How to Create an RPG in Godot 4 (step by step) 

link to the full series: ru-vid.com/group/PL3cGrGHvkwn0zoGLoGorwvGj6dHCjLaGd

i am a refugee from Unity. Thank you dev-worm for this tutorial! I really appreciate your in-depth explanations of what things do and how they operate.

Just saying "Hi" to all the other new Godot users who have jumped ship in the past couple of days. I only just started learning game development about 4 weeks ago on Unity, I'm thinking now is a good time to focus on a different tool.

Unity refugee here; starting the toots - so far so good - no problems, easy to pick up. Thank man! See ya in the next one!

first off, im loving the tutorial so far. im already on ep. 4 but i figured id ask this here. i am pretty new to game dev and godot. so im pretty sure this is not the best way to go about this but id rather have my character have diagonal movement as well so i changed the code under the func player_movement(delta) part to func player_movement(delta): if Input.get_action_strength("Move_right"): play_anim(1) current_dir = "right" elif Input.get_action_strength("Move_Left"): play_anim(1) current_dir = "left" elif Input.get_action_strength("Move_Down"): play_anim(1) current_dir = "down" elif Input.get_action_strength("Move_Up"): play_anim(1) current_dir = "up" else: play_anim(0) var input_vector = Vector2.ZERO input_vector.x = Input.get_action_strength("Move_right") - Input.get_action_strength("Move_Left") input_vector.y = Input.get_action_strength("Move_Down") - Input.get_action_strength("Move_Up") input_vector = input_vector.normalized() if input_vector: velocity = input_vector * speed else: velocity = input_vector move_and_slide() now heres the thing. this took me forever to try to figure out (because im new to this stuff) but everything works as i wanted it to, and im happy about it, and honestly proud of myself for getting it to work at all lol. but im just gonna ask anyone that may know more then i do, if i did something wrong here that may bite me in the butt later on. im not asking for some nit picky answer just so you can try to flex your knowledge with an advanced answer, im only asking if, for me(a beginner thats just gonna use this tutorial to have a project to practice learning with(kinda like a starting template)) if this is a BASIC way to do this, and if its fine or not. thank you in advance

With Godot 4 there's a shortcut to 2d Topdown player movement! @export var speed = 100 func _physics(delta): var direction = Input.get_vector("left", "right", "up", "down") velocity = direction * speed move_and_slide() ("left", "right", "up", "down" = defined inputs created in my input map) That's it and your character will move in 8 directions!

As someone who is new to coding in general and godot, this tutorial is beyond amazing! It would be great if your future videos you made mechanics which we could simply add and expand on. Will continue to watch this series and the rest of your videos because i feel there isn't as much resources for godot 4 in terms of learning and this video alone is very inspiring! Thanks!❤

the legend is back, more powerful than before

Just as a tip if your animation doesn’t work after all the code make sure the animated sprite is a child of the player and not the collision box

to move the player you could use this instead of the huge amount of if statements:- const SPEED = 100 var direction : Vector2 = Vector2.ZERO func _physics_process(delta): direction = Input.get_vector("left", "right", "up", "down") if direction: velocity = direction * SPEED else: velocity = Vector2.ZERO move_and_slide() it works the same.

extends CharacterBody2D const speed = 100 var current_dir = "none" func _ready(): $AnimatedSprite2D.play("front_idle") func _physics_process(delta): player_movement(delta) func player_movement(delta): if Input.is_action_pressed("ui_right"): current_dir = "right" play_anim(1) velocity.x = speed velocity.y = 0 elif Input.is_action_pressed("ui_left"): current_dir = "left" play_anim(1) velocity.x = -speed velocity.y = 0 elif Input.is_action_pressed("ui_down"): current_dir = "down" play_anim(1) velocity.y = speed velocity.x = 0 elif Input.is_action_pressed("ui_up"): current_dir = "up" play_anim(1) velocity.y = -speed velocity.x = 0 else: play_anim(0) velocity.x = 0 velocity.y = 0 move_and_slide() func play_anim(movement): var dir = current_dir var anim = $AnimatedSprite2D if dir == "right": anim.flip_h = false if movement == 1: anim.play("side_walk") elif movement == 0: anim.play("side_idle") if dir == "left": anim.flip_h = true if movement == 1: anim.play("side_walk") elif movement == 0: anim.play("side_idle") if dir == "down": anim.flip_h = true if movement == 1: anim.play("front_walk") elif movement == 0: anim.play("front_idle") if dir == "up": anim.flip_h = true if movement == 1: anim.play("back_walk") elif movement == 0: anim.play("back_idle")

I usually favor reading over videos for learning new things, but the main benefit of video in learning game development is that you can match results much better. The problem arises when stuff doesn't work, and you have to keep scrolling for that tiny step you missed or did in another way. I created the script using the asset tree, by right-clicking the scripts folder and adding the script. This doesn't attach the script to the CharacterBody2D node. After about half an hour of scrolling through the video, I finally noticed in the inspector that no script was attached, so I simply attached it there and it worked. Turns out I missed the click on the attach script button in the video. Thanks for the series, it's going to be a fun one.

