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The main game scene¶

Now it's time to bring everything we did together into a playable game scene.

Create a new scene and add a Node named Main. (The reason we are using Node instead of Node2D is because this node will be a container for handling game logic. It does not require 2D functionality itself.)

Click the Instance button (represented by a chain link icon) and select your saved player.tscn.

Now, add the following nodes as children of Main, and name them as shown (values are in seconds):

Timer (named MobTimer) - to control how often mobs spawn
Timer (named ScoreTimer) - to increment the score every second
Timer (named StartTimer) - to give a delay before starting
Marker2D (named StartPosition) - to indicate the player's start position

Set the Wait Time property of each of the Timer nodes as follows:

MobTimer: 0.5
ScoreTimer: 1
StartTimer: 2

In addition, set the One Shot property of StartTimer to "On" and set Position of the StartPosition node to (240, 450).

Spawning mobs¶

The Main node will be spawning new mobs, and we want them to appear at a random location on the edge of the screen. Add a Path2D node named MobPath as a child of Main. When you select Path2D, you will see some new buttons at the top of the editor:

Select the middle one ("Add Point") and draw the path by clicking to add the points at the corners shown. To have the points snap to the grid, make sure "Use Grid Snap" and "Use Smart Snap" are both selected. These options can be found to the left of the "Lock" button, appearing as a magnet next to some dots and intersecting lines, respectively.

Important

Draw the path in clockwise order, or your mobs will spawn pointing outwards instead of inwards!

After placing point 4 in the image, click the "Close Curve" button and your curve will be complete.

Now that the path is defined, add a PathFollow2D node as a child of MobPath and name it MobSpawnLocation. This node will automatically rotate and follow the path as it moves, so we can use it to select a random position and direction along the path.

Your scene should look like this:

Main script¶

Add a script to Main. At the top of the script, we use @export var mob_scene: PackedScene to allow us to choose the Mob scene we want to instance.

extends Node

@export var mob_scene: PackedScene
var score

using Godot;

public partial class Main : Node
{
    // Don't forget to rebuild the project so the editor knows about the new export variable.

    [Export]
    public PackedScene MobScene { get; set; }

    private int _score;
}

// Copy `player.gdns` to `main.gdns` and replace `Player` with `Main`.
// Attach the `main.gdns` file to the Main node.

// Create two files `main.cpp` and `main.hpp` next to `entry.cpp` in `src`.
// This code goes in `main.hpp`. We also define the methods we'll be using here.
#ifndef MAIN_H
#define MAIN_H

#include <AudioStreamPlayer.hpp>
#include <CanvasLayer.hpp>
#include <Godot.hpp>
#include <Node.hpp>
#include <PackedScene.hpp>
#include <PathFollow2D.hpp>
#include <RandomNumberGenerator.hpp>
#include <Timer.hpp>

#include "hud.hpp"
#include "player.hpp"

class Main : public godot::Node {
    GODOT_CLASS(Main, godot::Node)

    int score;
    HUD *_hud;
    Player *_player;
    godot::Node2D *_start_position;
    godot::PathFollow2D *_mob_spawn_location;
    godot::Timer *_mob_timer;
    godot::Timer *_score_timer;
    godot::Timer *_start_timer;
    godot::AudioStreamPlayer *_music;
    godot::AudioStreamPlayer *_death_sound;
    godot::Ref<godot::RandomNumberGenerator> _random;

public:
    godot::Ref<godot::PackedScene> mob_scene;

    void _init() {}
    void _ready();
    void game_over();
    void new_game();
    void _on_MobTimer_timeout();
    void _on_ScoreTimer_timeout();
    void _on_StartTimer_timeout();

    static void _register_methods();
};

#endif // MAIN_H

// This code goes in `main.cpp`.
#include "main.hpp"

#include <SceneTree.hpp>

#include "mob.hpp"

void Main::_ready() {
    _hud = get_node<HUD>("HUD");
    _player = get_node<Player>("Player");
    _start_position = get_node<godot::Node2D>("StartPosition");
    _mob_spawn_location = get_node<godot::PathFollow2D>("MobPath/MobSpawnLocation");
    _mob_timer = get_node<godot::