Unity Dev first time looking at: Godot - Episode 1: GDScript & Starting

I have worked with Unity for 10+ years and I will be looking at many Game Engines in the coming weeks! Firstly we are starting with Godot and seeing how similar and different it is. After this first episode of looking at Godot, I must say I am impressed and can definitely see working with it!

== IMPORTANT NOTE ==
Don't use this as a tutorial series! This is a "first look at" and exploration and should not be taken as "the way" to do anything!

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[GameDevByKaupenjoe]

As previously said, this is an experimental type of content for me! Please feel free to send in any constructive criticism and feedback you might have! I am just starting to feel out the space and how I want these videos to be set up 🙏🏻🙏🏻

[MargudnRoboter]

My Basic summary as someone that has started learning Godot ~1 year ago with a small Unity background: The moment you watch a good Godot tutorial you will be shocked how much extra work you are currently doing. That said have fun trying it out blind, but the moment you are getting serious about it look more into it, cause Godot is more powerful and intuitive than what you expect.

[MrHarumakiSensei]

Ha ha, I love watching all these Unity devs newly trying Godot and getting mired in various levels of transform, when all they need to do is change 'position.x' to get started. The funny part is the confusion stems from Godot being simpler and easier than they expect.

Great video!

[jordandevisser]

This is a really cool way to show off the engine because the author doesn’t need to ‘reverse’ their knowledge to match the intended audience. The exploration of the tools is organic, love it

[troyootipep]

I'm a godot user and I enjoy seeing other people try out godot for the first time coming from different background and I'm also learning from these actually, like the method you found to make a character move is pretty new to me for example haha. I'll be following this series for sure!

[itzfred]

This is a lovely video and I appreciate people trying to learn Godot, it is my first game engine and I've started using it some months ago and I've been loving it so far.
The tips I could give here are:
• I'd recommend switching the sprites Node type from Node to Sprite2D (you can easily do that by right clicking the node and on "change type") also you can attach new scripts to nodes by right clicking on a node.
• Pay close attention to Godot's node family structure, there's a root node and everything else is child of that node, if you want to get other nodes you need to pay attention to what node you attach the script to because referencing will happen relative to that node.
Wish to see more videos soon, always excited to see new people try Godot .

[praus]

That’s a great first look. Hope you do keep messing around with it. I will say that, while you can do C#, you’ll find the overwhelming majority of tutorials and help will use GDscript. I didn’t think I’d like GDscript at first but I really do.

[mmm_mmm]

I plan on getting into godot for personal projects after I finish my studies this year.
This was entertaining! Please continue!

[takarahayashi]

the first thing that surprised me in a positive way is how stupidly fast it loads and runs. and after watching a few tutorials on how the basics works, everything is like butter.

[JdTheth]

If you're ever confused with GDScript, that Search Help button in the top right will give you local documentation of everything you need to know!

A bit of warning, from what I've heard, unfortunately C# documentation isn't exactly where it needs to be right now.

[andrewroy]

Good time for a tutorial on Godot, because reasons... thanks for this.

[bemistertessema]

I have been on the fence about making the move off of Unity but this is my first time looking at Godot and the transition doesn't seem so bad anymore XD

[igor-grachev]

Thanks for content and welcome to godot!

All you need is check what is Node and what is Scene

[thefjk]

you can copy property names from the inspector into the code. saves me a lot of guesswork

[cheesymcnuggets]

It’s definitely exciting learning a new engine and language, I just wish I didn’t have do it so soon after learning my first engine and language. I start learning C# on and off almost one year ago and started learning Unity in February. Whelp, I’ll save myself future trouble and learn Godot and GD script while I’m still unemployed😅

[zaftnotameni]

godot is absolutely amazing, really looking forward to see what you do with it

I've done professional development (non game related) for about 20 years and been doing game development as a hobby for about 10, having done quite a bit with both unity, unreal, and godot... I find godot far more pleasant to work with and more intuitive overall

it still has unfortunate drawbacks like exporting to console being a pain (because of open source vs proprietary issues) but other than that it has been my #1 choice since godot 3 (and godot 4 is much better, specially the tile map support)

[picster]

How to Godot: complicated edition 😁
Hope you had fun in Godot! I'd really suggest start with the docs. Everything you struggled with is super nicely explained.

[ignskeletons]

I'm taking lessons from Zenva that I got from a Humble Bundle teaching me Godot. Love the engine, very easy and beginner friendly to pickup.

[gargikadikar]

I'm still in awe due to the Villian impression in Modding Monday livestream lol.

[Smaxx]

That was somewhat entertaining to watch, probably have to watch the whole series for all engines. 😀