Suggestion/Idea

This may be pathetic/already used/evil/absolutely not-like/absurd/stupid, but I was thinking about this idea after a long while for the MFGG forums.

Boss Battles are very important, fun, look forward to-able, awesome things. Some people play games just for the boss battles. Some reviewers play fangames up to the first boss, then stop. Good boss battles are crucial to a good game.

Boss Battles, among other things, can be extremely creative and fun to make and also tough to come up with (as far as good ones go.) I've seen some creative boss battles recently, such as Fracktail and King Croacus from Super Paper Mario, or perhaps Big Bungee Piranha from Yoshi's Island DS.

We have Minigame comps, but what would it be like to have a Boss competition?

For example, someone makes Boss Comp. 1: Boo. Everyone who enters must make some kind of enormous (or perhaps small but challenging) boo boss and the winners would be based on creativity, difficulty, and how well their bosses work. Also, before the competition, the creator would state the difficulty of the boss (Rating from a rating system I came up with; World 1 Miniboss to World 8 Final Boss, World 1 mini being the easiest.)

Just an idea.

So would this be a "Draw a boss" competition, or a "Make a boss battle in GameMaker" competition, or what?

I think he means the latter.

We've had one of the fangame competitions be purely about making a boss battle. I agree that I love them and look forward to them, but I don't think we need to start up a whole new competition section for them.

If you have some good boss ideas though, you should make em 8)

Boss battles aren't a general subject, so you really can't make a competition based on those only. Good idea though.

I think it'd be a fun concept, but it would grow old really fast. I mean, how many boss battles can you do without recycling or making it just like a minigame?

Ah, I see. The main downfall I thought about when I posted my idea here is that it might accidentally lead to tons of boss ideas being used that could have otherwise been used in fangames for better reason; or perhaps someone would use a boss battle that they thought up that was already thought up and used in one of the comps and they'd freak out and argue about who made up the idea or would get flamed for stealing the boss.

Yea, that'd be too bad. I feel if I do have any good boss ideas, I do wanna use em in an official fangame, as much as I'd just like to make em right then =X

The games industry itself seems to have lost what a boss battle is, it's needed; maybe not as a regular competition but I mean if you started throwing some up, I'd participate I'm fascinated by the stuff

What about the minigame comps? Have any of them ever been "Make a Boss" or something?

Yes, one not too long ago.

If an engine or model was provided, I would happily try.

Like, tossing a different textured/bigger enemy at you? Or just tons of standard enemies at once?

This post has been edited by Elly on Jun 22 2007, 09:12 PM

well, first this is more of a fangame thread, second as not good as that idea is I think its important that when making a fangame you keep what has been said in mind

That is one badass idea, but like what was already said, it'd get pretty old. Fast.


But seriously I would love it.

We need more boss-themed minigame competitions. I mean, just once in a while. Maybe every 4th minigame competition needs to be boss-based? But then that kind of kills the fun for the winner if he wants to make it something different. Oh well.

And I'm also for every minigame compo to be 2 weeks in length. With no extensions allowed. I might sound hypocritical saying this because I've asked for extensions in the past, but I've changed my mind.

This post has been edited by Mariotroid on Jun 22 2007, 11:00 PM

Oh come on, it's not that bad of an idea!