Your First 2D GAME From Zero with GODOT 4! **Vampire Survivor Style** 

For anyone else that encounters mobs sticking to the player when they collide from above, be sure to disable all moving platform layers of the `CharacterBody2D` nodes. In the Inspector panel of the `CharacterBody2D` nodes for both the player and mob, expand `CharacterBody2D` > `Moving Platform` and disable all layers in `Floor Layers`.

Finally a tutorial that covers the "why" and not just the "what". Well paced, clearly explained and properly sized to make it digestible. Thoroughly enjoyed making this Vampire Survivor. GDQuest is my go-to place for all things Godot!!

I have seen a lot of comments regarding the fact that they are taking constant damage/losing health no matter what is happening, so I'm commenting here to help future people. Basically you have to change your player hurtbox collision mask to that of the collision layer of your slimes(a lot of people seem to have missed this part of the video 1:44:00). The reason why you were taking constant damage was probably because your player collision layer was set to 1 while your hurtbox collision mask was set to 1 by default, so your hurtbox will constantly detect the player and hence constantly damage you. Hope this was helpful

This was one of the best videos on the channel. Here are some questions about how we could improve the game, like Brotato style, I mean how we could start these: 1 - How to add a wave system? 2 - How to add upgrade items? 3 - How to make enemies drop coins to buy items? 4 - How to make trees breakable and drop items? 5 - How to make a home screen, with settings and character selection? 6 - Create character properties and update as items are picked up?

I really like the Godot Engine. This tutorial really helps for a lot of begginers. You're making a good job!

A few notes, _generally pertaining to optimizing this project,_ based on my personal preference: *-* References to existing objects, such as _"HappyBoo"_ for the player character, can instead be done via an _@export_ variable to allow for greater versatility; if the node changes location in the scene tree, for instance _(even without a unique name),_ Godot will automatically update corresponding _@export_ variable entries. *(@export var happy_boo: Node2D)* This also makes changing the referenced object easy, and not require an update to the script. *-* Function calls pertaining to animation, such as the player character's, can be done from _func _process()_ rather than _func _physics_process()_ for efficiency, as the latter tends to be run more often, so purely visual effects would generally be better handled within _func _process()._ *-* It may be desirable to use a static variable for the enemy's reference to the player character, though I rather use a normal variable I named "target_node" _(instead of "player"),_ which I could change on a per-enemy basis to define arbitrary locations for each enemy to travel towards, which I can use to give enemies more interesting behavior. Enemies could, for instance, randomly decide to travel to nearby trees, or other nearby enemies, or could additionally have behavior for moving away from the target, and thus randomly travel away from a nearby enemy or tree instead. *-* _@export_ variables may be good to have for packed scenes as well, such as the gun's bullet scene. *(@export var bullet: PackedScene)* Godot will handle updating the scene reference when the file path is changed from within the Godot editor. *-* Instead of setting both the _global_position_ and _global_rotation_ of a newly spawned bullet individually, the _global_transform_ value (which includes rotation and position) can be copied from the gun to set _position_ and _rotation_ at the same time. *-* An excuse to introduce the functionality of _Path2D_ and _PathFollow2D_ is nice, but I prefer to use a bit of math and get a proper circular border to spawn enemies on. What I did was create a new "CreepSpawner" scene inheriting from _Node2D,_ and with a single _Timer_ child node to handle spawn timing. The _CreepSpawner_ has an export variable for what kind of enemy it spawns _(multiple enemy types could hypothetically just be done with multiple spawners),_ and another export variable for its desired spawn radius. When its timer elapses, it chooses a random angle with _randf_range(0.0, TAU),_ then turns that angle _(spawn_angle)_ into a position based on radius _(spawn_radius)_ with _Vector2(spawn_radius, 0.0).rotated(spawn_angle)._ I can then just have the _CreepSpawner_ be a child of the player character; a new enemy has its _global_position_ set to the spawner's _global_position_ plus the randomly chosen position. It might sound like a lot, but it's basically just two extra lines of code in the enemy spawning function, rather than dealing with any _Path2D_ node. Using a wide, rectangular path as shown in the video produces uneven spawns, as most of the path is angularly concentrated toward the top and bottom and corners; a square would be less bad, a regular hexagon less still, but a circle is perfect. Side-note: My function to choose an angle does happen to be minutely biased to the angle of 0, as TAU radians is equal to 0 radians, but it's impossible to observe in practice. *-* The "Motion Mode" of player character and enemies should be set to "Floating".

This was such a great start in game development. I was looking for an updated tutorial and a Vampire Survivor style project was an amazing idea. Thanks!

