Godot Docs Simplified: Part 0 Introduction

Introduction

This is mostly just a simplified and digestable series for you to understand what Godot is the simplest way possible.

What is Godot?

Godot is a general purpose game development engine. You can develop 2D and 3D games for Desktop, Smartphone, or for the Web.

You can also create applications that need an interactive GUI.

Games and Apps made with Godot

Ex-Zodiac

Pixelorama: PixelArt tool

RPG in a Box: RPG Voxel game builder

Aspect

Just like your typical game engine: tilemaps, resources, textures, etc.:

Programming Languages

For editing purposes you can use VSCode and Emacs for GDScrpt or C# development. Also Godot supports animations from 3D Blender

What do you need to learn Godot

• Fundamental Code Experience (OOP, DataStructures, Algorithms)
• These fundamentals can be self-taught on this free Harvard Course for Computer Science Fundamentals.