Gloam - Silhouette Puzzle-Platformer Template

Gloam is a complete template for a dark, silhouette puzzle-platformer. A boy wakes in a foggy forest; you guide him past bear traps, swinging ropes, a river and a line of crushers. Everything that makes that kind of game work is here and wired together: a physics controller, procedural animation with ragdoll deaths, hazards and puzzles that reset at checkpoints, water, the monochrome look, sound, menus and a finished demo level to learn from. Open the demo scene, press Play, then make the forest your own.

The boy

• Physics side-scroller controller: run and walk, jump with coyote time, fall damage, automatic ledge grabs and climbs, ladders, swinging ropes you pump and let go of, push and pull, water.
• Procedural puppet instead of sprite sheets: gait cycles driven by distance, two-bone IK for feet on uneven ground and hands on ledges, crates, ropes and levers, glowing eyes.
• On death he becomes a ragdoll, with optional dismemberment (a gore setting in the menu turns it off).

Die, retry, learn

• Deaths by fall, impaling, crushing, cutting, traps, drowning and more, each with its own reaction and sound.
• The screen fades and the boy returns to the last checkpoint with every crate, trap, lever and door back where it was: anything resettable snapshots itself when a checkpoint is reached.
• Checkpoints and found secrets are saved; the title offers Continue.

Hazards and puzzles

• Bear traps, crushers, saw blades on rails, falling logs and boulders, spike beds, collapsing ledges and pits.
• Levers, weight-counting pressure plates, trip wires, gates, lifts and moving platforms, wired together in the Inspector with a signal system the Scene view draws as lines.
• Water with buoyancy and river currents, and a raft that stays level under the boy.

The look

• A perspective camera over a 2D physics plane: every layer placed deeper gets real parallax, depth fog and depth blur without any extra work.
• Mist bands, light shafts, film grain and a vignette from Gloam's own shaders; atmosphere profiles blend as the boy walks from a forest into a sepia factory.
• No post-processing stack: the same look in the Built-in pipeline, URP and the URP 2D renderer.
• Draw terrain as polygons with rough organic outlines and grass fringes; trees, bushes, props and characters are generated art you can regenerate or replace.

Sound

• A complete synthesized sound set: footsteps, landings, ropes, water, traps, crushers, ambience and a quiet music theme.
• Pooled playback that fades and pans with distance on the level plane, sound cues with random variation, ambience zones.

Menus

• A title that fades in over the sleeping boy, a pause menu, settings (video, audio, gameplay) and an end card, in a quiet text-only style.
• Rebindable keyboard and gamepad controls with an alternate key per action; in-world hints name whatever key is bound.
• Five languages: English, Deutsch, Français, Español, 日本語.

Built to extend

• Full C# source with XML documentation; every behaviour is a small component with tooltips.
• Input through a small interface: Input System (rebindable) or the legacy Input Manager, plus a scripted provider for cutscenes and bots.
• The demo level is built by a documented C# level kit, a readable example of every piece in use.
• Fast Enter Play Mode (Domain Reload off) supported. No third-party dependencies.

Includes a Quick Start guide and a full manual (PDF). The trailer in the gallery is recorded from the demo level exactly as shipped.

Third-party notices: this asset uses the Inter and Noto Sans JP typefaces under the SIL Open Font License 1.1; see Third-Party Notices.txt in the package.