New Godot Visual Scripting Language - Block Coding 

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Thanks for showcasing our work and for your valuable feedback!! Indeed we're in early stages but aiming to keep iterating. Great point about the block deletion. The latest version adds zooming support. We're also experimenting with learner-friendly abstraction, e.g. instantiate a SimpleCharacter scene and you will see that it has ultra simple blocks for movement available within. More to come!

i love how many people are making projects this impressive out of raw passion for the community and the art

Love the fact that it generates the actual code which you can review or copy / paste elsewhere.

as someone who has used scratch i was happy to see a block code solution get added to godot, making it closer to something i have used before is so nice.

this looks like it could be promising for more beginner programmers

Nice! Looking to get my daughter into development in the next year or so, this looks very promising!

We got scratch in godot before gta 6

This is so cool when a community comes together to make a good software even better.

WOW, this is an EXCELLENT idea!! There are going to be more Scratch programmers using Godot. And people have done some fascinating stuff with Scratch! Also, I'm a teacher. I hope that this develops more. I could say Scratch is used in schools and kids could used some of the skills they learn in Scratch, with the Godot Engine.

I think one of the things that made scratch so powerful is that every project you were impressed by was source available, so the common techniques were easy to pick up quickly. I'm not sure how this will tackle that issue (maybe we'll keep relying on RU-vid tutorials) but I live the direction this project is going in.

Really hope this project can be expanded to a fully functional feature, as a visual artist it makes coding more bearable

This….my gosh…THANK YOU GODOT COMMUNITY!!! THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU!!!

Miles more intuitive than the current system. Leverages knowledge from scratch. I think this is an outstanding step in the right direction.

I have been wanting to see scratch programming moved out of scratch for a while. I'd never use it as I know how to program C# etc. but I think this is a great language for beginners to pick up. So happy to see this.

Scratch in Godot is the perfect match and a great starting point! 🤩 Especially the possibility to run some nodes on Blocks and other on regular scripting gives you so much possibilites. Luv this project, thanks for sharing! 👍👍

Just sat down to start scripting out a cutscene. Feels like the perfect time to try this!

This is awesome! I hope it becomes interoperable with regular GD scripts! Would be amazing for learning!

It really looks awesome. That's one of those plugins like phantom camera that will become a must-have.

Hey this could be an awesome platform to teach people. Scratch is great for learning how to think like a programmer, but working inside an actual engine can probably make it more "real" for teenagers since Scratch has a bit of kids vibe.

As someone who has used a lot of scratch in the past (and am currently very active helping people with snap (like scratch, but more advanced)), this project makes me very excited. I love visual block based programming, so I'm glad someone is bringing it to godot.

Very rarely am I impressed with a new tool. However this tool is like the introduction of fire to civilization. It will allow for a much lower barrier to game development for beginners. My hats off to the developers. Thank you for this excellent tutorial.

I honestly was stuck to scratch and wished for more visual scripting game engine but I learned godot faster than this appeared. Anyhow, I think its decent for lazy small code but I don't think that I need stuff like this anymore. But I know who'd love it . Thank you.

This is a gamechanger for many starters

This is very cool! Looking forward to more 3D integration!

This looks perfect for prototyping, particularly since you can just translate it to GD_script later, you could just program most of your code in this and only use GD_script when this isn't enough.

Beautiful! I'm teaching the kids to code on Scratch and the next step was going to be Godot. So this is going to be very helpful. Funny thing is that I thought of trying to do something like this myself but life happens all the time and I have no time and look at that! Some awesome people is doing it for everybody now. Thanks !

MAN HAVE I BEEN WAITING FOR THIS OPPORTUNIT6

As someone who used scratch for 7 years I see this a complete win

Just like Scratch And I Love It

Don't know how I missed this, but this is awesome! I know some children who are already very serious about making games, but find basic Scratch and Roblox restrictive. This might just become their gateway to real deal game-dev'ing. And can't say I'd hate toying around with this feature either myself!

man do i wish this was around when i was still on Scratch 😢

Dang, if this gets more advanced, I'll consider using this cuz I'm afraid of coding.

Totally need this for teaching!

It's truly awesome and the potential is great! The problem is that the devs mentioned it's not going to get too deep (probably won't cover all GDscript) but only for beginners, which means it will be very limited on scope of what you can do. A nice way to learn the basics of logics in general but unless they'll decide to make it cover all GDscript it may probably not be very usable for a complicated game production. I hope they will decide to continue maintain and evolve it to cover more of GDscript. The most amazing Visual Script piece will be EVENT SHEET like Construct, GDevelop, ClickTeam, etc.. that will make EVERY beginner to jump to Godot instead of the other PREMIUM game engines since Godot is much more powerful and fully free unlike the others.

i really like the concept.

I will always be in support of Scratch style block-based visual scripting systems. Compared to node-based systems, block code is more compact and a closer analogue to traditional text-based programming languages. I’m glad to see it applied to a proper game engine.

we scratching out our head with this one!!

I literally just decided to transition from scratch to godot yesterday, after four years. I guess i got lucky

The division of resources would probably not be worth it, but imagine if this became an official part of Godot? Would be so cool as an educational tool!!! Though I do think GDScript is very accessible. This is still awesome though! Lol, Godot could have block-based programming, high level Pythonic-like programming, mid-level C#, and then low level C++. Options for days Actually, I think Godot used to have visual programming in earlier versions, now that I think about it.

