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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Overview

Before you begin

Try the Game

Change the Default Keys

Creator Kit: FPS release note for Unity 2019.1

When you’ve finished, you'll be ready to get started making your own FPS game.

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. 

In this step-by-step learning project, you will:

When you’ve completed this learning project, you’ll be able to share your first-person shooter (FPS) game with friends and develop it further on your own. And you’ll have saved the patient from a terrible germ attack — double win!

If you haven’t used Unity before, welcome! The Unity Essentials learning pathway has been designed to help you get set up and ready to create in the Unity Editor. We recommend you complete this pathway before continuing with the Creator Kit: FPS learning project.

Before you begin to set up your Unity project, consider updating your Unity Hub to the latest release. If you are using an older version of the Hub, there may be differences between the guidance provided and your experience.

If you need to refresh your memory of the Unity Editor basics, you can take a moment to review Explore the Unity Editor at any time. 

2.   Create a new Unity project using the URP Template. Remember to use Unity 2022.3. 

3.  Go to the Creator Kit: FPS assets in the Unity Asset Store.

4.  Download and import the assets into your Unity project.

Now you’re ready to try the game and get started. First, open the Creator Kit Scene:

1.  In the Project window, navigate to the Assets/Creator Kit - FPS/Scenes folder.

2.  Double-click the ExampleScene Scene icon.

Once you’ve opened the Scene, you can test the game. Select the Play button in the toolbar to begin.

Move around by pressing the W A S D keys on your keyboard

Destroy germs with medicine by clicking the left mouse button when you have aimed

Destroying germs gives you points and uses up medicine ammunition. You can see your point score in the top left corner of the screen, and your remaining medicine for the weapon in the bottom right.

3.  When you’ve finished testing the game, press escape on your keyboard to get your mouse cursor back.


4.  Click the Play button again to stop the game.

If you’re using a non-QWERTY keyboard, you may want to change the default keys used to play this game. To do this:


1.  In the top menu bar, go to Edit > Project settings... and select Input Manager.


2.  Click the arrow to expand the Axes section.


3.  Expand the Horizontal section and change the Alt Negative Button and Alt Positive Button:


4.  Expand the Vertical section and change the Alt Negative Button and Alt Positive Button:


5.  Press Ctrl + S (Windows) or Cmd + S (macOS) to save your changes.

This Creator Kit is best used with the most recent release of Unity. If you find any technical issues when working through the tutorials, please report them to us in the forum.

The Creator Kit has been created with scope for further level design and exploration. In the FPSKIT menu, you will find a Game Database option. This feature can be used to create episodes — groups of levels which can be used to organise a game. This and other additional functionality will be outlined in full in a forthcoming manual for the kit.

Although this system can be used now, at the moment some visuals display incorrectly:

If you use the “Select Level” option in the in-game pause menu to load a Scene you have created as part of an episode, this will load unlit (without full game lighting).

If you try to select “Next Level” when you reach the end game screen, this problem will also occur. If a second level has been created through the Game Database, this level will load unlit. If no second level has been created, the first level will reload unlit.

This issue will not affect the build of your game, and has been fixed for future Unity Editor releases. We’ll update this Creator Kit as soon as the manual is available. 

Get Started with the Creator Kit: FPS

1. Overview

2. Before you begin

3. Try the Game

4. Change the Default Keys

5. Creator Kit: FPS release note for Unity 2019.1

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