Put open source to work
July 16–17, 2018: Training & Tutorials
July 18–19, 2018: Conference
Portland, OR

Open source game development with Godot

Paris Buttfield-Addison (Secret Lab), Jon Manning (Secret Lab), Tim Nugent (Lonely Coffee)
1:30pm–5:00pm Monday, July 16, 2018
Emerging languages
 Location: E143/144
Level: Beginner
Average rating: *****
(5.00, 3 ratings)

Who is this presentation for?

  • Anyone who wants to build games using open source tools

Prerequisite knowledge

  • Basic programming skills (useful but not required)

Materials or downloads needed in advance

  • A laptop with Godot installed (Please download the specific version for your platform of choice rather than the C#/Mono version. Feel free to post on this page if you have any questions.)
  • You can also download the resource bundle we'll be using in this tutorial.

What you'll learn

  • Learn how to use Godot to build 2D games
  • Discover where to go for more information and resources

Description

Paris Buttfield-Addison, Jonathon Manning, and Tim Nugent walk you through building 2D games using the open source game engine Godot. You’ll get a hands-on, rapid-fire introduction to using Godot’s IDE and its programming language, VisualScript—a visual block-base environment—as you learn how to build games that run on almost any platform in a powerful, entirely open source environment. By the time you’re through, you’ll have no excuse but to go forth and build games.

Topics include:

  • How to install and set up Godot
  • How to import assets, like sound and art, into Godot
  • How to set up your scene in the Godot editor and create nodes and scene objects
  • How to create input actions to receive input from keyboard, mouse, touchscreen, and the like
  • How to add scripts to objects
  • How to export and build your game
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Paris Buttfield-Addison

Secret Lab

Paris Buttfield-Addison is a cofounder of Secret Lab, a game development studio based in beautiful Hobart, Australia. Secret Lab builds games and game development tools, including the multi-award-winning ABC Play School iPad games, the BAFTA- and IGF-winning Night in the Woods, the Qantas airlines Joey Playbox games, and the Yarn Spinner narrative game framework. Previously, Paris was a mobile product manager for Meebo (acquired by Google). Paris particularly enjoys game design, statistics, blockchain, machine learning, and human-centered technology. He researches and writes technical books on mobile and game development (more than 20 so far) for O’Reilly; he recently finished writing Practical AI with Swift and is currently working on Head First Swift. He holds a degree in medieval history and a PhD in computing. Paris loves to bring machine learning into the world of practical and useful. You can find him on Twitter as @parisba.

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Jon Manning

Secret Lab

Jon Manning is the cofounder of independent game development studio Secret Lab. He’s working on the critically acclaimed award-winning adventure game Night in the Woods, which includes his interactive dialogue system Yarn Spinner, and Button Squid, a top-down puzzler. He’s written a whole bunch of books for O’Reilly about iOS development and game development. Jon holds a PhD about jerks on the internet. He’s currently writing Practical AI with Swift for O’Reilly.

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Tim Nugent

Lonely Coffee

Tim Nugent pretends to be a mobile app developer, game designer, tools builder, researcher, and tech author. When he isn’t busy avoiding being found out as a fraud, Tim spends most of his time designing and creating little apps and games he won’t let anyone see. He also spent a disproportionately long time writing his tiny little bio, most of which was taken up trying to stick a witty sci-fi reference in…before he simply gave up. He’s writing Practical Artificial Intelligence with Swift for O’Reilly and building a game for a power transmission company about a naughty quoll. (A quoll is an Australian animal.)

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Paris Buttfield-Addison | COFOUNDER
07/15/2018 9:28am PDT

Please make sure you have downloaded Godot and the resource bundle (linked in the comments) before the workshop. We’ll try and have copies on USB keys, as well.

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Paris Buttfield-Addison | COFOUNDER
07/15/2018 5:54am PDT

You can download the resource bundle we’ll be using in this tutorial here:

➡️ https://www.dropbox.com/s/yn7837tkpig9gut/OSCON%202018%20Godot%20Tutorial.zip?dl=0