Police Tactics - An inversion of GTA

Hey all,

Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/PoliceTactics

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I am working in a game prototype simulation where you play as a police officer in a sandbox environment (with a campaign). This started as a learning project (while I need to learn Mecanim and some other things with Unity) and looks like some people liked the idea and then I decided to go ahead and make more. I work already with Unity for some years now and I think this is will be a good project to improve my skills.

Now I already have a full traffic system (not perfect yet, but will improve) and finishing the civilians system (crowds and people on streets), with a playable character car and avatar. I pretend to finish the game, this is still a total "for fun" project (it is not related with my game studio or the companies I work) and I hope to get some feedbacks to keep me incentivated, lol...

There are some guys helping me (for fun, also) and we created a page in IndieDB.

Check it out:

v0.1.2.2a


This screenshot is from latest version, v0.1.2.2a (the video link below is an old version)


v0.1.2.1a


v0.1.2.1a

Also we have a gameplay video in youtube

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UPDATED 30/06: Small teaser in HD

IndieDB page: http://www.indiedb.com/games/police-tactics
Dev blog: http://policetacticsgame.blogspot.com.br/

For a briefing of the game (what is expected the game to be): Game Briefing

Também colocarei o idioma Português

Cheers

EDIT: of course I am not aiming this as big as GTA game ¬¬ lol, just a small city with some real challenges

 

This looks fantastic!

Keep it up

 

Looks great, although the siren in the video doesn't play the entire time the siren is on.

 

Thanks guys.
@carking
That was on purpose, lol... players are able to turn on only the light of sirens, or lights and sounds... actually, people are asking a full siren device for them to use (many types of sounds, modes, etc)

 

What i meant was, the siren lights are on almost the whole time, but the sound doesn't play during the entire time that the lights are on.

 

Yeah no what he said was right. If you look at sirens in real life, the actual horn (siren sound) isn't always going when the lights are flashing

 

This looks amazing!! Been waiting for a new Police style game for ages. Since SWAT I believe xD Hope it comes with some good tactics systems and what not I would love an awesome Police Chase system too

 

Thanks, Ethaninja, thats what I mean.
It is too early to say anything about tactics yet, the point here is the simulation itself on police officers life, but that is a good thing to think

 

Hey, NPCs and better lights now

 

Looking great, i'll be interested to see if you handle TPC combat the same way i am for Nightfall, keep it up!

 

Looks very promising

 

Thanks guys. Latest infos always in http://policetacticsgame.blogspot.com.br/
\o

 

I really don't get how a police officer has complete SWAT gear. xD

 

Well, maybe because he is testing his new gear, lol... players will have an option to change in-game

 

Looking very good @xandeck! Keep it up!

 

Valeu @emergki
Projetinho virando projeto de verdade, hahaha

 

É assim que começa xandeck!

 

Yeah \o/ - na verdade eu já tenho umas batalhas na guerra, hahaha... mas deste nível, sim, é um desafio

 

Very interested in your traffic system -- did you accomplish this using RAIN{indie}?

 

This. How'd you do the traffic?

 

Hey guys, I designed my own solution Everything in the game is self made, only 3D assets and sounds are not mine (but licensed to me, of course).
All cars has real physics (all Unity), but only when player is near, so I can save performance. When is far I just "turn off" real physics, lights, sounds, etc. I did not want to work with NavMeshs or pre-made pathfinding system, because I think (at least at the speed I want) it was not cool and I could not control the way I want to. So I made some waypoints nodes (you can turn on and off these nodes in alpha version) and the car has a destinationa and the it checks, realtime, the possible route to its destiny (it checks if the street its the same or its destiny, then if needs to turn left or right, or just go forward).

It is simple, actually
Same will go for NPCs... this way, I tested and I can run 0 to 100 cars, same time, without too much loss in performance. With NPCs, I can run 0 to 50 at the same performance costs, acceptable for the game.

Now I will make even better, NPCs and AI cars will only exits in players proximity. But it is a WIP.
They will exits already to keep city alive, but will "turn on" everything only when player is near enough

EDIT: Also, the cars respect traffic post lights, others cars and players Raycasts saves you lol... but of course, I made a way to save performance (it does not checks every frame)

 

Hey people,
check our new dev blog layout: http://policetacticsgame.blogspot.com.br/
AND, we are now in Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/PoliceTactics

We are going official with this, no more just for fun now, lol

Cheers

 

Sweeeet project! Keep it up!

