Recreating Metroid Dread's Speed Booster | Mix and Jam

This project is a take on the Super Booster ability from the Metroid games, and this version is inspired by the latest game of the franchise: Metroid Dread! This video showcases my journey to explore game dev techniques and try to achieve a similar mechanic using Unity!
PROJECT REPOSITORY
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github.com/mixandjam/Metroid-Dread-Speed-Booster
REFERENCES
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Unity VFX Graph - Heat Distortion Effect Tutorial (Gabriel Aguiar Prod.)
kzbin.info/www/bejne/eYmmqol6etWfr68
Sci-Fi Construction Kit (Sickhead Games)
assetstore.unity.com/packages/3d/environments/sci-fi/sci-fi-construction-kit-modular-159280
MUSIC
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Super Metroid's Theme - Scruffy Remix
kzbin.info/www/bejne/pnqqiYamasl7qNk
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Support Mix and Jam on Patreon!
www.patreon.com/mixandjam
Timestamps
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00:00 - Intro
00:46 - Steps
01:15 - Project Creation
01:27 - Player Movement
02:21 - Speed Booster Implementation
03:07- Booster Visual Improvements
04:10 - Distortion Effect
05:27 - Shinespark Implementation
06:35 - Animation adjustments
07:07 - Effects and Particles
08:14 - Level Adjustments
08:38 - Result
08:58 - Download Information
08:22 - Outro
#MetroidDread

[@iHeartGameDev]

The further I get into the video, the more I'm reminded how many aspects of game development are covered on this channel: programming, animations, shader graph, particle system... A true jack-of-all-trades, André! Bravo!

[@mixandjam]

Thanks Nicky!! Appreciate you enjoying all the little details!

[@Tazerboy_10]

😀

[@Danidev]

Awesome as always, also those particles are so cool :o

[@YanntastischGER]

I literally had to think of you when he said particle system.

[@BilalAzeem]

@@YanntastischGER same 😭

[@snipermonkey427]

Dani UwU

[@chrisdagreat5569]

Hello dan

[@GeeksVTW]

Don't forget to wishlist Karlson in Steam! You don't know what Karlson is? Well, Karlson is just a ga-adisoau 43892rhoa *distortion noises*

[@Pedro_Marangon]

You don't know how long have I waited for your return! And I'm so happy it came exactly with a recreation of one of my favorite games!!!

[@ragerungames]

Me tooo

[@dromedda6810]

this didnt age well

[@zojirushi1]

@@dromedda6810 yeah oof

[@GabrielAguiarProd]

Such great content, as always! Glad to see you are back making videos Andre! What a gem! Oh and thanks for the shoutout, much appreciated!

[@geri4367]

You've been missed. Thanks for taking the time to make another video

[@gauthierruberti8065]

I don't know how you do it but you make all of that look so simple. Welcome back!

[@bubblemage]

This my friend takes years of learning hard! This looks easy because it's probably one of the most eficient ways of making these things, which a less professional programmer might make in a more complex and clunky way.

[@zojirushi1]

Please continue to recreate things from video games this was one of the most unique channels out there! :D

[@GAMEGLiTcHDevelopment]

Every time I am amazed at the content you create! Great work André!

[@brannanvitek1035]

I *ALWAYS* learn so much from these videos! Andre this was kickass. I'm always so impressed with how simple your programming solutions are too! Like using a 1.5 raycast to check and see if you're still sliding. Genius!

[@ThomasStewartDev]

Fantastic video! Really enjoyed watching how you broke down all the different facets of this feature.

[@Phoenix-wy3um]

Please continue doing videos. This is amazing and your explanation/skills are wild.

[@danielkitanaxi]

brilliant results as always great video

[@LeveledRogue]

What happened to this channel? Havent posted anything in nearly a year

[@moviedevil12]

I'm glad to see another video. Your content is amazing!

[@celkoken]

Simply awesome! Thank you for coming back!

[@AlexBlackfrost]

I missed these videos, love it!

[@blakeskit]

So cool I subscribed several months ago and I’m so happy to see you return

[@toxiquid]

Happy 2022, andre! Glad to see you’re kicking off the year with a bang :)

[@DanPos]

Woohoo a new Mix and Jam video! Excellent stuff as always :)

[@indiemini]

So thrilled to have another video from you!! Keep up the great work :)

[@clavesi]

man, i always love these videos. amazing stuff as always! super helpful!

