Pre-Production for Level Design

A common mistake beginning level designers make is to open up the editor and start building their level right away. Let’s take a step back and take a look at 4 crucial steps you should go through before you get your hands dirty and risk throwing away a lot of work down the line.

[@AmolLalSao]

1. wHAT IS gAME ABOUT 2. Know Your audience 3. Know Your Tools 4. dIMENSION AND sCALE This is just a summary I made it for myself , maybe watching video will be useful to understand this summary better.

[@derrickmartin877]

Great content. I've been studying a mix of game design and architecture to help my process of designing VR environments (I'm an XR designer). You're vids are awesome. Would love to eventually see a video on your perspective of VR level design

[@timdoesleveldesign]

Thank you! I'd be hesitant to make a video on VR level design though, as I haven't worked on any VR game projects (yet).

[@derrickmartin877]

@@timdoesleveldesign No prob! Even your reactions to some VR games and commentary on their design would be interesting. Either way, keep up the great vids

[@attben]

Hes back!

[@kbrecordzz7380]

I have a question that I'm interested to hear your take on! If you had to create a level in one month of the same quality as one you'd normally finish in one year, how would you achieve this? What steps would you cut out because they're less necessary, and which steps would you focus on more because they're important?

[@timdoesleveldesign]

To speed up the process x12 you'd have to cut some serious corners 😅 Ideation, testing, feedback and iteration usually cost a lot of time. If you have to speed it up that much, the only way to ensure it's any good is to stick with a layout you already know is effective. Could be an existing mirrored map format for multiplayer or a layout similar to what you've built before for similar mechanics and then shuffle it around a bit and adapt it to the setting. But when you sacrifice time you always sacrifice quality and/or originality.

[@kbrecordzz7380]

@@timdoesleveldesign Interesting, great answer!

[@radikalbeats]

is this video made with AI? you spent 7 minutes and didn't say anything

[@timdoesleveldesign]

I, as a human, recognise your comment and respond to it.

[@srs6461]

What exactly did you expect him to say?