Boss Buddies!

Project Monster Boss Buddies (BB) is a VR raid shooter where every battle is a boss fight. Players equip a variety of loadouts to team up with others and defeat our dastardly bosses.

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Inspiration

A lot of inspirations from Monster Hunter to Splatoon, and artwork from Dan Dan Dan to Dragonball. We wanted to create a raid focused game for VR from day one.

What it does

BB is co-op VR shooter built around compressed raid-style encounters. The current concept supports 8 players, with a architecture designed to scale to 16.. Every enemy is treated as a boss class unit, designed with attack patterns, positional and timing challenges, that reward coordination and teamplay. Play throughs are short with 3-5 minute sessions and focus on strategy and skill mastery vs. long missions.

Players start each run by selecting a loadout from 6 core ability types: shooting, healing, teleporting, grappling, movement tools, and utility weapons. Similar to other raid style games, the system wants team comps and synergy vs pure DPS. Our goal with BB is to build a VR native raid experience that is short, intense, mechanically driven, and focused on social gameplay

How we built it

We designed on paper first, then did a few runs with Roblox and Unity Engine to get a concept of the game design. We have started our development on Unity to have the best VR experience for Quest.

Challenges we ran into

Multiplayer set up was the most difficult, but we were able to cross the obstacle with the help of our friends at normcore.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

Getting 8 player lobbies running smooth, even with players from across the country! The gameplay design is a lot of fun for all of us working on it. And most importantly how we are developing our own visual brand and art style. Our first original boss will be CRABMAN. We think he'll be a real 'gripping' boss.

What we learned

VR and social is the most important area of development. We wanted to make sure our designs promoted team play and communication as well as the fun factor.

What's next for Boss Buddies!

We're going to build this and with the the help of the funds from this competition (if we win!) we can get more art and audio as well as support for our engineering efforts.

Please let us know if you would like to chat! We're passionate about talking Boss Buddies! and hope you can consider our game for the competition.

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