What to do if you finish a tutorial and you're not sure what's next...
Gamedev Dairy #87
As I'm near the end of the 2D tutorial of Godot a dark time comes. A time that is known as „DAFUQ I'm gonna do next" mixed with „I don't think I understand all of the things I just did" 😉
This is a milestone for me, as I'm getting closer to living the dream!
So here's the plan!
1) Read all the docs one more time
I need to understand what I just did. List the nodes I used and properties I set. Write down repeatable steps. Who knows, I might end up publishing a Godot Cheatsheet made in Notion!
2) Read the rest of the documentation!
As far as I've seen it's not as demanding as actually doing some steps at my computer. So I might as well do it faster (at least when it comes to reading it and acknowledging what’s already there, so I can return to it later 😉).
As you remember I am skipping the 3D tutorial, as I won't be aiming for these kinds of games now. Rather I will be aiming for deepening my knowledge about the engine and making some small, graphically poor rip-offs as practice 😉
You may be wondering what about the idea to go for Unreal Engine 5 and BluePrint… Some day, maybe… Maybe when I’m ready for 3D 😉
3) Make some games!
How much? I don't know... But I will probably redo some classics and raise their complexity to become a better game developer. I might even document the process as some sort of itch.io dev blog.
4) Refine my Godot code
And by that, I mean putting complex logic I still don’t understand (math) in an external (to the game) library. Might be useful later :-)
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