I Revamped This Old Boss Fight in my Indie Game! 

Excellent work on the boss fight! The only thing I would change about it is the trumpet lasers, I don't think fit the theme of it and look weird, I would add a wave animation to it and maybe try to break it up so it's not one solid beam and more of a sound wave.

So all this time watching benbonk… WE HAVE BEEN THE SAME AGE!!! It’s crazy to have such great results at such a young age!

Looking great! But I think the new piano attack for the DJ boss fight should have a keyboard across the whole bottom of the screen and fire out the actual MIDI art of the music upwards at you

OH MY GOD, I was waiting for this video ever since you made this boss, the bossfight was EPIC

i love the remake you did for the DJ boss :0 it adds a lot of character and memorability to it :) but i do think the trumpets should be shooting sound waves rather than laser beams would be more thematically fitting the amount of extra decor you made is nice too i think it looks great! ^_^ though i think the whole rooms not having variety is due to the floor only being one colour and one type of floor for most rooms

Dude congrats on graduating and getting into college! As a game dev in college myself, yeah its pretty difficult to focus on school stuff AND my game. BUT, if there's anyone who can do this, its you! Best of luck man, keep doing great!

Can we talk about how awesome this music is? I can't wait for this game to come out so I can play it and for the OST.

You made me want to do game development I'm so glad I found your channel Keep up the great work

New Slimelog! :D I love how you used my music in the boss fights!

This is one of the most interesting looking boss fights I've seen in a while. Definitely going to be a favorite.

love the boss revamp, the attacks could do with some more impact like the projectiles flashing white when appearing or easing in/ out of movement like in Just Shapes & Beats to emphasise the sync

You should add faint cloud shadows that move across the screen randomly in certain parts of the game. That would create a much more imersive feeling if done right!

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man 42 that is such a big number I have been here since the start since 19 even and can't WAIT to see the final game and play it but no rush the more time you take the better it will be, keep it up

Bro really made an entire JSAB level

Loving the game progress so far. One thing I would suggest but all depends on how you want lay it out is explaining one or a few boss mechanics subtlely to the player. I thought I remembered in some older style games they would use some decoration items or enemy mobs near the boss entrance to introduce at least one mechanic either toned down or in some fashion to prepare the player for the more intense fight. Then once that decoration was destroyed (could be like a hidden turret object or whatever makes sense) or the enemy mob was defeated, it wouldn't respawn after the boss was defeated. Basically, because its like a mini tutorial for the boss. Hopefully that makes sense. It's all up to you whether you want to totally surprise the player with different mechanics or not, just wanted to offer that concept. Giving the player advance notice kind of makes it easier for them to understand how to beat the boss or survive an attack, but it also comes with the drawback of potentially reducing the difficulty.

The boss fight looks great but I personally think it could benefit from some post processing. Screen shake color changes and so forth. Still great work!

The new decorations look great! I think the natural features (rocks and vines) really fit the main rooms, and the benches would probably fill some empty space in the break rooms. I love the boss fight, it looks like a big improvement :) I don't if you already planned on adding animations to the boss attacks but it looks still, that and sfx might mix better to show how it matches the beat. Also, having more equal space on the sides of the room might make it easier to use the dash on it. ANYWAYS, these whole devlogs have taught me about game dev (I don't get as frustrated when I see what you go through) I'll definitely be playing it anytime it comes out !

Maybe coming up with a theme for the entire games location could help decorate the rooms. Maybe making the rooms be some kind of park with pathways could be cool or honestly whatever you come up with. Good luck in college!

The boss looks cool as fudge! The king of boss fight creation has blessed us yet again!

Congrats on starting college! I'm happy to follow along on this channel at whatever pace you choose :)

Instead of setting everything as a list for weapon timing, you could have the music have different triggers built/encoded in for each specific attack to watch for so just by changing the music the boss fight adjusts automatically to stay in sync.

I have 4 dumb ideas. First, a very expensive and rare heart container that permanently makes your max HP go up by one, maxing out at ~15 HP. Second, a very rare and expensive stamina vessel that increases dashed by 1 permanently, and maxes out at ~7 dashes. Third, a shield that blocks some attacks and reduces knockback. Last, a weapon that charges by collecting the souls of slimes. For example, if you killed a basic slime with your pistol, you would get a few souls. These souls are used as powerful bullets that can create a very small explosion that has high knockback and high damage. Soul bullets could not generate souls, though. Everyone tell me what you think in the replies!

loved the music part of the video! As you know, I'm making a devlog about making music and roguelike as well! we're brothers! :)

I have been wondering for a while now what most of the point of the mini-map as it's currently implemented is, and now with the question of optimisation, here's my pitch: Instead of it just showing a zoomed out version of the rooms, why not simplify it to squares that only show what sides they connect to other rooms, and maybe an icon to show the main feature of that room (e.g. house icon for your house, a dollar sign for a room with a shop, skull for a boss room, etc.). You wouldn't even need to track the player's position in the room for the mini-map, just whatever room they are currently in.