At 19:30, Instead of the ready function with the animation, inside of the animated sprite 2d you can set an animation to be the default when it starts, saves some coding

THANK YOU for the work that your doing, this channel right now is the reason I havent given up again on my dream. Thank you,

So much better and faster than the outdated one I spent all day trying to debug, THANK YOU SO DAMN MUCH. I do need to learn how to type faster though, you type so quick I have to keep pausing and rewinding to pause it haha!

Thank you from Argentina, this video is of great help to me as I start a project I have in mind. It's undoubtedly a huge advantage to have this! Greetings.

dude, i like how much you covered in this one video. I also had my doubts tbh with how the animation was coded in, but it worked perfectly on my end like it did on your end! Whenever that happens, you know it's an amazing tutorial. I can't wait to watch your other tutorial videos for this series!

Thanks for the tutorial! As someone old to coding but new to game dev going through the different features was very helpful. I spruced up the player_movement a bit to allow diagonals, sharing here in case others are interested. I started the current_dir a bit different as well with var current_dir = "down" func player_movement(delta): velocity.x = 0 velocity.y = 0 if Input.is_action_pressed("ui_down"): current_dir = "down" velocity.y += speed if Input.is_action_pressed("ui_up"): current_dir = "up" velocity.y -= speed if Input.is_action_pressed("ui_right"): current_dir = "right" velocity.x += speed if Input.is_action_pressed("ui_left"): current_dir = "left" velocity.x -= speed if velocity.x || velocity.y: play_anim(1) else: play_anim(0) move_and_slide()

Pro tip: If you split it up into smaller functions such as move with move("left") and play_move with play_move("left", "side") and so on you can vastly simplify the code, more readable, composable and much less duplication. if/else and nesting statements is the bane of software dev.

So hard to find good quality tutorials for Godot 4,glad I found this one. Although for some reason if I use "delta" in the player movement function,no movement works whereas if I remove it,it works. Edit: for some reason,Godot didn't attach the script the player node. Idk how that happened,lol. all fixed now

While the game I want to make isn't from this genre, this is still good practice for me to get used to working with Godot! Thanks!

Thank you man, here’s hoping I can use this for an adventure game

As the starting animation, you can just select starting animation in AnimatedSprite2D node (A+ icon in animation bar), great tutorial by the way, thanks for it!

Holy cow my dude, BREATHE! I slowed it down to 0.75 speed and I'm still constantly pausing to catch up. xD

Thank you so much, I just finished series yesterday and tried to do this part alone and almost did it but I am happy that I found different solution to animations and it works

every godot4 tutorial maker is a hero!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I have watched a lot of videos about Godot and yours are the best . Your video literally explained everything and I was able to succeed in what I was trying to do

This was infact informative! I used to mess around in unity as a hobby years ago when I was a kid. Kinda dropped it because I just never knew what I really wanted to do with it, plus at that time I was used to writting in Java script, which did not translate well with the tutorials at the time. They were mostly wrote in C#, and trying to translate it to Java script when you barely knew code at all was rather difficult, lol. So I've been really wanting to get back into making some games for fun, and Godot seemed like a pretty good opportunity to do so, but I just couldn't figure out a good place to start. This video has atleast given me 1/2 a mind of what I'm trying to do, and how to do certain tasks, I will will follow the rest of this series with joy, and pleasure. Thank you good sir!

I am so glad I got in the habit of using a bit different names then you do, simply because it helps me keep track of why the things work the way they work, rather then just follow along.

hey bro, appreciate the tutorial. always enjoy creators who present things in a fast, but concise way

This is amazing. Thank you so much! As an absolute beginner, this was easy to follow. So excited for the rest of this!

