doing things and can then further refine your decisions or just try different way for fun. Just keep making stuff and getting good at googling the stuff you forget. Hardly anyone keeps a copy of the manual in their head.

[@absolutecoffee9570]

4:07 is when its starts

[@johndoe35717]

when i try to drag the pixels out to use the player it always gets chunks of the other characters

[@jmbiv_dev]

That might be because you imported the art pack with filter enabled - try clicking on the art pack in your file explorer in Godot, then clicking the "Import" tab where your scene tree is, and disabling "Filter" and then reimporting. If that doesn't work, try changing your grid size when you are dragging out the selection box to 1px by 1px!

[@TheRealKaiProton]

any windows users out there, you can use F5 to run the game, or F6 to run the current scene.

[@jmbiv_dev]

Thanks for posting that, I'm sure others will find it helpful! As a shameless self-promotion, I have a video on some of the most helpful keyboard shortcuts on Mac + Windows in Godot, if you/others are interested: kzbin.info/www/bejne/p2a8iY2QbbGdgtE

[@TheRealKaiProton]

@@jmbiv_dev Im interested in that, for the likes of unity, Ive seen "cheat sheets" made up to have common, or useful shortcut keys, but never one for godot - yet

[@boerbol9422]

For anyone wondering: this series is really worth your time and you will learn a ton! @jmbiv: Thank you so much for creating this series!

[@jmbiv_dev]

Appreciate the kind words 🙂

[@amiralighaforeyanrad885]

what is void in player movement

[@jmbiv_dev]

Not sure I understand - is this an error you’re getting in your game?

[@amiralighaforeyanrad885]

@@jmbiv_dev hi sorry it was little thing i did worng i rewatched the vid and found it

[@toadyproductions2106]

does this work for 3.3

[@jmbiv_dev]

Yep! 3.3 is totally compatible with 3.2 projects/code

[@toadyproductions2106]

@@jmbiv_dev Okay thanks!

[@justash123]

it is f5 to run the game in windows.. nice tutorial thou

[@jmbiv_dev]

Thanks for posting that! Been awhile since I've cracked open my Windows 😎

[@anarchy3508]

lets hope this works if it does you shalt get a subscrib

[@jmbiv_dev]

ha, thanks, hope it's what you're looking for!

[@WhiteWilma]

have not even watched it and i know its not gonna work for me it never does

[@jmbiv_dev]

I bet it will! Give it a try. If you're struggling with Godot, you should also give GDQuest's "Learn to Code From Zero with Godot" a try (here: gdquest.github.io/learn-gdscript/)

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[@jmbiv_dev]

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[@johndoe35717]

i had to restart completely cuz you are bad at tutorials

[@jmbiv_dev]

If you have any concrete feedback to offer that would help make these videos better, I would be happy to hear it 🙂