We Gave Our Final Boss A MAKEOVER! | Roguelike Devlog #41
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- Опубликовано: 28 июн 2024
- In today's devlog, we're taking a look at how we gave our final boss a makeover! We're also taking a look at how we built our boss level for the game.
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0:00 - Intro
0:19 - The Boogeyman's New Design
3:10 - Coming Up With A Theme For The Boss Level
4:55 - The Boogeyman's New Animations
7:30 - Building The Boss Room
9:46 - Summary
10:24 - Question
Billy's Nightmare is a fast paced roguelike game set in the nightmares of the pyjamas wearing boy Billy. Find powerful abilities, explore with your mount and fight your way deeper into the nightmare to find Mr Sandman's stolen Dream Catcher. Unlock cool outfits, face the nightmares alone or together with a friend in local & online co-op!
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What kind of attacks should the final boss have?
how about a jumping towards billy and the impact of the landing will cause a shock wave which you will need to roll in order do dodge the shockwave and a another attack which he summons some tentacles on the ground attacking billy maybe shooting some projectiles
@@Napogaming-gt8nk Thanks for the suggestion!
Copy the past boss attacks but only one after there attacks also is a weaker version
So you know the type of attack where the boss shoots projectiles in all directions. What if its like that but the bullets go inwards instead of outwards
l think one of the features of this creature boss is to summon enemies in other chapters
Those leg animations are awesome, great job Jonas.
Thank you, BenBonk!
I don't think you should spoil anything else about the final boss after this video.
We will show the redesign of his room and some of his attacks, but not how the game ends.
Procedurally animating spider legs is always super satisfying when you get it done right! Great work!
Thank you, AndrewDavidJ. I'm glad you liked it!
The boss should summon some of the nightmares that morph into random enemies from previous levels.
This idea is also a stretch but a cool concept would be a challenge run after you complete the game. This run would make you complete the whole game with a single life all the way to the boogeyman and if you can reach and defeat him in a single life he would drop a special currency that can be used on exclusive skins. One of these could reference the zelda like character that started this whole project. This could add loads of replayability!
This game looks so freaking cool and I can't wait to pick it up from steam!!
Thank you, Theliara! Completing the game with 1 HP would be a real challenge ^^
that boss looks amazing!
I feel like it's attacks should be based around common fears and the black tentacles it can manifest.
For example: an attack that blinds the player, this will make for a good challenge because of all the lava in arena, or nightmare tentacles that come out of the ground to grab/slap the player
Thank you for the suggestions, Alme Studios! :)
Ideas.
1# Neutral- The Boogieman can use a melee attack using his staff to hit Billy.
2# Neutral- The Boogieman can spin his metal base on the bottom and charge up a ramming attack like the football player, and charge at billy using his legs.
3# Range- Using his staff and dream catcher, The Boogie Man puts them together to create a big laser pretty fast around himself, like the nurse, (Or that follows Billy himself)
4# Range- The Boogieman can use his staff to spin it around the dream catcher, and launch a barrage of Homing Bullets towards Billy, with the same attack pattern as the Jester or Lunch Lady.
5# Special- The Boogieman can deeply laugh with using his dream catcher to bring life to summon even more varieties of the basic enemies in the tutorial, that are stronger and look stronger.
6# Special- The Boogieman has a chance of disappearing into the dark, (Like the Boogieman,) and pulling cheap melee shots on you when reappearing, or reveals himself to shoot Bullets
:/ Idk Man
Haha thanks for all the great suggestions! :D
Very cool 2D graphics. The new boss looks very cool. I have respect for pixel art, because I am pretty bad with it xD
Thank you, Phodex Games. I'm glad you like it! :)
I can not wait for this to be finished! Ive been waiting for this for so long! Also! As far as attacks go, i would say since he is the boogyman, the cause of all nightmares he should be able to change the playing feild since your deep into his domain, spawning enemies to back him up, creating tile changes like maybe some kind of temporary floor hazard and for physical attacks maybe he could swipe at you with his legs while also spawning spells via his staff, and for a creepy twist though it might be hard to implant, a special attack uniqe to him, maybe his head could flip around similar to the chesher cat from alic and wonder land as the tellegraph for this attack and he could shoot maybe a laser or a to give it an even creeper vibe a large sweeping tentical that launches out and then sweeps at you befor reaturning from his mouth, maybe that attack could be used after he loses 25% of his health each time? Thats just my thoughts but im not much of a game dev xD
Oh! Last randome thought, since this is the very end of the game maybe when he reachers the last bit if his health he could do a scripted event where he realeses a finale spread of attacks, this could br like a last ditch effort attack for the player to avoid and show there true skill so like a finale bullet doging squence, once he uses his attack and it ends, maybe after 30 or 20 seconds he could show a finale animation, maybe as his old sprite where he is exausted and no longer attacks you so you can land the finale shot, xD now that i type that out it sounds kinda like over kill but maybe it will give ya some ideas!