First time loading Godot. I don't know coding or Godot, i'm an environment artist usually use Unreal and have wanted to dabble in pixel games and this is the most straight forward tutorial i've found yet. I tried 4 or 5 others trying to get a character to move and they all had problems and wasn't clear. I understood the code and what it was trying to accomplish. Will definitely be swapping the sprite sheets for my own down the line but its nice to have a base to start from.

watched this video today and plan on watching the rest in the series. very helpful and informative.

Thank you very much!!! you have no idea how much this video helped me out, i've tried lots of videos and i mean a LOT and still didnt get as far as i got using this video. Keep up the good work man👌

Your tutorials are the best!!!❤❤❤❤

Hello! Just wondering if you could do a series on how to Create a Platformer in Godot 4. It would be really cool!

Great series! I see everywhere this method, instead of using seperate directions: var moveDirection = Input.get_vector("ui_left", "ui_right", "ui_up", "ui_down",) velocity = moveDirection * speed. Can you explain which would be the difference, or the best use case for a simple movement code? func _physics_process(_delta): handleInput() updateAnim() move_and_slide() func handleInput(): var moveDirection = Input.get_vector("ui_left", "ui_right", "ui_up", "ui_down",) velocity = moveDirection * speed #Anims are: Idle_LEFT, Walk_RIGHT, etc... func updateAnim(): if velocity.length() == 0: if $anim.is_playing(): $anim.stop() $anim.play("Idle_" + direction) else: direction = "DOWN" if velocity.x < 0 : direction = "LEFT" elif velocity.x > 0: direction = "RIGHT" elif velocity.y < 0: direction = "UP" $anim.play("Walk_" + direction)

Hi! I have been using renpy for about five years now, and yes I love making visual novels, but think its time to branch out! I know im late, but thank you so much for making such good tutorials!

I saved your playlists under "awesome tutorials", I love following along with tutorials that you get an end product thank you so much for doing it. If you're looking for ideas would love to see a 2D side scroller beat em up. Like double dragon or golden axe

I just wanted to say thank you for making this tutorial. It's really easy to follow on!! 🥰

This is EXACTLY what I was looking for. Thank you for your hard work!

Maaan its awesom!! thank you a lot!!! finnaly iv made 8way isometric animation without AnimationPlayer wich is only good for killing left mouse button and my nerves

Thank You. Leaving a comment for youtube engagement. Would appreciate future videos digging deeper into learning the coding language if possible

i wrote the character movement code exactly the same, stopped the video to check, than checked again. every single line of code is marked as an error.

Grate tutorial. I did a few mistakes. Like making the Animatedsprite2D a child of CollisionShape2D and I also placed he elif in the wrong place, messing up my animations. But it made me read the code and understand it better trying to solve it. I like your pacing and explaining too makes it easy to look back over certain parts.

TYSM! I thought I was a failure when I tried this, because where it says func play_anim(movement): var dir = current_dir var anim = $CollisionShape2D/AnimatedSprite2D I forgot to write current_dir, which made the animation bug out and stop working! When I looked at it I smacked myself on my forehead and was satisfied with my sweet success! Thanks again and I will surely finish this tutorial in no time! You earned a sub ;)!

You deserve more attention this is one of the best tutorials I've seen

I followed your directions to the letter until 12:28 but I don't see my character on screen at all in the debug edit: for some reason the scene was on world and not player but still cannot move my character in debug

The best tutorial about the basics in godot I've seen

if you use the animationplayer node instead, you can script other key changes with it, as well as play sound through audio player nodes also, you can change the speed with a slider on the character node inspector if you just "@export var" the speed variable. you can actually do a lot with this, like control the variable with other scripts

Hopefully I will push through and finally make a game.

As a Unity refugee, I thank you

This is a great tutorial. Just started Godot and came across this video. You explain things really well

im pretty well versed in c#, but for learning the built in gdscript functions i think this is a great series especially given its up to date.

I drank each time he says "right" and died of alcohol poisoning at 13:32

This is awesome, I know there are tutorials for pixel art as well but It'd be really cool to see a full tutorial one day that goes over making all the art assets and then the game as well.

Just started following this tutorial series! So excited for what's next!!

This helped me so much ty, you are a very nice guy.

I've tried a bunch of Godot tutorials gotta say this one is the clearest and worked the best for me. Keep up the good work!

Thanks for the Tutorial. Starting to get into game dev and Godot seems to be fitting :D

Very helpful and at a good pace to follow along to. Thanks for that, will be continuing with this series thill the end.

I love the video and though I had some issues I did learn alot so thank you vary much!

