Hints on where to start

Halstrom

Hi, I'm just about to fling myself in the deep end and try to create a Iso RPG in Godot. Cyberpunk/Shadowrun Genre. Detailed Armor options with buffs etc. I'm not worried about the graphic representation yet. Stats for Health, Energy, Magic, Hunger, Reflex, Strength, Intelligence. Leveling Skills. I have some reasonable experience doing a few different coding types. But I'm partially blind so suck at most graphics stuff. So I'm wondering what Template or Game should I load to kick things off so I can pull it apart to see how it works and duplicate existing features?

fire7side

There are quite a few tutorials on youtube for separate things like making an iso tilemap, inventory system, turn based combat etc.

cybereality

First, welcome to the forum, @Halstrom . I'm a huge Shadowrun fan, the SNES Shadowrun is my favorite game of all time. Godot is probably the best engine for something like that. I'm not sure you will find any open-source game that fits exactly what you need, but more likely you will have to find individual tutorials for each part.

The first thing I would recommend is reading all the tutorials in the step by step page: https://docs.godotengine.org/en/stable/getting_started/step_by_step/index.html

That will give you a basic understanding of Godot, then just look for specific things you are trying to accomplish. There are a ton of resources for Godot out there. I think this is the best site I've seen, though. https://www.gdquest.com/

I also really liked this book: https://www.amazon.com/Godot-Engine-Game-Development-Projects-ebook-dp-B079HZD1S7/dp/B079HZD1S7/

Erich_L

@fire7side said: There are quite a few tutorials on youtube for separate things like making an iso tilemap, inventory system, turn based combat etc.

I would choose one of those things and try to implement it by tutorial, you might have to do a few tutorials from start to finish before you see how to patch them all together but it'll be wort it. You probably have a lot of ideas about how to do your "Stats for Health, Energy, Magic, Hunger, Reflex, Strength, Intelligence. Leveling Skills" ect.. but I'd suggest holding back on those until you get a bigger picture of how the engine works- specifically after you see how your nodes can/will communicate and interact.