[@LowLevelLemmy]

I get so much value from your vids.

[@Lanman106]

As always, very well done! You replicated so many little details! Shows just how much thought and effort the developers put into just one of Samus' abilities.

[@Willskull]

Thats very cool, thank you!! So many amazing tutorials in this channel!

[@matheusberger4114]

Another amazing video, André!! Congrats!!!

[@seekerend]

Just found your channel and am loving it. I have already learned so much and have implemented some of these into some little projects of mine.

[@bosschopper9441]

Great to see you all back. Interesting choice!

[@BobbeDev]

great video I always love watching these

[@TNTCProject]

It's been a while, but the quality is always at the top! Another video, another ace. Good job André :)

[@advanches]

Simple amazing! Congrats on the great work!

[@redpandacreations]

(In fluent Agent Smith) Welcome back Mr Carrdoso. We've... missed you. In all seriousness, welcome back! :) Another great video! Particularly enjoyed the shader graph portion, something I've not really explored in Unity yet.

[@VelvetKitsune]

I absolutely LOVE how you separated the need to be in the 'normal' jump to be able to shinespark.

[@forresthenry297]

Great work as always! Welcome back!

[@mixandjam]

Thank you!!

[@MrFoxInc]

And he's back!!! Really happy about that. This video is another fantastic example of not only showing how to do specific things in Unity or any game engine at all, but also how to break things like these down. It started out as "How do you even do that" and ended as bite-sized steps that anyone can follow. I hope you're aware of how important your work is!

[@amarhussain3342]

Incredible! you make it look so easy...always seriously impressed when ever you release a video! and you provide the code for free too! subscribed and a patreon supporter now too.

[@RehtseStudio]

MARVELOUS 🙌🙌 Really like the video

[@spyderrweb6894]

great to see you back! another great video!!

[@yuvrajtak6936]

Great work, I learn a lot game mechanics from your videos. 👍

[@COL4NTUOMO]

We missed you, André! Awesome as usual!!

[@tribo_indie]

Que conteúdo fantástico! Chega a ser assustador a quantidade de ferramentas que você domina. Me inspiro muito em você!

[@ShafterPlay]

O André pronunciando o nome do Gabriel certinho em 5:20 até me assustou, ele fala tão bem em inglês que até esqueço que é brasileiro kkkk

[@ronigleydsonvilasnovas8067]

"Hello and welcome to Mix and Jam"! i needed to hear this.😁

[@hakimitus]

THIS. IS. AMAZEBALLS. Thank you so much for sharing this!

[@sannanch7564]

you both are awesome .. . Gabriel and Mix and jam

[@noface7842]

FINALLY!!! It's been so long since your lasrt vid!

[@KurenaiHideyoshi]

Something that I’d love to see next is Pokémon Legends: Arceus’ PokéBall system-from snagging wild Pokémon, to letting out your party Pokémon to interact with the environment.

[@pokejolt9908]

I just found your channel recently, and you make some great content, recreating all of these game mechanics in Unity! I'd love to see you try to recreate the Boost mechanic from the recent Sonic games.

[@DonDisainer]

this is awesome!!! one of the best unity channels!!! thanx!!!

[@XDarkEcho]

I love this so much. I would love to do something like this too, but whew, seems so overwhelming. I often forget just how complex game design can be, even in such a simple thing like this, I can only imagine the amount of work that went into re-creating this move.

[@aname1190]

Loving the recreating series

[@novustalks7525]

This is very interesting. I know nothing about game development so this is really cool to see

[@joysonst]

Great content! ♥

[@byucknahthered3914]

I know this video was made 11 months ago but I'd love to see you recreate the melee counter from dread in unity!

[@CenterGaming1]

The legend has once again uploaded. Amazing coding & particle skills!

[@RamblePrism]

Really well done!

[@ahamedinhaam906]

This is amazing. Really love your channel!! What do you think about recreating SIFU combat? That combat is really nice and would make a great video!

[@bigalphanders]

Welcome backkkk ✨✨✨

[@sapientunderground]

Outstanding!

