Devlog 2: Player controls and camera switching

Player controls

The player can control a police officer who is investigating reports of screaming coming from a mansion. The player moves around using WASD. The police officer comes equipped with a pistol that the player can use to kill monsters. The gun is aimed by holding down right click, and then shoots by pressing left click. Due to the fixed camera perspective, the player will automatically aim at the closest enemy within a specified radius so it is not too difficult to aim. The player can aim up or down to try shoot at shorter enemies or to hit head shots. The pistol has a mag size of 10 and the player must press R to reload (ammo is required). The cubes that the player shoots in the video below represent the enemies for the time being.

I have implemented dynamic camera switching. The camera will switch angles when the player moves into different rooms to recreate how the camera design worked in older horror games from the PS1. This will help make the game more scary as I can position the camera to prevent the player from seeing around corners.

• Step 12.wav by carrigsound https://freesound.org/people/carrigsound/sounds/32638/
• Guns Pack: Low Poly Guns Collection by Fun Assets https://assetstore.unity.com/packages/3d/props/guns/guns-pack-low-poly-guns-coll...
• Pistol Dry Fire (Bersa BP9CC 9x19) by Sophia_C https://freesound.org/people/Sophia_C/sounds/467183/
• Fast Pistol Reload [Bersa BP9CC 9x19] by Sophia_C https://freesound.org/people/Sophia_C/sounds/467182/
• Gun for lui.wav by martian https://freesound.org/people/martian/sounds/182271/
• PSX Cop Character by Vinrax https://vinrax.itch.io/psx-cop-character
• Standard Idle by Mixamo https://www.mixamo.com/#/?page=1&query=standard+idle
• Walking by Mixamo https://www.mixamo.com/#/?page=1&query=walking
• Pistol Idle by Mixamo https://www.mixamo.com/#/?page=1&query=Pistol+Idle
• Shooting by Mixamo https://www.mixamo.com/#/?page=1&query=Shooting

I next plan on adding the item and inventory system to the game, so stay tuned!