It Takes Two Boss Analysis | Anne-Laure Caminade

It Takes Two

Game Design - Boss Analysis (2022)

Context

Project Details

The objective of this exercise was to analyze a boss character from a game, specifically examining its patterns and behaviors.

Document in French.

1 month
Solo project
Tools
- Powerpoint
- Excel

Quick Overview

Boss Type

Here we analyse the characteristics of the boss encounter with Joy in It Takes Two.

Joy is a static boss, appearing deceptively large as its height does not reflect the level of threat it poses.
Its status as a technical boss stems from the absence of a traditional health bar, with vulnerable points only becoming accessible after combat phases against waves of minions.

Strengths and Weaknesses

In this slide we compare Joy's strengths and weaknesses.

Minions Setting Parameters

This slide presents various attributes and their values of some enemies, including:

- their Health Points (not explicitly displayed, can be deduce based on the damage inflicted by the two playable characters)
- their Movement Speed
- their Types of Attacks
- their Attack Triggers (conditions that prompt enemies to initiate their attacks)
- their Attack Frequencies
- their Attack Damage

Attack Pattern of Joy in an endurance phase

This slide shows one of Joy's endurance phase.

During endurance phases, six sledgehammer plants smash specific areas in a specific order.
It challenges cleverness, timing and reflexes.

Full document (pdf)

Reflection

Doing a boss analysis allowed me to overview what is the process of designing a boss fight, through the skills we want to challenge, its narrative integration, and the different values or patterns to consider and balance.

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