Basic Settings

The basic settings define the core attributes of your boss:

• Creator Name: You can set your name as the creator of the boss.
• Boss Name: Choose a name that fits your boss’s theme and personality.
• Description: Provide a brief description of your boss. This could include backstory, personality traits, or special features.
• Difficulty (1-5): Set the difficulty level from 1 (easiest) to 5 (hardest) to indicate how challenging the boss will be.

Health and Audio

These settings control the boss's health and the audio environment during the battle:

• HP for the Boss: Set the health points for the boss to determine how resilient it is. The player deal between 200-400 damage so you can use this to calculate how many turns you want the boss to last
• Music: Choose background music that plays during the battle. This can be selected from existing tracks or imported from a FILE/URL.
• Background: Select the visual background for the battle scene to match your boss’s style. This can be selected from existing backgrounds or imported from a FILE/URL.

Mode Settings

Mode settings allow you to adjust the difficulty of the boss's attacks, player health, and sprite appearance:

• Mode Attacks: Set whether existing attacks should use easy, normal, or hard mode.
• Mode HP: Choose how much health the player will have during the battle (e.g., 100(hard), 200(normal), or 500(easy) HP).
• Sprite Mode: Define the visual style of the boss’s sprite. Options include normal (black and white), colored, or alien mode.

Sprite and Interaction

Customize how your boss looks and reacts to player actions:

• Skin: Choose the sprite that represents your boss. This can be selected from existing Sprites or imported from a FILE/URL (more on this later).
• Hit Mode: Decide what happens when the boss is attacked: options include shake, dodge, immune, or block.
• Voice: Assign a sound effect or voice that plays during dialog sequences with the boss.

Optional Score Settings

These optional settings allow you to add a scoring system to your battle:

• Scoreboard: Display a scoreboard during the battle.
• Score Per Update: Set a score that increments every frame to reward continuous play.
• Score Per Attack: Increase the score when the player lands a successful attack on the boss.

Adding Dialogs to Your Boss

To add a dialog, type your text in the text box and press the "Add" button. This will add your dialog to the list below, where you can manage all your boss's dialogs.

• Adding a Dialog: Enter the text in the text box and click the Add button. Your dialog will appear in the list.
• Editing a Dialog: To edit an existing dialog, click on the dialog you want to change in the list, modify the text in the text box above, and press the Update button. If you change your mind, press the Cancel button.
• Removing a Dialog: Swipe right or left on a dialog in the list to remove it.
• Reordering Dialogs: Press and hold on a dialog item in the list to move it to a new position.

Advanced Dialog Commands

Dialogs support advanced commands that allow you to control how the text is displayed. These commands help create dynamic interactions, control the flow of text, and trigger special effects.

• Text Formatting: Use special characters to manage text flow, such as adding new lines, pauses, or clearing the text box.
• Custom Game Commands: Include commands that affect gameplay, like changing music, adjusting the boss's behavior, or triggering effects during the dialog.

For a complete list of available commands and their usage, please refer to the Dialog Commands Help Page.

Using Single Sprites

A sprite is a single image that represents your boss during the battle. Unlike a sprite sheet, which contains multiple images, a single sprite only displays one static image.

• Image Requirements: Your sprite image should be a single file where the transparent areas are set to the color #FF66FF (a bright pink color used as transparency).
• Size Recommendations: Boss sprites are usually no larger than 200x200 pixels. This size keeps the image detailed enough to be recognizable without overwhelming the screen.
• Testing Your Sprite: To test your sprite, select "File" as the sprite type and click the Load button to upload your image.

Using Sprite Sheets

A sprite sheet is a single image file that contains multiple smaller images, or "frames," arranged in a grid. Each frame represents a different part of the boss, such as the head, body, or arms, and can be animated or moved independently.

• Concept: Sprite sheets allow for more complex designs, such as animated parts or modular designs. For example, one section of the sprite sheet could be the head, another the body, and another the arms.
• After Uploading: Once you have selected your sprite sheet, press the Advanced button to access further customization options for your sprite parts.

Advanced Sprite Part Customization

After loading your sprite sheet, you can add individual skin parts, preview how they will appear, and set up advanced features such as animations and movements.

• Clear List: Clears all current sprite parts, allowing you to start fresh.
• Add New Skin Part: Add a new sprite section by specifying the part's name, starting coordinates, size, and other properties.
• Preview Options: Use the Preview button to start the boss and see how the parts look, or Preview with Dialog to test dialog commands on your sprite parts.
• Debug Info: The Show Parts Debug Info option displays the x and y positions of each part with their offsets, helping you position parts accurately.

Defining a Skin Part

• Part Name: A unique name for the sprite part, like "Head" or "Left Arm."
• Starting X/Y: The coordinates on the sprite sheet where the part starts (top-left corner of the part).
• Width/Height: The size of the part in pixels.
• Scaling: Adjusts the size of the sprite part relative to its original dimensions.
• Position X/Y: Offset values used to adjust the part's position on the screen (negative for left/up, positive for right/down).
• Custom Attack Switch: Enable this if you want the skin part to be used as a custom projectile in attacks.

Movement, Animation, and Rotation

You can add dynamic effects to your sprite parts using movement, animation, and rotation settings:

Movement Settings

• Move Direction: Sets the movement direction in degrees (0-360), where 0 is down.
• Move Duration: Specifies how long it takes for the sprite to complete one movement cycle.
• Move Distance: The distance the part moves, useful for effects like breathing.

Animation Settings

Animation settings allow multiple images in the sprite sheet to be displayed sequentially, creating an animation effect.

• Animation Set: Defines the frames of an animation. Frames should be laid out left-to-right and top-to-bottom, with a 1-pixel separation between frames.
• Animation Parts: The total number of frames in the animation.
• Parts Per Row: Number of frames per row in the sprite sheet.
• Animation Delay: The time between frame changes (lower values mean faster animation).
• Animation Loop: Whether the animation should repeat when it reaches the end.
• Animation Reverse: If enabled, the animation will reverse direction at the end instead of looping directly back.

Rotation Settings

• Rotation Speed: The speed at which the sprite part rotates.
• Min/Max Angle: Set the minimum and maximum rotation angles (0-360 degrees). Adjust these to prevent a full circle if desired.
• Rotation X/Y Offset: Adjusts the center of rotation for the part, shifting it relative to the part's position.

Visibility and Command Settings

Control when your sprite parts are visible and how they can be shown or hidden during gameplay:

• Visibility Options: Choose when the part is visible (idle, attacking, or being attacked).
• Show/Hide Commands: Set commands that can be used in dialogs to show or hide parts. For example, use a command like {phase2} to reveal a hidden part during a specific dialog.