Half-like boomer shooter Dev Log | Official Unity Discord | Page 1

upper niche Feb 28, 2025, 4:13 PM

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I'm working on 2.5D fps game that will have similar gameplay elements like in half life 2 or Industria or... duke nukem 3D where action elements can be intense, but also reward player with more tactical approach. Game will have a lot interactions between player, enemies and world. I work on this project for long time (mostly gameplay and logic elements) but since I join this channel that also be good place to share my work!

So far i have most of gameplay and logic scripting so... there will be not a good starting point 🙂 so since now i working on enemies and they interactions with player and world i think we can start here.

upper niche Mar 1, 2025, 5:59 PM

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Randomize Barks in PatrolState, WanderState, SuspiciousState and AlertState. Voicelines are placeholders just for testing

upper niche Mar 2, 2025, 6:23 PM

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Enemy now has footstep randomized sound depend on ground and ShootPoint similar to LookPoint

upper niche Mar 4, 2025, 6:18 AM

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First video shows Squad Controller update: if one enemy after suspicious state enter alert state others enemies also enter alert state.
Second video: enemy shoot sound, miss sound, loot after death and disappear after death.

I also tested enemies react to death bodies but it push too much into stealth game.

upper niche Mar 6, 2025, 12:45 PM

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Tested combat. For now with no sound is not that much fun and looks chaotic. But with proper values, sounds and gfx it will be a lot better. White enemies use rifle, green shotgun and red is melee only.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iIcGIdAvIyc

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Michał Jaworski

combat testing 1

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upper niche Mar 8, 2025, 11:45 AM

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Added two type of crouch: automatic and manual.
Automatic I will use with hide zone component implemented with enemies, and manual just for vents. Manual is also lower than automatic.

upper niche Mar 9, 2025, 9:22 AM

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Sunday funday!

fixed weapon bobbing
fixed weapon numbering
improved weapon switch
added weapon swing on camera rotation
added Dash with placeholder indications and sounds. It can be also set to not active.

pliant garden Mar 9, 2025, 2:15 PM

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cool project. i am interested to see how it develops!

i'm curious about your rationale for the auto-crouch system.
i would hate that i can't run through a patch of weeds (or whatever) at full speed.
and also, if i wanted to HIDE in the grass instead,
i would always manually crouch for even less visibility.
so i don't understand why you made that system.

upper niche Mar 9, 2025, 5:38 PM

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That's true, i hear that from others and even I would do that, but I wanted to test things and experiment. This is something so much flexible I can reuse it in different situations with different settings. Because I prioritize player over enemies in situations where visibility could be a problem. I could make it not automatic and then set a different camera height, so if you are in high grass or behind windows player would see a bit more.

upper niche Mar 10, 2025, 5:42 AM

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Update!

now auto crouch can be turn off and i will see if there will be good place to use it
change crosshair to dot and each weapon can have his own crosshair
experimenting with jumping over things. I implement mechanic that if player would like to be sneaky he can use window or low obstacle and it would jump automatically similar to how third person games do or use just normal jump without any interaction.

upper niche Mar 12, 2025, 10:18 AM

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First post using unity 6000.0.41f1!
I can't lie... this was hard. There is still "bug" that I can't solve now but still... see something like that is so rewarding!

vivid fjord Mar 12, 2025, 4:18 PM

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Cool!

upper niche Mar 14, 2025, 9:58 AM

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research and some HUD sketches

upper niche Mar 15, 2025, 9:14 AM

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Looks like i have everything 😄

upper niche Mar 16, 2025, 7:32 PM

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upper niche Mar 17, 2025, 8:38 PM

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1 part of modular system for level design

upper niche Mar 20, 2025, 5:15 PM

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Update modular system

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new type of doors

upper niche Mar 22, 2025, 5:55 AM

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upper niche Mar 24, 2025, 4:48 PM

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upper niche Mar 26, 2025, 3:52 PM

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small chunk of level i did past 48h

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upper niche Mar 29, 2025, 3:39 AM

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Super old exploding barrel and new one

upper niche Apr 1, 2025, 9:42 AM

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New better crosshair

upper niche Apr 2, 2025, 8:35 AM

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Destructable loot crates with random loot

vivid fjord Apr 2, 2025, 12:38 PM

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Maybe you could give the loot physics, so they won’t just float?

