Boss AI is progressing.

Having a good boss battle is challenging.

A lot of games just gives a boss with one attack pattern (ex: move left, then go back, shoot, repeat), and the difficulty is in the number of lifes the boss have.
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But this is not what I want for Shadow Gangs, boss battles will have sophisticated set pieces, with good AI.

Stay tuned!.

Boss level is now done, and I have all the art for the boss sprites too.
I will start on it's AI tomorrow.

Frece is doing now New York, level1. The first mission will have 4 levels (level 4 will be a boss level).
At the end of each level, you can choose to exit by a shop instead of the normal exit.

Exiting by the shop will let you buy special items and special powers, that you can use later in the level.

For the arcade fans, don't be worried by the introduction of a shop, and the exploration side etc..., the game will still
reward you for playing melee attack only, and will give you extra points (lives) for it.

In any case, it will be a challenging game, the difficulty levels will still be here, and only the best players would finish it on hard, and only the very best would finish it melee only.

Jericho now is doing the flying ninja and ninjette (ninjette will be able to change planes :) )
After he'll start on mission 1 boss, which is a big cyborg ninja.

Syncop is working on doing 12 to 16 total music tracks for this game.

Cyborg flying ninja with a jetpack.
There will be two types, one that die in the air, and one that falls down and can run and do melee attacks.

They will show up starting level 2 of mission 2 (or 3). But they will be there in the next demo version.
The first mission boss will be a cyborg too, but bigger and badder.

Above is the 4th mission boss.

Other bosses will be just as great!.

The new Shadow Gangs will be what Street Fighter 2 was to Street Fighter 1. A complete new different game, with explorations, items, hidden places, many effects etc...(But, Shadow Gangs will always retain the core fundamentals of it's gameplay).

Stay tuned!

​Syncop the musician started on the next tracks, and Evgenij is doing now some great special effects for the game.
Code wise, all the new functionality is implemented, and is waiting to be tested and perfected.

Work is now underway to get the firs boss completed, and the 2 new characters (flying jetpack ninja and ninjette).
I'll posting images of them as soon as I get them.

Above is the second girl hostage, and the happy old man after being released from the Shadow Gangs.