Make a game before the end of the day (in Godot 4)

Thanks for watching this tutorial video about how to make a game in Godot before the end of the day! Take this mini course and finish your first game.
Here is the github repo to the project: github.com/uhe...
If you are interested in taking a deeper dive into the Godot game engine you can buy my 1-bit Godot Course at this link: www.heartgamed...
Twitter: / uheartbeast
Thank you all so much for your support!

[@uheartbeast]

If you've been putting off making a game, now's your chance! Make a game before the end of the day! Here is the github repo to the project: github.com/uheartbeast/make-your-first-game-mini-course/tree/main You'll find the assets folder included when you download that repo.

[@golovkaanna8757]

I have like 15 minutes before bed

[@user-bc6zu9ed7c]

Could you finish it by now?

[@thacoolest13]

This comment was sent 13 minutes ago... Hows progress so far?

[@user-xl3wn9sb4e]

Bedtime ha ha ha men don't know the word bedtime 👹👹👹

[@bloodcc5168]

game dev means no sleep

[@BlendtutsES]

Thank you!! I found this right before going to sleep, but I'll be doing it tomorrow :D

[@mz_eth]

I love the idea for this game, feels simple while also reaching into so many aspects of the godot engine. Great job!

[@uheartbeast]

Hey thanks! I forced it a bit to cover more nodes (making the player an area2D and clamping the movement would have been easier than using a CharacterBody2D) but I'm happy with how it turned out.

[@vrabo3026]

This was incredible! I'd love to see more "quick" follow-along videos like these!

[@SofiaStar1463]

Thank you Ben, I followed your tutorial yesterday und now I'm trying to do your tasks. Your Videos help me so much everytime, I'm just so glad that your channel exists. ☺

[@DKC1011]

Immensely well put together and enjoyable to do I really appreciated that you took a moment to recommend trying something ourselves. It's too easy when following a tutorial to just let your eyes glaze over and follow blindly. Really helps build confidence to go away and try something yourself. Thanks Heartbeast

[@justadrian3890]

The way I gasped when I saw this uploaded! Following your 2d platformer tutorial was the most I've enjoyed using this engine so far, and I can't wait for 80 minutes of your content even if it's not my actual first game 😭😭😭 I'm sure ill still learn something

[@ILoveWatchingTy]

This tutorial is correct, it was fun to listen to someone for once and take my hands off the proverbial Godot wheel and definitely sparked some ideas. Thanks!

[@uheartbeast]

You're welcome!

[@absolutelynotchris]

Can officially say i made something in godot. Thank you for the video!

[@uheartbeast]

You're welcome!

[@slot9]

The posting of this video came at a perfect time for me. I was able to finish it ~20 minutes before the end of the day :)

[@uheartbeast]

Perfect! Congratulations on finishing a game before the end of the day :)

[@l3vi792]

Good video, my current project is a mess. I will take this as an opportunity to create a side project with my own touch. Thanks!

[@user-xl3wn9sb4e]

Totally understand you have to be one right angle it was joking I love that man I love that mindset of those days

[@qmerk2661]

i love the way you teach. i also love the challenges you gave at the end. i dont know if other "beginners" are like me, but when i tried Unity a while back, i was stuck for a long time not knowing more or understanding the language. that all changed and i started progressing when i came across the projects that they would give you that come with little bugs for you to fix. (maybe a ball was rolling the wrong way or something simple and you'd have to read through the script to find out why, and to fix it) like- teach just like 2 or 3 mechanics for a game. and then for an end test you throw out 2 or 3 projects with the same mechanics but they dont work. i feel like it would be very helpful for the beginner community. they really help beginners to start actually reading the code, and understanding what each little thing does, why, and where. it helped me because after a while of understanding more and more of the code and why and how its written, i was catching myself knowing what to write and where to write it. theres a huuuge difference between following a tutorial and understanding what someone means or what they wrote(understanding a tutorial, but being stuck afterwards), and understanding the language to the point of writing it all on our own(creating something from just a thought) just figured id tell you, since your imo the best teacher for godot beginners.