upper niche Apr 3, 2025, 7:20 PM

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those are just placeholders from doom, propably i will do something with them. Most of things that i drop here are just "done" elements in playgrounds, they need adjustments and gfx sounds etc. 🙂 but yeah! thanks for pointing that out.

upper niche Apr 7, 2025, 5:53 PM

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small/big update to timegun

vivid fjord Apr 7, 2025, 6:40 PM

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Will you be ablr to respawn enemies with this gun?:)

upper niche Apr 7, 2025, 8:41 PM

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Thats too big design chellange. It could be possible only in controled scenarios, not in normal gameplay.

vivid fjord Apr 8, 2025, 4:39 AM

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👍

upper niche Apr 12, 2025, 5:27 PM

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vivid fjord Apr 13, 2025, 7:14 AM

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Wow! (Can you interact with boxes and other stuff?)

upper niche Apr 13, 2025, 2:14 PM

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vivid fjord Wow! (Can you interact with boxes and other stuff?)

yes and no, technicly you could practily every stuff that can be interact is prepared. but if prepair one it can be reused

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Blender 4.1, i will jump to 4.4 because i hear good thing about it

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upper niche Apr 15, 2025, 11:12 AM

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foliage

vivid fjord Apr 15, 2025, 12:06 PM

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Looks really cool! Are these assets or did you make them yourself?

upper niche Apr 15, 2025, 12:30 PM

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i make them myself. I did make some foliage before but those was super quick super simple. This time i spend a lot more time on that

vivid fjord Apr 15, 2025, 12:34 PM

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Wow.

upper niche Apr 16, 2025, 2:14 PM

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upper niche Apr 24, 2025, 8:14 AM

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still working on demo/vs level

upper niche Apr 29, 2025, 12:29 PM

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vivid fjord May 1, 2025, 9:17 AM

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soviet apartment building vibes

upper niche May 1, 2025, 2:09 PM

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vivid fjord soviet apartment building vibes

yup

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upper niche May 3, 2025, 10:15 AM

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same place, so much progress!

upper niche May 5, 2025, 10:45 AM

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learning about lightmapping

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vivid fjord May 5, 2025, 1:59 PM

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Wow!

upper niche May 8, 2025, 12:30 AM

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upper niche May 8, 2025, 5:10 PM

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vivid fjord May 9, 2025, 12:00 PM

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Spyware????🐦🪽

upper niche May 9, 2025, 4:38 PM

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vivid fjord Spyware????🐦🪽

you know that idea that birds are cameras spying on people? xD

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8 days to finish demo.

upper niche May 14, 2025, 3:05 PM

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raw version of the demo is finished! its time to polish & bugfixing!

upper niche May 16, 2025, 4:18 PM

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upper niche May 22, 2025, 5:19 AM

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here is small short video from demo level that we present at Digital Dragons 2025

upper niche May 23, 2025, 8:46 AM

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if you ever wonder how much sprites we using 😄

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i already wrote a new component that will alow us use even more sprites and dont force to make animations one by one 😄

vivid fjord May 24, 2025, 7:51 AM

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Wow

upper niche May 30, 2025, 2:08 PM

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I was working on AI to optimalize them and fix some errors. I think i find missing fpses

upper niche Jun 2, 2025, 3:54 PM

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upper niche Jun 6, 2025, 12:13 PM

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it is pitch ya game event so here is a bit longer video

olive cobalt Jun 26, 2025, 12:58 PM

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the idea of Time Gun is AMAZING! Make a good use of it for puzzle solving and I hope you the best ❤️

amber crystal Jun 26, 2025, 4:05 PM

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What if there are parts where you have to hop on a piece of debris and rewind time so that it will "fly" you up to a tower that it exploded from?

upper niche Jul 13, 2025, 11:05 AM

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Okay I'm back! @olive cobalt yes puzzles in our pillars for this game. @amber crystal you can do that already 😄 only thing that we dont touch are enemies. For now it would be to complex, parametric would be nightmare and player overall would be to much powerful.

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A Lot is happening around project lately, so I've been super busy and didint have much time to post here. BUT! Here's one of things I've been working on recently: I rewrote our dialogue system from inspector list base thing to node graphical system.

