New weapon

An agreement with the Loki sprite design team was reached that the scepter used in sprint 2 should be used by the Loki boss instead of the elf.

Therefore, I had to change the weapon design for the boss. Originally, I had planned to re-use my original weapon design from sprint 2. However, user feedback revealed that many testers thought that it looked like a "lollypop." Therefore, I decided to re-design the weapon so that it looked more intimidating.

I researched different wizard staffs and came across this design. I really liked the claw style design, where the orb was sitting in the centre. I also really liked the extra blades on the hilt of the weapon. I thought that they helped to make the staff look more evil and intimidating.

New attack positions

In the past animation, the boss attacked by changing the rotation of their weapon (see below). I realised that as the weapon now resembled a spear, changing the rotation of a staff weapon did not really make sense as an attack strategy. Even though, the character was shooting fireballs using their weapon, it would look more natural if they still controlled it like they were holding a spear.

So I amended the attack animation, so that when the character was facing left and right, it looked as though they were pushing/ thrusting the spear back and forth (see below).