The Mountain Guardian

Warning

Sword Masters was abandoned in October 2024, and many of its assets belong to the group that owned it, so this system can’t be shown running.

Mountain Top is the boss map in Sword Masters. Everyone in the round fights the same enemy, and its health grows with the number of players.

How it works

• The boss chases the nearest player and launches the trees around it.
• It has three attacks: a kick that sends a shockwave across the ground, two lasers that spin from its platform faster and faster, and hundreds of spikes that come out of the floor all at once.
• It never uses the same attack twice in a row.
• After three attacks it takes a ten-second break, and when it gets up it pushes away whoever is close.
• If you walk up to its leg, it kicks you away.

Under the hood

This boss came from the earlier version of the game, and my job was to integrate it into the rewrite. The portfolio version explains how it decides what to do, with several timers running at once and a draw that avoids repeating attacks, and why a leftover from the old version can leave it standing still in the rewrite.