Post #20: The Default 2d GDScript Script

13 Jun, 2026

If you create a 2d node in Godot, and add a script to it, this is the default script you'll see:

Let's break this down a bit, as a way to learn more about GDScript and Godot itself.

• The first line in this script shows us that this class inherits from the Node2D class. Our class is a child class of the Node2D class. This is the object oriented principle of Inheritance.
  • Important to know: by default, in GDScript, all script files are unnamed classes
• Line 3 (and line 7) are comments. These are not executed, they are ignored, for note purposes.
• Line 4 is the start of the _ready function declaration. As the comment above it says, this function is called when the node enters the scene for the first time
• Line 5 has the pass keyword, which is really mostly just a placeholder for unimplemented functions, like this. The rest of line 5 has a comment.
• Line 8 is the start of the _process function, which is called every frame. delta, as the comment mentions, is the elapsed time since the last frame.
• Line 9 also has the pass keyword

If you've been worried about the complications around programming things by hand, don't be! Give it a try, it's probably not as hard as you think 💪