Creating the FIRST BOSS and adding COLLECTABLE trophies to my Indie Game - Devlog #11

In this #devlog 11, I show my process of creating the first boss (or maybe mini-boss) fight, new types of enemies, new scene transitions, and making a flying enemy with complex AI. This goes from the concept art stage (quick sketches) to the fully fleshed out game mechanics and objects that are completely playable.
I also fool around with cinemachine and Unity elements and put a lot of emphasis on polish and game feel!
I also created a new flying enemy named Scooops who is a kind of low level threat in the game. He's meant to be a fun monster to defeat.
I use Unity, Playmaker, and Blender 3D to make my indie game, called Toby's Topsy Tale which was funded on Kickstarter. It is a psychological horror 3D platformer with Lovecraftian elements (which means inspired in part by the works of H.P. Lovecraft). These dev logs are meant to serve as a way for me to track progression as I work towards my dream of being a solo indie game dev. Game design is hard but it's easier with such a great community!
This is hopefully of interest to people who play games as well as those actively pursuing their indie game dev journey and those who have an interest in someday learning how to make games!
Speaking of which, make sure you LIKE and SUBSCRIBE!
Here's the link to my Discord if you're interested!
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[@residentreptile]

AAAA I LOVE SCOOPS SO MUCH!!! ADORABLE LITTLE CRITTER!!! Seeing my art at the end too omg I'm so happy!!

[@coneman844]

I think this is the best enemy yet! And I do have some suggestions aswell! So I think instead of scoops just changing colors he could loose a layer of ice cream and the ice cream health bar could just be 3 scoops on a ice cream cone so the health bar would be combined. I love this game and this series so keep up the good work man!!!

[@esotericgamedev]

The voice acting and characters are SO good 😂❤

[@fluentdebreseJg]

Add food themed weather like raining sprinkles and different flavored snow in the freezer to flesh out the world.

[@Foyxx]

love this series it’s so consistent and overall just looks so fun, take your time and keep going as you are this is great!

[@3gnomesgames909]

Thank you so much!

[@Foyxx]

ofcourse man

[@esotericgamedev]

0:53 that is the bombomb king

[@esotericgamedev]

I love the eyes on the ice creams, spooky sh*t

[@esotericgamedev]

Reminds me of banjo kazooie. Love this project mate

[@YTcustomchris]

Sign Off. "And that's the way the cookie crumbles" lol I miss Jim Carrey movies. Anyways Great devlog. I like the new boss. He is very cool. HA a pun.

[@iamtheonlyjoe]

Let's goo new vid to watch

[@thedrumlover251]

suggestion: you should make it so that when a carter dies he doesnt drop blood ,but rather he drops milk. Anyway love the series, keep it up

[@3gnomesgames909]

Thank you!

[@esotericgamedev]

Omg dude what a concept 😅 keen to see more on this

[@3gnomesgames909]

Thank you so much!

[@jumi6051]

Great Devlog! I really like the overall behavior of the flying cone. But believe me "reskins" are fine. But it won't add much to the game. Changing the color of an enemy doesn't do as much as you might think it does. For regular enemies that's fine, so I won't complain too much here. But the boss definitely needs something different. A boss is what has to stand out the most. Maybe instead of just one Ice cream in the cone, add 3 in a pyramid-like shape or add cream to the cherry, or 4 wings. Maybe even all of that. That way you don't need to model as much. adding two more wings would also just use the same animation as the other 2 wings, maybe just with a small time offset. Same thing with the NPCs. For enemies the same design is fine (and often is important so players realize what they are dealing with), but NPCs should at least vary slightly. Give the donuts different icing, different topping, different shoes, a mustache, etc. You really want the player to feel like he is exploring something new and not seeing the same stuff all over again, just in a different color. I hope that wasn't too harsh. Believe me, I really enjoy the devlogs ! ^^

[@3gnomesgames909]

Thank you so much!

[@kilabeann]

The game looks great⭐️ but I have some recommendations. You should make the terrain and materials more stylistic and candy like to fit the game and also try some more cartoony skyboxes. Other than that the game looks fantastic😲

[@Woopello]

You are so underrated! You deserve 2 million subs

[@3gnomesgames909]

Thank you so much!!!

[@cyberdreamsinteractive]

Im glad I found this, subbed and looking forward to the game!

[@3gnomesgames909]

Thank you!

[@fraggerthefrickinfrog]

I have a feeling this game is just gonna be a big fat pile of food puns.

[@BadTunes.]

I think the boos deferent stages should have deferent speed or powers to make it little bit challenging 😎Btw it was a damn good video,you should say giggydy giggydy in the outro🤣

[@3gnomesgames909]

Nice! Thanks!

[@randomguy3895]

This was really fun to watch! I loved the commentary style. It's very casual

[@3gnomesgames909]

Thank you!

[@PixelPicklez]

I think you should add ice spikes in the distance and under the ice montains just as another sign to not jump in your death

[@PixelPicklez]

getting more into the horror theme you could add a special, super brutal looking and sounding death animation just for jumping into the spikes. it would surely tell you (in more of a secret way) that this game isnt as friendly as it looks on the surface. but its just some suggestion.

[@projectavalongame]

The sign off being you trying to figure out how to sign offs actually makes me not close the video like I do with other sign offs lol

[@3gnomesgames909]

Haha thanks!

[@Bane3M]

I don’t think 3:58 and 0:13 mix very well haha Great progress so far! Love your devlogs.

[@cornontheglobe2883]

I love this series and I would love more of this series. Do you know when you are going to upload more?

[@3gnomesgames909]

Thanks! I've got a couple more levels done and I'm working on the newest episode now!

[@cornontheglobe2883]

No problem and Thank you

[@fangbauble0133]

Looks very nice, but I think the bouncy macarons would look a bit better if they had an animation for bouncing on them, like a squash and stretch, love the character designs and everything else

[@Firepunk-Fantasy]

You should give the Enemies and NPCs some different expression, maybe make the one-eye characters like the Popcicles look towards the characters

[@rookrac7068]

To be honest I think u should stick with the random noises as ur sight off

[@TheSubzeroRonnieLiminalys]

hi. make explosion enemies - neon sushi

[@souptaels]

You haven't really played on the horror aspect of the game yet, besides "blood = scary"(it's not). Would recommend uping the scare factor without using cheap scare tactics like loud noises, gore, spooky designs, etc.

[@notanagger4861]

idk if its just me but the game looks really cheap, might wanna redo most models

[@3gnomesgames909]

Well... It's an indie game... So... No... but thanks for the (not really) constructive criticism

[@notanagger4861]

@@3gnomesgames909 Its just my opinion man, if I were u I’d redo some of the animation and models. U clearly have the capability to do so since some other models look really nice