2D projects for Godot: 49 free project files with notes on what each one demonstrates, linked to their original sources.
49 free project files
DimensionAlmios shares a full sky in one shader on Godot Shaders, driven by a single value: hour goes from 0 to 24 and the gradient moves through night, dawn, day and dusk.
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Marcus Skov (ramokz) shares Phantom Camera, a Godot 4 plugin that simplifies common behaviors for the built-in Camera2D and Camera3D nodes and is heavily inspired by the Unity package Cinemachine.
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The Last Forge is the companion project for the Coding Quests 2D roguelike YouTube course, built in Godot 4.7 with GDScript.
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Kenney shares a basic template for a match-3 game made in Godot 4.6. The project offers easy to understand code, effects like animations, sounds and particles, and custom cursors, and tiles are swapped by clicking and…
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Godot 2D Builder is a GDQuest demo for Godot 4.7 that recreates the core loop of a Factorio-inspired simulation and builder game in an isometric 2D view.
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The 2D Platformer is one of the official Godot Engine demo projects, a pixel-art side-scroller written in GDScript whose master branch targets Godot 4.7 features.
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Platformer 3D is an official Godot Engine demo project written in GDScript, with a master branch that targets Godot 4.7 features and runs on the Forward+ renderer.
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SirRamEsq shares SmartShape2D, the Godot 4 version of a plugin for creating nicely textured 2D polys. Placing a few points and creating or assigning a shape material produces a textured polygon, using textures similar…
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The Gaea team shares Gaea 2.0, an add-on for Godot 4.4 designed to bring procedural generation to a project. Gaea uses a graph system that connects customizable nodes to generate both 2D and 3D content, and creating…
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Dodge the Creeps is the finished version of the official 'Your first 2D game' tutorial, maintained by Godot Engine in the godot-demo-projects repository with a master branch targeting Godot 4.7.
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Dodge the Creeps with C# is the official C# port of the 'Your first 2D game' tutorial, maintained by Godot Engine in the godot-demo-projects repository with a master branch targeting Godot 4.7.
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Screen Space Shaders is an official Godot Engine demo project whose master branch targets Godot 4.7 and runs on the Compatibility renderer.
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This GDQuest repository holds the starter and completed projects for the studio's two free beginner series, Your first 2D and 3D game in Godot 4, targeting Godot 4.6 and written in GDScript.
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GDQuest shares Harvester, a free and open-source top-down space mining game made with the Godot game engine. The player docks with asteroid pockets in a procedurally generated map to mine iron and return it to base…
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GDQuest shares a Godot game demo that shows how to build the foundations of a visual novel with fairly accessible code. Its techniques, like sequencing animations or creating a text box to display dialogues and…
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GDQuest shares a demo and intermediate-level tutorial project that shows how to code a grid-based movement as in games like Fire Emblem or Advance Wars.
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GDQuest shares Godot Shaders, a large library of free and open-source shaders for the Godot game engine with playable demos.
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Godot 4 Open RPG is a GDQuest open-source demo that shows one solid way to structure a classic 2D turn-based RPG in Godot 4, currently requiring Godot 4.6.2 and written in GDScript.
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wheafun shares the source of Bread Adventure, a metroidvania game made with Godot that is also listed on Steam. The project contains level scenes such as cave, desert, forest, island, ship and snowfield, plus global…
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Kenney shares a basic template for a 3D platformer game made in Godot 4.6. It includes a character controller with double jump, collectable coins, falling platforms, camera rotation and zoom, and gamepad support.
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YouTube Action RPG is the companion project for HeartBeast's 2025 Godot 4 Action RPG series, built in Godot 4.4 with GDScript.
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Card Game Course is Bramwell's (bramreth) example project from the Godot 4 Beginners card game course, built in Godot 4.3 with GDScript.
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This 2D platformer template from Visual Coding Hub was built in Godot 4.4 without writing code, using the Orchestrator visual scripting add-on.
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Kerplunk is a four-player ball-and-paddle arcade game made by MCoorlim Gamedev in Godot 4 with GDScript, released alongside a free written tutorial.
