Hello GODOT community.
My name is Joseph. I’m 24 yrs old and I’m new to this community and communities in general. I have very little experience with interacting with people on online forums/discussion groups/social media etc, but I hope to improve and become part of not just this community, but many other communities. I want to develop games so I hope I can help not only myself but others as well once I know more enough.
Anyway the topic at hand, so I’m trying to self teach-myself how to code. I’m researching everything from what game engines to use, which languages to learn, taking advantage of some free courses from places like codeacademy, udemy, freeCodeCamp (although I am aware that not all of it is free).
As of right now I don’t know how to code yet. So I know that it’s probably more important to learn coding first than trying to start getting into messing around with game engines at the moment, but I just want to see what I could do. So I tried downloading GODOT (I’m using an Apple laptop which is the only computer I have) and it downloaded. I downloaded the “.NET” version that supports C#.
I’ve been following along with videos and other information online and I’m being told that I have to extract the GODOT file and when I right click on GODOT in my downloads there is no extract option. I was reading some stuff that says it automatically gets extracted when you click two times on it, but that doesn’t seem to work (unless it does and I just don’t know it).
GODOT did open for me, but upon first opening it, it said something about possibly crashing if trying to create a project and that there was something that wasn’t downloaded. I don’t know exactly what it was, something about the .NET for GODOT 8 or newer, I think it was a “package file” if that’s what it’s even called because I don’t know what that is either.
So then when trying to create a project, it kicks me out and says it didn’t open properly. So if anyone knows what I’m doing wrong or can help solve this I’d appreciate it.
But basically yes, I have very limited knowledge on all of this stuff. I’m doing my best to research and solve it all on my own, but I’m really struggling with even the simplest of things. If this is not the right place to say this long post or if it’s under the wrong topic category I do apologize but I really need help because I want to be a developer and make games.
I have so much creativity and ideas for games and I just don’t want my creative mind to go to waste while I’m still young and have time so if anyone can point me in the right direction, be it how to solve this issue that I’m talking about with installing Godot or maybe having to ask this question in a different online community, please let me know what I can or should do. Thank you.