The 2026 World Cup final is set: Argentina will face Spain on Sunday. With everyone caught up in the soccer hype right now, you might be interested in learning how to create your own soccer game in Godot with The GameDev Tavern.

The developer offers a free 12-hour YouTube course split into 24 episodes, each around 30 minutes long. This course is designed for beginners to intermediate developers and covers a wide range of topics, including creating natural-looking AI movement with steering behaviors, translating physics equations into code, generating dynamic jersey colors with shaders, building local multiplayer features, using node-based state machines, and more.

All project assets are available on GitHub under the MIT license, so it's a great way to learn Godot while building a complete game from scratch. You can also check out the final game here.

In case you missed it, The GameDev Tavern has also recently started a new series showing how to create a full 3D dungeon crawler from scratch:

Now is a really good time to get into Godot as more developers are picking it up. GodotGameLab offers over 50 hours of free tutorials covering everything from component-based game development to creating a Slay the Spire-inspired deckbuilder and building your own autobattler.

There are also plenty of handy tools being released, like SpriteStack2D, Godot Road Generator, and GDstudio.

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