You're reading from Learning GDScript by Developing a Game with Godot 4 A fun introduction to programming in GDScript 2.0 and game development using the Godot Engine

Product type Paperback

Published in May 2024

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781804616987

Length 378 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

GDScript

Tools

Godot

Concepts

Game Design

Author (1):

Sander Vanhove

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Table of Contents (22) Chapters

Preface

1. Part 1:Learning How to Program

2. Chapter 1: Setting Up the Environment FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 2: Getting Familiar with Variables and Control Flow

4. Chapter 3: Grouping Information in Arrays, Loops, and Dictionaries

5. Chapter 4: Bringing Structure with Methods and Classes

6. Chapter 5: How and Why to Keep Your Code Clean

7. Part 2: Making a Game in Godot Engine

8. Chapter 6: Creating a World of Your Own in Godot

9. Chapter 7: Making the Character Move

10. Chapter 8: Splitting and Reusing Scenes

11. Chapter 9: Cameras, Collisions, and Collectibles

12. Chapter 10: Creating Menus, Making Enemies, and Using Autoloads

13. Chapter 11: Playing Together with Multiplayer

14. Part 3: Deepening Our Knowledge

15. Chapter 12: Exporting to Multiple Platforms

16. Chapter 13: OOP Continued and Advanced Topics

17. Chapter 14: Advanced Programming Patterns

18. Chapter 15: Using the File System

19. Chapter 16: What Next?

20. Index

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Creating a menu

The most exciting part of developing a game is, of course, making the game itself! Making things move, fight, jump, shoot, interact, and so forth. But there is another part that is just as important: the UI. A UI binds everything together. It informs the player of what is happening and lets them navigate from menu to menu with ease and without having to think about how to get from one interface to the other.

Good user experience, UI, or human-computer interaction design is hard! But it all starts with learning how to make the UI in the first place. So, let’s have a look at how we can create menus and interfaces.

Control nodes

The Godot engine comes with an extensive library of interface nodes. We already made use of one, the Label node, in Chapter 6. These nodes are called Control nodes and get labeled by the color green: