About

Welcome to COGITO

COGITO is a first Person Immersive Sim Template Project for Godot Engine 4. In comparison to other first person assets out there, which focus mostly on shooter mechanics, COGITO focuses on providing a framework for creating interactable objects and environments.

COGITO is a fully featured template. It is recommended to use this as the starting point of your project BEFORE implementing any of your own features. We strongly recommend playing through the included demo scenes to get a good impression of what functionality is included. While COGITO is designed with modularity and versatility in mind, it is usually easier to modify the included systems than try to make it work with other external systems (like using a different inventory system or player controller). The most common tasks most users will run into is adapting their own assets and levels to work with COGITO. I’m in the process of creating video tutorials for these cases, which should help you get started quickly.

Guiding principles

The structure of this template always tries to adhere to the following principles:

  • Complete: When you download COGITO and press play, you get a functioning project out of the box. Game menu, save slot select, options and a playable level are all included.

  • Versatile: Whether your game is set in the future, the past, or the present, uses melee, projectile or no weapons at all, has low poly, stylized or realistic graphics, the template will have features for you.

  • Modular: Don’t want to use a feature? You will be able to hide it, ignore it or strip it out without breaking COGITO. At the same time, COGITO is designed to be extendable with your own custom features or other add-ons.

  • Approachable: While there will always be a learning curve, we strive to make COGTIO approachable and intuitive to use, so it doesn’t get in your way of making your game.

Current Features

  • First person player controller with:

    • Sprinting, jumping, crouching, sliding, stairs handling, ladder handling

    • Fully customizable attributes like Health, Stamina, Visibility (for stealth) - Component-based, so easy to add your own.

    • Lots of exposed properties to tweak to your liking (speeds, head bob, fall damage, bunny hop, etc.)

    • Easy-to-use dynamic footstep sound system

  • Inventory System

    • Flexible resource-based inventories

    • Inventory UI separate from inventory logic

    • Examples for multiple item types (consumables, keys, ammo, weapons, combinable Items)

    • Base class to easily add your custom item types

    • Basic currency systems + vendors to buy items from

  • Interaction System

    • Component-based interactions makes it easy to turn your own objects interactive quickly and customize existing ones

    • Examples for interactive objects like doors, drawers, carryable boxes, turn-wheels, elevators, readable objects, keypads, etc.

  • Wieldable System

    • System for the player holding and using items, traditionally used for weapons.

    • Examples for projectile weapon, raycast weapon, throwable weapon, flashlight and animated consumable.

  • Basic Enemy with a simple state machine

  • Basic Quest System

  • Systemic Properties (WIP)

    • Give objects properties like “FLAMMABLE” or “WET” and they will interact with each other depending on their state and properties.

    • For example FLAMMABLE objects can be ignited by objects that are actively on fire. Can be extinguished by objects that are WET.

    • Straight forward system to add your own properties and behaviors, all handled in one script. Also, easy to just ignore.

  • Fully featured Demo Scene

    • Set up like a game level including a variety of objects, weapons, and quests

    • In-game helper documents that explain how objects in the scene were set up

  • Options menu + rebindable inputs

  • Save slot-based save and load system + level scene persistency

  • Full gamepad support!

Contributors

  • AC-Arcana: added DynamicFootstepSystem

  • pcbeard: Performance tweaks and bug fixes.

  • FailSpy: improved input handling as well as UI and Player Controller quality-of-life fixes.

  • kk1201: improving Lightzone component.

  • aronand: improvements to Player Interaction system

  • PeterD23: added Grid Inventory

  • niefia: added Sitting feature, improvements to enemy behavior, interaction components, audio, physics and more

  • mrezai: improvements and bugfixes to scene transitions, wieldables, player physics and raycasts

  • OvercastInteractive: added vendor feature, various improvements and fixes


Credits

  • This add-on is published under the MIT license.

  • You can use this add-on in your projects, personal or commercial, as long as you credit us (mostly cause we’d love to see what people use it for!)


MIT License

Copyright © 2025 Phazorknight + Contributors

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