Error fix: resolved bug with navigation mesh volumes at 2 levels
2 levels were affected: E1M0 & E2M8
2 levels were affected: E1M0 & E2M8
Shoomer Booter
Tommy Gun Walrus · Tommy Gun Walrus Studio
- Released
- Aug 26, 2025
- Platforms
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Developer postOriginal post
Developer postShoomer Booter – Full Release Coming Late August
Shoomer Booter began its journey in Early Access with Episode 1 and 10 levels. Now the second and final episode is ready, adding another 10 levels for a total of 20. What’s new: • 3 new enemy types • Fixed reported bugs and errors • Improved sound design and overall game performa
Original postShoomer Booter began its journey in Early Access with Episode 1 and 10 levels.
Now the second and final episode is ready, adding another 10 levels for a total of 20.
What’s new:
• 3 new enemy types
• Fixed reported bugs and errors
• Improved sound design and overall game performance• 4k resolution support
• added FOV adjustments and mouse sensitivity and inversion
• Updated UI – hero portrait now changes with every 10% drop in health, just like in the classics
• Each arena now has a shop where you decide what to buy before the fight: ammo, weapons, health, armor, or nothing at all if you want to save money for later
• Every level has 3 secrets – 60 in total
• New challenges: teleports, lava fields, lifts, arena battles, mazes, and color-coded key cards
• Many achievements to unlockIf you’re looking for everything, expect 200 to 400 minutes of gameplay.
The full release will be available with a 20% launch discount during the last week of August 2025.
To everyone following the project, thank you. Your interest kept this game alive. I appreciate all forms of feedback, whether it’s bug reports, balance suggestions, or general impressions.
A quick note on the timeline: Episode 2 took much longer than planned. The actual gap between episodes shouldn’t have been a year, but I had to pause development due to some personal family losses. Now I’m back on track and focused on delivering the best version of Shoomer Booter I can.
See you in the arenas.
Developer postCurrent progress. Episode 2 Level 0 - completed (E2 progress - 10%)
Hello Shoomer Booters. Reporting about current work in progress. Episode 2 Level 0 - completed 100%. The next big game update will be when all 10 levels of 'Episode 2' will be done. The game's price will probably increase from 4.99 USD to 5.99 USD. Here is a sneak peek of the rea
Original postHello Shoomer Booters.
Reporting about current work in progress.
Episode 2 Level 0 - completed 100%.The next big game update will be when all 10 levels of 'Episode 2' will be done.
The game's price will probably increase from 4.99 USD to 5.99 USD.Here is a sneak peek of the ready level:
Have a nice day.
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Tommy Gun Walrus- Developer post
Main Asian languages localisations: Simplified Chinese, Japanese, Korean
Hello Shooter Boomers! Game changes in this update. Localisations for : Simplified Chinese, Japanese, Korean Several game performance improvements; Enemies slightly pushed back when receiving damage; Enemies might indicate received damage (short white blink)' Minor level layout c
Original postHello Shooter Boomers!
Game changes in this update.
Localisations for :- Simplified Chinese,
- Japanese,
- Korean
- Several game performance improvements;
- Enemies slightly pushed back when receiving damage;
- Enemies might indicate received damage (short white blink)'
- Minor level layout changes;
- Other quality of life improvements;
Have a nice rest of the weekend!
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Cheers, Serhii - Developer post
[UPDATE 2] Key remapping feature + otherimprovements
Hello, Shoomers Shoppers, it's Summer Sale time! What was done: KEY REMAPPING FEATURE added to PAUSE -> OPTIONS menu. Updated game engine version (Unreal Engine 5) from 5.2 to 5.4 (needed for key mapping feature). Removed the DLSS Nvidia plugin. Quite strange but this gave FPS
Original postHello,
ShoomersShoppers, it's Summer Sale time!What was done:
- KEY REMAPPING FEATURE added to PAUSE -> OPTIONS menu.
- Updated game engine version (Unreal Engine 5) from 5.2 to 5.4 (needed for key mapping feature).
