Installing Godot 4

Introduction

In this series of blog posts, we will view how to develop an RPG game in Godot. There are many engines that we can use to create a video game, Unity, and Unreal Engine but we are going to choose Godot for the following reasons.

Why Godot?

Godot is an open-source engine that is free to use. You can donate to its development, but if you are really starting out in this world as a hobby, it is one of the best engines that you can start with.

Everything is not perfect there are some cons to this, for example, the community is still a bit tiny so it would be more difficult to view more specifics tutorials and you will need to refer to the documentation. Also, Godot uses his language named GDScript, which shares some similarities to Python, Ruby, and others.

Installing the engine

From main website

To install the engine we can do it in two ways, the first one is to do it from the official website, you enter the website and press the download button, you only run the executable and you have installed the engine.

Godot Main Page

From online stores

The second way is via online stores like Steam, itch.io, or Epic Games Store, you only need to search and install it.

Godot Steam Page

If you install from online stores, the C# support is not supported, be sure to install from the official website.

Creating a new project

When you open the engine you will see somenthing like this, the next thing you need to do is to press the button that is marked with red

Godot Projects Explorer

I have the engine in Spanish if you have it in other language it will change the names.

When you click the button you will be promtped with this.

Godot Projects Create Window

Here you will set the name of the project, and where is going to be saved the project. There is also a selection about the render of the project, for now we will select Forward+ and click in create and edit.

Godot Engine Open View

And thats it, you have installed Godot Engine, in the next tutorial we are going to view how to add sprites and select the type of movement to the characther.