TypeScript is a superset of JavaScript which compiles to plain JavaScript. Anyone with an intermediate knowledge in JavaScript knows that as the project complexity increases, the number of classes and script files increases. JavaScript differs from other languages and the OOP is done through prototypical inheritance. Lack of typing and intellisense in IDE is another problem. TypeScript solves all these and helps developers with all the things they need – typing, auto-completion etc. TypeScript came from Microsoft and thus both Visual Studio and Visual Studio Code has full support for the syntax with intellisense. Continue reading
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Direction vectors in Godot Engine
There is a previous article where we discussed movement and rotation basics of Godot Engine. In this article, we are going to look at the rotation of game objects using direction vectors in Godot Engine in detail. Continue reading
7 Lerping tricks you need to know as a Game Developer
Linear Interpolation or lerping is a mathematical function which interpolates between two values. The interpolation amount is varied by passing a weight factor along with the start and end values. Linear interpolation is used in many areas of game development for movement, rotation, scale and everywhere you can think of. This article is about 7 lerping tricks you need to know as a game developer. Continue reading
Godot Engine game tutorial for beginners – Create a 2D racing game part 7
In the previous post of this game tutorial for beginners series, we actually completed the racing game project. We’ve added some keyboard controls to know how things are going to run. But actually we want tp change the player controls from keyboard to mobile. If we tap to the left of the player car, the car will move to the left and the same for the right side. So let us take a look at the modified player script. Continue reading
Godot Engine game tutorial for beginners – Create a 2D racing game part 6
This is the sixth part of the 2d racing game tutorial for beginners series. We’ve already done most of the work in the previous posts. In this one, we will spawn the enemy cars and the roadblocks. Let us start without any delay. Continue reading
Godot Engine game tutorial for beginners – Create a 2D racing game part 5
In the previous post of this game tutorial series, we added the enemy script and it moves according to the player speed variable in sync with the bg. In this part we will do the collision response for the enemy. We will also setup the roadblocks and the barrels. Continue reading
Godot Engine game tutorial for beginners – Create a 2D Racing Game 4
In the past 3 parts of the 2d racing game tutorial for beginners, we setup the scene, created enemy cars and obstacles and setup the bg scrolling. Now we just need to spawn the cars and the obstacles to make the game look like moving. Welcome to the fourth part of the series and in this post we will make the enemy cars moving by adding the enemy script. Continue reading
Godot Engine game tutorial for beginners – Create a 2D Racing Game 3
This is the third part in the 2D racing game tutorial for beginners. In previous posts we setup the scene and created the enemy cars and roadblocks. Before going into this one, let me explain how this game is going to work. This is a top down racing game, the ideal thing would be to move the car upwards and the camera will follow the player car. But, we are not going to do that. Instead of moving the car and the camera, we will scroll the bg down – player car and the camera will be static. There are some scripting sections from now on and I expect you to have a basic understanding of Godot scripting. If you don’t know that, the official website provides some excellent tutorials in gdscript. Continue reading
Godot Engine game tutorial for beginners – Create a 2D Racing Game 2
This is the second part of the 2d car racing game tutorial series. As I already said in the previous post, we are making this game in the awesome opensource free Godot Engine and to help the new comers, this game tutorial is targeted towards beginners. Continue reading
Godot Engine game tutorial for beginners – Create a 2D Racing Game 1
Let us start another Godot Engine game tutorial for beginners. This will be a multipart tutorial series where we are going to create a simple top down 2D car racing game. The goal of this tutorial is to familiarise with the concepts and the workflow of Godot Engine. Once we understand these, it is very easy to make things with it. Continue reading