How I Design Architecture for Godot Engine Projects 

timestamps for me: 31:00 - procedure for creating a system

I can't believe this video only has 2,7k views. Absolutely one of the most valuable Godot videoes i've ever watched and has answered my most important question when it comes to game dev, which was how to plan scene structure and code.

Thabk you so much. Ive been learning game development for the past few months but no tutorial/guides talks about architecture but you! Your guides have been so useful!! Its really hard to understand certain topics coming from outsife of all this, for instance just the idea of naming everything with underscores when saving, or how to allocate each folder where, exc. Thank you so so much

This is SERIOUS stuff! A very good design method, that was missing in S1 episodes. As a web dev in the way of converting to Game Developmen this is so usefull and I missed your reasoning in season 1, that I followed without understanding some of the logics behind your great work. You are helping me so much.

Just finished watching. First off, thank you so much Adam. I really love learning about this because what first struck me about your code is how tidy it is - so immediately wanted to understand your thinking behind it. Also, I am actually applying the knowledge in an indie Mars colony survival roguelike game I'm developing. 🚀 Secondly, as far as the Queue as a solution for the Relics pain point, I think it's a pretty good solution. At the same time, I am reminded of the Yu-Gi-Oh card games on Gameboy Advance. I believe after the Draw Phase there's a Standby Phase which is in charge of resolving card effects (which can get quite complex with player/enemy chained effects) and that is how they seem to have fixed a similar problem. Their Turn structure is: Draw -> Standby Phase -> Main Phase 1 -> Battle Phase -> Main Phase 2 -> End Phase. *TL:DR*: So, what if each Battle Activated Relic included a property stating during what Battle Phase its effect is triggered, AND the battle manager performed a Standby Phase / Relic Effect Check in between Phases and see if any Relics have a trigger property for that Phase, activating it by whatever instructions are in the Relic resource itself? This seems to me pretty similar to your solution, however slightly different. Maybe it inspires another approach to the question. Let me know how it feels for you (or if it was unclear). I'm excited for the next season, I've truly learned so much!

This is exactly what I was hoping for after leaving my comment… THANK YOU, I really do appreciate your willingness to do videos like these :)) happy new years!

What a way to start the year Honestly was suprised to see the just how much we will be adding to slay the spire in the next season

Holymother, some archtecture video using Godot! Thanks for the video.

Excellent video. Not many quality, talk though of architecture and coding out there. Awesome to see other people's reasons for doing things similar or different makes a great video where we can learn something new or cement the things, we do the same. Starting to feel like you're the codemonkey of Godot which is a great thing.

probably the most insightful tutorial I have watched so far. thank you so much!

good years :) Thanks for this video, I've always wondered about the process followed to arrive at a reliable code structure.

I can tell this is gonna be epic learning!

Excellent video to start the year 🎉 🤯

Amazing video! I love specially the scattered reasoning and back and forth during the system design, can relate 100%. For the diverse relics, I think the observer pattern could help. All features in general could subscribe to the "run" subject which is responsible oforchestrating through system wide events, then each feature reacts accordingly as observers of these events. The shop relic discount prices if "shop_opened", the other would react if "battle_started", etc. To avoid race conditions or simultaneous reactions, couldn't you just create more events? "battle_started", "start_battle_effects_applied", etc.

that's what I was looking for :)

I really liked the tutorial style. And this lesson too. Thank you. (I'll donate to you when I have a bit more spare money. This lessons are so helpful for my situation. Thank you for publishing it for free.) Just want to suggest for you also explain and go through the refactoring process of the project in part 2. (probably you were already thinking about doing that)

hey that's my comment! happy new year and thank you for the detailed explanation. I'll watch it slowly to really take in all the information

Happy new year! Amazing video idea :D

deserve 1 million subs ngl

My biggest question about relics is how they will be stored. If the only data common to them is name, art, id, and maybe some kind of trigger time (i.e. start of battle), then how do you store the other data? Does each relic need to be its own node with its own methods? I've been making my own deckbuilder game and I got stuck hard with implementing a relic system.

New year, new season. Lets go.

Thank you for the beginner.

happy new year!

Hi, I love this example in architecture design. It feels like I've always lacked structure in approaching the projects I want to make, so this gives me something to work with! However, despite my attempt at breaking down the game idea I have like you suggest, I struggle with one key thing - I cannot decide what interacts with and what data it needs or produces. It feels really opaque when trying to peek into the future of the project and without much experience in architecture design, I tend to fall into the pitfall when I re-type the major feature name into its feature list, the data, and can't see what it could interact with. I guess this is expected without the experience of finishing a project before, but my question is - should I spend more time on trying to flesh the architecture out as much as I need or is it good enough to have a rudimentary idea about the features and add onto the list as I get more intimate with the systems I'm making? I don't know how best to spend the little time I have to work on these side projects 😕

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Please don't make unedited a common thing. The value I got from your StS series was how well organized and planned it was.

Happy New Year!🥳🥳 It takes a lot of time and consideration to make a new game logic than I thought. Watching this video, I felt that I should work harder on the design of the game.😥 I'll be looking forward to season 2!

thank you, this was very helpful