[@MH-lr6ue]

This tutorial was awesome and pretty easy. I like the idea of the saw's spawning randomly in and also being spawned in somewhere on a colorRect. More Mini-Tutorial's Please :)

[@uheartbeast]

Thanks! I'll see what new tutorials I can come up with :)

[@RicardoFAlves-mp3cb]

Thanks, man! I really appreciate your videos.

[@uheartbeast]

Thank you so much for the support, Ricardo!

[@heavydremer8716]

Thanks for your videos. I really appreciate how you break everything down into (snack-sized) chunks. I hope your week is going well so far!

[@uheartbeast]

Thank you! You too!

[@iRainlu]

Thank you for the tutorial, it was my first time making a game!! I also followed some other tutorials to add background music, main menu and restart button after dying.

[@draglorr5578]

This is a pretty great tutorial I have to admit, and definitely one of the best I have ever seen. One of my only gripes is you spent little time explaining what the hell a mask or layer is, so here I am just short-circuiting on how the funny magic words have to do with collisions or how they work.

[@uheartbeast]

Yeah, masks and layers are tough to wrap your head around. I finally got them figured out and then they adjusted them slightly for Godot 4 and I'm still trying to get used to it haha. Thanks for the comment!

[@draglorr5578]

@@uheartbeast so...what would you recommend to try and figure them out then?

[@Oxichor]

Thank you so much for posting this video! Just came off of my first game jam submission with Game Maker and this was the perfect intro to Godot's work flow and scripting. It looks very powerful. Excellent video, I'll tackle those challenges tomorrow!

[@DerViking]

I forgot what little I knew about coding, and this was a good way to ease back into it. It's always so daunting. Fantastic video. Thank you!

[@uheartbeast]

Glad it was helpful! Programming is hard. Good luck on your journey back into it!

[@Gupatik]

Hey, I just want to say thanks and that I enjoyed your teaching style, and I wish you could do more of advanced stuff, that will the best, like mini tuts where you go over specific topic in depth...

[@user-km7tj1sl6u]

Отличная идея для заданий, после основного обучения. Думаю, новичкам должно понравиться)

[@TriviaQuizocity]

This would be a good opportunity to teach basic save state by remembering high scores.😊

[@uheartbeast]

I'd recommend my recent space shooter series for that!

[@volatiledawn5888]

It took two days but I finally did it!

[@antonse78963]

Great video. The order of the subjects is really well thought out. I have been watching several different guides for beginners and still learned a lot of new things, just in the first 10 minutes, excited for the rest!

[@kevinpatel9112]

Thanks for this Gem Video!! Learned alot from this.......👍👍

[@EROSNERdesign]

This guy is epic.. thanks!

[@fabiomelo2721]

I followed this tutorial and made the game only using my smartphone, it was pretty annoying to code scripts and place the assets in the right place, but because I can only use the touch screen I tried to make a d-pad to control the balloon, I made it with an app called pixel studio and then I put it in the game, it was easier than I expected. I guess that I just proved to myself that it's possible to use godot to make games using just a smartphone

[@uheartbeast]

Wow, I have Godot on my android phone, but I can't imagine trying to program with it. I just use the built-in help to search stuff from my phone sometimes. Congrats on making it work!

[@Savan__ru]

I Like This Type Pf Mini Games Please Continue The Series ❤️😼 Love From India ♾️💞

[@_lugo_]

this turorial is really good

[@uheartbeast]

Thanks! Glad you like it.

[@_lugo_]

i was able to really learn more about game development by trying to add more elements like 3 hearts(lives) and a "game over" label to the game

[@tamasillich4940]

Amazing tutorial, thank you so much.

[@Greedsmith]

Another challenge would be to add a scoreboard and a menu to restart after dying.

[@MiguelAngelValdepenaDelgado]

hi thnak you for you tutorial explosion in Game maker 1.4 , Don't stop giving tutorials in game maker 1.4 until you are 100% in game maker1.4 please. greetings .

[@RobinOnFNF]

thank you so much for this tutorial!

[@Letsbrewthis]

It's like youtube knows I've been getting back into game dev.

