Quiver - Tutorials

In this free introductory tutorial, you’ll learn the fundamentals of Godot 4 by creating a simple, but complete, 2D infinite runner game called Raptor Run. You’ll learn about the Godot game engine, its interface, and how to use scenes, nodes, and scripting to create a complete game. This course requires some programming experience, but no prior game development experience is necessary.

Tutorial length: 2 hours

Lesson 1: Getting started with Godot 4 2:53 Lesson 2: Overview of the Godot interface 18:24 Lesson 3: Setting up the level 11:09 Lesson 4: Creating the player 22:42 Lesson 5: Spawning the platforms 8:09 Lesson 6: Creating a collectible 18:49 Lesson 7: Creating an enemy 10:46 Lesson 8: Handling player death 10:26 Lesson 9: Creating the player projectile 13:05 Lesson 10: Adding the final touches 6:54 Lesson 11: Exporting your game and wrapping up 2:37

Who is this tutorial for?

This tutorial is intended to teach basic game development with Godot. This tutorial assumes some programming experience, but no prior experience with Godot, GDScript, or game development is required.

How much programming experience do I need?

You should be familiar with basic programming concepts like variables, control structures like for loops and if statements, classes and inheritance, and functions.

What if I don’t have any programming experience?

If you’re completely new to programming, this might not be the right tutorial for you (of course you’re always welcome to try it out - it’s free!). Instead, check out Learning GDScript from Zero from our friends at GDQuest.

Which programming languages are used in this tutorial?

This tutorial uses GDScript, Godot’s built-in scripting language.

What versions of Godot are supported?

This tutorial supports Godot 4.0 and later.

Can I release/sell my own game based on Raptor Run?

Yes! This code is open source and the art assets are liberally licensed (you just need to provide attribution to Quiver).

What if I have more questions?

No problem, hit us up on Discord or send us an email.

In this comprehensive course, we’ll develop a full-featured 2D game called Curse of the Tomb. This game will have it all: a devoted temple spirit, evil bandits, crafty archeologists, and some really fun gameplay features. We’ll explore concepts like platforming mechanics, tile maps, state machines, advanced animations, shaders, saving/loading, particle systems, and lighting.

Course length: 15 hours (+18 hours in part 2 of this course)

Lesson 1: Introduction and project setup 16:30 Lesson 2: Moving our player 31:33 Lesson 3: Creating a tilemap 23:55 Lesson 4: Tilemap and player collisions 19:16 Lesson 5: Adding a camera and jumping 28:45 Lesson 6: Adding player animations 32:09 Lesson 7: Run & jump sound effects 24:04 Lesson 8: Creating a state machine 41:32 Lesson 9: Adding player states 41:57 Lesson 10: Player health & tween hit flash 30:30 Lesson 11: Our first enemy - the scorpion 49:55 Lesson 12: Player attack state and animation 50:20 Lesson 13: Hooking up the hurtbox with signals 30:07 Lesson 14: Making our scorpion die 37:55 Lesson 15: Player invulnerability 36:12 Lesson 16: Player knockback code 34:06 Lesson 17: Player knockback animation & state 25:08 Lesson 18: Coyote time, acceleration, and variable jump height 29:06 Lesson 19: Lookahead camera 26:48 Lesson 20: Spawn state 26:10 Lesson 21: Basic UI (hearts) 24:24 Lesson 22: Connecting the HUD to the player 34:02 Lesson 23: Creating a base collectable scene 34:25 Lesson 24: Making a heart collectable 29:03 Lesson 25: Coin collectable and coin display 37:33 Lesson 26: Spawning collectables on enemy death 30:36 Lesson 27: Parallax background and sand vignette 19:05 Lesson 28: Expanding our tilemaps & making a new level 31:51 Lesson 29: Portals and changing levels 24:40 Lesson 30: Handling player death 26:31 Lesson 31: Respawning the player after falling off a ledge 19:06

What is this course about?

This course will teach you how to build an action-adventure platforming game from scratch. In the process, we’ll cover many concepts so that you’re prepared to make most types of 2D games with Godot on your own.

What are the prerequisites?

It’s recommended you have some understanding of Godot basics, which are covered in our free Raptor Run tutorial. You might be able to get by if you haven’t completed Raptor Run, but the learning curve will be a bit steeper. Some programming experience is necessary to get the most out of this course, but you don’t need a ton of GDScript experience.

What’s the difference between this course and the Outpost Assault tower defense course?

