Godot, being a FOSS game engine makes it really enticing, as someone who is trying to switch to FOSS where possible it would be foolish of me to not start learning Godot. This page will be where I document all the projects I use to help me learn. As I already have some decent experience with Unity I’ll mainly be building projects with the explicit purpose of translating things I already know how to do in Unity.
I honestly couldn’t tell you why this is where I wanted to start but I decided to start with mesh generation. Mesh data is something I already have a good grasp on from doing mesh generation before in Unity and my time experimenting with OpenGL. Long story short I wanted to see what was required to get a set of vertices onto the GPU in Godot via code. So I took the route of doing one of the most common custom mesh generation learning projects, recreating Minecraft chunks. Once I had the simple chunk generation system together I went ahead and added a simple way to modify the world just to test more specific things. And there you have it the most basic Minecraft clone possible, done in Godot.
The next thing I decided to do was create a “control” only game, a game that exists entirely as UI, as I wanted to learn how Godot handles UI layout. A perfect candidate for that was Minesweeper. So I made a simple Minesweeper system that could handle any board size and mine count. Then built a UI around it. It even supports auto adjacent clearing!
