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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OOP primer

So far in this chapter, we have learned about functions, classes, and objects. These concepts are very powerful: they give us a completely different way of working with data and the logic that accompanies it.

In programming, there are multiple different paradigms of structuring code and data, one of them is Object Oriented Programming (OOP). GDScript is an object-oriented (OO) and imperative programming language, which means that we group data and its accompanying logic within classes and objects. The logic we write consists of statements that tell the computer fairly exactly what to do and how to do it for us. Each statement changes the internal state of the program. Most game engines and their accompanying programming languages are OO and imperative.

OOP is built upon four key principles: inheritance, abstraction, encapsulation, and polymorphism. So, let’s have a look at these.