Is Godot Good?
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Is Godot Good?
I spent the last week working through the 2D and 3D tutorials in the documentation for the Godot game engine in an effort to find out if Godot is good. I mean, it's not like you can accurately determine if a game engine is good in one weeks worth of development, but I think I was able to figure out that Godot is actually a really cool game engine, and I will definitely keep trying to learn more about it.
The 2D tutorial takes you through creating a simple 2D game in Godot, whereby enemies are spawned along the border of the screen and move in random directions. You have to control a player, who's job is to move out of the way of the incoming enemies, if they collide with you - you die.
The 3D tutorial takes you through creating a first person shooter game in Godot. I got to work quite deeply with gdscript in this tutorial which was good for learning how to use the engine. Whilst I don't generally like dynamically typed scripting languages, gdscript integrates very well into the Godot interface as a whole, that it made working with it quite a pleasure.
I struggled with animations, I really think coding a state machine in a giant set of if statements is a difficult way to manage things. I am hoping that there will be improvements on this front in the future. All in all I am really impressed with the game engine, it seems like it prioritizes rapid development of games, which is cool if you're into the hyper casual scene.