How can I make a boss battle?

xRyeunMigsx

My bosses are like this,
Each boss has 3 phases
Music gets more intense each phase
A cluster-fest of enemies
A way to damage the boss

I’m currently working on a boss, a lumberjack that wants the most valuble wood (Wood of the Spirits of Nature), but nature fariys tried to stop his deforestation, always failing, even the Spirits of Nature, the only ones that can beat him are humans (Obviously) because they can use techonogly attacks at him, I will not tell his attacks but I will tell the enemies.

Phase 1
Running Apple (Falls from tree)
Rolling Orange (Falls from tree)
Drilling Turnip (Spawns randomly)
Circling Carrot (Spwans randomly)
Lumberjack (Spawns randomly)
Demolishmen’s Truck (Needed to defeat him)

Phase 2
Repair Men’s Truck (When boss stunned)
Possiessed Nature Fariy (Spawns randomly)
Crazed Pear (Falls from tree)
Running Grapefruit (Spawns randomly)

Phase 3
Tree-Cutting Robot (Spawns randomly)
Ramming Lumberjack (Spawns randomly)
Lumberjack Helicopter (Called by boss)

This boss is gonna be hard.

yellowmarkers

Use a variable to change phases.

xRyeunMigsx

yellowmarkers wrote:
Use a variable to change phases.

I already know that, now enemy attacks

Running Apple: Runs towards you. Hitpoints = 5
Rolling Orange: Rolls towards you. Hitpoints = 5
Drilling Turnip: Floats above you, a few seconds after it dashes down. Hitpoints = 5
Circling Carrots: Circles you and slowly closing in. Hitpoints for each carrot = 1
Lumberjack: Attempts to cut down the tree. Hitpoints = 10
Demolishmen’s Truck: Needed to defeat the boss, will spawn from both sides and accidently drop its bombs you can use to attack the boss. Hitpoints = Unable to attack
Repair Men’s Truck: Attempts to repair the boss’s truck. Hitpoints = 20
Possiessed Nature Fariy: Flys towards you. Hitpoints = 10
Crazed Pear: Goes crazy. Hitpoints = 10
Running Grapefruit: A buffed version of Running Apple. Hitpoints = 10
Tree-Cutting Robot: A buffed version of Lumberjack. Hitpoints = 15
Ramming Lumberjack: Rams the tree. Hitpoints = 10
Lumberjack Helicopter: Flies above you and lumberjacks land to the ground. Hitpoints = Unable to hit

NOW THE BOSS.

Stats

Def = 10
Hitpoints = 450 (150 Hitpoints for each phase)

Attacks

Still not gonna reveal.

Last edited by xRyeunMigsx (Feb. 1, 2019 09:30:38)

SkiSunshine

for the defence and hit points I would use:

change [ Boss HP] by (((0) - ((((attack damage) / (10)))))

xRyeunMigsx

SkiSunshine wrote:
for the defence and hit points I would use:
change [ Boss HP] by (((0) - ((((attack damage) / (10)))))

What about the enemy AI?

Last edited by xRyeunMigsx (Feb. 1, 2019 04:48:02)

xRyeunMigsx

And the boss' HP bar?

xRyeunMigsx

Why is no one replying

1132262

xRyeunMigsx wrote:
Why is no one replying

Ooh, you need ai? I may be able to help with that. When I'm done, I'll link to the project.

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Bosses require many different processes to function. How you would create your specific boss fight would depend on what you want your boss to do, what genre your game is, and how complex you want your boss to be. For example, the code for Thunderblight Ganon from Breath of the Wild probably looks a lot different from the code for, say, one of the minibosses from the Kirby series. However, generally, bosses contain these three things:

Being able to do damage, as well as take damage.
Attacks that are more complex and/or damaging than a regular enemy's.
An element of drama that makes it known to the player that this isn't just a harder enemy, this is a boss. (For example, music changes, cutscenes, the sudden appearance of the bosses' health bar, and dialogue between the two characters are all things that could count as this.)

The first two points of this list will be significantly easier if you code the regular enemies/beginning part of the game before you start worrying about the code for the boss. If you have working enemies, that means you have a damage system already in place, and all you might have to do to allow your boss to take damage. If you have regular enemies that attack the player, you can build off of code you used to create their attacks to create your boss attacks.

Bosses are very specialized, elaborate pieces of data that vary greatly from game to game, or sometimes even from different parts of the same game. Compare and contrast Marx and Meta Knight from Kirby: Super Star Ultra. If you asked me how to tell you how to make a Kirby boss, the first thing I'd ask is: “Well, who's your boss? What would its attacks be?” There isn't an easy, cut and paste formula on how to make a boss: There's as many ways to make a boss as there are bosses. Really, a boss is more of a role a character plays in a game than it is something that has one specific way or mechanism to code it. While I definitely understand why you'd want to keep what your boss does a secret, it's going to be very hard for anyone to help you if nobody knows what it does. You definitely have the creativity and vision to make one, now you have to share that vision.

xRyeunMigsx

Platformer, right at the boss, also his machine would be a lifter engineers used to lift objects.

1132262

xRyeunMigsx wrote:
Platformer, right at the boss, also his machine would be a lifter engineers used to lift objects.

?

xRyeunMigsx

1132262 wrote:
xRyeunMigsx wrote:
Platformer, right at the boss, also his machine would be a lifter engineers used to lift objects.
?

y u post question mark

1132262

xRyeunMigsx wrote:
1132262 wrote:
xRyeunMigsx wrote:
Platformer, right at the boss, also his machine would be a lifter engineers used to lift objects.
?

y u post question mark

I'm confused.

xRyeunMigsx

Bump!

cbr2011

xRyeunMigsx wrote:
My bosses are like this,
Each boss has 3 phases
Music gets more intense each phase
A cluster-fest of enemies
A way to damage the boss

I’m currently working on a boss, a lumberjack that wants the most valuble wood (Wood of the Spirits of Nature), but nature fariys tried to stop his deforestation, always failing, even the Spirits of Nature, the only ones that can beat him are humans (Obviously) because they can use techonogly attacks at him, I will not tell his attacks but I will tell the enemies.

Phase 1
Running Apple (Falls from tree)
Rolling Orange (Falls from tree)
Drilling Turnip (Spawns randomly)
Circling Carrot (Spwans randomly)
Lumberjack (Spawns randomly)
Demolishmen’s Truck (Needed to defeat him)

Phase 2
Repair Men’s Truck (When boss stunned)
Possiessed Nature Fariy (Spawns randomly)
Crazed Pear (Falls from tree)
Running Grapefruit (Spawns randomly)

Phase 3
Tree-Cutting Robot (Spawns randomly)
Ramming Lumberjack (Spawns randomly)
Lumberjack Helicopter (Called by boss)

This boss is gonna be hard.

bones0379

help help help help

codingronzie

how do you switch music with a custom block when a boss fight is happening? this is the block i used

when green flag clicked
play song (pick random (1) to (4)) until done

define play song (song #) until done
play sound (song #) until done
play song (pick random (1) to (4)) until done

Last edited by codingronzie (June 24, 2021 17:37:39)

Yusei-Fudo

codingronzie wrote:
how do you switch music with a custom block when a boss fight is happening?

Hi, if you need help, please make your own topic. More people respond with answers to a topic than a reply.

Ignore the first sentence of the picture.

Last edited by Yusei-Fudo (June 24, 2021 17:37:59)

h-tiamattb

and i cant find a good arena for him

coIIide

h-tiamattb wrote:
and i cant find a good arena for him

Please don't necropost. If you need help, create your own topic.

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