Hello Steemian friends, 

I've recently made a tutorial about Godot, an open source game engine that can create 2D and 3D games. 

The first tutorial I made was installing and some of the features of Godot. 

You can find it here on this link. 

https://utopian.io/utopian-io/@rye05/godot-game-engine-tutorial-1-getting-started

Now for the second part of the tutorial, we're gonna tackle  nodes and scenes and making your first scene.

So let's start, 

# <center> Launching </center>

- Launch Godot from your desktop. 

![ScreenClip.png](https://res.cloudinary.com/hpiynhbhq/image/upload/v1514376989/yuqowg2wrcklkji5i2eq.png)

- Double click the first project that we've created. 

![ScreenClip.png](https://res.cloudinary.com/hpiynhbhq/image/upload/v1514377070/ggvenli7i9pqgggteqbr.png)

- You should see the software like this where you can start creating games. This is called the editor.

![ScreenClip.png](https://res.cloudinary.com/hpiynhbhq/image/upload/v1514377123/qo3vilexlkpzxuwwalp6.png)

# <center> Basic Functionalities </center>

These are the 2 important elements of Godot to remember. 

- Nodes are the elements for creating a game. It's like the basic element that can play sound, show pictures etc. Nodes can also have sub nodes called children. It's like a parent child relationship. 

![2.png](https://res.cloudinary.com/hpiynhbhq/image/upload/v1514378160/k25waeisk1pwze9sfcnr.png)


- Scenes are what you called when you combined nodes. The best example would be when  Super Mario is walking or jumped on an enemy. 

![ScreenClip.png](https://res.cloudinary.com/hpiynhbhq/image/upload/v1514378447/cqbmptjrgjiz3kluupsw.png)

# <center> Hello Steemit</center>

As with any other tutorials, we're gonna begin creating a simple  Hello Steemit for starters .

- Go to the scene tab and click the plus button. 

![ScreenClip.png](https://res.cloudinary.com/hpiynhbhq/image/upload/v1514378878/gfviwvmxuqqmvkcbb4hu.png)

- A new window will pop up

![1.png](https://res.cloudinary.com/hpiynhbhq/image/upload/v1514379369/uqfswxvuihel8whgppph.png)

- Click on control 

![2.png](https://res.cloudinary.com/hpiynhbhq/image/upload/v1514379378/kaszfavivn6zjrkbgut9.png)

- Locate and click on label 

![3.png](https://res.cloudinary.com/hpiynhbhq/image/upload/v1514379385/gidz2ordz72ebrylckyf.png)

- You can also search for it at the top

![4.png](https://res.cloudinary.com/hpiynhbhq/image/upload/v1514379427/gufhnr74xhahlgochn8a.png)

- Click Create

![5.png](https://res.cloudinary.com/hpiynhbhq/image/upload/v1514379432/kauggyjgthz86kawyeqc.png)

- Your screen should show up like this, this is your label 

![6.png](https://res.cloudinary.com/hpiynhbhq/image/upload/v1514379440/perzigrxehpom5ni1z00.png)

- Notice that it will automatically change to 2D as label is a 2D node

![7.png](https://res.cloudinary.com/hpiynhbhq/image/upload/v1514379445/wtn7jg8q6v0ugotfupqv.png)

- Notice on the lower right side the text option 

![1.png](https://res.cloudinary.com/hpiynhbhq/image/upload/v1514380469/wndjyuzmuj2tbngem5nj.png)

- Double click the box beside it

![2.png](https://res.cloudinary.com/hpiynhbhq/image/upload/v1514380474/yx83kjv1yqb9pgvdmou7.png)

- Type in the words you want, in this case I put in Hello Steemit. 

![3.png](https://res.cloudinary.com/hpiynhbhq/image/upload/v1514380483/barslrhgszj54cjayzdm.png)

- And it will show in the editor, it might be in the upper left side but you can just drag it to the middle. 

![4.png](https://res.cloudinary.com/hpiynhbhq/image/upload/v1514380490/b6escdo93jnypo82ncoy.png)

- Click on the play button at the top or you can also press F6, it will prompt you to save the scene.

![1.png](https://res.cloudinary.com/hpiynhbhq/image/upload/v1514380794/app8i5cim9rtxqjgomjc.png)

- Once saved, press play again or F6 and it will show a new window with the text you wrote, congratulations on your first scene. 

![ScreenClip.png](https://res.cloudinary.com/hpiynhbhq/image/upload/v1514380798/wb2ixgardksknxtszgzn.png)

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That's the wrap for my tutorial. 

Thank you for reading. 


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