I Worked on This Bossfight for 3 MONTHS! Here is the Result... 

that's a prety hard question to answer haha but i'll try! it's mostly because I prefer being a self-employed freelancer without having a boss to worry about, i value being able to make my own work times and make my own schedule as it suits me. There's also the face that while i do game development, my main background is more in video production than game development, so that is my day job :) those things just come together really nicely in this channel where I get to use my know-how of game development together with my skills in video production and communication to help (and hopefully sometimes entertain) people :) and there's the simple fact that I just like to help people learn!

@@thegamedevcave Ok. I understand. Thanks for answer!! Good luck with continuing this channel, you're doing a great job! :)

honestly didn't come to mind but I imagine that would still end up with a similar issue to the IK thing, how do I know what to apply to make the blade overlap with the player? My current solution also is a bit messy though XD but yeah, i think whatever i do, if I don't hhave any infomation in my skeleton about where the blade is, i'm just kind of screwed. but hey, i guess that means I learned something, going forward... i am 100% going to include the weapon into the character model/ skeleton to prevent this issue XD

@@thegamedevcave Most likely yeah.. Some problems I've never thought about as well. If you have some fellow gamedev that worked on similar game mechanics, worth asking how they handled it. You have a discord ?

actually got a video coming in the next couple of days that touches on why soulslike is very much not like that. SoulsLike AI is actually a fair bit more in depth than you'd imagine at first glance. as with anything, getting something roughly done is pretty easy, as you say : just a matter of walking to the player location and playing an animation. but then taking that rough idea and refining it into an actual gameplay experience is where most of the time and effort comes in.

​@@thegamedevcave I doubt that, it is basically a lot of long wellmade animations, sure some enemies are more advanced because they extend the same player controller but most bosses usually are that dumb.