Udemy – Master Godot 4: Craft a Survivors Roguelike with GDScript

This beginner-friendly course walks you step-by-step through creating a complete 2D game — Script Survivors — using Godot 4 and GDScript, Godot’s powerful and beginner-friendly scripting language. With no prior coding or game development experience required, you’ll learn by doing, and build a polished prototype from scratch!

What You’ll Learn:

• Master GDScript Basics and Best Practices: Write clean, reusable code with proper naming conventions (e.g., snake_case), export variables for easy tweaking, and self-documenting scripts using comments for maintainability.
• Build Core Gameplay Mechanics: Implement auto-attacking weapons (like spears and scythes), enemy spawning systems with adjustable difficulty curves, experience (EXP) collection, and a dynamic player leveling system with impactful upgrades.
• Leverage Godot’s Scene and Node System: Organize your game using scenes for modularity (e.g., player, enemies, and world scenes), nodes for game objects (CharacterBody2D, Sprite2D), and timers for precise event scheduling.
• Create Engaging Combat Systems: Design health and damage mechanics, including collision shapes for precise interactions, invincibility frames, and multi-target weapon upgrades for satisfying gameplay.
• Add Polish with UI and Save Systems: Build intuitive user interfaces (e.g., high score displays, level-up screens) using control nodes and implement a JSON-based save/load system to track high scores for enemies defeated and survival time.
• Use State Machines for Smarter Logic: Utilize the Limbo AI plugin to manage character and enemy behaviors (e.g., idle, run, attack states), simplifying complex logic and preparing you for advanced AI patterns.
• Apply Real Game Development Patterns: Learn transferable skills like encapsulation (e.g., GameManager and SaveLoad scripts), resource management (e.g., PlayerContext), and project organization for scalability to larger projects.

• New game creators with no coding skills, excited to build an addictive Vampire Survivors-style action game in Godot 4.
• Beginners seeking a hands-on path to learn GDScript and create a complete 2D roguelike from scratch.
• Aspiring developers finishing with a portfolio piece, eager to showcase a playable game to kickstart their game dev career.
• Hobbyists building confidence to design and animate pixel art characters, ready to explore their own game ideas with a solid Godot foundation.