As someone terrified of coding, this is a great addition for me

Honestly I always thought one of the big misses of Unreal's virtual scripting was that it wasn't scratch-like and instead created that whole mess of spaghetti structures. This is amazing by comparison.

Very nice! Any API to create your own blocks I wonder? 🤔

I can't imagine this being any easier to understand than coding, like you still need to understand what variables and methods are, but now its just represented in a less flexible gui? Maybe the colors are nicer than indentation but I know for a fact there's a vscode extension that does the same thing

This is actually really cool. Node based scripting isnt really appealing to me since it can get very messy very quickly. Im learning how to write code normally now but if i was gonna keep using a visual system, scratch just works way better.

not surprised. i was honestly considering making this myself, and was shocked it hadnt already been done. this is brilliant.

man this seems kind of fun to try, I've been using Unreal engine for a while and I even used to use BGE and refreshed my memeory with UPBGE but I think I might as well try godot to see if it's any good :)

this is amazing, i am pretty good at blueprints in unreal engine and im slaso really good with srcatch coding. Ive been wanting to make a good 2d game in godot but i dont want to learn gd script

Thanks for sharing this very interesting discovery, Mike. It certainly has lots of potential for making Godot more accessible to learners (AKA *noobs*) of all ages :) Now I want to use my 2nd wish for the Godot genie... Godot Dev team: PLEASE create an official, integrated RAD UI designer as present in C++ Builder, Delphi, Ultimate++, etc... That will be a HUGE enhancement to the Godot editor and make for a much faster and less frustrating UI creation experience... ✨🔮

Would've been really cool if you could attach a block script the same you you add a regular script. Plugin looks sick either way.

Visual scripting is a godsend. I think it will revolutionize accessibility to game development, if it hasn't already.

This would be helpful if someone wanted to get started quick and then transition from visual scripting to regular written code.

Great Addon for a beginner like me

I love it! So great

that's real cool, they should add the ability to group and add node editing.

I really liked it! I hope they keep it up! I might even switch to Godot from Uneal if they keep it up! because Godot devs don't add Visual Scripting! one of my main problems with the engine is this!

Looks cool. but I don't see any support for singals or export vars which are a huge part of godot

I would love to see LabView like programming language for gameengines but also for general puprpose (there was project called Zaluum, that was more like general purpose, but it is dead now).

i prefer nodes to blocks, but this is still a step in the right direction for non-coders like me... will defo be looking into this once the feature is more fleshed out and official.

Stencyl lives! (Yes Stencyl game engine is still being developed even if you, dear read already forgot about it).

Finally something so newbies like me don't have to think about lighting themselves on fire :D

This reminds me of my childhood with scratch 😭

Hope this gets developed, it could be promising. Download and install crashed Godot on my Mac and then on restart - it worked. Will test on my PC but I suspect it will work first time there.

This is kind of neat.

How do you actually open block code because it isn’t opening automatically when I add the node and I don’t see where to actually start using it All it lets me do is add the node and doesn’t give me the tab for block code at all

You should check out the post process plugin :D

I love this, I will still primary use GDscript but if I need to quickly and dirty do some testing or something, I will definitelly use it. It looks like it is more welcoming and easier to use then Orchestrator which can also help begginers. Amazing project Edit: typo

I was sad back in the day when I realised you couldn't export a scratch 2 project into a stand-alone executable. This may be something I seriously consider using since normal game dev stuff can be a bit tedious for me. Which ends up draining away my motivation if I'm not careful.

They implemented Scratch? Nice lol

my first experience of this kind of coding was in Stencyl: Indie Edition speaking of which have you talked about Stencyl before? In Stencyl its a block version of C# or at least it was in 2015

wow maby game development programming is finaly something i can do

I see this as being great for education. Also for quickly trying out an idea without needing to type a lot of code.

So I am new to all this stuff I don’t know if I am doing something wrong or what but my block code doesn’t show as tab up top. When I clicked on it show worded script not the bubbles like in the video

Nice potential.

Needs a list for like groups, and methods.

Humm. I prefer the Blender Node system that could be used. This one presented here is almost full typing. The group function show some potential of having higher level function, but I simply don't like the way it work. But most new things is doing that, so I hope this also improve...

scratch 2 : the electric boogalo

My favourite Windows sound.

noooo! they should use the spread sheet aproach! its much faster than scratch aproach!

Ok this is very nice, especially if you are a kid that just learned to code with scratch. 👍

Can you use this in tandem with orchestrator or gdscript?

The 'Block Coding' option doesn't show upper next to the AssetLib in 4.3 after enabling it in project setting, does anyone have any ideas?

I tried to warn them that the blueprint approach is a bad fit for godot :) why cant they just adopt gdevelop's event sheet way. Its more popular for 2d games than all the others

This is cool!

If it creates the code, for you to build upon.... that's where it's at. Because block "coding" has inherent issues that cannot be overcome readily.

the plugin seems to not work, i search it up and it doesn't appear

I feel like a more beginner oriented text editor would be more helpful.

OMg does it work with 3D please somebody say yes you can and more

its not working for me i had install and set as plugin need help

can you make a tutorial for platformers with this?

Right now, blockcode doesnt open when you add it in. Any idea on why that is? It's completely unusable like this, of course.

finally, scratch for adults

Common Godot W

Very cool.

Very nice

Am I the only one who finds this just as tedious as the visual coding solution that Godot dropped? Visual coding needs to be easier than typing everything out. I guess now I have to take the initiative and design a solution that's actually useful.

brilliant!

awesome

RIP to Godot visual scripting they scrapped

Omg!! Its cool!!🎉