- Removed the DLSS Nvidia plugin. Quite strange but this gave FPS boost at a low level of graphics;
- More types of enemies spawn loot, "Abomination" (big guy) spawns random 3 loot pieces;
- More (all) types of enemies counted into relevant achievement (kill n-enemies to unlock);
- ChainSaw makes blood splat/squash additional sound at damage;
- Fixed bug when Rocket-projectile cause 1 HP damage;
- Increased Plasma gun damage;
- Improved lights in E1M0, changed pickups, enemies, small tweaks etc.;
- Other minor changes;
But there are a few side effects from the game version update:
1: build size increased from 600 to 680 MB;
2: from prev. step: UE 5.4 currently contains bug with direction light: here and here. This causes absence of shadows from ceiling/walls inside some parts of levels.
Since it's quite a priority bug, I assume it will be fixed soon by Epic Games in the next version of UE.Have a nice end of the week.
Cheers.
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Serhii. - Developer post
[UPDATE 1] Regular "Shoomer Booter" improvements
Hello, Booters and Shooters! I spent a good chunk of this weekend working on game improvements. What was done: Text outline in all UI (menus, dialogues, etc.); Text block centered in dialogues; Vending machine (shop) spawn items of the same type with small coordinates deviations
Original postHello, Booters and Shooters!
I spent a good chunk of this weekend working on game improvements.
What was done:
- Text outline in all UI (menus, dialogues, etc.);
- Text block centered in dialogues;
- Vending machine (shop) spawn items of the same type with small coordinates deviations (increase readability);
- Player footstep rate reduction (from ~200 to ~300 units means sound will be triggered 1.5 times less than before);
- Fixed bug when footstep sound played when players were riding lift/platform;
- Sprint logic changed: one time 'Shift' press - now enabling 'Auto-Sprint' or vice versa;
- Added Voiceover slider sound volume to options - so players could get rid of protagonist one-liners completely;
- Added mouse sensitivity slider (in the range 0.5-2.5 where 1.0 is Unreal Engine default sensitivity);
- Fixed bug when "Quicksave" / "Quickload" could be used only once;
- Added "Portal VFX" and sound for the point where the player placed the "Quicksave" portal;
- Improved all levels of lighting.
- Added sound FXs to "Console of Mudrota" dialogues;
- Other minor changes;
That's it for now.
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Cheers
Serhii. - Developer post
[HOT FIX] Achievement unlocked - fix game achievements
Hello boomers! The first game hotfix (tested at 1 achievement instead of all 45 of them) has been deployed to Steam just now. More fixes with less priority will be done later this week. Gear up your shotguns.
Original postHello boomers!
The first game hotfix (tested at 1 achievement instead of all 45 of them) has been deployed to Steam just now.
More fixes with less priority will be done later this week.
Gear up your shotguns.
- Developer post
June 13. Demo build update (v 0.5.2)
Hello, Boomers and Shooters! This update is mostly based on your feedback. Fixed an annoying bug when the options menu was available only once Improved shooting sound for 'pistol' and 'shotgun' (+10 to gunpowder) NPC ('Datsyuk') sprite now rotating to player Cosmetic changes in t
Original postHello, Boomers and Shooters!
This update is mostly based on your feedback.
- Fixed an annoying bug when the options menu was available only once
- Improved shooting sound for 'pistol' and 'shotgun' (+10 to gunpowder)
- NPC ('Datsyuk') sprite now rotating to player
- Cosmetic changes in the main menu
- Improved skybox (+ clouds) on levels when its available
- A few sound volume levels tweaking (mastering)
- Small changes in ammo pickups capacity (after playtesting)
- Sunlight shadows now more soft (when applicable)
- Some other minor improvements which I forgot to note
Yup, there are some to-do's remaining from feedback at the community hub - I am going to implement more changes before release (next Thursday).
