Crimsonland -- inspiration to game devs

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Bustamove wrote:

Its kinda the same? You shoots projectiles on zombies top/down and aim with the mouse.

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Mark_GGG wrote:

Man, that brings back memeories. I haven't played Crimsonland since before it was finished - an unfinished version of it was available free as an example of a 2d library they were using in it, which is how I found it, and the version I played lots of

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anubite wrote:

Scripted behavior on a boss makes it too easy to exploit.

WOW raid bosses are scripted encounters. They aren't epic at all; you learn how to dance to the scripted encounter and you keep doing that dance after you've mastered it; you never have to adapt or account for a change in an enemy's behavior.

Non-scripted encounters give bosses an array of abilities and an AI to use them. Vaal is this way; although he's extremely predictable, you never know what he's going to do until he decides to do it. There is no pattern or "rage mode" or any of that nonsense. You need to react to what he does in order to beat him. That's good boss/enemy design.

ARPGs are highly replayable, scripted encounters are not. You figure out the trick once and then that's it. I still ocassionally die to Vaal, because he is not scripted.