Sylphstream

Sylphstream is a first person movement shooter I have in active development. It's been a little while in the making, but I've finally gotten Sylphstream at a point where I feel announcing it!

The github link can be found here!

New pistol - the Bergther G5P. This is going to be the standard "baseline" pistol in Sylphstream, thought I didn't want to go with a glock-alike or anything similarly uninteresting. The model is a fusion of two magazine-in-front-of-trigger pistols, the Bergman no.5 and the Walther GSP, hence the portmanteau'd name. Here they are invidivudally:

Along with it, the implementation of the Bergther comes with the completion of the dynamic recoil system, visible below. The effect is somewhat difficult to convey through video, but the jumping and muzzle rise provide feedback that the player must actively compensate for.

Sylphstream's second implemented weapon, the Affine, based on a cali-compliant AK. I named it that because it's a quite accurate hipfire gun and I'm a big math nerd.

I chose to put this one ingame next because its behavior was quite similar to the already finished Fourier-9 and I have quite the soft spot for low-capacity rifles. The texture is hand-drawn, with selected noise samplings from the reference image taken to add roughness. I'm honestly quite proud of how it came out.

The Affine also had a bizarre bug where the scale transformation was reset after I imported it into the player scene, resulting in perfectly cubic proportions:

Sylphstream's first firearm, the Fourier-9, based on a real weapon built by the people's defense forces in Myanmar called the FCG-9. The name is a reference to the fact that the gun's blueprints exist and propagate digitally. This isn't a political blog but I did think it was a fascinating bit of trivia and quite fitting in the hands of digital agents.

Its planned stats are average enough that I thought it'd be a good starting point for development. To this end I've added an alternate version with a debug skin to use as a test gun.

Quick and dirty models of two non-Sylph agents for Sylphstream, the turret and target. I plan on using the turret as a toybox example for figuring out neural networks in the Godot engine and the target is for integration with the AI scoring system.

Both are unimplemented, but visible in the range section of Sylphstream's test environment:

And to go with the bullets, an ammo box for 9mm, .22, and 5.56. I have no plans to teach the Sylphs how to interact with these, but players are probably going to live a lot longer than the virtual agents and will therefore probably need restocking at some point.