This is huge, I picked up Godot a few days ago and watched a bit of a different tutorial but never actually made any progress because of how overwhelmed I felt. Today I decided to give it another chance and you guys upload this. Thanks!

I just subscribed yesterday after going through your Godot 2021 series for a few days and successfully making the Dodge the Creeps game, and this is the first new video I see on my feed. Best surprise ever! Thank you for making Godot so accessible to aspiring game devs!

Truly one of the best tutorials I've ever followed. I usually give up after 30 minutes due to bad or confusing directions and getting stuck, but I had no problem following along with this one all the way through. And I'm really happy with the results that's given me a good foundation to build upon!

Thank you so much for this amazing video. Was waiting for a Godot 4.0 tutorial for so long. Great job by you guys and Nathan especially.

This is one of the best tutorials for development I've ever seen. Thank you so much for all your content & the app to get started with GDScript. Also, explaining all these shortcuts when you need them is a blessing on it's own. It feels so intuitive to use the Godot engine :D

You did a great job making this really engaging, I didn't intend to get through so much since I go back to work tomorrow after a 2 week break. I started and the time went so fast I didn't realise I was close to done already. Thank you.

This is the best tutorial that i've seen so far. even moderate devs can learn much on this one ! this is GOLD. i'll share with every dev i see

There are many godot tutorials on youtube and how-tos but none so finely detailed and as clear as yours, you got a new subscriber. Very high quality video

The use of path2d to spawn mobs was very smart! Great tutorial. I've been using Godot for 3 years and have even finished a game, and yet I've learned a lot of new techniques from this video.

I started learning Godot this week and a vampire survivor like was first little project I wanted to do, I searched for a tutorial literally the day before yesterday, thank you guys

This is really great. As a programmer that's used Unity casually in the past, I've taken a few half-hearted stabs at Godot in the past and never really understood the "scenes and nodes" paradigm. A hands-on project format like this really helped. Now I feel like I have a pretty solid foundation of Godot and can continue on from here. Thanks for this.

What crazy timing, I just picked up Godot a few days ago and have been building a VS like game and was running into some issues and then this video gets released today! Looking forward to going through this, thanks!

I'm only 30 minutes in, and I have to say this tutorial is excellent. The second you bring up something where I'd like more context or something explained a bit more in-depth, the very next breath is you doing exactly that. Bravo, sir. You have taken the teacher role seriously and passed with flying colors.

Great job as always! I will be learning this during the holidays!

I went from launching Godot for the first time to completing this tutorial in just a few hours! This is really exciting, and so much more accessible than my attempts with Unity. I also found all the easter eggs, what a clever way to earn discounts. I applied them all, and have preordered the courses for next year. :) It's clear you're all very passionate about how to teach in the most effective ways. I'm really impressed, and looking forward to the rest of this journey. Thank you!

This is such a great tutorial. Thank you so much! As someone that does programming full time this hits the sweet spot between explaining enough learn godot but not spending too much time explaining the basics. I have really enjoyed following along and looking forward to expanding the project using my own sprites!

This is an amazing tutorial! I learnt a lot of ways to do things simply via existing Godot systems that I just didn't know were there. Thank you so much for taking the time to create this 😁

Just want to confirm this is a great tutorial and worth the time. It is split up into sensible chunks, so you don't need to watch the whole thing in one go and can easily go back and review. The author is obviously experienced at teaching and I felt there was has high empathy toward the student (compared to some other tutorials out there). It can be daunting learning a new complex UI with a plethora of options, but GDQuest does a really great job of making sure you understand what he is doing and why. So all in all... Great tutorial! I agree with the others, definitely something fun you can do on a lazy Sunday afternoon! Super fun! Thanks GDQuest! Great job... PS: I also had to do two runs of the vids! I missed the 'Easter Eggs' on the first run because they pop up real fast and I was poking around in Godot! So pay close attention! There is a little 'whistle' when they pop, so if you hear one of those - make sure you are looking at the tutorial, not you Godot editor!

Wow, this was super fun and really empowering! I can't wait to apply this to a solo project! Thanks GDQuest! ❤

The more time passes, the more I love Godot. My first little game! Really great, thanks again and keep it up, your channel is awesome !!!!

This tutorial is the most friendly to follow I have attempted. I was able to follow along without issues as far as instructions. I paused it a few times to input the codes and I did not finish in one sitting, but was able to pick up without issues. I have seen videos that jump around too quick or move there mouse too sudden. Thankyou

I want to thank you and the team for all the time and effort you put into these videos and content, it feels so goo to create the first project on the journey of Game Development! Rivers of Gratitude

Such a good job you guys are doing ! It's been almost a year since I started thanks to the similar video you released in Godot 3.5 that really helped me make things click ! I reached a level now where I think I should be the one doing tutorials on some advanced code structures !

