Summer Course

Goal

Produce your own games.

Me

Those you can do, those who can’t….

Not AAA, but please buy and review!

Method

Practical - re-creating a series of my games using Godot.

Theory will also be covered as necessary.

Intro

• Didn’t get replies to email to tailor course to participants… so who have we got ???

• Favourite games.

• Discord.

• Mobiles.

• VR headsets.

Git

We will use Git because:

• Provides free cloud backup
• Provides free hosting of webpages
• It’s industry standard
• (Allows team to collaborate on same project - main reason it’s used in industry)

Typing

Primary units

1. Platform game

   • simple (kinematic) physics
   • tilemaps

2. Space game

3. Racing game

   • full physics

4. High score table

5. 3D Godot tutorials by Kidscancode

6. VR wave shooter

Secondary units

Up to you which of these we do…

• Keyboard skills

• Analysing games

  • A free game to ‘analyse’

  • Another one

• Python Coding

  • My book

  • Code combat

• 2d graphics:

  • Krita

  • LibreSpite (or Asperite)

• 3d graphics

  • Blender - video tutorials

  • Leocad

• Audio:

  • Music - LMMS

  • Samples - Audacity or in future Tenacity

• Godot Physics: Area, Static Body, Rigid Body and Kinematic Body. Similar but confusing so we should go over the differences.

• Making Videos

• Text Adventures:

  • Part 1

  • Part 2

  • Part 3

  • Part 4

• Visual novels with Renpy

  • Tutorial

• Minecraft

  • Playing it

  • Python coding in Minecraft

  • Setting up a server

  • Converting minecraft buildings to Godot objects

• Computer hardware

  • PC Building Simulator

• Linux

  • Do you have a PC / laptop? Install Linux!

• Finding assets

  • Copyright, creative commons

  • itch.io, unity store, etc

• Collaborating