Godot for absolute beginners - start the right way

Whether or not you have written any code, this is the starting point for getting into game programming with Godot!

Assets for the tutorial:

Godot version in tutorial is 4.1.1, but should work almost entirely the same for any 4.x version.

This tutorial was originally livestreamed on Aug 27 and the raw version can be found in the "Live" section of the Tutemic channel.

Check it out for additional tips on the tutorial project!

My friend Robbie over at Nocturnus Media made a Unity version of this same tutorial! You can check it out here:

We might make some more cross-engine joint tutorials in the future so stay tuned!

[chasefletcher]

This dude's ability to use verbal and visual aids to convey his point so effectively is super impressive.

[ShiloBuff]

This tutorial isn't exactly for me cause im more advanced, but let me say:
The way you teach is remarkable and fun. Not many people are able to retain attention while teaching, and you do that super well.
Not only are you fun to listen to, you also explain "how and why" which is EXTREMELY important to me.
Please keep up the good work, and i'm looking forward to more tutorials that may relate to me!

[MelDeVesci-pyem]

You didn't only say "how", but explained why, and which ways of doing things that are future-proof because you're justifying the "why"s with positive composition habits. Thank you so much, the tutorials so far have been specific to one context, or example, but not many explanations as to why or why not to do something a certain way.

I had trouble with the layers and masks, it not being reflected in a value or in the UI elsewhere if it changes, where to place scripts depending on what I wanted them to effect/what went in them, when it is appropriate to use export/global variables and constants, what is best to put in the autoload, the fact that you can even make a sibling node to the main node, etc. ALL these things caused me so much frustration when going from following a tutorial of somebody else's to a T, and then going "Well now I want to make changes besides these ones" and breaking things unintentionally.

Thanks a lot for making a tutorial in what must be the best teaching style for me, based on how much clicked!

[RedEyedJedi]

You have a rare skill. The skill of teaching. Some people know everything there is to know about programming but they are unable to transfer those skills to other people. When I was at university, there was a professor who had a PhD in mathematics. He was literally a Dr of math. I don't think there was anything he didn't know about mathematics. The problem was, he found mathematics so easy that when he dumbed things down, he was still communicating at a super high advanced level that no one else could understand. You could easily teach programming at university and the students would come away knowing what they were doing. Thank you so much for releasing this video. It's been a great help.

[doogiedog]

This is by far THE BEST way to start with Godot. Very well done and answered a lot of the basics I was struggling with.

[lucas_pscheidt]

Please make more tutorials, you are amazing!

[wreckingballgames]

I'm really glad you're back. It feels serendipitous as I'm finally getting started on game dev in earnest, with Godot to boot. Programmers freakin' love serendipity. Thanks for the awesome videos.

[armanozer]

I'm an hour in and this is already so great. You get what the noobie thought process is. I hope you continue doing more tutorials.

[LGss]

You should definetly make more course like that. You have a talent to be able to dumb it down for beginners to understand without any problem. I recently started my journey to learn game dev with godot with zero coding experience. I knew I always had a good logic that is required for it. I looked a different videos, tutorials, etc. online about godot and didnt find anything that made me "understand" how the system works without going to much in the useless details. This video is a perfect balance to learn the principle of how it works. You gained a subscriber. Keep it up.

[Xero_Wolf]

Awesome! I feared this channel was dead. Good to see you're back bro.

[lucas_pscheidt]

loved this tutorial, please keep going! You are the best godot teacher from Youtube. I'm brazilian and your lessons are helping me a lot!

[MrDimakoles]

you have a talent, keep it up. much joy to listen to the story of godot this evening

[MoogieSRO]

44:20 - Small tip for anyone whose player object seems to 'lag behind' the mouse cursor, instead of being instantly positioned like in the video: it's because you have vsync turned on in the project settings. Turn it off and the position will update instantly instead of trailing behind.

[roundux]

Man I don't have words to thank you.. this is the kind of "course" I was looking for never found in paid ones. Now I know how to approach my game problems and the way of separate things. You should consider creating a course from begining to advance, teaching how we can think as a programmer, organizing our code as such we overcome and avoid spagetti code, and create a fancy structured game as you did here very well. Congrats! This video is amazing

[Learning_For_Godot]

Thank you so much for giving us these resources! Also, I'm so happy you're planning on updating the more advanced tutorial! extremely excited for that!

[Nitbandier]

Not a beginner but this tutorial is amazing and the parts
Where you teached about how to think and dont use collision layers are much useful to me.
Right now i think your making the best beginner tutorials 🔥

[glowupbro.]

For every beginner who knows nothing about godot, I recommend this tutorial 100%. If you tried others and they seem too advanced I highl advice you start form this video.

[RedEyedJedi]

This is the best beginners godot tutorial on YouTube by a mile.

[gondola]

The King is back!
Is there by any chance any planned content on explaining shaders and GLSL in general?

[Pneumostome]

This is an amazing tutorial and I'm further amazed that it's 'just' a livestream. I'm only an hour an some into it and I'm already feeling so much more comfortable with Godot and really just having fun with it. Thank you so much!