Haha thank you for all the suggestions, Jetter06! Looking forward to a Let's play of the game from you, when we relese it ;)
I would maybe make the final boss spawn other enemies at some point because it would make him more unique and give him more of a final boss vibe
Spawning other enemies is a great suggestion. Thanks, Kraut!
He occasionally send Billy into flashbacks of older boss fights but with less health that he has to beat before coming back and fight. A nightmare within a nightmare
Thank you for the suggestion, Patrik!
An attack where he spawns loads of spiders that all swarm around the player would be cool
Sounds like a scary attack. Thanks for the suggestion, dijjidog!
Nice Video! I think one of the attacks the Final Boss should have is summoning/creating creepy hands that try to grab at the player or something similar to that. I hope it turns out to be a great game!
Thanks for the suggestions, Jarron Polonio! :)
I think some kind of interaction with the lava would be very cool. The church could start out with no destroyed floor and the bogeyman could spawn pillars of lava that also destroy the ground tiles. This would make the bossfight harder over time as there would be less space to walk on. Something similar is done in Mario 64 and the final bowser fight, or Hollow Knights final boss that starts to spawn spikes on the floor. It also makes the arena more organic than just an empty canvas, and makes the fight more intertwined with its theme.
Another proven idea are homing attacks to break up the bullet hell parts of the boss by making a few projectiles very dangerous instead of covering the whole screen with them.
Another big point i would like to mention: It would be really nice if you could add colorblindness options to your game. For me and other people with protanopia it is sometimes quite hard to differenciate the red projectiles from the ground (especially if it is brown or green). If you could add an option to replace the bullet sprites with another color like blue instead of red you would help a good chunk of your playerbase. It can be quite frustrating to get hit by a projectile that you literally couldnt see.
Thanks for the suggestions, Die Mülltonnen Crew! Destroing the floor sounds like a cool idea. Hmm perhaps we could add an option to change the color of the bullets, like you change color of your outfits?
@@JonasBromanBest case scenario would be a color slider or something similar. If that is impossible to implement a few color options are very helpful too like red, yellow and blue. And thanks for the great content aswell.
I've been following the devlogs since the start. I'm gonna play the heckleberries outta this game when it comes out. Maybe I'll make my own roguelike someday.
I'm glad you find the game so interesting! :D
you should make the boogieman a dash attack where it does damage if its in your way and summon minoins of itself with little bit of health.
Thanks for the suggestion, Bryson Smith!
Looks awesome. The legs od boogeyman are amazing! Great work.
Thank you, Jamón GameStudio!
i think he could have an special attack where he shoots a beam from each point of the dream catcher
Thanks for the suggestion, Steve Harrington!
I've seen a lot of people suggest for him to spawn enemies from the other zones, I actually think that's a bad idea since the enemies basically act the same from one zone to the next, just with some minor difficulty increases.
Yeah I guess. But we're probably gonna let him spawn some nightmare creatures, like in the tutorial.
Hey jonas, remember the guy that said that his son made this game. Add him to the game as an easter egg, it will be really fun to find it.
Haha yeah, that would be fun!
One of his attacks should be that he jumps out of the arena to spawn different enemies from different areas
Spawning other enemies sounds like a fun idea. Thanks, Joel!
@@JonasBroman no problem, bro
i have a really good idea so if you can change the difficulty of the game there should be a mode called Torment mode and basically the enemies are faster stronger and have quicker animations. Also there should be an achievement where you beat the game without dying
Edit: i think beating the game gives you a bloodstained billy sprite when playing the game again and beating it without in torment mode without dying gives you golden pyjamas
Thanks for the suggestions, Steve Harrington! We have 1 outfit that you will unlock by beating the game and another one that we have to create an achievement for. But I don't know if we're going to show the outfits in the devlogs ;)
A jump and smashing attack would look cool with the legs! Maybe he can throw boomerang leg blade projectiles too?