Thank you for the video. I'm very excited to start the courses

This was so helpful, only just started out with Gadot and I have been watching some scripting tutorials, so this really helped bring it all together. Thank you so much for doing a tutorial where you actually explain the script, this really helps a beginner like myself and makes it so much easier to grasp a fundamental understaning of not only what I am doing, but why, something many other tutorials do not do. Many thanks!! 😁👍

Thy for the Video. I'm 50 plus and just started to learn this kind of stuff. Great tutorial for beginners. Looking forward fore more.

Please continue uploading tutorials like this, also board games like billiards and chess and implement multiplayer in the games, thank you very much ❤

Very good tutorial, thank you! Keep up the high quality content.

Awesome stuff man! Great vid as always! Looking forward to the course :)

Was able to follow this tutorial really easily. Even added in tree-spawning directionally (so they spawn randomly but only in the direction I am currently moving). I plan to customize it too, to show spawn counts and kill counts as well as have the gun follow the mouse rather than getting the nearest mob. I think doing simple customizations like this will really help understand the logic. The only area I got tripped up with was collision layers/masks. I missed the step to set the hitbox collision layer and it took me a while to figure that one out.

1:31:44 Hi, I noticed a small tweak that might help. Try swapping these two lines of code: %ShootingPoint.add_child(new_bullet) new_bullet.global_position = %ShootingPoint.global_position This should give us the effect we’re looking for. Keep up the great work!

Finally got around to working through this tutorial and it was great and easy to understand. I look forward to more in the future!

Honestly this tutorial sparked my interest in making games, and it was really fun making it in godot, I tried many tutorials in the past for various engines but this is the one that clicked with me! Thank you so much for making it! Are you planning on making a part 2 for it? With more in depth mechanics like, stats, waves, perhaps even maps and most importantly levels and items. I think it is essential for these kinds of games and having a guide on how to do that would provide so much knowledge for creating so many things and not just the ones for the purpose of this project!

I had no idea that the access as unique name was a thing. that's killer for onready variables so I don't have to worry about re assigning the node path every time I reorganize my node tree.

I use POP os too and I only know one youtuber that uses linux for game development - GDquest!

Well done! Glad I watched this video first when trying out Godot.

For a long time i've been wanting to learn godot and it seemed so daunting but this was a lot of fun! Thank you so much

This is nice, but how is this "From Zero" if you have pre-build tscn-files to import? ;)

"From zero" "Here is a ready made project" Come on.

This is the best godot tutorial I’ve seen! I like that it shows what to do and why to do it and sadly lots of other tutorials don’t do this

Excellent as always! Keep it up!

My toxic trait is thinking I can actually do this

It kind of bothers me that you said "You should know at least a little bit of coding" then go on to explain what a zip file is and how to unpack it. Those two things are diametrically opposed. If you added in a corollary that this part is for beginners, or a timestamp to skip this part, I'd have less of a gripe.

Fantastic experience getting through this, learned a LOT!

I was accumulating all of this info over days through forums and small tutorials and here everything is compact in one video. Guess i still learned some more but this would have been great 😅 Thanks for the great vid!

one of the best tutorials I have ever seen in YT. thank you.

This is a great tutorial and absolutely on a proffessional level compared to other amateur efforts. I finally understand what does what and why. And it manages to do the harder thing: not over explaining.

Mission accomplished! Looking forward to advance now, thank you!

Thanks for the tutorial. Total beginner and I found it really clear and helpful. Brilliant.

Absoutely incredible tutorial. I was getting super frustrated with Godot, but this has really helped me out!!

I was trying to learn how to make a game in godot 3d i learned shader gpuparticals 3d and how to make a basic first person controller and a few more essential parts of godot 3d in 4.2 . I wanted to go back and learn a little bit of 2d before going forward . You are a life saver . Thankyou gdquest ❤

I love you so much,getting into godot has been easier thand expected with this goated tutorial

This tutorial is one that everyone should do! Amazing work

absolutely loved the tutorial -- thank you!

Thanks for the great tutorial. Really effective jump start for newbs, zero errors or bugs and very clear.

This is really excellent. You're a great teacher! Strongly considering sighing up for the online courses.

what a well presented tutorial. i feel so confident after watching this.