You should call the 3 different attack versions for the DJ boss verses

Nah but that boss theme SLAPS. Your composer got talent.

*suggestion* for improved variety in rooms: Create an object that spawns a random wall decoration and then self-destructs. Write a quick script to replace all your hand-placed wall decorations with the spawner object. This way, every time you enter the same room layout, the wall decor will be different!

As a tuba player I can confirm that those whole note projectiles coming from the tubas are accurate.

The DJ fight is gonna be this game's fan favorite boss, kinda like Zenith in Paper Planet if you know that game

Thats really cool man! 🎉

Hey benbonk! I have been watching this channel ever since slimekeep started and am so thankful for this channel and all the ways you helped me through tough times. You deserve way more subscribers than you have. Can’t wait to keep watching videos, even if they don’t come out monthly. Thanks :)

6:02 DUUUUUDEEEEEE you gave a really sick idea holy shit a boss fight that has the midi of the song playing for you to dodge. like those synthesia piano roll videos. holy fuck that would be awesome, and i'd love to make the song thinking about people dodging it, and sneak in some midi art and everything ughhh that's just too fucking cool

Trumpet lasers look a bit static compared to everything else. Maybe making them shake a bit would look nice. Everything else looks really cool!

ok this is really cool and the music too

This is fire man the sync is awesome

Oh crap we're almost the same age! And I just started college too! Congrats on graduating, and good luck with college!

I just had a cool idea. Once you finish the game and kill the slime king, there will be unlocked a new mode which will be like a nightmare mode where everything will be 2 times harder and this mode will be called slimare. That would be super cool to have in your amazing game. Also thank you for being such a cool youtuber.

the furniture and other things in the room look very cool, i really like those :)

5 Optional suggestions: 1: Add a setting to remove corruption if you don’t like it 2: A narrator/bot to read text somehow 3: Language Settings (for multiple episodes) 4: By beating the game, you get to unlock full-colour mode 5: Mapping system so people have their own maps to make, and pick between an automated slime system or add their own If you use any of these ideas, I would like to have my name in the credits (optional) I prefer if you use YTScratchStuff in the credits (I am using another account)

Not a Unity dev, but surely Unity has something like a canvas for UI. UI should never need a camera or in any way be influenced by the game world (unless your fog of war is incredibly hacky)

Wow i didn’t know you were 18! I'm 17 and I have not made anything as cool as you have but I know I could one day make a game as cool as yours! (I think it will be a bit before I make boss battles that cool!) I hope college goes well for you! I am currently working on a project related to slimes as well! It is probably my biggest project yet but I am making sure to keep it at a reasonable scale. My sophomore year i made a game for FBLA and got 4th in the state of Missouri so I guess I'm not too bad. I hope both of our games about slimes are successful! I am excited to see the next dev log!

I love what you did with the boss! it looks like its going to be a fun challenge! Good luck at College and I can't wait for the next devlog!

I literally just finished watching all the Slimekeep devlogs and this comes out... the timing is crazy

Ya know its kinda funny, you and me are very similar. I’m 18 as well and have been working on my game for about 2 years now and I’d say I’m about as far through it as you are with Slimekeep (Tho I’d say my games a tad smaller). You’ve been a huge motivator to keep me working on my game, I can’t wait to watch as Slimekeep develops more and eventually becomes a finished game

Well, for starters, congrats on graduating high school! I hope college is a nice and fulfilling experience. College is an extremely transitional time in someone life, and as someone who’s graduated at the end of last year, I can say that it’s very normal to get caught up in college and not have a hold of the things that made you “you” outside of your studies/work. What’s important to know is that once you’re out of college, you will have the leeway and free time to find out what those things are again. I had some online pals who I didn’t have the time to talk with, but since graduating, we talk just as regularly as we used to. Don’t sweat Slime Keep. Even if you are swamped, it will be there when you have the time to get back to it. Your channel will be, too. You’ve done great work, and I can’t speak for everyone, but I will continue to be a fan of you and Slime Keep, be the next upload a month or 4 years from now.

calling this boss old made me feel old because it feels like yesterday since it was first added

I am so hyped for this game! It’s looking great so far!

Oh man that music and that boss fight is 🔥

Nice work! I'd suggest syncing the camera to the music as well so it's not so static and the beats feel more alive

I’m totally addicted to indie roquelikes, I’m gonna no life this like I did with patch quest…

I think you should add difficulty options

I guess you could say the short passages of music really reVAMPed the fight.

i had no clue you were only 18 ! keep up the great work

Dude, you just graduated high school?! That’s awesome and I totally love that you wanna focus on college and still work on the game. Personally, I always love sitting back and checking in whenever you upload, I didn’t even notice it was once a month. But it blows me away that your ability to code is this good in high school, it’s just one of those things that surprises people. Anyway, I’ll still be looking out for your next vid, even if you don’t get to work on the game til your breaks, I’ll still be here! ❤

Boss fight looks and sounds great!

