Defective Detective is a cyberpunk themed side scrolling shooter prototype inspired Contra: Hard Corps. Homing missile the snipers, slide attack the enemies and climb along the bars as you make your way to a Final showdown.
Defective Detective was developed by a group of students, with the task of creating a prototype of a game inspired by Sega Genesis titles but using 3D environments and/or components.
My role in this project was programming the player mechanics. This involved researching the movement and controls from the original game and emulating the same feel in the game. Movement, shooting, sliding, bar climbing, jumping, etc were all my responsibility to code. Toward the end of the project I was also tasked with adding in the player’s animations given to me by our modeller and animator. This required me to learn inverse kinematics based animation and use blend trees.
You can download and play through Defective Detective from our itch.io page here
