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MicroRogue DevDiary #68 – Quadruped boss animation

I’m working on mob animation from before. And I made my current boss mob have four legs, made of 2 parts each: It’s only two sprites, so there’s not much variety, but it’s really nicely reusable and, really, it’s just

Rudy November 26, 2018 MicroRogue DevDiary No Comments Read more

MicroRogue DevDiary #61 – New boss abilities

My levels rely on having bosses — it’s the culmination of level exploration and the eventual reward for a tougher test of skill. I’ve mentioned this before, and so I need different bosses doing fun-ish things. Of course, each new

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MicroRogue DevDiary #51 – Boss abilities

So bosses need abilities — special activated powers they can use periodically. I mean, they don’t have to have them, but it would feel silly if bosses are just big enemies that don’t do anything special. Players have certain unsaid

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MicroRogue DevDiary #50 – Boss interactions

I need to do some boss stuff. The work si slow and tedious and requires lots of effort, but I also need that culmination of fighting for the game. Without bosses, I will be missing something critical in game loop

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MicroRogue DevDiary #38 – Boss improvements

Time to make bosses awesome (more realistically, I’ll add some more framework for all mobs and special consideration for boss AI). Currently, my boss mobs are just enemies with larger sprites. And their AI wiring is exactly the same as

Rudy August 12, 2018 MicroRogue DevDiary No Comments Read more

Recent Posts

  • MicroRogue DevDiary #112 – Final enemy types April 20, 2019
  • Guard clauses are not just for APIs April 14, 2019
  • MicroRogue DevDiary #111 – Gameplay tweaks April 11, 2019
  • MicroRogue DevDiary #110 – More enemy types April 9, 2019
  • MicroRogue DevDiary #109 – New enemy types April 8, 2019
  • MicroRogue DevDiary #108 – Enemy placeholders March 28, 2019
  • MicroRogue DevDiary #107 – Tile pallete March 26, 2019
  • MicroRogue DevDiary #106 – Tile and theme placeholders March 25, 2019

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