Start from a Template

We will use an awesome template from the Asset Library, made by KenneyNL 🔗.

• Start Godot - this will show the Project Manager
• Click on the the Asset Library Projects tab
• In the Search Field, type “Kenney”

If you don’t get any results, you may need to check the Community under Support:

• Click Starter Kit 3D Platformer
• Press Download

• Optional: Change Project Path to where you would like your Godot projects to be stored
• Optional: Change Project Name to something else
• Press Create Folder
• Press Install & Edit

You may get a warning like this. That’s fine. Just click OK.

After a short while, the Godot Editor appears and it should look something like this:

Try it out

• Press F5 or click the Run project button to try out “your” new shiny 3D platformer game.

The game controls are:

• Move: W, A, S, D keys
• Jump and double-jump: Spacebar
• Quit: F8 (or one of the platform specific ways to close an application like Alt+F4, Cmd+Q etc.)

That was pretty awesome, right? Many thanks to Kenney for that!

Now, let’s try and see if we can figure out what’s going on here…

Press back, and continue with the next step.