MamaBot brings the enemies of NML

Posted by Matheus Pitillo on Oct 19, 2012 in Life at VFS | 1 comment

Have you ever questioned from where the enemy robots of NML comes from? MamaBot is here to finally answer that. To better match those encounters with our theme and with the idea of the American Gladiator, we wanted to create the sensation of doors being opened and the enemies invading the arena. The best way to justify this was creating MamaBot, the mother of all bots. By opening her belly, MamaBot release a new group of enemies.

Basically, the way MamaBot works is, every first time that the player enters in a new area of each section, a trigger is activated and a MamaBot will appear bringing with her a new group of bots. Those triggers were pre-determined according to our Spawn Points, as you can see in the picture below. Each Spawn Points has a different group of enemies. And, also, for some specific areas of the game, the enemies will spawn before the player visualize this area, so we can represent that the enemies were already there. This way we can spawn enemies in some places of the Section that there is no borders around it. – For example, the Red “X” in the middle of the image of the Section A Enemy Spawn Point. 

Stay connected in the website for new posts. You will be able to face MamaBot for yourself in some weeks. YEY! The game is almost done. 😉 Thanks for your visit. Have a good weekend!