The Genesis: A first person shooter I’ve made in Godot 3d

Audiobellum

So I’ve made a game called the Genesis; it’s a first person shooter and it’s the first game I’ve ever made. Oh and it’s on the Godot Game Engine to whom it may concerned. Here is a link to video footage of the gameplay from my Youtube channel:

Now I understand that the game is far from perfect but, felt that I need to finish it up and put it out as I’ve already dedicated too much time on it to just quit. All the 3d models where created by me. It’s not my best work where 3d modelling is concerned but, I thought that I would have been able to finish the game in a short period of time; it took way longer than I expected. Even though I managed to finish the game in less than a year, I originally had goals of finishing the game in just a few weeks or less than a month.Still, I have never made this amount of progress in a game engine before and that’s note-worthy as I’m the biggest newbie when it comes to game developing. I’ve also always had dreams of making a game for a very long time. The reason why I manage to successfully finish this project was mainly because I wasn’t trying to do anything or innovative. Instead, my main goal was to become more competent with the game engine; this makes the most sense since I’m a total newbie. I’m just bringing this up as I find it tragic when a lot of newbie gamedevs attempt to do explore ideas that they don’t even know will work, even though they don’t even know how to make a game yet; the end result usually turns out to be quitting. Anyway, if you want to play the game I’ve made, I’ve placed it on itch.io; it’s completely free:

https://audiobellum.itch.io/project-genesis

I look foward to hearing what you guys think about my little game. I’d say more but, I’m tired.

Erich_L

Here I am, pistol out of ammo, rifle empty as well. The last thing in my way is a room of three men wearing the same green menacing tanktop. They aim slow but aim to kill. I have 5% more health. Let's do this. The door creaks as I bust through, I see the exit lever and I sprint toward it, slamming down e like Bach on d minor. I hear the gunshots; I can almost feel the raycasts cutting toward me. I make it to the level then, sweet, sweet death. The screen is black. I've hit e too fast to see the "you lose" page.

You did it! You really made a complete game and that's awesome. It was actually challenging in a balanced fun way. I knew I deserved every death. I laughed at the oversized furniture, made me wonder if I was actually a murderous child escaping the molesting mansion.

You're absolutely right too, picking a modestly sized project and pushing away feature creep is the smart way to go. I'm looking forward to your next project!

cybereality

Looks decent, but could use some better texture work.

OpinionatedGamer

@Audiobellum said: The reason why I manage to successfully finish this project was mainly because I wasn’t trying to do anything or innovative. Instead, my main goal was to become more competent with the game engine; this makes the most sense since I’m a total newbie. I’m just bringing this up as I find it tragic when a lot of newbie gamedevs attempt to do explore ideas that they don’t even know will work, even though they don’t even know how to make a game yet; the end result usually turns out to be quitting.

I think i should take your advice. My ideas are always too big or have mechanics that are new enough they will be tough for someone with little experience to make. I wouldn't call myself a noob exactly, but I've never finished a game, or done a ton that wasn't following a tutorial.

Anyway, thnx, and congrats on finishing your game. Don't beat yourself up, making a fps game is hard! Good job.

cybereality

Yeah, definite congrats.

Audiobellum

@OpinionatedGamer:

Anyway, thnx, and congrats on finishing your game. Don't beat yourself up, making a fps game is hard! Good job.

Thanks. I feel that making fps games will only get easier from here on. I chosen to make an fps specifically because it's one of the easiest 3d action games to make, in comparison to anything in the third person. Still, I'll just have to keep at it until I came make these types of games in my sleep and that's my ultimate goal.

Audiobellum

@Erich_L said:

You did it! You really made a complete game and that's awesome. It was actually challenging in a balanced fun way. I knew I deserved every death. I laughed at the oversized furniture, made me wonder if I was actually a murderous child escaping the molesting mansion.

Thanks. I really wanted to make resource management an element that felt present in the player's mind, while also making it feel as minimalistic as possible. The idea of making a game that's difficult, while also being extremely bias in favor of the player was the type of experience I wanted to create; I'm glad you got the intended experience.

Audiobellum

@cybereality said: Yeah, definite congrats.

Thanks. There is an issue that I had with creating the shooter and I was wondering if you could give me any advice on it. Even though my game has reloading, it doesn't any proper reloading animation and I was wondering if you could give any advice that could help me in future projects when it comes to that. I know that it's not impossible to implement decent reloading animation as this video by NinelivesArt demonstrates:

Here is a comment I've left on the video:

Wow, this is amazing. How did you manage to reloading animations into the game? I've been wondering, since I've also made an FPS in Godot and, despite being able to get the player character hands, I didn't know how to probably implement reloading animations. I still managed to put some form of reloading mechanic in the game though. I think the easy way to go about it, is to make sure each weapons have their own hands in their own separate scene; as oppose to having a singular set of hands switching through multiple weapons. However, I like to keep my games as small as possible.

Now I know that the documentation has a FPS tutorial that covers the subject I'm bringing up and I've seen the final result of that tutorial in a video. However, I was never able to follow that tutorial as it was just way too difficult for me.

cybereality

The reload animation is just an animation you create in Blender (for the hands). Then you play it as you would any other animation. The gun would be a separate object (not in the animation) attached to the hand skeleton bone with BoneAttachment, so that it will stay in the correct place as the hand moves. And the gun itself can have it's own animation, but this would just be done in Blender as well and you'd need to sync them up so they are the same length of time, etc.