Thanks for the suggestion, Neat Games. A jumping attack sounds cool!
I think he can summon a lot of nightmares as a attack
The boss is looking super good, great job with the leg movements.
I think it'd be great if each septer did something different. Like the original staff could great reaching tentacle attacks across the ground, and the dream catcher could manifest objects from earlier levels and toss them at you.
Then you could add some spinning leg attacks or his head could shoot your regular fireballs as an AOE attack.
Thanks for the suggestions, Zach010Home!
Great video!
Thank you, AstrusHD!
That staff looks like something that could shoot beams into the air that will fall down around the level
Thanks for the suggestion, Anees Aljahmi!
That thumbnail is a god damn masterpiece!
Haha indeed! ^^
Spin attack. When his legs are spinning like a helicopter and he is flying towards Billy
Haha thanks for the suggestion, Aleks!
i was thinking you could have like a mixed nightmare zone with lots of random rooms at the end there could be the dentist the ocean an firey hell and more before you fight the boss
Thanks for the suggestion, Jim!
Congratulations guys, that Final Boss looks great, it's too satisfying to watch him walk
Thank you, Jose Ramon Rodriguez!
Make him able to somehow attack with those nightmare tentacles/roots. Like maybe they sprout out of the ground and whip at you before going away. Also he should use the tractor-beam he used on the dream catcher in the tutorial.
Thanks for the suggestions, Hydra gamedev!
Super cool!
Thank you, GaloFrango!
Wow.... very interesting video, didn't think that I would like a tour to a dev's mind, but I ended up loving it.
Thank you, OmniscGames. I'm glad you liked the video! :)
thank you from the bottom of my heart for not showing a real spider when you were talking about the spider design and only showing a drawing. omg spiders are so scary.
Haha yeah, I hate spiders too xD
He should summon lots of mini spiders that attack the player
Thanks for the suggestion, Delilah Huebner!
an attack where he possibly infuses the needed dream catcher with evil energy and releases little minions would be cool
Thanks for the suggestion, Hudlez! The Boogeyman will summon some minions
Congratulations. You've managed to make this boss look terrifying and awesome in the same sprite! I hope you can sort out the boss room as I agree that the lava is quite distracting. Perhaps it could be dream lava with a different colour or look more like cooled down magma.
Thank you, Skeffles! We're actually working on a new room now, that's not as distracting as the old one :)
I just binged all of your devlogs in the last 2 days. This game looks really amazing, when do you think you'll make a steam page so I can wishlist it?
Thank you, Jake Hill! We will try to make a Steam page soon. I'll make a devlog about it when it's time.
I just love boogeyman's legs! The animation is so cool! Anyway, i have some suggestions.
For now, the only use for stars are new pajamas, bur what if there was more? Like, you could use them, for example using computer in billys room, to buy new toys that will appear as abilitys in game? Or a quest from tooth fairy to give her some stars to upgrade her shop (each level gives you bigger stock in her shop, more to chose from)
Thank you, Meguszczaw! Upgrading the shop sounds like a fun idea :)
You could have used procedural animations for the boss legs.
How do you mean?
maybe have two categories of attacks...
He could use the staff for targetting the player with homing shots or shot gun cones
while the dreamcatcher could be used to signifie weblike patterns that are more general around the player
combined would make the fight challenging as he has attack patterns but can use combinations of them making him a little unpredictible
Thanks for the suggestion, Flooded Mars!
pretty cool idea for the final boss!
kinda reminded me of how you created the jack in the box
Thank you, Kennedy Komornik!
I honestly think you should add final animations for the characters like the tooth fairy is writing down her will and etc
Thanks for the suggestion, Unfortunately Tree!
I think the stage transitions could be upgraded to something that ties the levels together a little more. For example for the transition from the school to the movie set, Billy could go up on stage in the gym (because schools gyms tend to have stages, at least all of mine did) and some sort of talent show could happen, then the director could come and be a judge for the show and then hold up a sign that has a 0 on it to show that he hated it and then scream at you which pushes you back all the way to the movie set stage. Not sure what to do for the other stage transitions nor how to transition for killing the boss to performing on stage. This also seems like a whole lot of unnecessary work, I just think it would be really cool.
