This video shows how to create a simple melee attack for a 2D game. This uses Sprite2d and AnimationPlayer rather than an AnimatedSprite as this means you can add an Area2D and CollisionShape2D to the game and manage their position alongside the animation through the AnimationPlayer. Download the starter files below.

Exporting a Godot 4 project Uploading a project to itch.io

We want enemies to be able to detect the player. We use a collision area to detect if the player has entered their ‘vision’

When the player dies or loses we need to be able to change the game state to be a game over state. To do this we create a game over scene and then write code to determine the conditions that will trigger a game over.

There are three section to this. Creating the bullet Spawning / Instantiating and Firing the bullet Detecting the enemy being hit

This guide will create bullet object that will be destroyed after a set period of time.

This is how we detect what is going on and trigger gameplay events such as collision detection.

This example shows how to add a sprint mechanic to a 3D game. The same logic can be applied to 2D games.

Hiding the cursor during gameplay Showing the cursor when UI is visible