MSJ - Top Down Character Controller

Top Down Character Controller & Interaction Toolkit

Build exploration and puzzle games without writing gameplay code. Drop in the player prefab, place a few interactables, wire them in the Inspector — you have a working puzzle chain in minutes: pick up an item, unlock a door, enter a code, trigger a pressure plate.

Features

• Character controller — CharacterController-based walk, sprint, and crouch. Smoothed follow camera with zoom, wall-collision avoidance, and screen shake.
• Interaction system — proximity prompts, tap and hold interactions, single-slot inventory.
• Puzzle primitives — item locks, item placers with correct/incorrect detection, keypad code machines, pressure plates, trigger sensors, animated doors. All chained via UnityEvents.
• Health & death — four death modes (animated, ragdoll, instant, explosion), each with its own audio, cleanup, and event hook.
• Menu & popup framework — full-screen menu stack plus an independent popup layer (pause, message box, notifications, object inspector) with history-based back navigation.
• NavMesh bridge — optional NavMeshAgent driver for cutscenes and scripted movement, sharing the same controller as manual play.
• Editor tooling — Tools > MSJ-TDCC > ToolWindow validates dependencies and auto-configures required layers in one click.
• Production-ready code — XML docs on every public class and method. No debug scaffolding, no dead code.