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The original was posted on /r/godot by /u/Cypher8300 on 2024-09-30 04:20:42+00:00.

Hey I just wanted to hop on and share my beginner experience the last few weeks. I have had a passive interest in game dev for many years and even took a game design class a few semesters ago, but I have very minimal coding experience. I know some basic html and css stuff and have messed around with code off and on occasionally but never took a class.

I decided a few weeks ago to finally take the plunge of beginning to learn a game engine and eventually decided on Godot. I want to just do it as a hobby for fun, and I had an idea for a 2d tactics roguelike type game that I want to slowly work towards. After a few weeks of learning a bit of gdscript I am starting to feel like I understand some things!

This weekend I was able to set up a simple state machine and code it myself as well as make a simple unit selection system! It is not much but even the little bit of progress made me very excited and I wanted to share with people! Next steps I want to learn how to do astar2d pathfinder and set up a movement grid system. I am also interested in learning more about resources and how to use them. Small steps but I am very hyped. Thank you to all the wonderful people posting resources on here!

Feel free to AMA and if you have any tips let me know!