New Godot Visual Scripting Language - Block Coding

There is a new Visual programming language available for the Godot game engine, Block Coding. Taking heavy inspiration from other visual scripting languages such as Scratch and MakeCode Arcade, this method of programming games using virtual lego blocks is very beginner friendly. Block Coding however is very early in it's development, but already shows a ton of potential.

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[EndlessOS]

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!

[KaiOfAspen]

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

[avp]

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

[Coreybyte]

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.

[_mickmccarthy]

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

[HE]

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.

[aneesh.videos]

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

[idoblenderstuffs]

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

[alexhooi]

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

[dallinyauney]

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 YouTube tutorials) but I live the direction this project is going in.

[EthanLR]

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

[andrewpullins]

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.

[TrustonAilende]

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.

[juliusjohannsmann]

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

[Teckstudio]

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! 👍👍

[makebreakrepeat]

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

[DrWne]

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.

[ego-lay_atman-bay]

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.

[gokudomatic]

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

[IraKane]

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 !