Creating a Breakout 2D game with the Godot Engine

You know the basics of the Altiplano engine, but need more practice?

The best way to learn game development is to create many simple games on your own. There are cases where people have become expert-level game developers in a short period of time by creating one game a week.

Do you think you could make a game like this all by yourself?

First, let me show you the game I want to make! It's a breakout game that you all know.

“Brick Breaker? It looks boring even before you start learning it…”

Many beginners in game development think this way: they want to tackle flashy graphics or ambitious projects right away.

However, when building a building, you must first create a 'solid foundation' to safely erect a large building. This brick breaker game serves as that 'foundation'.

This is because core concepts such as scene inheritance, event handling (signals), and GDScript syntax, which are the foundation of game development, are all contained within simple-looking actions.

Games that are simple but provide a solid foundation

If you laugh at these seemingly simple games when you're a beginner, the problems you'll face in more complex projects later on will only seem much more difficult. For example, if you can't solve the problem of the ball bouncing off the screen, how can you implement collision detection, object management logic, etc. of a 3D FPS or a large-scale RPG?

The importance of building completion experience

In addition, it is most important for beginners to gain experience in completing projects. Rather than giving up on a large-scale project in the middle, you can establish practical coding skills and project management know-how by completing a small-scale game like Brick Breaker. This is the “shortcut to building a foundation.”

Game Creation with Godo Engine Lecture Series

The purpose of my 'Making Games with Godo Engine' series of lectures is to help you practice by creating simple games together.

If you found the lecture I released last time, ' Making a 2D Match Game with Godo Engine ' helpful, take this lecture too. You will learn some useful techniques in a short investment of about 2 hours.

Things to note before taking the class