Endless launch Block Coding for Godot Engine, great for beginners

Block Coding tools are pretty popular like Scratch, where you do visual scripting using blocks instead of typing out code and now Godot Engine has an impressive looking version of this with Block Coding from Endless.

It looks so simple even my stupid brain could probably do something with it.

Announced via the Endless Foundation blog, the new system is available to add into Godot via the asset library. The plugin itself is open source under the MIT license and can be seen on GitHub.

A great initiative, especially with it being inside a game engine that's already free and open source, so people can easily progress onto traditional programming whenever they want. That's part of the point too, as Endless's Will Baumgartner wrote:

One of our main goals is to make the transition from using our simplified tools to using the Godot engine on its own as seamless as possible. So, as we start to make blocks more abstract than the code itself, it’s important that we stick to the same sort of language that Godot runs on.

As we have designed more and more blocks, we have thought carefully about this balance between lowering the bar of entry with simplified blocks, and trying to teach the concepts intrinsic to Godot. As more people find and experiment with the plugin, we hope to narrow down on this balance to make the transition to working with the real editor as smooth as possible.

Check out their demo video below:

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