Grid-based movement

Question

How would I implement a player movement based on a grid? I tried to find this on docs but no success... I'm very new to Game design.

I have a standard movement code, which works:

func _move(direction: int, delta: float)->void:
velocity = Vector2()
in_movement = true

if direction == Direction.UP:
    _player.play('walk_up')
    velocity.y -= 1
elif direction == Direction.RIGHT:
    _player.play('walk_right')
    velocity.x += 1
elif direction == Direction.DOWN:
    _player.play('walk_down')
    velocity.y += 1
elif direction == Direction.LEFT:
    _player.play('walk_left')
    velocity.x -= 1

velocity = velocity.normalized() * speed

_player.position += velocity * delta

What I'm trying to do is simple: think of the old Pokémon games, the character always walks 1 full tile (NxN) when you input, and can't be interrupted in the middle of the process (4-way movement)

If anyone could help I'd appreciate it! Thanks.

Comments

Have you looked at something like this? Have you also looked at the grid-based movement in the asset library?

Answer 1

It might be better to use a Tween node for something like this since the player doesn't have to be checking for input on every frame.