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Tactical Engine

by David Lambert

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Powerful and flexible framework designed for creating tactical, squad-based, or stealth-focused games in Unity — perfect for top-down shooters, CQB simulations, or turn-based hybrids.

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About this asset

Build advanced squad-based AI with ease

Whether you're building a real-time stealth game like Door Kickers, a tactical shooter like SWAT, or a strategy hybrid like XCOM, Tactical Engine provides the tools to make it happen faster and smarter.

Tactical Engine is a development system for top down tactical shooter games that provides advanced tools for the creation, configuration, and management of missions, characters, weapons, and interactions, with a high degree of customization. Its goal is to help developers build content-rich levels with varied objectives and precise control over in-game actions and events.

🔧 Core Features

  • 🧠 Waypoint-based AI logic: Design and assign behavior patterns with a visual, event-driven system.
  • 🗺️ Waypoint editor: Create patrols, breach points, cover systems, and interactions with full in-editor control.
  • ⚔️ Modular actions: Add or customize actions like move, shoot, aim, wait, peek, breach, etc.
  • 👁️ Sensor system: AI units can detect enemies using vision cones, sound, and line-of-sight checks.
  • 🎮 Playable characters: Integrated system for player-controlled units with commands and responses.
  • 🤖 Enemy AI controller: Create enemies that react dynamically to sound, vision, or strategic triggers.
  • 🧱 Custom actions and conditions: Extend logic easily via scriptable architecture.

🚀 Ideal For

  • Top-down shooters
  • Tactical stealth games
  • Turn-based or real-time squad combat
  • AI sandbox simulations
  • Rapid prototyping of AI-heavy gameplay

💡 Why Tactical Engine?

Developing robust tactical AI is hard and time-consuming. Tactical Engine removes the boilerplate and gives you a solid foundation to build complex scenarios without reinventing the wheel.

Designed to be designer-friendly, extensible, and production-ready.

🎁 Includes

  • Complete source code (C#)
  • Demo scene with full setup
  • Step-by-step documentation
  • UI panels and interaction system

This package use Third-Party content from:

Cursor Pack By Kenney

Sound Effects By Pixabay

RPGsounds By Kenney

Voiceover Pack By Kenney

free-houseplants By nobiax

Ultimate Gun Pack By Quaternius

lowpoly-fitness-characters By iPoly3D

[All Third-Party assets are under the CC0 license see "Third-Party Notices.txt" on package content]

You can try the demo at:

https://davidlambert.itch.io/tactical-engine-demo

Looking for advanced AI with visual logic, stealth support, and a full mission editor? Tactical Engine is the shortcut you’ve been waiting for.

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Technical details

🧩 1. Scenarios and Missions
Creation of playable scenes using automated tools (camera, game manager, NavMesh).
Mission Manager with support for primary/secondary objectives, win/loss conditions, and editing via a dedicated inspector.
Signal and event system to update objectives in real time (eliminated enemies, area entry, object interaction).

🧍 2. Playable Characters and Enemies
Character creation wizard with models, avatar, visual info, gear, and inventory.
Components for movement, selection, combat, health, AI, and animations.
State-based hierarchical AI with sensors, field of view, and configurable behaviors.

🔫 3. Weapons and Equipment
Visual weapon editor: model, icon, fire modes, accuracy, range, VFX, SFX.
Projectile system with base damage, speed, and impact layers.
Grip point configuration and IK (inverse kinematics) adjustments for precise animations.

🛠️ 4. Game Interfaces and Components
Selection, action, inventory, and mission status panels.
Time control, tactical pause system, visual indicators for vision and enemies.
Waypoints with integrated actions (aim, shoot, reload, sprint, etc.).

🤖 5. Artificial Intelligence
Behaviors defined by scripts inheriting from a base class.
Configurable sensors with angle, range, detection masks, and events.
Interest signals that trigger responses to sounds like gunfire.

🧱 6. Cover System and Interactive Environment
Configurable cover points (direction, height, attack side).
Interactive objects with interaction types (simple, continuous, animated).
Item drop system and requirements for activating interactions.

🖱️ 7. UI and Customization
Custom actions for characters and waypoints via inherited scripts.
Visual setup of cursors, animations, and hover effects on objects.

Compatibility

Unity version Built-in URP HDRP
6000.0.24f1

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