Godot
Godot Game Template
This template ships the boring shell: main menu, options, pause. You drop gameplay into a project that already boots to a screen. Use it when the official demos taught you a loop and you still do not want to rebuild menus every jam.
- Engine
- Godot Engine
- Language
- GDScript
- Genre
- arcade
- License
- MIT
Who it is for
- Beginners starting a real Godot project after the demos
- Jam teams that waste a day on pause menus
- People who want a MIT menu shell, not a full genre kit
What you can learn
- How a Godot project boots into menus
- Options and pause as reusable scenes
- Where to attach your first gameplay scene
Clone and run
- Install Godot 4.
- Clone Maaack/Godot-Game-Template and Import.
- Play to confirm menus. Replace the placeholder gameplay scene with yours.
It is a template, not a game. There is no campaign. The license is MIT. Read the repo’s credits if you ship with the included addons.
Public repositories. The short descriptions are written for this site.
Editorial notes reviewed 2026-10-05.
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