You may be the Griffpatch of Godot sir. Thank you for the amazing tutorial!

i like your background music in the videos. Think it helps me to pay attention. Thanks for keeping the videos to the point and not making them hours long bc this is working for me

its my first game in godot ever (apart from the one where I added a 3D model and gave up) and i'm literally crying 😭

This is how I did the player movement: func player_movement(delta): velocity.y = speed * (int(Input.is_action_pressed("ui_down")) - int(Input.is_action_pressed("ui_up"))) velocity.x = speed * (int(Input.is_action_pressed("ui_right")) - int(Input.is_action_pressed("ui_left"))) move_and_slide() velocity.x = 0 velocity.y = 0 (edit) the animations might need a bit of a different system

i got it working, this is so exciting!! thank you so much

For the people who use it, here is all the code: extends CharacterBody2D const speed = 100 var current_dir = "none" func _ready(): $AnimatedSprite2D.play("front idle") func _physics_process(delta): player_movement(delta) func player_movement(delta): if Input.is_action_pressed("ui_right"): current_dir = "right" play_anim(1) velocity.x = speed velocity.y = 0 elif Input.is_action_pressed("ui_left"): current_dir = "left" play_anim(1) velocity.x = -speed velocity.y = 0 elif Input.is_action_pressed("ui_down"): current_dir = "down" play_anim(1) velocity.y = speed velocity.x = 0 elif Input.is_action_pressed("ui_up"): current_dir = "up" play_anim(1) velocity.y = -speed velocity.x = 0 else: play_anim(0) velocity.x = 0 velocity.y = 0 move_and_slide() func play_anim(movement): var dir = current_dir var anim = $AnimatedSprite2D if dir == "right": anim.flip_h = false if movement == 1: anim.play("side walk") elif movement == 0: anim.play("side idle") if dir == "left": anim.flip_h = true if movement == 1: anim.play("side walk") elif movement == 0: anim.play("side idle") if dir == "down": anim.flip_h = true if movement == 1: anim.play("front walk") elif movement == 0: anim.play("front idle") if dir == "up": anim.flip_h = true if movement == 1: anim.play("back walk") elif movement == 0: anim.play("back idle")

anyone able to help? just started and having an issue. code looks like whats shown but maybe something different since im using 4.2? no errors in debug just stops working and stack frames shows up? something about going right as up and down seem to work fine? if dir == "right": anim.flip_h = false

Isn't thte whole process of picking the right animation in the code a bit convoluted? Do you really need that current_dir variable and that play_anim(1) in every if statement? I mean you could just pass the velocity vector into the function (play_anim(velocity) ), get its direction inside that func and pick the right animation with that, right? Also concatenating the Input check with all that elif statements creates some sort of hierarchy for the inputs, with "right" having the highest and "up" the lowest. I think you can do something like velocity.x = Input.is_action_pressed("right") - Input.is_action_pressed("left") velocity.y = Input.is_action_pressed("down") - Input.is_action_pressed("up") this has less hierarchy but pressing left and right at the same time cancels each other out and it allows diagonal movement.

Omg thank you so much. I was just struggling with the new version! Keep going👍

SO for anyone following along, at the time of this tutorials release the current version of godot was 4.0.2

im going get my friend to follow this i did it a few moths back and he just started today so yeah hope fully and do good on it

Godot 4 turned out to be really awesome!

Thanks man this is awesome especially since most tutorials are still stuck on Godot 3

Such an easy-to-follow tutorial thxs a bunch!

Thank you for the tutorial! I've managed to do this :D Keep making these!

I just found this series , I'm so exited to start it

When I run the game after all the script is added, I get a stiff picture of my character that moves around without animations, Godot is giving me this "AnimatedSprite2D node not found!"

Fantastic tutorial. I just suck at this stuff.

what ever you name your animations MAKE SURE you make it the exact same in your code for it to actually play your animations. i struggles with this for a while because i make some capital letter mistakes

do u plan to add stuff like armor, different zones with stronger enemies, inventory where you would get the loot and then you can sell it in shop and buy the better armor, weapons, potions, etc? - I haven´t watched the vid yet, I´m learning from a different tutorial atm but after i finish that I will move on this one

Thank you for this tutorial. I am glad that i found this one!!

