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Welcome to your first
Godot project.

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In this one, we'll create a ship
that you can control with the keyboard

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and make boost with the space key.

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This will allow us to illustrate
the four essential concepts

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around which every Godot game revolves.

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First, you have scenes.

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You have an example of a scene here
with our boosting ship.

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A scene can be anything meaningful
in your game, like a character, a weapon,

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a house, or even an entire level.

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A scene can be composed of nodes.

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Nodes are the smallest building blocks
of a Godot game.

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For example, you have one node to display
the image of a ship,

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and you have one node
to countdown time, a timer.

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Then you have signals.

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Signals are messages that get emitted
when something occurs in the game.

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They allow us to react
to events in the game world.

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And finally, you have scripts.

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Scripts are code files with GDScript code
that we attach to nodes,

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and they allow us to code our game's
behavior to listen to the input, etc.

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So you can see the code you will
write by the end of this video.

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Now, we'll code this ship
into three steps.

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We'll start with a ship
that moves by itself.

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To keep the code simple,
it will just move in one direction.

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Then we'll add input support
allowing you to control the ship

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with the WASD keys on your keyboard
or the arrow keys.

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That will allow us to look at input.

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And finally, we'll create
the boosting mechanic

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which will allow us to look at signals.

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You'll also find a text guide
to go further by creating a steering ship.

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Steering is an equation,
a calculation, that you can use

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to make things move smoothly in your game,
whether playable characters or AIs.

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It's very useful
and it's not too complicated

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so we're going to do it
in this first project.

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But for now, let's get started
by creating the self-moving ship.