This week is going well for getting some basic functionality running in Godot. We have a character moving around on the screen and the ability to place down floors and walls easily. We even have a couple placeholder enemy bats flapping around on the screen.

The next part is going to be the hard part, though. Up until now, I have been able to follow a tutorial to get some functionality going and it’s been relatively smooth. But now I have some of my own ideas that differ from any one tutorial and I am tasked with figuring out how to implement them. The first of these challenges was figuring out the collision system for the walls of the room. Luckily I was able to get that sorted out and I’m happy to see my character walking up to, and being stopped by, these walls.

It’s simple, I know, but it is nice that at least that functionality is there.

Next up is going to be an even bigger departure from the tutorial. I want the character to move around using WASD (or arrow keys) but I do not want them to look in the direction they are moving. Instead, I want them to always look in the direction of the mouse cursor (or at least as close to it as possible given that the character can only look in 4 directions). My eventual goal is to use the mouse cursor as an aimer to shoot arrows at so the first step is just getting the character to look in the right direction!