Boss Monsters

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Powerful enemies players have to overcome to reach goals in games.

This pattern is a still a stub.

Examples

Bowser in the Super Mario series

Doom series

Crysis

Dungeons & Dragons demons Orcus, Lloth, Demogorgon.

Using the pattern

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History

An updated version of the pattern Boss Monsters that was part of the original collection in the book Patterns in Game Design[1].

References

  1. Björk, S. & Holopainen, J. (2004) Patterns in Game Design. Charles River Media. ISBN1-58450-354-8.

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