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Cheers,
Tommy Gun Walrus - Developer post
[TECHNICAL ISSUES] Feedback about critical game issues
The player contacted me and described a crit. problem. The game was installed correctly, game menu loaded, after clicking on the demo level -> loading screen -> black screen and no DEMO LEVEL. His Video card is a Geforce 3060 laptop. My development is happening on a laptop
Original postThe player contacted me and described a crit. problem. The game was installed correctly, game menu loaded, after clicking on the demo level -> loading screen -> black screen and no DEMO LEVEL.
His Video card is a Geforce 3060 laptop.My development is happening on a laptop with Geforce 3070 - and there are no such issues.
Moreover, I see people playing in the demo: https://steamdb.info/app/2846900/charts/
And at the community hub, I see some feedback from the players with loaded demo levels (at least their issues are not related to those mentioned above).So I decided to create such a topic/announcement in the community hub to collect all critical issues.
Please share your PC/Laptop specs, so I can identify the root cause and find a solution.Thank you
Cheers
Serhii - Developer post
[NEXT FEST] Shoomer Booter gameplay boradcasting
Developer playing in the first levels of the 'Episode 1'. Try out the Demo and share your feedback. Wishlist if you like classic tiny boomer shooters. The release will be less than 2 weeks from now.
Original postDeveloper playing in the first levels of the 'Episode 1'.
Try out the Demo and share your feedback.
Wishlist if you like classic tiny boomer shooters.
The release will be less than 2 weeks from now. - Developer post
[NEXT FEST] Shoomer Booter gameplay boradcasting
Developer playing in the first 3 levels of the 'Episode 1'. Try out the Demo and share your feedback. Wishlist if you like classic tiny boomer shooters. The release will be less than 2 weeks from now.
Original postDeveloper playing in the first 3 levels of the 'Episode 1'.
Try out the Demo and share your feedback.
Wishlist if you like classic tiny boomer shooters.
The release will be less than 2 weeks from now. - Developer post
[NEXT FEST] Shoomer Booter gameplay boradcasting
Developer playing in the first 3 levels of the 'Episode 1'
Original postDeveloper playing in the first 3 levels of the 'Episode 1'
- Developer post
Shoomer Booter gameplay boradcasting
- Developer post
May 11. Demo build update (v 0.5)
Hello, Boomers! It’s been a while since my last update. Game development is my hobby, but some unexpected events recently disrupted my work on 'Shoomer Booter.' I had a bout with a covid-like virus (yes, for the second time, with eerily similar symptoms). Following that, I had to
Original postHello, Boomers!
It’s been a while since my last update. Game development is my hobby, but some unexpected events recently disrupted my work on 'Shoomer Booter.'
I had a bout with a covid-like virus (yes, for the second time, with eerily similar symptoms). Following that, I had to divert my focus to job hunting, navigating through screening interviews, test assignments, technical interviews, even C-level discussions, and more.
But now that I've recovered from the virus and secured a job offer, I'm excited to dive back into my passion project. While a few minor features may need to wait, the game's release date remains unchanged.
I’d love to hear about your experiences playing the game!
P.S.
I’ve also submitted 'Shoomer Booter' to some indie game festivals. Organizers requested actual gameplay footage (as the current trailer doesn’t capture it accurately). So, I’ve prepared a walkthrough of Episode 1: Level 7, which you can watch on YouTube. It offers a sneak peek at what’s coming soon!--
Cheers,
Tommy Gun Walrus - Developer post
March 17. Weekly demo build update (v 0.12)
Hello, Shoomers! As my virtual accountable partners - you will receive weekly status updates (as well as a new build for the demo version of 'Shoomer Booter'). So today on our menu: Finished assignment of some enemies to spawn pickups at the rest of 'Episode 1' levels; E1M5 - fix
Original postHello, Shoomers!
As my virtual accountable partners - you will receive weekly status updates (as well as a new build for the demo version of 'Shoomer Booter').
