Bring on the Bad Guys
The player is walking through a graveyard winding his way through the tombstones when he sees a skeleton blocking his path, ready to fight.
Wait a second. Rewind. There’s a much more dramatic way to introduce this bad guy into your world.
The player is walking through a graveyard, winding his way through the tombstones. One of them shakes as he passes by. Suddenly, the camera zooms in on the player’s face as the screen shakes and the controller rumbles. The camera whip-pans around to a grave as a bony hand thrusts out of the ground! The tombstone shatters into a million shards as a skeleton warrior bursts from the grave, its eyes glowing evilly and bony fingers clenched, ready to fight!
Now that’s exciting!
Enemy introductions are a really effective way to tell players that they’ve encountered something new, exciting, and dangerous:
- Freeze the camera or zoom in on the creature: let players get a good look at what’s about to...