Boss Fight

During game project 5, I was tasked with creating the boss fight inspired by the Diablo 3 boss Belial.

During the implementation of the boss, I worked closely with an animator. After having meetings on what attack the boss would execute, we decided that the animator would take the lead. The animator would decide how the attack would look, taking feedback from both level designers and me. After the animation was finished, I would code colliders to correspond with the animation.

When finalizing what attack the boss would perform, the player’s abilities were taken into account. For example, the sweep attack was chosen so that the player was required to use their dash ability to avoid it.

Collaboration

During the implementation of the light beam attack, the duration hadn’t been decided yet.
Instead, we decided that we should make the attack dynamic so that if the level designers wanted to change the length of the attack, we would have to re-animate the attack.

I suggested that we divide the animation into three phases: Start, Attack, and End. At the start of the attack, the Start animation would play once. The End animation when the attack was done. While the Attack animations would continue to loop until the desired length of the attack was concluded.