Godot State Charts

Godot State Charts is a plugin for Godot Engine that allows you to use state charts in your game. Now what is a state chart? Statecharts.dev explains it like this:

Put simply, a state chart is a beefed up state machine. The beefing up solves a lot of the problems that state machines have, especially state explosion that happens as state machines grow.

Godot State Charts allows you to build state charts in the Godot editor. The library is built in an idiomatic way, so you can use nodes to define states and transitions and use Godot signals to connect your code to the state machine. As states and transitions are nodes you can also easily modularize your state charts by using scenes for re-using states and transitions.

There is only a single class with two methods for your code to interface with the state chart. This makes it easy to integrate state charts into your game, as you don’t need to extend from a base class or implement an interface for your states.

Please check the links on the left for more information on how to use the plugin. If you have any questions or problems, please check the FAQ or open an issue on the GitHub repository.

Video Tutorial

If you prefer to learn in video form, there is also a video to get you started.