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Michael
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About Me

I’m Michael McGuire—a software instructor and game developer specializing in Godot and GDScript. Since 2019, I’ve taught over 10,000 students on Udemy and Skillshare and volunteered as a coding consultant for indie studios. On YouTube (2,000+ subscribers), I share professional yet approachable tutorials to help teams and developers level up their coding skills.

Main Programming Skills

My Projects

Task Board



  • Add tasks and Delete tasks
  • Give tasks a level of importance
  • Move tasks around on the board to represent it's status
  • Create new boards
  • Name, Save and Load boards
  • Leave important notes for each task
  • Show estimated time based on user estimations
  • Show a longer more realistic time based on user estimates
  • Search based on task name or assigned user




    • Editor Backgrounds Plugin

  • Plugin for the Godot game engine
  • Backgrounds within the built-in IDE
  • Backgrounds are hot swappable
  • Available on the Official Asset Library









    • Game Design and Programming Consultation for CodeBreaker Studios(now Atom Interactive)

  • Provided advice on game mechanics, offering targeted recommendations to improve gameplay
  • Conducted debugging and code rewrites to enhance code stability and efficiency.
  • Optimized existing code by reducing redundancy, resulting in improved performance.
  • Collaborated with the development team to identify and resolve technical issues, ensuring smoother project execution.
  • Assisted in streamlining development processes, improving code readability and maintainability.
  • Offered insights on best practices for code structure and organization to facilitate long-term project scalability.









    • Addons Made Native

  • Created a system tray icon addon, enabling developers to easily add system tray functionality to their Godot applications.
  • Developed an asset drawer addon to improve asset management within the Godot editor, streamlining workflow.
  • Both features were later adopted natively in Godot, demonstrating the value and influence of these custom solutions.








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