[@testicIe]

good tutorial 👍

[@solmuzic8575]

I think you can make the player movement more accurate while moving on angles by applying pythagorean theorem. correct me if I’m wrong.

[@luazul_]

44:49 (just a mark to know where i stopped, because i want to rewatch the first half)

[@user-xl3wn9sb4e]

Nice

[@wiljagerhardt1219]

for that i recommend "bookmarks" xD

[@glorkish_james]

thanks! i learned alot

[@uheartbeast]

You're welcome!

[@PrescottLawani]

Are you still going to be making that large course for Action RPG?? What are some things you are going to put in it? 🔒

[@uheartbeast]

Yes. I'm currently working on the course. I'll have more details soon.

[@PrescottLawani]

@@uheartbeast Cool. I noticed your 1-Bit course is on sale for 35 days. If I'm planning to get the Action RPG, should I wait for that new course instead of getting the 1-Bit??

[@notgood87]

Make sure that your collisions are correct to what he put in the video, or you may run into problems as I did, although I was able to fix them.

[@GodotDev1]

nice tutorial

[@abimaelg3873]

Hi, puedes hacer un serie de videos haciendo un juego estilo papers please, ya sea en Godot o en GMS

[@quiteman2765]

But what if I am watching this right before midnight

[@uheartbeast]

Oh no! You better up the video speed.

[@ColinRhode]

Hey could you make a Tutorial Series on making a simple JRPG game something like FF 1 or something early FF or DQ would be great

[@justyoutubin]

This video is a fun idea

[@uheartbeast]

Thanks!

[@OmriKipi]

If i start watching the video at 23PM, and finish it at 1am, and start implementing at 3am. at what point i get to sleep ? anyway, thank for the vid ! :D

[@uheartbeast]

Hahaha you're welcome!

[@deathtopia2234]

thank you

[@Nitbandier]

Great video ^^

[@uheartbeast]

Thanks!

[@volatiledawn5888]

Does anyone know why the balloon can only sometimes push the blades if the blades and balloon are set to collide with each other?(like if they're on the same layer at the start)

[@Omaya256]

what is this error: The parameter "delta" is never used in the function "_physics_process()". If this is intended, prefix it with an underscore: "_delta".

[@Kopellis]

Yo what is the state of demon Locke? I was looking forward to that game

[@uheartbeast]

Still in preproduction on the back burner while I finish WASarD

[@chiewcck]

I like your contents. What is the input method for such game if were to built it for mobile phone games? Possible to make a tutorial purely for mobile games? especially on Input method, swipe control? Thanks!

[@thisnameistaken]

what ever happened to that Demonlocke game?

[@uheartbeast]

Still in the works but on the back burner right now. I'll post here on KZbin when I have more news about it.

[@jaaferelsadig]

I can’t drag files in, copied them manually to folder, they don’t show up

[@lulyth]

19:28 Godot has a way to WHAT 😰😰

[@DukeOfAwsomeness]

If anyone can help at 59:48 I can’t figure out why I constantly get the error when running Invalid Set Index “linear_velocity” (on base: “Node2D”) with value type Vector2

[@uheartbeast]

Sounds like your saw blade might be a Node2D instead of a RigidBody2D? Or maybe the SawScene preload has the wrong path? It's hard to say without seeing your code.

[@DukeOfAwsomeness]

@@uheartbeastThank you so much it was the preload that wasn’t working also this is an amazing tutorial

[@Roddev776]

How use open gl 2 on godot 4 i mean if i can ? My computer is no suport volkan

[@uheartbeast]

As far as I know it isn't supported in Godot 4. You'll have to use the LTS version of Godot, and it might be tough to follow this tutorial with an older version.

[@mistadude]

by the end of the day means the end of tomorrow's day

[@dw-yl3ln]

So I thought I copied everything correctly, though when my balloon goes up and down, it drifts to the left slightly at the same time...? Does anyone else have that problem? (I've still got 20 minutes of video left, so apologies if it was fixed later.)

[@Roddev776]

Thank you for tutroiels your tutroiels sympel and funy ❤❤❤❤

[@ismailahmed4542]

I am stuck bro in the code I wrote "saw.position = position" but the saw spawns in a completely different position I copied the code from github to make sure everything was correct but still did not work. Thanks for the great tutorial though.

