Features​

• State-Based First-Person Character Controller

  • Movement abilities: walking, dashing, crouching, jumping (short/long depending on input duration), double jumping, Celeste-style dash jumping

  • Forgiveness mechanics: coyote time, input buffering

  • Combat abilities: normal hipfire with weapon spread, piercing shot, charged shots

  • Charge shot charge progress indicators through gradual weapon colour changes and UI reticle progress bar

  • Aiming mode with slowed focus time, lowered mouse sensitivity, weapon position change, and visual indication through post-processing fading

• Enemies

  • NavMesh AI movement and player chasing logic based on different enemy personality types: idle, roaming, chasing

  • Health and damage-taking system

  • Squash and stretch animations using ScriptableObject profiles for idle animations, walking , and taking damage

  • Different facial expressions assigned per-enemy, and expression changes on taking damage

  • Hit reaction feedback: hitflash effect, temporary facial expression change to hurt expression, temporary movement stop, squash and stretch effect

• Centralized VFX Management and Pooling

  • Pooled instantiation of enemy hit VFX based on weapon firing mode

  • Dynamic bullet trails with calculated VFX graph properties for each weapon firing mode

  • Dynamic action lines based on ScriptableObject profiles for each application (i.e. dashing, charge shot hit feedback)

• Temporal Effects

  • Hitstops for defeated enemies and for layering with other effects, such as impact frames, managed by a centralised script to easily trigger different hitstops based on profiles

  • ScriptableObject hitstop profiles containing animation curves and properties for finetuned implementations

  • Aiming time slowdown for more precise shooting that gradually transitions back to normal time

  • Return time manager to handle returning to altered timescales and handle paused game timescales

• Stylized Effect Controllers

  • Impact frame shader controlled via script that sets effect duration and shader properties for each use

  • Timed cinematic framing through black letterbox bars

• Customizable Shader-Driven UI Reticle

  • Script-based animations for hit reactions by altering instanced material properties at runtime

  • Visual indicator of charge shot progress through circular charge bar

• Script-Based Weapon Animations

  • Weapon swaying, bobbing, and lagging to make the cannon feel more grounded

  • Cannon recoil animations using tweens

• Camera Effects

  • Camera spring and leaning based on player movement

  • Dynamic FOV changes based on player actions, states, and velocity

  • Centralised camera shake management

• Pause Menu With Delayed Per-Group Fading

  • Smooth transitions and fading instead of instant toggling

  • Saved user settings (mouse sensitivity)

• Other Developer/Testing Tools

  • ScriptableObject profiles for various systems to allow easy finetuning

  • Easy player teleporting by marking location

  • Hierarchy transform flattening

  • Reusable animation curves in ScriptableObject library