Do THIS Before You Publish Your Godot Game 

There are also options to reduce the download size of your game such as removing the 3D engine or advanced UI elements if your game doesn’t use them.

1. make a custom icon [project-settings -> app -> config] 2. make a custom splash screen [project-settings -> app -> bootsplash] 3. set main scene (start point for game) [project-settings -> app -> run] 4. name your game [project-settings -> app -> config] 5. make game full-screen default [project-settings -> display -> window] 6. custom mouse cursor [project-settings -> display -> mouse] 7. import blend files [project-settings -> filesystem -> import & editor settings -> filesystem -> import {blender install location}] 8. use anti-aliasing when doing modern games [project -> rendering -> anti-aliasing] Hope you have a great day & Safe Travels!

To make a great looking bootsplash or with some animations, I always set the splash icon to a transparent png image and create a scene to manually do the splash screen.

My personal recommendations if you want to release a professional game (for PCs): 1. Set a custom name and icon 2. Make a custom splash screen (not the one Godot provides, make your own animation or effect) 3. Make sure to remove any debugging measures (check your project settings) 4. Compile your own Godot runtime (for game speed/size optimizations and for encrypting your game in case you want to keep your assets from being stolen) -> I'd recommend setting up a Linux environment because of the broad platform support (Linux native, Windows mingw-w64, MacOS osxcross) -> Release for x86_64 and arm64 so your game supports the most common architectures

You forgot point 0, 3.5, 8, 9, 10 and most of 20s: Try your to install and play your game as it's meant to be used before publishing.

Man I must say I love your videos, and if you keep this up, soon if not already, you'll be a point of reference in the community when it comes to Godot, thanks for the efforts, I know uploading videos is hard! PS: WILL IT BLEND!

In Godot 3 icons settings used to be a little bit problematic, I still have no export experience with Godot 4, so maybe now it is easier to manage for all different target OS. Anyway I would add: make sure you set all properties, then export and test every possible aspect on every target OS you chose. Also check the properties of the software to make sure it has your own game+studio info instead of default Godot application info

Every time he says "god-oh" a puppy dies

Thank you, much more useful than the "simple export" videos everywhere.

Thanks! Loved this videos.

Amazing as always, thanks!

Adding to the icon. Not sure how Godot default projects look after there ported but a lot of engines include tons of files with the application file. In windows you can hide all files and leave just your application with the icon you made. Makes it very clean!

Really nice! A bunch of very trivial tips about things that can pull the rug out from under your feet very easily though, and you’ll never see what hit you due to so basic they are. 😆

An awesome video to learn HOW TO frame our projects !!

Thank you for sharing this with us!!

You covered Anti-Aliasing without mentioning rendering pipeline. I'm developing on Compatibility, so I have chosen to not have the anti-aliasing option at all. (Retro style choice)

Thanks! I am brand spanking new to Godot 4 and game development, so this is all good new info for me! :)

One note about full screen: From an accessibility perspective, it can be a good consideration to start in window-mode. This helps some tools like screen readers. I'm not sure how the latest state is when it comes to borderless windows and exclusive full screen in DX12 but accessibility is in general a good thing to keep in mind.

thank you so much this video helps a lot

Great tips.

Thank you bro the best❤ the best tutorial ever ❤😊

1:51 not everyone likes a game starting in fullscreen, in fact i know several people that complain about it whenever a game starts in full screen lol

Thanks!

I WONT LET ME CHANGE DIRECTORY & THUS SELECT A NEW FILE FOR THE ICON OR THE BOOT SPLASH! FUCK!

just did all of these on my project 👍

3:10 give players the option to turn this off. There are a ton of gamers who dislike AA in games as it feels blurry.

SAHD are you planning on making GODOT tutorials? I think that there is not much of them and although it is probably best to follow Godot docs and tutorials, I still feel like there is that one tutorial set of videos on the Yt missing, a set of tutorials which will make one understand the absolute basic but also FOUNDATION as to how one should make a game, like there is some topics but in the "big picture" I feel like it misses the scope of a godot project as a whole, like workflow I think - what I mean by this is you have multiple options for sprites, to put an example, and you have bone animation, cutout animation, sprite animation, then you have the steps to make objects, tiles, and it oh so varies and I feel like there is a foundation missing, like for example in Game Maker it is quite straight-forward: this is an object, it has animations, collisions, scripts, etc. but in Godot I feel like that there is such variety, and so many options, so that I am affraid that the foundation or basics combined might result in inconsistent work-flow and "objects", or rather nodes, scenes, sounds etc. might not work if one does not stick to one style. If what I wrote does not makes sense, it is because English is not my mother tongue, and also because as of now I am trying to make a game in Godot and all the ways and styles that one can do stuff, it makes me confused.

