Get Started with the Creator Kit: FPS

Customize the Germ Targets

Design your Own Level

Modify the Doctor’s Weapons

Create a Level Endpoint

Onward and upward!

Creator Kit: FPS

Students explore how to develop a common game type: First Person Shooter (FPS). “First person shooter” refers to any game in which projectiles generate from an object. In this project, germs (the enemy) receive doses of medicine shot. This project requires no coding experience; however, if your students have computer coding skills, they may further enrich their creations by coding attributes and behaviors of their choice. 

This project fits well at the mid point in a game design course or pathway. 

Creator Kit FPS _ Manual.pdf

Welcome to the FPS Creator Kit! This bite-sized kit has magically miniaturized you, the doctor, into a tiny sickness-fighting force of good. Your mission: to travel through your patient’s body, destroying evil germs wherever you find them.


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Create a LevelEnd GameObject

Add a Trigger

You’ve now created a playable level of the game with a custom design, a range of germ targets and a choice of weapons! In this tutorial, you'll create an endpoint in a given room which triggers the end of the level. 

First, create a LevelEnd GameObject:

1.  Right click in an empty space in the Hierarchy window and select Create Empty. 


2.  With the GameObject selected, go to the Inspector window. Rename it to “LevelEnd” using the text field in the header.



3.  Next, you need to make sure that LevelEnd is in the middle of the level. Click the small gear icon (or series of 3 vertical dots) at the top right of the Transform component. Select Reset.


4.  Move your cursor over the Scene view and press F on your keyboard to focus on the LevelEnd GameObject.


5.  In the Inspector, click the Add Component button. Search for “Box Collider”, and add this component to LevelEnd.



6.  A green wireframe box will appear in Scene view indicating that LevelEnd has a Collider.

Use the Transform Tool to place the object where you would like the level to end. The end of a room or corridor is a good place to do this.


7.  If you need to, you can resize the Collider using the Size parameter in the Box Collider component. Hover your mouse over one axis at a time, then click and drag right or left to increase or decrease the Collider size.


In the example below, the LevelEnd GameObject has been moved to the end of a room. The Collider has been resized to fill most of the available space.

Now you need to add a trigger. Triggers are a basic building block of games, and can be used to do many different things. For example, triggers can start a cutscene when the player reaches a certain point, play sounds or load new game level. An important part of level design is placing Colliders that will trigger gameplay events when player reaches a specific location.

So that the player can finish your level, you need to set the LevelEnd Box Collider as a trigger for the final screen of your game:

1.  In the Inspector, go to the Box Collider component. Enable the Is Trigger checkbox.



2.  Click the Add Component button. Search for “End Checkpoint”, and add this component to LevelEnd.


3.  Save your changes.


That’s it! Now press Play and test the trigger, by moving into the Box Collider you placed in the level. When you enter that space, the game will end and show you the result screen. 

Create a Level Endpoint

1. Create a LevelEnd GameObject

2. Add a Trigger

Complete this tutorial