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Retro Action RPG is a Zelda-style 2D action RPG project by HeartBeast (uheartbeast), built in Godot 4.3 with GDScript. It demonstrates finite-state-machine hero and enemy states, a vampire boss with fireball…
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This is the project from swydev's 'Make A Video Game in 30 Minutes' quick tutorial, a 2D Breakout-style brick-breaker built in Godot 4.3 with GDScript.
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Donitzo shares a set of multicolored dithering shaders for Godot 4. The shaders replace the colors of 2D nodes, 3D nodes or the entire screen in the case of postprocessing with a pre-planned dithering pattern taken from…
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First game in Godot is the project repository for Brackeys' 'How to make a Video Game' beginner tutorial, built in Godot 4.2 with GDScript.
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Deep-Fold shares PixelPlanets, a collection of Godot shaders to generate pixel planets. The Planets folder holds scenes and shaders for land masses with clouds, rivers, ice and lava worlds, gas planets with layers and…
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MrEliptik shares a Godot project of shaders made while learning shaders with Godot, for the community to use. It contains 2D shaders for a character deform effect, a dissolve with burn, a loading animation, a tiled…
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Metroidvania is HeartBeast's 2D metroidvania platformer project for Godot 4.0, written in GDScript and running on the GL Compatibility renderer.
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Jonathan Eeckhout shares JDungeon, a free-to-play, open-source Massively Online Role-Playing Game (MORPG) set in a medieval fantasy world with a top-down 2D perspective.
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HeartBeast shares Galaxy Defiance, a 2D space shooter project made in Godot 4.2. Gameplay is assembled from small reusable components, including hitbox, hurtbox, move, spawner, state, stats, score, shake and flash…
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HeartBeast shares the Heart Platformer project, a small 2D platformer made in Godot 4. Player movement values such as speed, acceleration, friction and jump velocity live in a PlayerMovementData resource, with default…
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MateuSai shares the project for a series of videos on how to make a roguelike using the Godot game engine. The player and enemies such as a goblin, a flying creature and a slime boss are driven by finite state machine…
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This Japanese step-by-step tutorial by syun77 on 2dgames.jp builds a simple click game in Godot 4.0 using GDScript. Players click octopus targets that pop with an explosion effect while a score display updates, which…
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This is part 1 of Coding Quests' 2D Stardew Valley-style farming sim tutorial series for Godot 3.5, written in GDScript with a TileMap-based top-down world.
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This demo project accompanies Aleksandar Popovic's Godot gamedev shaders series episode on manipulating multiple sprites, built for Godot 3.
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This Picster project accompanies the tutorial 'How to use Noise Textures and create simple Shaders in Godot' and collects 2D shader examples driven by noise textures.
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pend00 shares an animated god ray effect shader on Godot Shaders that can be used in many ways. Its uniforms control the angle, position, spread, cut off, fall off, edge fade and the speed of the shimmer animation, and…
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Juulpower shares a 2D outline/inline shader on Godot Shaders that adds an outer or inner stroke to a texture. The shader is attached to a material on a canvas item such as a sprite and is configurable in color, width…
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Circle Jump is a complete open-source mobile game made with Godot 3 by KidsCanCode and taught step by step in the Godot Recipes tutorial series.
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KidsCanCode shares the Godot projects for a series that explores the applications of procedural generation to game development.
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Mitch Makes Things shares the source code for a Godot destruction miniseries, and part 4 looks at destroying parts of existing collision shapes in real time.
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GDQuest shares the full source code of the open-source A-RPG demo produced for its Make Professional 2d Games with Godot course.
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This is the project repository for GDQuest's beginner 2D platformer course 'Make Your First 2D Game with Godot', originally made for Godot 3.1 with KinematicBody2D.
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Jungle Jump is a 2D platformer example project from Packt's book Godot Game Engine Projects, shared on the Open Source Games channel as a free Godot 3 download.
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This is the demo project for GDQuest's first Godot shader tutorial, an introduction to shader programming built for Godot 3.
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KidsCanCode shares Space Rocks, an Asteroids-like game made with Godot Engine 3.0. The project has scenes for the player ship, rocks, enemies that follow paths and fire bullets, item drops and explosions.
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