[@Omaya256]

I wrote the code correctly but the balloon not moving when i press the arrows bottoms!!!! any one knows what is the problem?

[@Seleneium7]

I did the saw blade spawning slightly different. My function looks like this: func _on_timer_timeout(): var saw_spawn = SawSpawn.instantiate() saw_spawn.position.x = randf_range(62, 257) saw_spawn.position.y = randf_range(16, 164) get_tree().current_scene.add_child(saw_spawn) I'm wondering if there's an advantage to handling it how Heartbeast did over what I've done? I'm guessing code readability?

[@wiljagerhardt1219]

if u want to change the spawn position in your code you would need to change all 4 values yourself, in his he just needs to adjust the SpawnZone node size

[@B-mo0000]

made it 😀

[@uheartbeast]

🔥

[@jmschl96]

awesome! :D

[@uheartbeast]

Thank you! Cheers!

[@anacletomonmon1459]

1:56 Turn-based-course-with-working-shop??

[@uheartbeast]

Something I was working on with a student.

[@santiagogalvan8750]

is there any chance you make a tutorial on 2d fighters like dbz fighterz or street fighters?

[@uheartbeast]

Thanks for the comment! Unfortunately, it's unlikely. I'm not interested in exploring those genres myself so I wouldn't enjoy it.

[@beary5033]

47:58

[@nonobow1639]

i was very excited to follow your tutoriel but something happened at 44:20, where when i would control- drag the hurtbox element, my line said "@onready var hurtbox = $hurtbox" instead of "@onready var hurtbox Area2D = $hurtbox". I tried to write it manually but it doesnt seem to work that way because when i next launched the game it kept crashing over and over even and it even kept crashing when i deleted all of the code. I'm really clueless and i'd apreciate an explanation :) edit: i've remade the whole thing, it still doesnt work and crashes but at least i can now delete the malfunctioning code to make it stop crashing

[@uheartbeast]

Hey! Thanks for the comment! You don't need to worry about the slight difference there, you can keep the code that you get when you drag it over.

[@nonobow1639]

well i'd love to do that but then it crashes @@uheartbeast

[@nonobow1639]

i keep trying to tweak it but it's def not working :/@@uheartbeast

[@DukeOfAwsomeness]

35:50

[@SoulSukkur]

eh, maybe tomorrow

[@uheartbeast]

Is it tomorrow yet?

[@SoulSukkur]

@@uheartbeast i suppose it is i gave myself 2.5 hours. i insisted on making my own assets, however ugly they may be, so I only made it to the 47 min mark before bed. i'll try to pick it back up on thursday

[@SoulSukkur]

@@uheartbeast done. thanks for the tutorial

[@identity4893]

what happened to wasard?

[@uheartbeast]

Still working on it! I'll have a devlog out in the next month or so.

[@_Garm_]

So i found the Assets on git.. how do i down load ? no clue how git works :D

[@uheartbeast]

It's easiest to download the entire project and then grab the assets. When you are on the project page, there will be a green "Code" button in the top right that lets you download as a zip folder.

[@_Garm_]

@@uheartbeastThank you!, worked :)

[@TriviaQuizocity]

Congrats to anyone who is here early and sees this comment.🍍

[@edsonottoni4111]

You could put a lo-fi background in your videos

[@BlendtutsES]

No, please! Sometimes music can be distracting in the background. I prefer silent background so that I can play my own music (to make sure I play music that helps me focus and not distract me) if I feel like :)

[@uheartbeast]

@@BlendtutsES This is why I don't put music in my videos. I also prefer finding my own music and playing it in the background when watching other people's tutorials.

[@moonbug711]

excellent tutorial! i learned alot from this! got some errors like : already connected timer_saw_spawner.time_out.connect, but i found out that if you click the nodes tab in the inspector you get a big list of events that you can rightclick to automaticly connect signals, it writes the code for you! no need for timer_saw_spawner.time_out.connect(_on_timer_saw_spawner_timeout) just remeber to @onready the stuff so it doesn't throw a error there!