Game Dev Labs
Short experiments about why a game feels good. Each one shows you a problem you have felt as a player. Then you switch the fix on and off, and tune it until it feels right.
They take a few minutes, run in your browser, and need no account. Every lab ends with the Godot code and the quest that builds it properly.
This week's lab
Jump bufferingWhy did my jump get ignored?Press jump a moment before you land and the press gets lost. Switch on a jump buffer and feel the same press work.Platformer feel · 5 minutes · Open the lab →A different lab is featured each week. Nothing expires.
All labs
5 labs.
Why did my jump get ignored?
Press jump a moment before you land and the press gets lost. Switch on a jump buffer and feel the same press work.
Platformer feel 5 minBeginner
Coyote timeI pressed jump at the edge. Why did I fall?
Run off a ledge and press jump a moment late. Without coyote time you fall. With it, the game lets you jump anyway.
Platformer feel 5 minBeginner
Hit-stopWhy do my hits feel weightless?
Freeze the game for a few hundredths of a second when a hit lands. Same damage, same sparks, and suddenly the hit has weight.
Combat 4 minBeginner
Attack telegraphsIs my enemy hard, or just unfair?
A slime warns, then swings. Shrink its windup until you cannot react in time, and find the point where hard turns into unfair.
Combat 5 minBeginner
Camera look-aheadWhy can't I see where I'm running?
A centred camera spends half the screen on where you have been. Lean it the way you run and the next pit shows up sooner.
Camera 5 minBeginner
Want to write the code too?
The Godot Game Feel Lab
A bigger lab with a code editor. You write the knockback yourself, in real GDScript, then stack hit-stop, screen shake and sparks on top of it.
Open the Game Feel LabLabs, quests, campaigns and the Forge
Four ways to learn here, each with its own job. A lab never unlocks anything, and nothing needs a lab first.