Hola DevWorm te saludo desde Uruguay, no sé inglés pero algunas palabras entiendo, sumado a que he visto suficientes tutoriales en español como para ir entendiendo el razonamiento de lo que haces y/o dices por lo cual puedo seguirte sin problemas, muchisimas gracias por compartir tus conocimientos

I Found a better way to make the movement with less boilerplate: func player_movement(delta): if Input.is_action_pressed("down"): velocity = Vector2(0, speed) elif Input.is_action_pressed("up"): velocity = Vector2(0, -speed) elif Input.is_action_pressed("left"): velocity = Vector2(-speed, 0) elif Input.is_action_pressed("right"): velocity = Vector2(speed, 0) else: velocity = Vector2(0,0) I used "down", "right", "left", "up" because i put the keys into the Input map, also used Vector2 for less work. everything else should be pretty easy to understand

I have been waiting for this player

tysm!! this series is going to help a lot for sure....❤

Thank you for this! This first one was easy to follow the somewhat complex concepts and I managed to get it working. I've bought the premium art pack and I'll be busy with all 8 of the videos in this series. Again, SO MUCH THANKS! I'm coming in from pygame for what it's worth.

great video, clear and concise

This is a great tutorial, but my character isn't moving. My guess is that maybe something small got changed in the way things are named. The code is: extends CharacterBody2D const speed = 100 func _physics_process(delta): player_movement(delta) func player_movement(delta): if Input.is_action_pressed("ui_right"): velocity.x = speed velocity.y = 0 elif Input.is_action_pressed("ui_left"): velocity.x = -speed velocity.y = 0 elif Input.is_action_pressed("ui_down"): velocity.y = speed velocity.x = 0 elif Input.is_action_pressed("ui_up"): velocity.y = -speed velocity.x = 0 else: velocity.x = 0 velocity.y = 0 move_and_slide() 3 Month+ Edit: I've changed the code a little bit to use custom keybinds for WASD, but this should be translatable to "ui_(direction)": extends CharacterBody2D const speed = 100 func _physics_process(delta): player_movement(delta) func player_movement(detla): if Input.is_action_pressed("move_right"): velocity.x = speed velocity.y = 0 elif Input.is_action_pressed("move_left"): velocity.x = -speed velocity.y = 0 elif Input.is_action_pressed("move_down"): velocity.y = speed velocity.x = 0 elif Input.is_action_pressed("move_up"): velocity.y = -speed velocity.x = 0 else: velocity.x = 0 velocity.y = 0 move_and_slide()

extends CharacterBody2D const Speed = 100 var crntDir = "none" func _physics_process(delta): Player_Movement(delta) #Movement func Player_Movement(delta): if Input.is_action_pressed("ui_right"): crntDir = "right" playAnim(1) velocity.x = Speed velocity.y = 0 elif Input.is_action_pressed("ui_left"): crntDir = "left" playAnim(1) velocity.y = 0 velocity.x = -Speed elif Input.is_action_pressed("ui_down"): crntDir = "down" playAnim(1) velocity.y = Speed velocity.x = 0 elif Input.is_action_pressed("ui_up"): crntDir = "up" playAnim(0) velocity.y = -Speed velocity.x = 0 else: velocity.x = 0 velocity.y = 0 move_and_slide() func playAnim(movement): var dir = crntDir var anim = $AnimatedSprite2D if dir == "right": anim.flip_h = false if movement == 1: anim.play("Walk_S") elif movement == 0: anim.play("Idle_S") if dir == "left": anim.flip_h = true if movement == 1: anim.play("WalkS") elif movement == 0: anim.play("IdleS") if dir == "down": anim.flip_h = true if movement == 1: anim.play("WalkF") elif movement == 0: anim.play("Idle_Front") if dir == "up": anim.flip_h = true if movement == 1: anim.play("WalkB") elif movement == 0: anim.play("IdleB") print(velocity) i dont why but when i move there is no idle animation , it stop but with walk animation , anyone can help?

Super helpful!! Thank you!!

THIS MADE MY DAY

Hey, thank you for covering this, one thing I wanna know is what would I do to make a party following system, I'd appreciate it

Can someone please explain on what Renderer to use? Because the video starts instantly with a scene already made.. Forward+, Mobile or Compatibility? Thanks.

The parameter "delta" is never used in the function "player_movement()". If this is intended, prefix it with an underscore: "_delta".

Thank you for this tutorial. Coming from "another engine" and for now, it is very easy to follow and understand as I have some background in 2D logic. Your explanations are clear and very helpful.

Goat channel 😍

hello i just wanna let u know that i am very interested on game development although i dont know where to and how to start haha yea so luckily i found ur channel and i am just about to follow ur tutorial and download godot!!! hope you still continue doing this

What to do if you want to change your weapon characters or both do you have to make every possible combination of them