Your First Game

This is the path from never having opened Hengo to a small game you can play. It is one project built across nine pages, and every page adds one idea and leaves something you can run.

You do not need to know GDScript. You do need to know how to move around the Godot editor: create a scene, add a node, press play.

The finished game: a click near slides the sprite over, a click far makes it jump.

What you are building

A sprite that goes where you click. Click close to it and it slides over, click far away and it jumps straight there, and either way it spins for a moment when it lands.

It is deliberately small. The point is not the game, it is that by the end you have used every part of Hengo at least once, on something you can see running.

The path

	Page	What it teaches
1	Collection and script	Where your work lives, and what a script compiles to
2	States and phases	The state machine, and when your steps run
3	Your first action	Putting a step on a state, editing it, running it
4	Sub-states	Nesting modes inside a mode
5	Branches and transitions	Actions that ask a question, and moving between states
6	Variables and binds	Keeping values, and the five ways to feed a field
7	Functions	A named list of steps, with inputs, outputs and ways out
8	Macros	A reusable piece of state machine, plugged in twice
9	Build the game	Compile, play, and watch it run live

Around 45 minutes end to end, and each page stands on its own if you come back later for one idea.

Before you start

You need Godot 4.7 and the plugin enabled, which is covered in Installation.

Then build the scene the sprite lives in. It is plain Godot, no Hengo involved yet:

Main (Node2D), the scene root
- Runner (Sprite2D) at (576, 324), with Godot’s own icon.svg dropped into its Texture

That is the whole scene. The script you write over the next pages goes on Runner.

The scene: a Node2D root and a Sprite2D carrying Godot’s icon.