
September 9, 2025
Godot Tutorial
Godot Essential #5 - How to Calculate Score in Godot
Learn how to use numbers and math in Godot to create simple systems like score counters, health points, and more.
Learn how to use numbers and math in Godot to create simple systems like score counters, health points, and more.
In this episode of Godot Essential, we’ll explore how numbers work in GDScript, how to print and calculate values, and how to store them inside variables.
You’ll also learn the difference between printing calculations and actually updating your variables – the foundation of scoring systems in games.
What you’ll learn in this tutorial:
Printing numbers vs text in Godot
Doing math with different operators (+, -, *, /)
Understanding calculation order and parentheses
Storing numbers in variables
Updating values step by step
Building a simple scoring system
This is a key step in learning how games track scores, health, coins, timers, and more...