I just wanted to say , that , I've completed very short (just adding trees in the scene and before) and the tutorial is so well explained , it carries developer tips to quickly improve , and makes coding easy too , I had never found any tutorial that good , If you want to learn godot , It is highly recommended

This was intuitive and easy to follow, I'm very impressed with the quality of the tutorial! Thank you for putting this together, this has inspired me to give Godot a shot!

This is fantastic. Thank you so much! When will you guys release the character animation vid? Really looking forward to checking that one out

Very cool. I want to build a vertical shmup with Godot instead of a roguelike but the knowledge presented here will be quite useful for both projects.

Exceptionally explained and easy to follow! Already thinking about some simple features I could try to implement from another tutorial. All in all, feel like I learned a lot in a very short period of time.

Man, this tutorial is incredible, thank you so much

Thanks for the tutorial! It'll be really helpful.

Fantasic tutorial, loved it!

Amazing tutorial! Had so much fun with it and I'm amazed at the end product! I added a little extra by importing the sprite of the pistol in the gun's code, so that I can flip it depending on where the target enemy is. Looks more natural and it was a fun challenge to figure out on my own :)

excellently done, Nathan! quite the upgrade from the oldie Dodge the Creeps tut :) this should go into the official docs and replace the previous one on the Getting Started section there.

Awesome tutorial, it was a lot of fun and you are damned good at explaining everything, I never got lost. Subbed and bell'd.

very good teaching style! liked and subbed

Congratulation! Great learning material for beginner to experts wanting to learn Godot!

Thank you so much for the tutorial!!!

I'm going back to Godot development (started with Godot 3) and this is such an great Godot 4 tutorial. Even though I'm using C# in following this tutorial, the great explanation/tips in this tutorial and improved Godot 4 C# docs really helped me in my journey back to game development using Godot. Thanks!

Ive been waiting for this thanks for making it a reality!

Thank you for this. I completed your free starter coding program and now this tutorial. I feel like most of the lessons I find make me feel a sense of hopelessness and frustration. Your lessons are thorough enough that I generally find success and learn something with every action, even if I don't remember 50%. Maybe someday I will look back on this comment from a position of a successful developer and smile. IDK. Thank you

Bhai u really rocked the game making.. Really very appreciable approach of teaching game making.. I'm ur fan now just by watching hardly 2 min video

Amazing tutorial! Thanks a lot for that :D

Amazing tutorial, thank you so much!

The first time, I entred, watched the first 36s then subscribed to make sure I don't miss this golden content here!!

Perfect timing! about to try this!

Absolutely Loved It!

Very helpful. I want to learn Godot, and am planning to watch one of this kind of code-along video while doing it, then make something original using what I learned, and repeat. Seams to be an effective way to learn so far.

This was a very good tutorial, definitely gonna check out your courses.

Thank you so much! Great tutorial!

Damn, perfect timing too =)) I planned to do this kind of game first and had no idea whether it have a tutorial or not. Maybe I don't have to search for that anymore!

Completed this Tutorial. ❤ Thankyou

Rougelites are one of my favourite game genres and I'm happy to be able to actually create one! I've had a lot of trouble dropping projects halfway because of complexity and being overwhelmed, so thank you lots for the simple and easy-to-follow tutorial! Can't wait to learn more ^^

For anyone having problems at 1 51 53. Go to your bullet script change your variable direction equals vector two from "RIGHT" to "UP" helped me allot

Really helps, thanks a lot, you rock !

Great tutorial - really insightful. My top troubleshooting tips for anyone that's struggling are: - Check your spelling! And, - When Ctrl-dragging and dropping, check your paths match those on the tutorial! (I lost an hour looking for info on preloading when it was simply that the path hadn't copied in full)

Thank you for this tutorial, absolutely wonderful start to create my own simple 2D game! :)

Gotta say this is an *excellent* tutorial, I've been looking for more after finishing the Brackeys ones but kept running into "beginner" ones that failed to explain the "why" of things enough to really build an understanding of what's going on. After watching this though a lot of things started making a ton of sense! I managed to make a basic lil addition to the script that flips the gun sprite so it's not upside down when it goes to the left of the character! It might be a simple change but it adds some polish and it's the first new "feature" I've figured out how to code by myself! Gonna see if I can figure out how to implement more new stuff tomorrow... maybe a wave system? Should be fairly easy to check if all the mobs are dead and then set a timer until a new wave begins, and then increase the mob spawn rate each wave.

Thanks for this video and the assets. Was able to implement the muzzle flash and the impact as well. next up, random spawning terrein and an kill counter! And checking out your site!

Very easy to follow and very useful. Thank you!!!