This course is similar to the tower defense course in that they both cover a wide variety of topics for 2D games. One big difference is that this course moves at a slower pace than the tower defense game. There are a couple of topics that are covered in one course, but not the other and these are listed below:

Unique to this course:

Platforming mechanics
Particle systems
Saving/loading games
Basic shaders
Parallax backgrounds
2D lighting
Global event bus

Unique to tower defense course:

Navigation
Complex UIs
Custom UI themes

With that said, feel free to choose the tutorial based on whichever game genre interests you! And of course, you can always try out both and see which works best for you.

What versions of Godot are covered?

This course will support Godot 4.0 and later.

What differentiates Quiver’s courses from others on the web?

Well, a couple of things really. One, we’ve developed this course with a team of developers, educators, and artists to build you something really high-quality. Secondly, we’ve produced custom art assets to make this course fun and to get you excited about learning. Making a circle jump over a square isn’t the most inspiring thing, right?

Another important difference is that we update these courses with corrections and clarifications as necessary. Unlike on YouTube, we self-host our videos so that we can update the videos whenever we need to.

Finally, here at Quiver, we’re making more than just courses. We want to provide you with the support you need wherever you are on your indie game dev journey, from providing art assets, to publishing support, to getting your game launched. Completing this course will hopefully be a launchpad for your next step in this journey.

Can I release/sell my own game based on Curse of the Tomb?

Yes, but with a few restrictions. The code is MIT licensed, so you can use it however you wish. Using the accompanying art assets in a published game does require that you have a Quiver+ subscription.

Will this course have video subtitles?

Yes! We’re currently working on this.

What if I have more questions?

No problem, hit us up on Discord or send us an email.

In part 2 of this course, we’re going to build upon the foundation we built in part 1. We’re going to add several new enemies, a complex boss level, ability upgrades, and special effects using particle systems and shaders.

Course length: 18 hours

Lesson 32: Creating a skullbat (and a base enemy scene) 30:48 Lesson 33: Making our skullbat attack the player 37:00 Lesson 34: Creating an archaeologist enemy 37:33 Lesson 35: Making the archaeologist throw a torch 44:03 Lesson 36: Creating the henchman enemy 46:23 Lesson 37: Creating a base Breakable scene 22:27 Lesson 38: Pot and wall torch breakables 38:52 Lesson 39: Spawn room and buyables 50:27 Lesson 40: Extra health upgrades 27:02 Lesson 41: Double jump upgrade 25:15 Lesson 42: Dash upgrade 32:52 Lesson 43: Making the henchman drop a sword 35:55 Lesson 44: Telekinesis upgrade & throwing the sword 37:03 Lesson 45: Camera shake & background music 39:03 Lesson 46: Golem boss & cinematic intro 62:05 Lesson 47: Golem leap (stomp) attack 40:10 Lesson 48: Golem pound (rock) attack 54:17 Lesson 49: Golem vulnerable state & phase 2 47:48 Lesson 50: Golem laser attack 51:13 Lesson 51: Golem boss conclusion 52:30 Lesson 52: Game over screen 25:09 Lesson 53: Pause menu 18:30 Lesson 54: Adding sand particles from footsteps 49:26 Lesson 55: Sand shader 25:09 Lesson 56: Hitstop & second attack animation 36:45 Lesson 57: Saving and loading our game 51:45 Lesson 58: Creating a main menu 30:31 Lesson 59: Connecting our save buttons & conclusion 52:11

What is this course about?

This course will teach you how to build an action-adventure platforming game from scratch. In the process, we’ll cover many concepts so that you’re prepared to make most types of 2D games with Godot on your own.

What are the prerequisites?

This course is a continuation of part 1 of the Curse of the Tomb series.

It’s recommended you have some understanding of Godot basics, which are covered in our free Raptor Run tutorial. You might be able to get by if you haven’t completed Raptor Run, but the learning curve will be a bit steeper. Some programming experience is necessary to get the most out of this course, but you don’t need a ton of GDScript experience.

What versions of Godot are covered?

This course will support Godot 4.0 and later.

What differentiates Quiver’s courses from others on the web?

Well, a couple of things really. One, we’ve developed this course with a team of developers, educators, and artists to build you something really high-quality. Secondly, we’ve produced custom art assets to make this course fun and to get you excited about learning. Making a circle jump over a square isn’t the most inspiring thing, right?

Another important difference is that we update these courses with corrections and clarifications as necessary. Unlike on YouTube, we self-host our videos so that we can update the videos whenever we need to.

Finally, here at Quiver, we’re making more than just courses. We want to provide you with the support you need wherever you are on your indie game dev journey, from providing art assets, to publishing support, to getting your game launched. Completing this course will hopefully be a launchpad for your next step in this journey.

