Is it possible with Godot to make this kind of game?

Nopp

Good day everyone! I am very excited. I just started programming a few weeks ago with Python, just to learn the basics. But my main goal is to develop a few games. Doesn't have to be the biggest or fancy ones ever created, it's more important, that i, respectively me and a friend developed it. We loved playing Funmaps in Warcaft3 and are quite sad, that the maps aren't updated anymore. (most of them!) My question is: Is it possible to make a kind a similar game like the "Warlocks" Funmap standalon, but with LAN feature to play over Network? Has to be smooth, and not laggy! If someone doesn't know what Warlocks is:

know it will be a lot of work, but that is my first goal attempt :) ! Greetings, Nopp

lonesurvivor

Hello and welcome! Godot has network features, of course. They even added some higher level stuff recently, so it should totally be possible. However, I don't have much experience with them. So I can't tell if they are laggy in general (like the audio engine at the moment) or not. But there is something else that is more important: Your set goal is way too high.You underestimate the amount of work that goes into such a game, and if you just started programming, you probably won't be able to do it before you become frustrated. Believe me, I had a lot of those experiences lately, and I started programming like 15 years ago (although I'm not doing it on a professional level at the moment). If you have some skills in programming, you still need to learn the engine. It looks simple, but if you are going for a larger scale project there are a lot of things that can go wrong you didn't even know about before (the biggest problem is probably to make the project scale while it is grows over time). So, go for something way smaller first. I'm not going to tell you you should make Pong (that is always the recommendation for beginners, and I hate it xD) but I guess if you didn't make a game before, something of this size would be good for a first project. If you know what you are doing you can probably make something like that in less than an hour in Godot (at a very basic level). After that, you can slowly go for bigger and bigger projects. It is actually very important that you finish your projects, so you have something to be proud of and don't lose interest in game development because you don't get anything done... Long story short: Start small, don't get frustrated and keep learning. Do bigger projects. And sometime you can do it!

Nopp

Hi Lonesurvirvor! Thank you for your kind words! :smile:  For sure we will start with something more "easy". Not like "Pong-Easy", but much more easy than this. We will start with a 2D Platformer, because there are a lot of Tutorials out there, helping us and guiding the way through our learning process. The "Warlock" Map is just the tip of the iceberg for us. I know a 2D Platformer is still hard work! But i think what Godot does is great. It lets us see our progress, while programming, cause we can test our scripts visually after we created them. That is really important for myself to see progress and success. That is what you meant.  "Start with easy Games", i take the Single Milestones of a 2D Platformer as Single Instances to prove my progress and don't become depressed. It's kinda like little games :smile:  By the way, i didn't talked about the network features, when i asked if Godot can manage it to create those games. I meant like the 2.5D'ish point of view or the interactions of the abilities they are using. Homing "Missiles" etc. Thank you for your help and time :smile:

lonesurvivor

No Problem! This is the right mindset. A Platformer is a good start, and kind of easy to make. And yeah, Godot can, of course, do the 2.5D view. But it is, of course, more work than a platformer. My first attempts at Godot games (or games at all) were games in 2.5D view. The most annoying thing in these games is (at least for me), that you have to animate everything that is moving (and larger than just a bullet or a small slime) three times (front, back and side) instead of only one time in a platformer...And you have to do every wall and stuff in a way that entities can be behind it and are also drawn behind it. And some more things... These are the reasons why I abandoned these projects and just went on to platformers ;) Doing a new project atm in 2.5D though.. Will see how it turns out! Homing missiles and stuff are of course possible. It is all a matter of your programming skill. Gameplay wise, you can do nearly everything you want (that goes for every engine). The limitations are rather in the technical stuff, like how many entities can you have on the screen, how many scripting can you do in one frame, and so on... So yeah, have fun! :)

Nopp

Thank you again! I am a little afraid though if those 2,5D Games via LAN will be laggy cause of performance issues in Godot... No experience there though..