Thanks for the suggestion, Bryce!
You could have it attacks bee phobias like claustrophobia he could trap you in a box
Thanks for the suggestion, Billy Burke!
I think one of Boogeyman's attacks will be summoning the little versions of him that will chase the player and can annoy the player a little bit or more. Also, I'm thinking of Boogeyman having the ability of swimming and diving in lava so that the environment will be used effectively lol
Thanks for the suggestions, Kyle! He at least has the ability to walk in the lava at the moment :)
It looka AWESOME!!!!
Thanks, ne mene! :D
The Boss look super epic now :D
Thank you, SloothGames! :D
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What about a baseball attack where he summons a giant projectile and hits it with his staff. The projectile would bounce around the room
the boogieman should shoot out a swarm of projectiles which together form the shape of a dreamcatcher... this way it will seem as if the attack is powered by the dreamcatcher
That sounds really cool. Thanks for the suggestion, Mads!
There should probably be an attack or phase where he turns random tiles of the floor into lava so you have to adapt to a chaning enviromen... i just think its importat that the surrounding area changes as the boos proggreses to bringe a more adaptive playstime and not just cheesing a certain spot in a level wich might make the boos boring after fighting him more then 3 times
Thanks for the suggestion, Master of Disguise!
Since you've implemented IK for the legs, you could have the boogieman try to stab Billy with them if he gets too close
Yeah I guess that could work with the legs. Thanks for the suggestion, Sir Manfred!
Great video! However I think the lava looks a bit strange. Maybe try doing a flowing animation?
Thanks for the feedback!
Make it so near the end of the fight, you can harness the power of the dream catcher. And when you beat the boss, you get a cool Boogeyman outfit.
Thanks for the suggestions, UserLuigi!
omg u are kicking those devlogs out like crazyyy is that little boy back on the team??(lol)
Haha you never know! xD
I do think you should change the enemy bullet sprite to something like a ball with eyes and a mouth or something that implies nightmares.
Thanks for the suggestion, Batman!
@@JonasBroman Batman is always here to help
Great video you're very skilled! I'm just beginning on unity learning to make 3d games
Thank you, Trust!
@@JonasBroman no problem! Your chanel is very entertaining!
Maybe you could add an attack where the boss sends out a tentacle to grab Billy
Thanks for the suggestion, Alessio Gelmo!
I hope that the game is still being developed!
Yes, the game is still in development. Hopefully more content will come soon :)
I do kinda wish there is more levels but I think mods can help with that so I think you should definitely add some mod support with steam
Also the boogie man should have an attack where he summons a random enemy with the dream catcher and he should also probably have a attack with his legs
Yeah, but adding mod support would be very difficult and time consuming this late in the development
Where did you learn to create this amazing stuff for your game ?
With some RUclips tutorials and years of experience
You could make that creepy monkey with cymbals toy for your next boss
Thanks for the suggestion, but we already have that monkey as a normal enemy
When will the next devlog come out
Hey what if you made his attacks fear based? Like bats as homering projectiles or
Thanks for the suggestion, The Corn Noir!
That was some epic boss lol. May I ask what game engine you use?
gms2 he says it in the video
We're using Game Maker Studio 1.4
Are all the other levels not plagued by the black vines/veins like they are in the school level? The portals rising up looks a bit odd in the other levels given that the vines/veins are no where else in the level.
Thanks for the feedback, LaRip8! We might add some nightmare tentacles to the other levels later.
I'm like new to your channel and late in the dev logs but are there soundtracks?
Yes, the game has music. Or what do you mean?
the final boss should have an energy beam that comes from the dream catcher and if it hits you it will spawn tentacles that will suck health out of you and give it to the final boss
Thanks for the suggestion, Kigin!
@@JonasBroman thank you
has anything happened since this video was uploaded? has it been released?
You guys alright? Is the game cancelled? I've been following since episode 4 and I really hope this game releases
Hey! The game is still in development, but we have been working on a lot of "behind the scenes" stuff and also lots of things we don't want to spoil in the devlogs. We will soon start to add new abilities and outfits, so I will make a devlog about that and ask for suggestions.
Did you use 3D physics or 2D? Did you use Unity3D? Thank you
It's a 2D game made with Game Maker.