So today on our menu:
- Finished assignment of some enemies to spawn pickups at the rest of 'Episode 1' levels;
- E1M5 - fixed 'Level Finished' HUD bug;
- Tweaked 'Secret areas' at the level 'E1M6';
- Added placed 'names' or pickups (weapon, ammo, health) on crosshair over;
- Finished assignment of 'hero phrases' after enemy ambushes at the rest of the 'Ep. 1' levels;
- Added death fall sound for 'Abomination' enemy;
- Fixed bug when 'pause menu' buttons were clickable from the 'options menu';
- Added 'shop'/'vending machine' entity (HUD, logic, model, etc.);
- Added 'shop' to demo level, tweaked demo level layout to fit 'shop';
- Added new pickups: 'Armor Orb', 'Health Orb';
- Added 'Quick Save' & 'Quick Load' functionality (logic, HUD messages, Mapping HUD mention, etc.);
- Some tweaks at majority of levels (lighting, meshes, enemies, pickups, etc);
Feel free to share your playing experience!
Cheers,
Tommy Gun Walrus - Developer post
Weekly demo build update (v 0.11)
Hello, Doomers! As my virtual accountable partners - you will receive weekly status updates (as well as a new build for the demo version of 'Shoomer Booter'). So today on our menu: Reduced explosive barrel sound radius and improved its sprite effect Changed sprites for small heal
Original postHello, Doomers!
As my virtual accountable partners - you will receive weekly status updates (as well as a new build for the demo version of 'Shoomer Booter').
So today on our menu:
- Reduced explosive barrel sound radius and improved its sprite effect
- Changed sprites for small health & small armor pickup
- Tweaked player jump (initial speed, length, etc.)
- Small changes in demo level: pickups, enemies, layout
- Ranged enemies' projectile speed tweak
- Added dissolve effect for dead enemies
- Dissolve material for dead enemies (so corpses will not overlap some valuable pickups like 'key cards' etc.)
- Fixed 'floating hud hand'
- Improved shotgun 'spread'
- Added option - to invert mouse
- Added ability to swap available weapons by mouse scrolling up/down
- Fixed bug with incorrect ammo counter
- improved enemy blood splatter
- Added random smoke after player shot
- Added ability for some enemies to spawn a small amount of random pickup.
- Added new pickup types: credits, small ammo, small shell'
Feel free to share your playing experience!
Cheers,
Tommy Gun Walrus - Developer post
Demo update after 'K.K.' & 'A.O' players feedbak
Hello, Shoomers! Players 'K.K.' and 'A.O.' provided meaningful feedback after their playing sessions. So I delivered some fixes: Changed sprite for small health pickup Increased the 'speed/velocity' of the player's jump Added a few ammo pickups at the start Increased ranged enemi
Original postHello, Shoomers!
Players 'K.K.' and 'A.O.' provided meaningful feedback after their playing sessions.
So I delivered some fixes:- Changed sprite for small health pickup
- Increased the 'speed/velocity' of the player's jump
- Added a few ammo pickups at the start
- Increased ranged enemies projectiles speed
- Fixed corridors too narrow in some places
- Dissolve material for dead enemies
- Blood decals for killed enemies
- Added 'breadcrumbs' in the lava area so the player could find the 'secret' area more easily
- Added dynamic crosshair
- Added the 'Esc' button as an in-game pause trigger
- A few other level/sound/meshes tweaks
- Reduced explosive barrel sound radius & explosion effect
After these playtests, a few more improvements/tasks remained on the list.
Feel free to share your playing experience!Cheers,
Tommy Gun Walrus - Developer post
Update after 'Saint Phoenix' feedback
Hello Boomers! Player 'Saint Phoenix' provided meaningful feedback after the playing session. So I delivered some fixes: Decreased health for enemies: 'Brain-Bug', 'Melee Imp', 'Ranged Imp'; Added more small health pickup Added more small armor pickup Added a few more ammo pickup
Original postHello Boomers!
Player 'Saint Phoenix' provided meaningful feedback after the playing session.
