During this week we reviewed some of the concepts presented on past weeks and what are the major goals for a level designer.

Player Engagement:

Keep the player engaged and captivated
Use the mechanics to create challenges
Compelling Gameplay Mechanics
Balanced Difficulty Progression
Rewarding Experiences
Meaningful Choices
Dynamic and Interactive Elements

Narrative World Building:

Support and enhance the storytelling through level design
Create levels that align with the game’s story, atmosphere and narrative themes
This may involve designing environments that convey the desired mood, making memorable SET pieces, and integrating narrative elements into the level layout and gameplay

Flow and Pacing:

Carefully structuring the level layout to guide players through a series of challenges allowing for moments of tension, relaxation and discovery
Designing a level that gradually ramps up the difficulty by introducing new enemy types, challenging platforming sections and puzzle solving elements

Gameplay Variety and Progression

Introducing new mechanics, challenges and environments to the players
Rewarding with a sense of accomplishment

Week 09 + 10 - Assignment

Last assignment! The theme for this week was open, so I took the opportunity to combine the jungle temple and the sci-fi on the same map. I did some major modifications since giant spiders don’t feel a good transport inside a jungle, now we have some frog fairy spaceships . The map got really big, really fast, so will take some time to load, even if it can be easily sliced up for background loading, for now I don’t know how to sooooo 1 step at a time… Some areas need more attention still would improve a lot, specially on the combat zones, but without a real combat mechanics I feel like don’t have much to plan and play, so it is what it is.

Since it was my best work during this course, I did some recordings after the course ended and made a video about it.
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