Can I release/sell my own game based on Curse of the Tomb?

Yes, but with a few restrictions. The code is MIT licensed, so you can use it however you wish. Using the accompanying art assets in a published game does require that you have a Quiver+ subscription.

Will this course have video subtitles?

Yes! We’re currently working on this.

What if I have more questions?

No problem, hit us up on Discord or send us an email.

In this course, we’ll build Outpost Assault, a 2D tower defense game from scratch. We’ll cover a wide variety of topics like tilemaps, animation players, state machines, navigation, and much more. Although we’ll be making a tower defense game, this course will prepare you for making many different types of 2D games. This course covers much of the same material as our other 2D course, so go with whichever genre suits your interests more.

Course length: 10 hours

Lesson 1: Getting started 2:50 Lesson 2: Configuring the project 2:42 Lesson 3: Setting up the map using tilemaps 8:46 Lesson 4: Creating the first enemy 10:48 Lesson 5: Getting started with navigation 26:14 Lesson 6: Customizing the camera 13:53 Lesson 7: Adding the enemy spawner 19:07 Lesson 8: Damaging the objective 16:54 Lesson 9: Setting up the first tower 25:50 Lesson 10: Adding our first projectile 29:11 Lesson 11: Adding tanks 19:55 Lesson 12: Adding tank shells 12:34 Lesson 13: Getting started with state machines 31:36 Lesson 14: Adding to our state machine 11:39 Lesson 15: Creating the cannon tower 11:58 Lesson 16: Using autotiling with terrains 15:11 Lesson 17: Updating the spawner 8:33 Lesson 18: Adding collision avoidance 12:12 Lesson 19: Building the game UI 27:27 Lesson 20: Using "call down, signal up" for UI logic 17:45 Lesson 21: Adding tower placement 26:07 Lesson 22: Building the game economy 24:25 Lesson 23: Adding helicopters 44:17 Lesson 24: Adding missiles 13:36 Lesson 25: Creating the missile tower 5:55 Lesson 26: Repairing, exchanging, and selling towers 17:58 Lesson 27: Adding health and reload bars 29:00 Lesson 28: Drawing the detection area 5:56 Lesson 29: Adding explosions using AnimationPlayers 27:37 Lesson 30: Adding the main menu 16:06 Lesson 31: Adding the pause and game over screens 32:44 Lesson 32: Conclusion and homework 1:54

What is this course about?

This course will teach you how to build a tower defense game from scratch using Godot 4. In the process, we’ll cover many concepts so that you’re prepared to make most types of 2D games with Godot on your own.

What are the prerequisites?

It’s recommended you have some understanding of Godot basics, which are covered in our free Raptor Run tutorial. Some programming experience is necessary to get the most out of this course, but you don’t need a ton of GDScript experience.

What’s the difference between this course and the Curse of the Tomb course?

This course is similar to the our other 2D course in that they both cover a wide variety of topics for 2D games. One big difference is that this course moves at a quicker pace than the other one. There are a couple of topics that are covered in one course, but not the other and these are listed below:

Unique to this course:

Navigation
Complex UIs
Custom UI themes

Unique to Curse of the Tomb:

Platforming mechanics
Particle systems
Saving/loading games
Basic shaders
Parallax backgrounds
2D lighting
Global event bus

With that said, feel free to choose the tutorial based on whichever game genre interests you! And of course, you can always try out both and see which works best for you.

What versions of Godot are covered?

This course will support Godot 4.0 and later.

What differentiates Quiver’s courses from others on the web?

Well, a couple of things really. One, we’ve developed this course with a team of developers, educators, and artists to build you something really high-quality. Secondly, we’ve produced custom art assets to make this course fun and to get you excited about learning. Making a circle jump over a square isn’t the most inspiring thing, right?

Another important difference is that we update these courses with corrections and clarifications as necessary. Unlike on YouTube, we self-host our videos so that we can update the videos whenever we need to.

Finally, here at Quiver, we’re making more than just courses. We want to provide you with the support you need wherever you are on your indie game dev journey, from providing art assets, to publishing support, to getting your game launched. Completing this course will hopefully be a launchpad for your next step in this journey.

Can I release/sell my own game based on Outpost Assault?

Yes! The underlying code is open source and the art assets are liberally licensed (but they do require an attribution to Quiver if used in a published game).

Does this course have video subtitles?

Yes!

What if I have more questions?

No problem, hit us up on Discord or send us an email.