@@JonasBroman I see thanks. I was curious as I knew some 2D games made with 3D physics and I have been contemplating which one to use
He spawns various other monsters from the different levels
Thanks for the suggestion, David!
i think the lava looks to solid it should probably be more watery
Thanks for the feedback!
He summons the older him but smaller and he’s slamming
Hmm what do you mean with slamming?
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when do you do devlogs
but im wondering what will this game have in replayability cause as of rn most of the unlocks come with the story i unlocked every skin in a single day a couple months ago
We will add more skins and unlocks later.
Are you using a older version of game maker to make this game
We're using Game Maker Studio 1.4
Boy do you sound swedish 😂 I love it
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Hey so I am working on getting a pc and getting into programming. I wanted to ask you for some suggestions on what pc I can get that works well (in the $1-1.2k range). I want to start creating mobile games then work my way up to pc games when I’m comfortable with my creations. I also want to ask what platforms that you use or can suggest to use. I haven’t done much research into the platforms I can use but I will do that soon. Thank you for your help and I really like how ur game is looking.
Hmm good question, but for simple games I think that any computer will work just fine for you
why don't you want to release this game to early access in steam?)) this game is really cool
when will new devlogs come
I'm actually working on a script for the next devlog now, so I guess it will be sometime in the near future
Hear me out when u beat the game u can find the dream catcher as a item in the tooth fairy’s shop and maybe heal u or kill all the enemy’s in the room but have like along coolndown
Cooldown*
Thanks for the suggestion, Donut man!
I'm still bummed about RUclips not popping your video to more videos after all those great devlogs for a year now, all the content uploaded for a year with only a few thousand views on each is really concerning :/
Since I changed the style of my videos, the analytics are better. So hopefully more people will see the devlogs soon :)
where ar the devlogs
Did I see LEGO men running around shooting? How did you manage to get the rights for those?
No no, those are Pego men ;)
Have you finished the game yet
No, but we have almost finished everything "important". So soon we will start to add alot of new abilities and outfits etc
@@JonasBroman awesome
leg tornado. just leg tornado...
Haha how would the leg tornado work/look?
@@JonasBroman like a leg tornado
jk. For example The Bogeyman can jump, then spin his legs/legs and body for a bit and after that just put them on the ground. When he steps on the ground he should be in a crouching position. This attack isn't very long, but does consistent damage up close. You can even make some sort of projectiles if you don't like the melee style
@@Yani_Ya Ah I see, thanks for the suggestion!
Ohno you havent uploaded for over 3 months... Did the dad from the filippines get you?
Haha no he hasn't defeated us yet! ;)
What’s going on It’s been 6 months since the last update? Im smelling some big news here. Let’s just hope they are positive news
wait when this game is done would you please put it on steam i would actually pay 100 Australian dollars for a steam release
Yes, we will release it on Steam :)
He should not make dust when he Steps on lava
Yeah we have some lava splashes we're going to use instead. But thanks for pointing it out, Marco!
That thumbnail 😂😂😂😂😂😂
Haha! ^^
just make the attack extreme
Extreme in what way?
@@JonasBroman the director cut attack or glitch attack
have u stopped devolepment??
No, the game is still in development :)
@@JonasBroman then where are the devlogs its been like half a year
When i Played the demo the game honestly felt a little bit too easy. Maybe you could up the difficulty and add certain meta progression updates that make the player stronger with each run. Otherwise some skilled players might just finish the game on their first run, making it a really short playthrough.
But maybe that’s just my personal preference
Yeah, getting the difficulty right is pretty challenging. Some people say the game is too easy, some say it's too hard xD
@@JonasBroman Yeah I believe it's really hard especially since not everyone is equally as good in videogames. I guess you'll just have to do a lot of testing
@@amenberk1157 We have an idea that you get Stars from normal bosses, but you have to kill the last boss to get another kind of currency. This way, only the best players can buy the coolets outfits.
@@JonasBroman good idea. This would definitely encourage players to play the game more often after they beat it
Maybe you could also add a Feature that allows you to make the game a little bit harder the more toy play it
@@amenberk1157 Perhaps we could add some kind of in-game feature to make it harder. But how would the game be harder and would you still only get 1 Star per boss etc?
+1 for not having some cringey oc / pic of urself making some irrelevant expressions plastered throughout the whole video like other tubers
You mean for the thumbnail or in the video itself?
Make it on mobile pls
that wouldnt work
That would be pretty much impossible xD
@@JonasBroman ok