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...