Godot 4 Game Development Cookbook

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Exploring the Godot 4 Editor

Godot is a free open source game engine that was created by Juan Linietsky and Ariel Manzur in 2007. It was released under the MIT License in 2014. You can download Godot from https://godotengine.org/. The following is from the Press Kit on the website:

The name Godot Engine should always be written in Title Case. Also, Godot should be written with only one capital letter – it’s not “GoDot”. Godot is named after the play Waiting for Godot, and is usually pronounced like in the play... For native English speakers, we recommend “GOD-oh”; the “t” is silent like in the French original.

Godot uses a tree of nodes inside a scene. A scene can be instanced in many different scenes. Godot’s integrated language, GDScript, ...