{"id":300,"date":"2024-09-15T16:01:15","date_gmt":"2024-09-15T16:01:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/johnnycarlos.com\/?p=300"},"modified":"2025-10-18T21:36:15","modified_gmt":"2025-10-18T21:36:15","slug":"godot-game-engine-tutorial-dodge-the-creeps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johnnycarlos.com\/index.php\/2024\/09\/15\/godot-game-engine-tutorial-dodge-the-creeps\/","title":{"rendered":"Godot Game Engine Tutorial: Dodge the Creeps!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I just finished the <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.godotengine.org\/en\/stable\/getting_started\/first_2d_game\/index.html\">first tutorial of Godot<\/a>. I had a blast doing it. I&#8217;m loving it so far. Looking forward to using it for a game jam in my area.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-medium\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"197\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/johnnycarlos.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/image-197x300.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-301\" srcset=\"https:\/\/johnnycarlos.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/image-197x300.png 197w, https:\/\/johnnycarlos.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/image.png 433w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 197px) 100vw, 197px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Here&#8217;s some things I want to make notes of from the documentation page for later reference:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Godot game is a tree of scenes and that each scene is a tree of nodes<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>We need to choose a root node for the player object. As a general rule, a scene&#8217;s root node should reflect the object&#8217;s desired functionality &#8211; what the object is.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The _ready() function is called when a node enters the scene tree, which is a good time to find the size of the game window.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>_process() is called every frame<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just finished the first tutorial of Godot. I had a blast doing it. I&#8217;m loving it so far. Looking forward to using it for a game jam in my area. Here&#8217;s some things I want to make notes of from the documentation page for later reference:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":301,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-godot"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnnycarlos.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnnycarlos.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnnycarlos.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnnycarlos.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnnycarlos.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=300"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/johnnycarlos.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":303,"href":"https:\/\/johnnycarlos.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300\/revisions\/303"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnnycarlos.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnnycarlos.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnnycarlos.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnnycarlos.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}