Digital Tutors - Indie Game Development Pipeline Volume 3 - Game Boss Prototyping

1h 47m Level Intermediate Project Files Included

Software used

Unity 4.3

What you will learn

In this series of tutorials, we'll go through the process of prototyping the main functionality of a game boss you might see in a 2D side-scroller.

If you started the Indie Game Development Series with Volume 1, you've had the chance to work on your game concept art and even work on prototyping the player character. In this volume, we'll begin prototyping the functionality of our game boss using the powerful Unity game engine.We'll begin by discussing the design of our boss battle. This will help us stay on task and identify any holes in our logic. Once we have a solid understanding of our gameplay design, we'll begin to configure the assets for the game boss and the battle environment. After that, we'll begin scripting each phase of the boss battle. We'll begin with small tasks, but before long we'll have an entire system that will become more and more powerful.

Once you've completed this volume, you can move on to Volume 4 where we'll go through the process of modeling and texturing the main character. Then you can continue on with the subsequent volumes on modeling and texturing the game boss, rigging, animation and final game assembly. These tutorials are step-by-step using our particular concepts, but we really encourage you to have some fun and make it your own.

1. Introduction and Project Overview 01:34

2. Designing the boss battle 07:06

3. Setting up the boss game object 07:56

4. Setting up the boss battle environment 06:50

5. Scripting the checkpoint behavior 07:26

6. Waking up the boss 07:15

7. Disabling the character movement 05:57

8. Animating the boss intro 06:51

9. Accessing animations through a script 07:46

10. Using animation events 06:43

11. Creating the idle timer 07:51

12. Creating the boss health script 06:55

13. Creating the boss attack phase 07:28

14. Activating the hand triggers 05:36

15. Scripting the damage player script 07:35

16. Updating the boss health0 6:25