Learning GDScript by Developing a Game with Godot 4: A fun introduction to programming in GDScript 2.0 and game development using the Godot Engine Learning GDScript by Developing a Game with Godot 4: A fun introduction to programming in GDScript 2.0 and game development using the Godot Engine Paperback Kindle

Chapter highlights:

Chapter 1, Setting Up the Environment, starts off the book by setting up everything we need to create games in the Godot Engine and gives a brief overview of the engine and how to write scripts.

Chapter 2, Getting Familiar with Variables and Control Flow, explains the major concepts of what variables are and how we can store data within them.

Chapter 3, Grouping Information in Arrays, Loops, and Dictionaries, teaches about two new data types: arrays and dictionaries. These will help us group data in a more structured format.

Chapter 4, Bringing Structure with Methods and Classes, delves into writing reusable pieces of code using methods and how to structure variables and methods into classes.

Chapter 5, How and Why to Keep Your Code Clean, introduces many concepts around writing clean code, which will help us create code that is reusable and understandable by others as well as ourselves.

Chapter 6, Creating a World of Your Own in Godot, will kick off our own game project.

Chapter 11, Playing Together with Multiplayer, converts our single-player experience into a multiplayer one.

Chapter 12, Exporting to Multiple Platforms, shows how we can export the game for different platforms.

Chapter 13, OOP Continued and Advanced Topics, introduces the more advanced object-oriented programming (OOP) topics such as the super keyword, static variables, enumerations, lambda functions, the different ways of passing values to methods, and the tool keyword.

Chapter 14, Advanced Programming Patterns, gives us a basis for programming patterns and explores the Event Bus, Object Pool, and State Machine patterns so that we can use them in our next project.

Chapter 15, Using the File System, introduces the file system of the Godot Engine and shows us how we can save and load data in our game.

Chapter 16, What Next?, leaves us with some last techniques and resources to start the next game project as well as introduce the game development community we can be part of.