Itch.io for Game Devs – Quick Tip
Itch.io, as you may know if you are a game developer, is a massive indie game store. It’s a little like Steam but catering more to indie developers and experimental games. One really nice...
Tutorials
Tutorials produced by Drentsoft Games around game development, programming and art creation.
Godot Quick Tip – Typing Text Effect
This is a text companion to a video tutorial. You can watch the video below. The source code can be found at the end of the article or in the video description. A common...
The Difference Between Break, Continue and Pass
I thought I would do a quick programming tutorial explaining the difference between various control statements in Pythonic languages. I recently realised when streaming that some people might misunderstand the point of pass in...
Godot Unique Scene Names – New to 3.5/4.0
Godot 3.5 (and seemingly originally developed for Godot 4.0) is getting a new feature that allows you to access a node using its name in the scene instead of its node path. This is...
When You Should Use class_name in Godot 3 and Why
In this quick tip I’ll explain what class_name in Godot 3.1+ does and when and why you should use it. In Godot (talking mainly about GDscript) all scripts extend one of the base classes...