Godot for Beginners

Godot Hello World

2025-07-19
Godot Hello World

Hello World is the defacto way to start any project. Knowing where to start can be difficult. However once you build a Hello World game or application you can only go up from there. So if we get to that starting point then we can start to build on top of that and learn more things about Godot.

Absolute Beginners

If you are an absolute beginner to Godot or with programming in general visit these other primer articles to get up to speed.

Downloading Godot

First we need to download Godot. Go here and download the correct version for your computer:

https://godotengine.org/download

Hello World

Watch the video on my Youtube channel about how to start a new project in Godot and to get your very first Hello World application running. We can hardly call it a game at this point. But hey you can also make normal applications in Godot.

Code example

extends Node

func _ready() -> void:
  print('Hello World!')

More Information

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