---
title: "First-person bosses"
package: "@phaser-ae/fps-bosses"
tier: Pro
version: 3.0.0-0
released: 2026-10-24
updated: 2026-10-24
description: "Boss fights for first-person shooters: phases set by health, with volleys, rings of shots, charges, slams, summons and teleports, each with a warning."
url: https://phaser.io/packs/fps-bosses
site: Phaser - https://phaser.io
---

# First-person bosses

Boss fights for first-person shooters: a big enemy that changes how it fights as its health falls, with every attack
announced before it lands.

## What it does

Pick an enemy kind the horde already knows (its health, size and sprite) and describe it as a boss: a list of phases,
each lasting until its health falls to a share. The pack takes every enemy of that kind over. The horde keeps its
health, flinches, death and voice; the boss controller moves it and fights with it.

Each phase has a way of moving and a pattern of attacks. It might hold its ground, chase, strafe round the player or
keep its distance, and fire volleys, rings, aimed bursts, charges, slams, summons and teleports in order or at random.
Every attack has a wind-up the game can show and sound, so the player can learn the pattern. A new phase can roar,
turn the boss invulnerable for a moment, heal it, bring reinforcements and give it armour.

Like the horde, it reports what happens as events: shots for the game to fly, summons to spawn, slam and charge damage.
So the same bosses fight on a `cell-dungeon` corridor map or a `sector-map` level.

## Features

- **Phases by health** — each with its own movement, attacks, pace and armour.
- **Seven attacks** — volleys, rings, bursts, charges, slams with knockback, summons and teleports.
- **Warnings** — every attack winds up first, as an event to draw and sound.
- **Phase entrances** — a roar, invulnerability, healing and reinforcements.
- **A health bar** — names, health and phase for each boss.
- **Any map** — works wherever `fps-enemies` does.

## Good for

- **The end of an episode** — a three-phase guardian, as in `sector-shooter`'s Warden.
- **An arena finale** — a teleporting boss after the waves.
- **A mini-boss in a corridor** — a single phase of volleys and a charge.

## Make it yours

Phases, movement, attacks, timings, armour and entrances are all data. A slow chaser that fans fireballs, then strafes
and rings the room, then charges and slams is one boss; a sniper that keeps away, teleports behind you and summons
drones is another.

## A quick look

Adopt the bosses among the enemies and run them each step.

```ts
const bosses = fpsBosses.createBosses([warden], horde, map.enemyWorld());
for (const e of horde.list()) bosses.adopt(e.id);
game.step('boss', dt => { for (const e of bosses.tick(dt, player)) apply(e); });
```

## Works with

- `fps-enemies` — the horde the bosses belong to.
- `sector-shooter` — uses it for its bosses.
- `cell-dungeon` and `sector-map` — the maps they fight on.

## Good to know

- A boss fights one player and does not join in infighting.
- It draws nothing: show the wind-ups, the health bar and the shots yourself.

---

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