Designing a boss room
Designing a boss room encounter is a critical part of game creation that combines aspects of narrative, mechanical, and environmental considerations to create an engaging and challenging experience for players.
There are several key areas to consider when designing a boss room encounter, and we’ll take a shallow dive into a few:
- Narrative element: The encounter should feel like a natural progression or even the story’s climax.
- Boss mechanics: The player’s battle with the boss element should stand out as a unique experience, separate from the player mechanics mainly being used, requiring players to adapt a strategy to overcome attack patterns and other behaviors.
- Environment design: The layout of the boss room itself should complement the narrative and mechanics being implemented. This is a special consideration for MR because we’ll use the player’s own room (i.e., their physical space) to construct the gameplay...
