Final boss needs some Love

[jaygarcia]

• Fix shadow
• Come up with new attacks (should it be a combination of the wizard attacks?)
• Better overall attack/defense mechanics.

-- Nice to have

• Replace redundant animations with something that is programmatic (or other sprites). (his sprite sheet is pretty wasteful)

[jaygarcia]

@Aaron-Goldman please let me know if you're able to tackle this task. :)

[Aaron-Goldman]

Some ideas currently testing for final boss:

• Four health bars. Starts off invulnerable as health bars visibly fill up from 1 to 4 rows in HUD. New attacks after first and second bar depleted. More rapid/frequent attacks after third bar depleted.
• Boss inherits charging attack from mid bosses and projectile, pillar attacks from wizard. Does not retain bounce, teleport, illusion, or self-heal behaviors.
• Adding a "leap" attack to both final boss and mid bosses where the boss jumps in the direction of the player's current location. Shadow indicates the landing point.
• Boss is surrounded by a "shield" of pillars while stationary, blocking all sword damage. Shield drops during some attacks, during which boss can be "stunned" with a well timed sword hit.
• Attacks occur in fixed, repeating patterns, to avoid long periods where the boss is invulnerable.

[jaygarcia]

@Aaron-Goldman these all sound awesome! let's get them prototyped so we can play test them. Dude, you have an awesome imagination for this stuff!

[jaygarcia]

@Aaron-Goldman how are things going w/ Droganos? :)