So I delivered some fixes:- Decreased health for enemies: 'Brain-Bug', 'Melee Imp', 'Ranged Imp';
- Added more small health pickup
- Added more small armor pickup
- Added a few more ammo pickups
- Increased values at some existing ammo pickups
- Added 'breadcrumbs' leading to a secret area (near lava)
- Fixed layout so level could reach secret area even with a 'broken' lift
- Small fix on 'broken' lift/platform
- Added capture reflections (graphic improvement)
- Some other minor changes
On average, players, even without finding secret areas with big ammo supplies, could manage to complete the demo level without grinding-punching enemies.
Small hints:
Lava does not kill instantly;
The player could shoot at barrels to blow them up and damage enemies nearby thus spending only 1 shot instead of 4-10
Secrets located at level - could significantly increase chances to finishing level.Feel free to share your playing experience!
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Cheers,
Tommy Gun Walrus - Developer post
Demo change list: 26 Feb 2024
Hello Booters and Shoomers! Since the last update in the 'News' demo build of 'Shoomer Booter' was significantly improved: "Out of Ammo" HUD Message Level Name HUD on Begin Play HUD Short Splash When Player Picks Up Something HUD Message: "2 out of 3 Secrets" VFX/SFX for Spawning
Original postHello Booters and Shoomers!
Since the last update in the 'News' demo build of 'Shoomer Booter' was significantly improved:
- "Out of Ammo" HUD Message
- Level Name HUD on Begin Play
- HUD Short Splash When Player Picks Up Something
- HUD Message: "2 out of 3 Secrets"
- VFX/SFX for Spawning Enemy
- HUD message for cases like: "Red Key Used"
- HUD: Sound - 'Secret Found' case
- HUD: " Ammo Full" when trying to pick up ammo
- Spawn blood splatter in the player's field of view when they take damage
- HUD shows damage direction from enemies (left/right/back)
- HUD: Slot systems for pickup texts (up to 7 rows)
- Localization for French, German, Russian, Spanish, and Portuguese.
- Initial logic for no weapon/low ammo
- Improved simple door mesh/textures.
- Improved finish level mesh/texture
- Die logic for the player
- Frame lock option: 30/60 unlimited
- Options: FPS frame limit
- Enemy: 'Braibn-bug' die special sound
- Improved lift mesh/textures
- Changed simple lift platform texture
- Options/Mapping menu: Fixed button width when localization changes
- Localization tweaks (buttons width etc.)
- Splash screen for loading levels
- Player phrases: Pickups/Enemies etc.
- FPS step, big jump/landing camera shakes
- When the weapon is equipped/swapped, show the HUD scheme indicating which number it can be used with (1, 2, 3, 4...)
- Fixed default sound slider values in the options menu
- Tweaks in level E1M0
- Decreased volume for all music cues
So as you can see - the game will be actively improved!
Feel free to share your opinion.
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Regards,
Tommy Gun Walrus - Developer post
Upcoming Demo version of "Shoomer Booter"
Hello, Shoomers and Booters! The demo version of the game will be available soon . It will be tiny (~ 250 MB in size) and contains Episode 1 Mission 0, aka " E1M0 " (granny explanation for youngest shooters). There will be about 15 minutes of playtime - fair enough to understand
Original postHello, Shoomers and Booters!
The demo version of the game will be available soon.
It will be tiny (~250 MB in size) and contains Episode 1 Mission 0, aka "E1M0" (granny explanation for youngest shooters).
There will be about 15 minutes of playtime - fair enough to understand what players could expect from the upcoming Early Access version of the game.A few minor known issues could be present in "Demo build", but as a solo indie dev - I promise that every reported bug/issue or any meaningful feedback will be carefully considered for immediate fixing or placing into the game 'backlog' and further.
BTW backlog contains 136 tasks/points of improvement. And ~30 of those 136 should be done before releasing the 'early access version'. So there are some queues of tasks that will be delivered in the next builds (but critical bugs and show-stoppers will be fixed immediately).
So feel free to share your opinion about "Shoomer Booter"!
Cheers,
Tommy Gun Walrus