Hi! Welcome to the 38th Volume of the LEVEL-DESIGN.org News Roundup! Before I’ll start with listing the level design goodness I’ve found since the last update, I’d like to make a small announcement. During holidays and new year season, the LEVEL-DESIGN.org website won’t get any updates to the Blog and Reference Database. I’m taking my family back home to Poland for the whole month and I bet that I won’t have time for the updates so that being said, I’d like to wish you a very happy holidays and an awesome new year! Enjoy the latest articles, videos and tutorials that I found for you and I hope that you’ll always pick LEVEL-DESIGN.org as your source of Level Art & Design knowledge to improve in your interests, passions, career or hobby!
Cheers!
Mateusz Piaskiewicz
LEVEL-DESIGN.org News Roundup – Volume 38
Articles:
- 10 Ways To Improve Your Test Chambers – Portal Level Design
- A Theory of Level Design
- InnerSpace: Level Design – Building a Scenario
- Bad Levels in Gaming History – Volume One, Two, Three, Four, Five, Six, Seven, Eight
- Visual Hierarchy for Game Developers: A Practical Guide to Making Important Stuff Seem Important
- Level design In Mobile Games – How Developers Make Their Games Fun
- Gamasutra – Secret of Sages: Level Design
- Gamasutra – Color In Games: An In-Depth Look At One of Game Design’s Most Useful Tools
- Gamasutra – How We Design a Map For Block Star Party
- Gamasutra – How To Make Games That Last
- Gamasutra – Designing Levels: From Photoshop to Unity
Videos:
- Custom Gamer – Of The Flames In The Stars by Breezeep – Quake Single Player (Map Jam 6), Signati by Adib – Quake Single Player (Map Jam 6)
- GDC 2014 – Meaningful Choice in Game and Level Design
- LawBreakers Dev Diary #1: Map Design Process
- Other Places – Star Wars: Battlefront, Sanctuary Hills (Fallout 4)
- Polygon Fragments – The Witcher III – White Orchard
- Intelligent Design – Castlevaina – Episode 1, Episode 2, Episode 3, Episode 4
- Memory and Game Level Design Analysis
- Speed Level Design – The Railroad – Unreal Engine 4
- Unreal Tournament Behind-The-Scenes: Making of Titan
LEVEL-DESIGN.org Reference Database Updates:
- Alice: Madness Returns
- Call of Duty: Black Ops 3 Zombies
- Mass Effect 2
- Metro 2033 Redux – Complete Single Player Campaign
- Wolfenstein: The Old Blood – Complete Single Player Campaign