Lists are cool when you 1 or 5 things but when normal dialogue take 22 or more positions then... ugh... so nodes works much better

upper niche Jul 19, 2025, 2:37 PM

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cheats cheats cheats cheats cheats cheats 😄

upper niche Aug 11, 2025, 1:55 PM

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upper niche Aug 26, 2025, 10:38 AM

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prototyping in game map

upper niche Sep 22, 2025, 12:03 PM

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This will be super busy week for the project. We will be at two events one global and one local here in Poland. We also finish documents for the project so we „finish” our first big Milestone. It will be super awesome if this will not stop here ❤️

upper niche Sep 23, 2025, 6:33 PM

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Here is full trailer that we show at Boomstock 2025
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4b1y-57sssw

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Adrenaline Junkie

Tachyon Boomstock 2025 Teaser

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upper niche Sep 25, 2025, 5:56 PM

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upper niche Oct 6, 2025, 3:10 PM

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outside that my back hurts today... it was very productive day!

upper niche Oct 9, 2025, 5:42 PM

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upper niche Oct 18, 2025, 6:56 AM

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upper niche Nov 8, 2025, 11:55 AM

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new tool in project 😄

jolly timber Nov 9, 2025, 8:31 PM

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DID YOU IMPLEMENTED CROUCH?

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and how?

jolly timber Nov 10, 2025, 12:09 AM

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Your player, how is done? Character controller with artificial rigidbody?

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Box collider?

upper niche Nov 10, 2025, 8:26 AM

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jolly timber DID YOU IMPLEMENTED CROUCH?

yup, i got crouch, "how" is depend on your design. In my project i change size of character controller move camera even lower than character controller size, slow down movement, change bobbing, and change wwise sound bank to crouch steps.

upper niche Nov 10, 2025, 8:28 AM

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jolly timber Your player, how is done? Character controller with artificial rigidbody?

do you mean bones? i use character controller and every other scripts outside wwise and camera is my own.

jolly timber Nov 10, 2025, 3:29 PM

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upper niche yup, i got crouch, "how" is depend on your design. In my project i change size o...

Wait, what happens if you as a character capsule controller is above a corner of a crate?

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Try it

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It's a problem I had

upper niche Nov 10, 2025, 3:35 PM

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Do you mean the situation that player is on the edge or fall down while he is crouching? Nothing happens to me. What is the problem?

jolly timber Nov 10, 2025, 3:39 PM

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And the rigidbody?

jolly timber Nov 10, 2025, 3:40 PM

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upper niche yup, i got crouch, "how" is depend on your design. In my project i change size o...

It's because I had an incident where the collision of a capsule was very unstable; when that happened, the prop object started to wobble

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It's just the tip of the iceberg

jolly timber Nov 10, 2025, 3:40 PM

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jolly timber It's because I had an incident where the collision of a capsule was very unstabl...

A prop with a rigidbody to get it clear

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You used a rigidbody with a character controller? No

upper niche Nov 10, 2025, 4:12 PM

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Oh man. Many things can cause that. Maybe your both object intersect so coliders start fighing idk. Still that depend on your design and how you do it

jolly timber Nov 10, 2025, 4:29 PM

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upper niche Oh man. Many things can cause that. Maybe your both object intersect so coliders...

ok thanka sir 😄

jolly timber Nov 10, 2025, 5:41 PM

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upper niche Oh man. Many things can cause that. Maybe your both object intersect so coliders...

WAIT sooo how did you set physics to your player?

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Like colliding a phys prop for example

upper niche Nov 10, 2025, 9:54 PM

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Did you check documentation?

https://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/class-CharacterController.html

jolly timber Nov 10, 2025, 11:18 PM

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I solved it thanks my god 😄

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You are the half life jesus

jolly timber Dec 15, 2025, 12:24 AM

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I miss so much the news here

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Happy Christmas btw 🥲

upper niche Dec 16, 2025, 2:49 PM

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we still working on that project but progress is not that visual

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Thanks!

jolly timber Dec 16, 2025, 4:45 PM

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its functionality right?

upper niche Dec 17, 2025, 12:40 AM

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optymalisation, modular system, some tools, art direction, style, narration...

jolly timber Mar 10, 2026, 4:53 AM

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and water physics?

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