This Giant Demon Spider Boss is the Stuff of Nightmares. Meet 'Twins'. / Penitent Devlog 18

Let me introduce you to Twins, a demon that is a giant spider with a head and torso of a creepy baby doll. It turns out there's way more to making a boss fight scene that I had anticipated. In this video I break down the scene and the character. I needed to revert to Godot 4 alpha to record this... Godot 4 Beta 1, bar all of its hype, has a bug in GPU particles with makes it unusable. Hopefully they fix it soon.
Here's the link to the Unity IK tutorial I mention in the vid:
• C# Inverse Kinematics ...

[@ZooHair]

Every devlog is Epic-er than the last!

[@stevemcwin]

The Twins look really creepy and I especially like the "hiss" you've added. Also, Miziziziz has a video on procedural spider leg animation for Godot (it's in 2D tho), for anyone who wants to try giving procedural animations a try.

[@Gredran]

You are going to be definitely shown for years to come in reference to Godot and Godot 4! It’s so amazing and polished! I love this series! 😊

[@Rex-sy8ye]

Looking good so far! 2 ideas; - To emphasize scale add dirt puffs when the legs hit the ground, that also makes it more grounded. Effects are jank so I guess not todo soon. - For the ammo thing, have corpses/debris littered around the area and maybe tie some of those objects to the legs that you can shoot off and collect?

[@odriden1696]

The warning hiss was absolutely chilling! It's awesome!

[@ianrhys]

Triple A game in Godot .... You my friend have done the impossible. This looks insane!

[@blackmetalgamer6694]

Dude this looks awesome but i gotta say the rap music kinda ruins the mood but other than that i just found your channel and i absolutely love your project looks awesome

[@Caebel]

I think it would be a good tweak to make the spider legs step less often, maybe by only stepping when the new footfall will be far enough away from the old location. Or maybe a step cooldown? It looks a little tapdancy at the moment, not as weighty as it could.

[@WiseNoodleOfficial]

I am so invested in this. I really want to make a AAA game like this will be. Godot is my fave game dev engine. Taking notes!

[@Yumemocchi]

You're the boss, really, every one of your devlog is just amazing

[@siupa23]

Maybe make Twins eyes glow in the mist, so it would be easier to spot them form a far. As form ammo, why not make Twins spawn little spiders, that explode near player and they leave goo that can be used as ammo( player gun can be bioengineered weapon? )

[@kipa_chu]

This is gold for newbies like me. Thank you sir.

[@pro_rookie_gamedev]

Congratulations on having Penitent featured in G4 Beta 2 release. It made me happy to see 😄

[@jojoshousho9106]

Genial amigo, muchas gracias... ya falta poco para la version final 4.0

[@montecarlowithdawningornam1817]

That's pretty fucking metal

[@tzerland]

Would not like to meet this guy IRL

[@guruji1997]

can u add , destroying leg feature .. like player can individually destroy each leg

[@KamranWali]

Awesome video! The Twins look super awesome. Their animation and attack style fit perfectly for a boss of that type. The hiss it gives from the distance is spot on and gives a really scary and creepy vibe to it. Really like the procedural animation to the legs and it makes the boss look more natural and scary. Is it possible to dodge the attack of the boss? In the vid it seems every attack of the boss gets hit. Maybe allowing the player to able to dodge the attack may make the boss battle a bit more fun. Just sharing an idea. :) Awesome video, awesome progress and looking forward to your next devlog. Keep it up! :)

[@TheDadd]

Badass

[@nosdregamon]

Awesome on all levels. The sounds are sooo good.

[@unhott1893]

This is so gorgeous!

[@jRsqILVOY]

The pure red eyes don't look scary enough tbh, maybe make them like open wounds? It'd also be scarier if the faces were animated in combat, and the little body moved and reacted too. Also please add a jetpack!

[@BadTunes.]

holy this is nice

[@diegohiroshiysusvideos2909]

Very Creepy and Dark. When I did be big, I want to be like DevMar: Godot's Master.👨‍💻

[@sebastiansossa6834]

I like so much your proggress

[@dumpsterProductions]

Amazing!!!!

[@actualdevmar]

Thanks!!

[@Light_n_shadowDev]

nightmare time :)

[@fadofficialmusic]

For that procedural creature.. Y'all can follow polyjford on KZbin for the blender tutorial... He'll teach you how to make the creature within blender without any add-ons or plugins.. It's clean and simple..

[@demian5631]

Having an ammo crates could also serve a second purpose: as improvised explosives. Were you to shoot the ammo crates on the spider, they would explode, stunning it for a brief moment at the cost of not replenishing your ammo. Then again, would that be an exception to the game's normal rules, or can every ammo crate be blown up? Also, adding a spinning up sound effect (and animation) to the minigun as you aproach the spider approaches could also help emphasize to the player the danger they are apporaching.

[@lismith5733]

Godot Game Master！~

[@Chevifier]

Add some rocks for cover maybe

[@Sam-hd7iy]

are you using substance for texturing?

[@actualdevmar]

nope

[@kahwigulum]

yea but doom already has a spiderdemon so i don't know what you think you can do to improve on that

[@igorthelight]

How about Beta 2? Is it more usable for your project?

[@actualdevmar]

Beta 2 has fixed it. It's actually the best release yet.

[@igorthelight]

@@actualdevmar Glad to hear it!

[@tharik_fad]

2:28 is that you rapping?

[@actualdevmar]

Yes... OK, no.

[@tharik_fad]

@@actualdevmar a'ight what song is that?

[@Light_n_shadowDev]

how to implement those legs on Godot then :/

[@BojanDam]

Blood particles look geeat! Can you explain how you made them? Thanx man, cant wait to play.

[@actualdevmar]

it's a mix of particles and animated sprites

[@BojanDam]

@@actualdevmar Looks great!

[@Chevifier]

How was you conversion of the code from alpha to beta 1. I had to swap out all my preloads to be loads. But its temporary for now.