Hey, ben looks cool. I'm writing this comment after getting to 5:37 (what I'm talking about comes before that). The attacks are cool, but the character definitely seems to stay in the same place the whole time. Like, I really doubt anyone would ever purposely go on the sides or closer to the dude for fear of getting hit. I think a solution to this could be either making the attacks crit on the north and sides of the arena or drawing a line where you can't shoot projectiles / the projectiles will hit the line instead of your target. Or, maybe you could get knocked onto the sides by the attacks. Also the trumpets 🎺 look like lightsabers.

If you're not already doing so, you should make it so each music loop in the bossfight switches which version. It would make the boss a bit more random during the fight while still keeping the beat.

It's great seeing a game about music. Those are hard to come by.

The DJ boss look really cool and satisfying but it can get better by adding sometimes screen shakes

The trumpet attacks look WAY too much like lightsabers. Really awesome concept though, with the art fixed a bit for that it would really shine more

Woah, assumed you were already in college this whole time. Best of luck and no pressure to keep up the same pace, but hope you do finish it

good luck in college!!! hope to see more slimekeep, but take as much time off as you need for school!

I think that it would be cool if you had adaptive music for each non boss room and it will change depending on the stage of growth of the slimes by making certain elements of the music louder depending on the type of slime and removing the elements when that type of slime is killed

yo congrats on graduating man!

I think adding some rugs would help with all the rooms looking plane.

Yaaay finally new video. I’ve been watching since the very beginning and I love your content

When you load another "zone" you have -100fps for a second. i think you can do a preload when the player is close to the zone

Siivagunner is very happy with you - three versions means three high quality rips.

Yo, I don't know if you read these comments, but making the laser have a 2-3sprite animation going really fast to make it look like its flowing would make it look way better instead of a static sprite

i think a idea for optimizing the ui camera is to disable it rendering all layers and only render stuff in the ui layer

i think there could be some screen shake in the dj fight because of the music

Im currently trying to make a roguelike and your videos inspire me to put in the work to make it better,

I think the Piano attack can be improved, maybe instead of moving the piano from left to right, it can be a bigger sprite that doesn't have to move, so a bit harder by making it less predictable. The rest of the fight looks awesome tho. Another thing that would make a cool change would be a day/night cycle, giving you a time limit for each day, giving the game a bit more depth and really making you decide on how you should spend your day. You found Ron the Rat!11!!!1!!!11 🐀

Another option could be dynamic music, with specific instruments playing during certain attacks

I was waiting for #42

i love youre videos i have been following since the very start and love when you upload😊

I don't know how to implement this in unity but the ui elements should have abstractions and basically everytime you change some value it re-renders the element. You could also do this for the minimap where you only update it when the player moves. You can also make the minimap render a bigger area than the part you see and if the movement doesn't go outside that additional part you don't do anything.

I just found your channel with this video, your game looks really cool!

I know a lot of people are probably saying this, but I had no idea you were so young! Congrats, you're a really good developer

I just realized I’ve been watching you for a while once you said you made the boss 2 years ago

Okay, don’t even know if you will see this but here goes. I had a problem like the ui camera for my fps where I want to render the weapon on a different camera to remove clipping. What you should do is make a new layer for the ui. And have the ui camera only render that layer and the normal camera never render that layer. Worked for me hope it does for you.

music is a bop

should have made the title " I Remixed This Old Boss Fight in my Indie Game!"

Here’s an idea, multiple game save files so you can have different games.

YOOOOOOOO my friend Splash is in the video :DD

the biggest surprise in this devlog is that HE'S 18!!!!

Great video Ben! I hope you enjoy college, good luck! Brilliant update to the fight. I think it looks really fun, how does it feel when playing?

The boss fight song is a banger, but it doesn't sound like boss music at all tbh... Way too funky and happy I think. But with the attacks it will probably work anyways, so it's fine.

suggestion: add even MORE slime types

for the UI camera, could you just have render or whatever when the UI is updated?

Yooooooo we have the same age thats actually insaaaaane

UI optimization idea: Dont render frames in a specific time interval, instead update the ui when something on it changes

Im not quite sure how the ui camera works, but can't you just set the canvas sort order higher, to go above the other one?

18???????? Omg you're a beast! Good luck in college g!

Love the game but I think a episode deticated to little tasks and things you can interact with and do would be great. Instead of always adding new big things maybe add many little feature throughout the game. Throughout different rooms. Love the vids keep it up

make sure to take plenty of time in college! as a college student myself, it can verify that it can get stressful! just make sure you get enough time not only for college but for yourself! rest is important!

looking great though it does lack some polish on the visuals department, the sprites of a lot of things are just too stagnant, adding animations like with what you have on the main speakers would make the fight look much better, also have the tubas line up with the shots they fire rather than just idly moving up and down, this also applies somewhat to the other bosses in the game that you have shown

epic video i love this

can you use the benches for cover? If not, I think that would be a neat idea!