Baker, Kati Game Development with Godot 4 and C#

Develop a dynamic 3D game while exploring a robust node system, level design, and animations
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-80512-337-8
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: 0 - No protection

E-Book, Englisch, 440 Seiten

Godot is a versatile, open-source game engine that empowers developers with creative freedom and ownership of their work. Written by a game developer and designer who's been creating games since her first game jam in 2016, this comprehensive guide helps you gain the essential skills you need to embark on an exciting journey into the realm of game development with Godot 4 and C#.
This book guides you through the installation of the Godot Engine and introduces you to the powerful capabilities of C# within it. The chapters will help you smoothly integrate C# into your Godot project as you learn how to create a captivating 3D adventure game by exploring topics including project organization, player controller creation, world design, and user-friendly UI development. As you progress, you'll delve into advanced game development aspects such as audio integration, pathfinding algorithms, and dynamic lighting. You'll also get to grips with accessibility considerations in game development and effective bug reporting techniques. Toward the end, you'll discover the vibrant Godot community and gain access to a wealth of resources to further improve your game development skills.
By the end of this Godot book, you'll have built a complete 3D adventure game and gained a solid foundation to continue creating your own games.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Baker, Kati, Kati Baker

Fachgebiete

• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik EDV & Informatik Allgemein

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Preface

Godot is an open source game engine that enables developers to create interesting and unique projects, mainly video games. While Godot has a built-in scripting language called GDScript, C# has, over time, gained more support, especially in Godot 4.

Dedicated to Godot 4 and C#, this book guides you through creating a 3D project in Godot, using C# as the programming language from start to finish. In writing this book, I wanted to share my personal experience with Godot alongside my professional experience as a C# developer.

In this book, we will first discuss the relationship between the two and then spend time setting up our development environment. After that, we’ll look at how best to organize our project to keep the assets and scripts as orderly as possible.

Once we have our development environment configured, we’ll explore the various components to create a 3D action game. Some of those components will include a player controller, animations, user interface, sound effects, and pathfinding. Within each section, we’ll discover more features built into Godot’s engine and how best to leverage those features in our project.

As we wrap up a vertical slice of our 3D action game, we’ll look at third-party plugins and applications that can improve our development life cycle. The last step for our project will be to export the game and publish it on the itch.io platform.

Finally, we will explore outside the game engine into the Godot community and see what other resources are available to Godot developers, such as C#-specific communities and other notable creators in the space.

Most of the features included in this book have been updated to Godot 4.4, and although the UI may change, the idea behind the usage can still be applied to future versions of Godot.

Who this book is for

This book is for developers and creators seeking more knowledge about the Godot Engine, specifically using Godot with C#. Experience with an object-oriented programming language is required to get the most out of this book.

What this book covers

, , introduces the Godot Engine, including what makes it a viable game engine choice, and specific features that make it a worthwhile choice in game development projects.

, , walks through the relationship between the Godot Engine and C#, as well as setting up a development environment to work fluidly between the two.

, , explores two different schools of thought when it comes to organizing a project for the rest of the book.

, , focuses on the player controller, creating animations, and keying controls to player actions.

, , illustrates the importance of level design, how to import a variety of assets, and how to add collision meshes to them for use in a level.

, , spends time creating a main menu to access the level and adding some simple animations to the UI.

, , explores sound buses and how to use them for either sound effects or music, and brings them together for UI, player actions, and level music.

, , implements navigation and pathfinding for a non-player character to autonomously move throughout the level.

, , discusses lighting in a variety of ways, specifically for global illumination and interior lighting.

, , reviews the project so far and highlights accessibility components, expanding the UI to accommodate a Settings screen.

, , walks through the process of exporting the project to multiple platforms and how it can be played by people outside the project.

, , dives into how to contribute to the engine and provides feedback on issues while also highlighting third-party plugins to utilize in the project.

, , explores the wider Godot community outside the engine, specifically C#-focused spaces.

, provides insight on whether creators should upgrade to Godot 4, the benefits of doing so, and the process to upgrade.

To get the most out of this book

Prior programming knowledge is beneficial in getting the most out of this book. It’s targeted at programmers with some experience but little to no Godot experience. No other technical set up is required as this book will walk you through everything you need.

To complete the exercises and examples provided in this book, you will need to download and install Godot Engine 4.5.1. You can download Godot Engine 4.5.1 (.NET version) from the official website at https://godotengine.org/download/archive/4.5.1-stable/.

Download the example code files

The code bundle for the book is hosted on GitHub at https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Game-Development-with-Godot-4-and-C-Sharp. We also have other code bundles from our rich catalog of books and videos available at https://github.com/PacktPublishing. Check them out!

Download the color images

We also provide a PDF file that has color images of the screenshots/diagrams used in this book. You can download it here: https://packt.link/gbp/9781805124139.

Conventions used

There are a few text conventions used throughout this book.

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Bold: Indicates a new term, an important word, or words that you see on the screen. For instance, words in menus or dialog boxes appear in the text like this. For example: “Enable the Autoplay checkbox and, most importantly, set the Bus property to Music.”

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