Trigger Treat Enemies: Count Dripp (Patreon)

Hey again everybloody! Today let's take a look at boss number three, lord of the Haunted House level. Count Dripp is a ruthless aristocrat, and much more savvy about crushing those lower-class upstarts than somebody like Arizona. His strategy is to keep from getting hit, so he only appears for only a moment before teleporting out of harm's way. His fireball bombs are intended to force players to keep away, and his cloud of bats are meant to shield him as they zero in on the player. However, his bloody dash attack, while an idea I enjoyed, is one that'll require some reworking unfortunately. He'd bounce around the arena at high speed, but during testing we found he would often zoom in from offscreen too fast to anticipate fairly. As for his appearance, I enjoy the pale, monstrous ghoul style of vampire more than the utterly humanoid, so I tried to make his face and figure just weird enough to read as something almost human-shaped, but not quite.

-Julian