[@sunayama4650]

Believe it or not, I was just thinking about you the other day! Good to see you back!

[@mixandjam]

Thanks Suna! Good to be back!

[@supercyclone8342]

I love this channel!

[@joaoguilhermevieiramelo769]

This is just perfect

[@Muskito]

cara, vc é minha inspiração! Você é incrivel!

[@mixandjam]

Que isso, muito obrigado!

[@gxsoldier7789]

@@mixandjam pera vc é um brasileiro?

[@miloszivkovic6256]

I just found your channel and it's awesome!! One code improvement I would do is to have all of these as separate states in one or multiple state machines instead of using boolean flags

[@jey1Gaming]

Thank you, you gain a sub and increased my interest in Unity. I will use Unreal for my games but I will no doubt give Unity some love.

[@omeryilmaz1021]

amazing content, just discovered !

[@Syzyguy]

This is great!

[@rDunfee]

With Triangle Strategy coming out for the switch soon it would be super cool to see your take on tactics style movement in games like that and final fantasy tactics. I feel like that is a unique challenge that not many know how to do

[@ZizoMass]

Bastou você falar Gabriel Aguiar que já tive certeza de que você era brasileiro HAHAHAHA Amazing video as always by the way!

[@ArtisticallyGinger]

YES YOUR BLOODY BACK!

[@random_precision_software]

Love it!

[@fursanalaqsagame]

Pow mano, que orgulho, um BR muito foda em game dev mostrando pros gringos como se cria um game kkkk!!!!

[@pogudesu]

Amazing❤❤❤

[@lemetamax]

He lives! Welcome back!!

[@polyvoxelgon]

Welcome back!

[@alex_zador]

Awesome! )

[@natsunwtk]

Awesome

[@chudyie]

miss you Andre

[@JimboS1ice999]

Anyway you could make a video about the movement system in shinobi strikers? with wall running and air menuvers?

[@theDarkerSan]

Very nice, love all the effects.

[@SuperLogan316]

For your next vid, I'd really love to see Gta 5's Cover system. Great job as always!

[@ray30k]

Hope you're doing well!

[@birchbongos]

I’m curious how you would approach the boost mechanic from Sonic Rush/Unleashed/Generations/etc.

[@MrDemdemsitar]

He lives!!!!

[@datablob]

yussss he's back

[@FutureTrunksMood]

Legend

[@Beengus]

Welcome back

[@gryzlaw]

Man I missed you!

[@hipno15]

Loved the vid! Your videos are incredibly inspiring. I think I have a mechanic idea for you to try out if you want. In Super Paper MARIO for the WII you could flip Mario from 2D to 3D. I’ve always wanted to try and do this and I wonder if you will get a kick out of it too!

[@BilalAzeem]

i missed ur vids sm 😔🙏

[@darthom]

I don't know how I didn't find this channel earlier. Came from twitter.

[@Keanine]

Have you got any advice on where to learn about particle systems? I've been using Unity for years now and it's very rare I'm able to make something that looks good using them. Yours look super pretty!

[@emmaly8993]

hey, could you try recreating the "bash" ability from ori and the blind forest? you dont have too if you dont want to

[@uzzy2522]

I find all these unity tutorials after the unity thing, and now i can't use these, cuz i definitely aint goin unity now... But this channel does explain it in a level of detail that will help everyone atleast a bit, regardless of engine. So that's good..

[@user-ug9xc9mz7e]

Your videos have great reproducibility every time. I think it's the best Unity engineer I know. If possible, please tell us in detail how to make a Unity game with "Udemy" etc. with a video. Of course, "KZbin" is also OK. I definitely want to learn from you. I kindly thank you.

[@osiahene]

Mix and Jam deserved a Unity Award!

[@johndipietro9301]

Serious question: how adaptable to 3d movement would this be? I know you made a change early on to let it be usable in 2d, but would it be possible to use this in a 3d environment?

[@supertenchoo4271]

Amazing woow

[@micoromico]

I love it

[@karpadorgx5709]

I would be cool If you remade the ARMS Arm mechanic

[@Ericksamma01499]

Hey, hi, can you show how to do a switch and follow code, Just like the switch between Olimar and Louie