本视频教程是由Digital-Tutors机构出品的独立游戏可视化开发训练视频教程第三季，Digital-Tutors Indie Game Development Pipeline Volume 3 Game Boss Prototyping，时长：1小时47分，大小：990 MB，MP4高清视频格式，附工程源文件，教程使用软件：Unity 4.3，作者：Joshua Kinney，共16个章节，语言：英语。
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Digital-Tutors Indie Game Development Pipeline Volume 3 Game Boss Prototyping
In this series of tutorials, we’ll go through the process of prototyping the main functionality of a game boss you might see in a 2D side-scroller.
If you started the Indie Game Development Series with Volume 1, you’ve had the chance to work on your game concept art and even work on prototyping the player character. In this volume, we’ll begin prototyping the functionality of our game boss using the powerful Unity game engine.
We’ll begin by discussing the design of our boss battle. This will help us stay on task and identify any holes in our logic. Once we have a solid understanding of our gameplay design, we’ll begin to configure the assets for the game boss and the battle environment. After that, we’ll begin scripting each phase of the boss battle. We’ll begin with small tasks, but before long we’ll have an entire system that will become more and more powerful.
Once you’ve completed this volume, you can move on to Volume 4 where we’ll go through the process of modeling and texturing the main character. Then you can continue on with the subsequent volumes on modeling and texturing the game boss, rigging, animation and final game assembly. These tutorials are step-by-step using our particular concepts, but we really encourage you to have some fun and make it your own.
