Interactive Tour: Get to Know the Godot Editor

GDTour allows you to learn interactively, step-by-step, directly inside the Godot Editor. In this first completely Free Tour, we take you on a quick guided walk through the user interface and help you find your way around the editor and break the ice with Godot.

With Godot 4, to help you get your foot in the door, we developed an EdTech called GDTour that allows you to learn interactively, step-by-step, directly inside the Godot Editor.

GDTour shows you around the editor with interactive bubbles and highlights

How to use GDTour

1. Download the tour project using the link in the download section below
2. Import the project in Godot 4.4 or later:
   • Open the Godot Project Manager
   • Click Import at the top-left
   • Navigate to and select the downloaded ZIP file
   • Choose a folder on your computer to save the Godot project and click Import
3. Start the tour from the menu that appears after import
   • Click tour 101: The Godot Editor in the menu to select it and then click the START LEARNING button at the bottom to get started.

Questions and troubleshooting

What is GDTour?

GDTour is a plugin that turns the Godot Editor into an "interactive classroom." Instead of jumping back and forth between tutorials and the editor, you learn directly inside Godot step-by-step.

Think of it like having an experienced Godot developer sitting next to you. The tour highlights specific parts of the editor's user interface, explains them in floating bubbles, and lets you interact with the editor while learning.

It's educational technology (EdTech) designed to ease you into Godot's complex editor by getting started hands-on with contextual hints.

What's a ZIP file and why is the tour distributed this way?

A ZIP file is a compressed archive that contains multiple files and folders as a single downloadable file. It makes Godot projects easier to share and faster to download. Godot can import ZIP files directly and automatically extract all the project files to the location you choose.

When you download GDTour, you're downloading a ZIP file that contains the Godot project files needed to run the tour. After importing the file in Godot, you can start learning right away.

What exactly is a Godot project?

A Godot project is a collection of all the files, assets, code, and settings that make up a game or application made with Godot. It includes everything that Godot needs to run your game. GDTour itself is a special type of project that includes editor plugins.

How does GDTour work?

GDTour runs as a Godot project with special editor plugins. When you open the project, the GDTour plugin activates and creates a virtual overlay that can locate and highlight many parts of Godot.

Like Godot, we've open-sourced GDTour, so you can see how the technology works and even contribute to it. You can find the source code on GitHub.

The tour doesn't appear after importing

If the tour does not Make sure you're using Godot 4.4 or a later stable version of Godot (not a development or beta version). Development versions are unstable and can have issues that prevent existing Godot projects and plugins like GDTour from working.

Download files

• Download GDTour 101: The Godot Editor (ZIP)

Updates / Code patches

• This tour requires Godot 4.4 or later
• No errors have been reported. REPORT AN ERROR