Four complete Godot tutorial series — from first-person shooters to action RPGs — created by a teacher in regional Queensland for high school digital technology classes.
Each series walks through building a full game in Godot — from empty project to playable build. Designed for students with no prior experience.
Plus standalone tutorials on:
Outback Nerd started in Gladstone, Queensland, where I was teaching high school digital technology. The curriculum was dry. The students were bored. So I started recording game development tutorials — pitched at my own class — and put them on YouTube.
It worked. Students who struggled to focus through a textbook would sit through a 40-minute Godot tutorial if it meant building a game at the end. I moved to Doomadgee — a remote Aboriginal community in Far North Queensland — and kept making videos, even though internet access made them harder for my students to use.
A worsening back injury ended my teaching career. Without a classroom to make the videos for — and with YouTube paying close to nothing for educational content — the effort no longer made sense. The channel is archived, not deleted. Every tutorial still works.
All tutorials, source code, and game assets remain available. Nothing is paywalled. Nothing has been taken down.