The Weekend I Learned Godot and Published a Game

July 21, 2025 · 1 min read

I spent last weekend learning Godot and by the following Monday I had published a game on itch.io called “Aliens!” It is not good, but it exists, and I’m not sure which of those facts matters more.

The whole point was to learn the end-to-end process of making a simple game, so I built a Space Invaders clone. Nothing fancy. Just a player ship, some aliens, a score, and a game over screen. The kind of thing that’s been made a million times, but never by me. I followed tutorials as I went, solved problems as they came up, and by Sunday night I had something playable.

I put it up on itch.io. Nobody’s played it, to be honest, but nobody has to. I learned how to take an idea from zero to published in one weekend, which was the whole point.