Don't skip these steps! Got more tips? Let me know! More Tips From Viewers: - Make keybindings configurable (@Jakub_13)

Thank you!

Nice tips, I want to make a card building deck game with rpg elements, do you have any video tutorials on that? Thanks

Thanks

Love the thumbnail Godot robot ? Is that a 3d model you can download ?

dont make fullscreen the default, on ultrawide, it can cause horrible performance issues or just pain in general. thanks.

What option do I have to check to change the pronunciation of "Godot"? LMAO.

Thanks for the tips :) Are you using a noise reduction filter on your audio? I feel like your voice is crunched a bit heavy.

Do you know how to add the collision from blender to a rigid body over godot?

Set a custom icon, shows the icon next to the project in the project manager, but it still compiles with the default icon...hmmm....

I don't think this fits the "Do this before you publish" I think this fits more to the "Beginner configuration of your godot instance". I really think you should've talked more about how you actually publish to steam, how to add launch params, etc...

thanks

one of the first things i learned in godot was custom mouse

Hope your channel blows up to abnormal proportions mate... now that unity died....

anti-aliasing is not that noticeable in 3D - especially on HiDPI screens, which replace MidDPI screens faster than you think. what you 𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘺 should enable is anisotropic filtering, so that textures don't look blurred at steep viewing angles.

I almost clicked off the video when he said "use your edge"

Players get annoyed by fullscreen. I use maximized with options to fullscreen.

very HELPFUL! A + SUBSCRIBER, i’ll put you in my game

2:10 it might be just me, but I prefer to play in window whenever it's possible. At least strategy games. If they can not be run in a resizable window it makes me sad.

the way you pronounced Godot made me sick I wasn't ready for that xD

Tip Number two: Make a custom bootsplash..... *Brotato: Hold my beer*

That's cool series! Another intake i suggest how to address jitter, stutter and input lag before releasing your Godot game.😊

Does godot support smaa antialiasing?

Hmm the icon still is the same even after changing it, I am using a PNG and a ICO file tho.

0:18 What is the name of this game? Very similar to Advance Wars, I'd love to play it so much!

what is the game on second 42?

Correction don’t use full screen used windowed full screen by making it a boarder less full then set the window size to 2 pixels less than the full screen

Yep, gotta remember the Old English speakers in Burkina Faso

What's the game featured at 0:24?

Yet another new way to pronounce godot wrong

2:54 what's the game? PLEASE help your discord link is broken

Make keybindings configurable

Does Godot has FSR support?

Disagree on the fullscreen thing. I always like games to be fullscreen, and to have that as an option, but I find computer programs of any kind seizing control of the screen before I tell them they are allowed is very, very rude.

You didn't even need to make a tutorial- I love how most of these options and menus in the Project Settings are just blatantly obvious and easy to change!

2:03 game name?

gaughdough

To anyone still considering, please do not make your games default to fullscreen. I use Windows for the windowed interface. I don't need game developers telling me what should and shouldn't be the default. All my other apps open in a window, games should not be any different. Also to any developers out there, please default your volume sliders to a reasonable setting. Hate opening a new game only for it to take over my whole monitor and commence title music at max volume.

"Be better", you think you can make me, not evne my mother's constant nagging managed that! :p Keep going with the content! :)

*sees Odyssey Of Dremid'ir* "wait a minute...i work on that.....am i famous now?!?"

Why does nobody pronounce Godot the same way?

Nobody that releases a game doesn’t do any of those things you mention…

Please! don't say gad OH! it's go dot or guh doe

gado, srado - gościu naucz się wymawiać to słowo. Nie ma tam żadnego "a" w tym słowie, i mam gdzieś że piosenki piszesz na ten temat

So these were really just very basic beginner tips. Also, you're pronouncing Godot wrong.

Sorry, but I don't get Godot devs. They put so much effort to make Godot 4 look better, especially with 3D but there is still a lack of modern terrain tools for Godot 4. As long as there is no modern terrain tool accessible at runtime via script and with multiple layers of PBR textures this will be always 2D only game engine.

bros beefing with non-fullscreen games for no reason that is literally just a setting bro