What you'll learn

• How to add the brainCloud C# client library to a Godot project
• Initialize the brainCloud wrapper and register for callback events
• How brainCloud authentication works and why its so flexible
  • What profiles and identities are and how they work together
  • Anonymous authentication and why you'd want to use it
  • Authenticated identities including universal (user id + password) and email + password
  • Attaching an email identity to the user's profile
  • External authentication with Twitch
• An overview of the brainCloud portal's cloud code API explorer
• Setting up a leaderboard on the brainCloud portal, displaying the leaderboard and posting scores to the leaderboard
• What global entities are, when and why to use them, and how to read their data on the client
• Setting up, displaying and incrementing user statistics
• Setting up, displaying and awarding achievements
• What user entities are, why and when to use them, and how to create and update their data

Still to come:

The Godot BootCamp is currently in active development, additional lessons involving the topics below are currently in the works. Stay tuned!

• Cloud code scripting to post a score to multiple leaderboards
• Create a custom aggregate leaderboard using custom entities that isn't possible with a standard leaderboard
• Add a post hook script on authentication and return the data from several brainCloud requests to reduce the number of brainCloud calls the client application has to make

Prerequisites

• It is expected that you are familiar with the C# and Godot
• Godot editor version: 4.2.1 
• An internet connection