✈️ WingBeat

WingBeat is a premium multiplayer aerial combat game built in Unity, featuring high-speed dogfights, real-time networking, and immersive flight dynamics.

Click the image above to watch the Gameplay Demo on YouTube!

🚀 Key Features

• Aerodynamic Flight Physics: Server-authoritative physics simulation (Thrust, Lift, Drag, Torque) with smooth client prediction.
• Netcode Multiplayer: Powered by Unity Netcode for GameObjects (NGO), leveraging Relay, Lobby, and Authentication services for a seamless lobby-to-game session matchmaking flow.
• Dual-Validated Weaponry: High-rate-of-fire machine guns with spatialized tracers, pool-recycled bullet projectiles, and double server-side validation.
• Targeted Boundaries: A server-authoritative world border controller (MapBoundaryController) that triggers targeted ClientRpcs for countdown warnings on HUDs before administering out-of-bounds penalties.
• Dynamic Cinematic Camera: A local chase camera that blends forward orientation with velocity directions, roll inheritance, and speed-adaptive Field-of-View (FOV).
• Spatial Audio: Dynamic engine pitch scaling, wind ambiance volume based on speed, and 3D spatialized gunfire loops synchronized across clients.

🕹️ Control & Key Guide

Increase engine thrust & speed

Decrease engine thrust & speed

Pitch nose down / pitch nose up

Roll/bank aircraft left / right

Yaw rudder turn left / right

Fire primary machine gun

Reload ammunition

Direct steering using cursor position (toggleable)

Action	Key / Input	Description
Throttle Up	Left Shift
Throttle Down	Left Ctrl
Pitch Down / Up	W / S
Roll Left / Right	A / D
Yaw Left / Right	Q / E
Fire Weapon	Left Mouse Click
Reload	R
Mouse Steering	Mouse Move

🛠️ Technology Stack & Packages

17.3.0

Rendering pipeline and high-performance post-processing

2.11.2

Multiplayer networking framework

2.7.3

Low-level network transport

1.0.5 / 1.1.2

Matchmaking lobby and relay server routing

3.6.1

Anonymous player authentication

1.19.0

Cross-platform player input handling

17.3.0

GPU-accelerated particle systems and trail visual effects

2.0.12

AI pathfinding and navigation

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In-game developer debug console

(git)

Multi-editor testing for multiplayer

Package / Library	Version	Purpose
Universal Render Pipeline (URP)
Netcode for GameObjects
Unity Transport
Unity Services — Relay & Lobby
Unity Services — Authentication
Input System
Visual Effect Graph
AI Navigation
Quantum Console (QFSW)
ParrelSync

🎮 Game Systems & UI Flow

UI Panels & Game HUD

1. Login Panel: Enter pilot name, select aircraft, customize match parameters (weather, time, bots, difficulty), and host or join.
2. Game HUD: Tracks HP, Ammo, Kill Count, Match Timer, Pilot Name, and Reload progress.
3. Crosshair Feedback & Damage Flash: Dynamic red crosshair pulse on hit confirmations and full-screen red overlay indicator on damage taken.
4. Kill Credit Toast: Top-right slide-in toast notification for kill announcements.
5. Scoreboard / Leaderboard: Real-time in-game ranking leaderboard and post-match summary scoreboard.

🗂️ Core Architecture & Scripts

• ConnectionManager.cs - Orchestrates anonymous sign-ins, room creations, connection approvals, and player spawns.
• PilotController.cs - Manages player inputs and rigidbody flight dynamics.
• PlayerCombat.cs - Handles damage tracking, VFX triggering, and kill credit attribution.
• PlayerRespawn.cs - Implements the respawn delay loop and deferred transformations.
• WeaponFireController.cs - Manages ammunition levels, reload cycles, fire rate limits, and projectile recycling.
• MapBoundaryController.cs - Monitors map bounds, plays warning SFX, and enforces server-authoritative death boundaries.

🎨 Asset Credits & Attributions

For full details, see the dedicated CREDITS.md file.

🔊 Sound Effects & Music

• Sound Effects: All sound effects (e.g., machine gun bursts, prop planes, jet turbines, reload click, explosions, metal hit) are sourced from Pixabay under the Pixabay Content License.
• Background Music (BGM):
  • Main Menu: U-2 Wave Battle Game BGM by bliu music
  • Gameplay: U-1 Scrum Battle Game BGM by bliu music
  • End Game: U-9 Kick Off Battle Game BGM by bliu music

✨ Visual & Environment Assets

• War FX & Cartoon FX Easy Editor: Designed by Jean Moreno (JMO Assets) for explosive visual elements and bullet impacts.
• Rainy VFX: Rain particles and lightning strike effects by AIKStudio.
• Stylized Rainbow VFX: URP visual effect graphs by LuminaryLabs.
• Trails VFX URP: Flight trail visual effects by Vefects.
• All Sky Free: Skybox variants (Cartoon Sky, Cold Sunset, Night MoonBurst, Space) by rpgwhitelock.
• Icons: Coin / Dollar icon by NajmunNahar and settings gear icon by Freepik via Flaticon.

👥 Development Team

• Panupong Numpoon: Game Development & Game Design — Designed the overall concept, gameplay loop, and multiplayer architecture. Developed core systems (Lobby/Relay connection, Host/Client flow, spawning, shooting, HP/respawn, match timer, scoreboard, HUD) using Unity Netcode for GameObjects.
• Nontakorn Nokthong: 3D Modeling & Texturing — Designed primary aircraft specifications and visual style, performed 3D modeling and UV unwrapping, created texture patterns and liveries, conducted texture QA, and conducted game testing.
• Meithichai Prueksaking: 3D Environment Art — Handled 3D modeling for the map and environmental assets, designed the overall visual direction and theme of the island, and ensured visual harmony between the environment and players.
• Thanathep Thepprasert: Game Design & 3D Modeling — Planned gameplay features and concept feasibility, modeled an aircraft, created its textures, and prepared the Game Design Document (GDD).
• Watthikorn Kotrakarn: Texturing & Game Design — Handled texturing of the P-47 aircraft using Photopea (working on the model originally created by Mr. Nontakorn Nokthong), and brainstormed ideas to document them into the GDD.

GDM322 Midterm Project 2026