 

Thanks, cheers

 

Hi,
nice work so far!
I'm also working on a driving simulation + waypoints sytem. What car physics do you use?
I'm quite happy with the "~alternate physics model" from the old Unity Car tutorial, but it took a lot work to improve.
You can have a look here.

 

hey thieum, thanks for the tip. I did my own physics, but still using Wheels Colliders for now, its faster
But as I said, not always ON, cause of performance.

Thanks

 

this my working Designer game Cars

look it :::

 

I can barely see the car cause of the effects ... looks good though

 

Hey all,

2 new small teaser gameplay video:

Teaser 1

Teaser 2 - HD

Cheers

 

This is a very nice project, do you expect to release any demo version or webplayer?

Congratulations

 

Great to see more brazilian guys here =D
Amazing work @xandeck!!!

 

Did you get the new police model from somewhere?

Amazing work !

 

Thanks guys

@BEIEIA
Yes, the alpha version will be public open, the download will be available in IndieDB soon, I think half of July, we want to polish somethings before just releasing. But even in this version, we will have a lot of work to do.

@Fernando
Thanks a lot, lets hope we continue that way, hahaha

 

@yung
Thanks, all models are still third parties (Dexsoft-Games, 3DRT, etc). They have great models, many of them you can even use for final version
Other arts will be produced with time

 

I am making almost exactly the same game ! any chance of teaming up ?

 

hey this is very awesome keep at it

 

Very cool looking! Is there going to be online multiplayer? I think if you had online, and have a "cops and robbers" type of game, it could become very popular. Have the one team trying to get away, and the police team trying to chase them down and catch them. You could have an unlock system (car upgrades, new player skins, etc.), it would really open a vast world to your game and I think would make it even more appealing to players. Great looking so far, looking forward to the future of your project!

 

wow great work! This looks nicely polished so far. character models and cars look good. Only thing I noticed was some of the animations kinda look weird. Dont know if its just me but like the person running away from the cop moves weird and when asked to freeze they do this wierd stance. Its not that noticeable and I dont know if its just me that sees it like that or not. Other than that great work and keep up the good job.

 

Thanks guys.

@Kieran
Hey man, right now we are making this inside, so, no external team atm

@xKroniK13x
There is a game very similar what you want, is called APB Reloaded lol... we want multiplayer, yes, but for now I want to finish the main features first. Please, check our game briefing for more details: http://policetacticsgame.blogspot.com.br/p/blog-page.html

@snowconesolid
Graphics and animations are temporary and some of then may not be on final version

 

Hey all,

Here it is, fresh video of new gameplay

Thanks for watching

More info in our website
http://www.policetacticsgame.com

 

You have Pro. Try to use some bloom. Looks good, but nicer road textures could work.

 

Looks great! Only thing, and it might just be me, but it almost looks like he walks along with a limp, or he's had to many donuts
Still pretty cool though Reminds me of how much I used to like playing -- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d_fb3ymTPeY

 

This is very beautiful. Two things:
1. PLEASE tell me there are some kind of SWAT tactics on this game.
2. Any kind of hostage situations.

 

Hey people, thanks

@carking
There is already bloom, we are playing with the values to see the best results. I agree with road textures, but this is something that we are not targeting now... not at all, lol. But we will, as soon as we finish the main systems of the city.

@spray
The model is nice, but with the animations I added created the problem we said, lol, its true. This is something to polish in the future, for sure.
By the way, I played a lot that game too

@dtg108
There will be, its planned, check out our game briefing at our webpage and you will find more

 

Hey people,

Just some pictures and also some new dev logs.





For a better size, check here: http://www.policetacticsgame.com/p/videos.html

Dev log: http://www.policetacticsgame.com/p/dev-log.html

Cheers

 

Cool!

 

This looks incredible! What a cool idea!

Keep it up, please

 

This game is looking amazing. Any chance of a webplayer?

 

@SubZeroGaming @emergki
Thank you, we are still working on it =) (just saw this message, lol, sorry)

@drift501
Sorry, no webplayer version. Because of time and team, this will be standalone only (PC and MAC).
Thanks for your kind words.

And, for those who did not see our webpage, here are a few more screenshots:







You can check that, most of our assets are from partners and third party companies (also, some were purchased with Asset Store) :-o

 

Awesome game not to offensive but you need to make the vehicle look heavy and more like steel/metallic, maybe? because it look like a painted thin box that is drive-able, like GTA they know how to make their game like new version that is the graphics and how the "things" look like