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Welcome to the first episode of our action/adventure game series! This is a beginner friendly series that will teach you the how to create your very own games by creating a 3D game inspired by The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time!

This particular episode is focused on getting you up and running with Godot 4.4 in order to create a very simple environment and start on our player character.

Ready to try this for yourself? Check out the companion page on our website: https://playableworkshop.com/action-adventure-series/episode-1

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0:00 Intro  
1:04 Downloading Godot  
2:02 Opening Godot  
2:33 Creating our project  
3:09 Opening our project for the first time  
3:29 Crash Course on Navigating in 3D  
4:23 What are these lines in the viewport?  
5:22 Let's talk about nodes and the scene tree  
6:24 An intro to whiteboxing  
7:11 Finding the node to start our level whitebox  
8:13 How nodes are categorized by color  
8:36 Adding the node to "ground" us  
9:28 Transforming objects in the scene  
11:09 Turning a box into a floor  
11:41 Properties and the inspector panel  
12:43 Changing the size of our floor the "right" way  
14:09 Running our project for the first time  
15:09 Looking into our 3D world  
15:53 It's so dark in here  
18:28 Starting our player character  
21:48 Visualizing our player character  
23:06 Sprucing things up with some color  
25:01 Getting our player moving with some code  
27:58 Jumping between viewport modes  
29:02 Testing our first script  
29:34 Stopping our player from phasing through the floor  
32:30 Alternative to manually creating static bodies for a whitebox environment  
32:59 Solving a render bug in Godot  
34:00 Customizing our movement inputs  
37:23 Attaching the camera to the player  
38:30 Closing thoughts

How to make your first Video Game - Getting Started in Godot (Ep. 1)

How to make your first Video Game - Getting Started in Godot (Ep. 1)

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