Obstacle Course mini-game overview

So far, you’ve been learning with small, standalone projects. Welcome to your first complete mini-game!

In this series, we’ll reuse our top-down character and rock generation to create a small obstacle course.

In this game, the player’s goal is to reach the finish area before the time reaches zero.

In this series, we’ll code an obstacle that detects when the player walks in front of it and pushes them off the course.

We’ll also draw walls to prevent the player from walking off the level.

Finally, we’ll create a game start animation and code win and lose conditions.

Note that we’ll revisit this project later in the course to add power-ups, pressure plates, doors, and more.

In this series, you will learn to:

• Use static bodies and areas to detect collisions and block player movements.
• Bring previously made scenes together into a game.
• Code a game’s win and lose conditions.
• Make trap walls that push the player to slow them down.
• Use the AnimationPlayer node to make a countdown.
• Use the YSort node to ensure sprites draw in the correct order.

In the next lesson, we’ll start creating the main game scene.

Locating the Lesson Files

To get started, open the project “Learn to Code with Godot: Practices” in Godot and, in the FileSystem dock, expand the ObstacleCourse directory. We will create a scene together. See you in the lesson!