well it can work in every genre designing at the scale is trickier than you think and if you're not careful you can cause a lot of collateral damage let's talk about the design of colossal boss fights some games that ran into massive problems and how different game styles go big today's episode is sponsored by gxe from opera gx gxe is a platform full of browser games that you can play for free on opera gx the first browser for gamers gxc has all kinds of games from small experimental ones to larger games made with more resources by more experienced developers i've been playing a neat little game called doodle alive it's a puzzler where you play as a little doodle that can freely flip between the real world and the paper world to solve puzzles in the paper world you can move in a top down style while in the real world you move in a NUMBER_TOKENd platformer style it's a clever little game that i highly recommend checking out check in week to week on gxc's popular lists they're getting new games all the time and you can find some promising new titles you've never heard of before gxc has weekly game challenges with prizes attached too the challenges are free to enter and you could win up to NUMBER_TOKEN NUMBER_TOKEN in gift cards use my link below to head over to gxc play some games and win some prizes thanks gxc the giant boss fight is well worn territory sometimes it's more monster sometimes more mech some fights are a surprise one-off and some are the game's very core some lean into the spectacle and some the mechanics there are so many different ways you could go with it that any colossal boss fight is good right final fantasy xv has a cautionary tale the adamantis one of the game's optional super bosses is against a living turtle mountain but what's wrong with it you ask that looks cool and you're right this is cool but this isn't does punching a wall sound fun no then let's take a step back why do games have giant boss fights in the first place not to sound too obvious but it's a fun concept everyone wants to be david fighting goliath boss fights are supposed to be memorable unique spectacular elements of a game they're a final test of your skill a narrative crescendo a harder challenge and a way to force you to think a little differently about how you've been playing the game up until this point a giant boss fight checks all of those boxes in a ready-made super flexible format but what's so special about a giant boss it's just big right sure but we're talking about bosses big enough to impact how a game operates by its mere presence colossal bosses throw a wrench into a game's movement mechanics animation systems your environmental design even how the camera in your game works you can't drop godzilla NUMBER_TOKEN into your game and expect everything to just work out if you want to add in a giant boss you've got to tailor every aspect of the fight to fit your game's strengths it usually takes some custom work to make the tweaks to fair colossal boss into a game it might involve minor changes or it might require building new systems from scratch but not every game does that legwork the
START_SPONSOR_TOKEN today's episode is sponsored by gxe from opera gx gxe is a platform full of browser games that you can play for free on opera gx the first browser for gamers gxc has all kinds of games from small experimental ones to larger games made with more resources by more experienced developers i've been playing a neat little game called doodle alive it's a puzzler where you play as a little doodle that can freely flip between the real world and the paper world to solve puzzles in the paper world you can move in a top down style while in the real world you move in a NUMBER_TOKENd platformer style it's a clever little game that i highly recommend checking out check in week to week on gxc's popular lists they're getting new games all the time and you can find some promising new titles you've never heard of before gxc has weekly game challenges with prizes attached too the challenges are free to enter and you could win up to NUMBER_TOKEN NUMBER_TOKEN in gift cards use my link below to head over to gxc play some games and win some prizes thanks gxc END_SPONSOR_TOKEN