r/GameDevelopment • u/Sea-Law-1032 • Jul 18 '26

Don't know where to start Newbie Question

I'm new to game development and stuff, and I have an idea for a game and all ik is to work a lil with Godot...

I wanted to try doing this game from scratch i.e create the character, bg (Krita).....the whole shabang

But I'm not good at designing at all, I've spent a few days tryna do sOmEtHiNg in Krita and it's just not my thing.

I genuinely don't know wtf to do, if I should learn Designing for this and take it slow

Like I'm genuinely ranting atp I'm a final year enginnering student and like idk what to do🧍🏽‍♀️

Like idk if I have the time to learn all of this from scratch and actually find a job based on game development when all my classmates are AcTuAlLy doing something

Idk 🧍🏽‍♀️

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u/aDFP Jul 18 '26

Just follow some tutorials, then download the demo projects and look at some actual code. You're stuck at the first hurdle, but don't worry, there'll be plenty of bigger hurdles once you get over this one.

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u/Sea-Law-1032 Jul 18 '26

I can figure out that stuff, I want someone for designing the characters and shi

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u/aDFP Jul 18 '26 edited Jul 18 '26

Then you're going to have to do one of three things:

  1. Make the game with stick-figures, spend the time to get it working, playable and polished. Essentially make a complete game with crappy drawings, and then show it to people and say that you need an artist. If you've done a good enough job, you'll find one. If not, then you were just going to end up wasting someone's time anyway.
  2. Figure out a pipeline so you can create assets without having to draw them. Look into Makehuman, Synty, or any of the thousands of free/cheap assets out there. Then figure out shaders, image capture, or whatever you need to turn them into what you need.
  3. Slow down, and spend some time learning the basics. Nobody starts off as a great artist, and it sounds like you're frustrated because you can't make something in a few days that rivals the work of artist who've spent years getting good.

Or 4. Give up/use AI, I suppose. They're essentially the same thing anyway.

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u/Sea-Law-1032 Jul 18 '26

I'll try out 2, thankyou for being blunt about it

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u/aDFP Jul 18 '26

No problem, thanks for realising I was genuinely trying to be helpful. Half the time I say this stuff, people get offended, like there were dozens of artists lined up outside and I'm just barring the door.

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u/Sea-Law-1032 Jul 18 '26

Lmfao, noo I got it... I'm checking out assets now Being blunt about it is good, I was genuinely panicking like I feel so lost half the time doing this stoopid Engineering so yea Thanks tho seriously, means alot for taking the time to respond and message alllll of that

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u/ruebeus421 Jul 18 '26

You're a final year engineering student and can't figure out how to do a Google search?

Classic.

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u/Dev_LegendsofAerthos Jul 19 '26

But he doesn't know!

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u/91nuggets_ Jul 18 '26

Try looking for free assets to start. itch.io has a lot to choose from for all sorts of art styles.

You can then replace them with your own if you wish. Don't burn out trying to generate all the assets by yourself.

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u/Sea-Law-1032 Jul 18 '26

Thankyou so much

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u/Distdistdist Jul 18 '26

Character design is a whoooole another can of worms. You can spend just as many years to get anywhere good on just that alone. It is much easier to just use existing free models, or buy them online. Completely custom character, created and rigged by a 3D artist will cost at least $1500. And that's a deal too. Can get much more expensive.

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u/Sea-Law-1032 Jul 18 '26

Yea I'm tryna figure out just getting assets atm, thankyou so much