We here at Dastardly Banana are proud to announce that our second package is now available for sale on ActiveDen! The Spawn Controller package makes it absurdly easy to control and configure the way enemies or objects are spawned in your game. We hope you enjoy, and of course feel free to give us your feedback.

Package Link

Here’s a brief demo video showing off the basics:

Here’s the feature list from Active Den:

Features:

[*]Powerful, simple in-editor system allows you to organizes the way enemies spawn in your game and makes designing and building enemy encounters easy and painless.
[*] Highly organized system keeps your project from becoming messy, and makes editing anything a breeze
[*] Thorough and easy-to-read documentation (with tutorial) included
[*] Includes a demo scene for reference and to display example configurations
[*] Scripting not required – Work entirely in the editor, using intuitive drag-and-drop. Perfect for designers who want to design, not code – or for tweaking things on-the-fly
[*] High degree of automation – the system detects spawners as you create them, tracks the enemies you spawn and does almost all the set up itself
[*] Easily collect user data – how long did the player take to finish wave 3? How many enemies did they kill?
[*] Built-in support for scripting – the package includes scripts built for the user to edit, with hooks into every system event. Write powerful scripts without ever having to dive into the package code!
[*] Create encounters both simple and complex – customize the behavior of each spawner individually from a variety of parameters.
[*] Designed to be easy to integrate into a variety of projects
[*] Continued support through free updates

And, if you want to get idea of the full range of functionality, you can also view the full documentation.

We hope you find it helpful!

The 1.0 version of the FPS Constructor is now well into production, with the addition of more natural movement (look sway/walk animations/ etc) and better impact effects. I can’t say when the update will be out yet; I’m trying to get as much finished before heading out to GDC next week, but there’s a lot of work to be done and I’m the only one working on it right now (the rest of Dastardly Banana is working on some exciting Unity Packages that many of you have been asking about). This version is also a big enough difference from .95 that we’re looking for ways to do the import without breaking games done in .95.

So, until then, here’s a video!

I’ve been working to improve the recoil on the weapons – making them return to their initial position and adding some horizontal recoil – so I made a video showing it off (along with new support for reload sounds, models, and animations). I actually got used to not having reload sounds up to this point, but now that they’re in it seems impossible that I let it go this long with silent reloading.

We are very excited to announce that our newest package is now available through the fine folks at www.activeden.com. This package adds a powerful system for weapon upgrades and a prebuilt, totally customizable in-game store to our existing free FPS package.

Check it out here!

This is the first of our packages which will be releases on exclusively on ActiveDen; expect a basic AI and pathfinding package to follow soon – which means that you’ll be able to make nearly an entire game with our packages! Note that these packages won’t be available anywhere else, so check them out now.