level design for platformers
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Level Designs for Platformers
Presented by Soe Myat MinContact me 09-250178574www.facebook.com/saveinyourbrain.info
Understand the Subgenres
• Puzzle platformers• Run and gun platformers• Cinematic platformers• Comical action game• Isometric platformers• Platform-adventure games • Endless running games
Visual Theme
• Mean the design• Give what feeling• Forest, Ice or Snow, Lava, Castle
Make a List
• Special Items (power up)• General Items (coin, heal)• Secret area
To know a player what we want
• First enemy• Total useable power (aslo shot or jump)• How power is useful• Platform conditions
Simple Layout
• Its Just line or block and text in the graph• Check its area spacing big or small (long =
boring)• That area complex or simple (complex !=
hard)• Easy to hard (Must have bonus or prize)
Add the label
• E for ‘Enemy’, P for `Power-up’, and K for ‘Key’ • Write the long form somewhere
• Make style to look simple understand (Texture, shade)• No much time to introduce the same
function between developers, it’s just communication
Overview layout
• Make transition between sheet and understandable paper• Set the space for comment and other
changeable style
Series Layout
• Setting the definite spacing of a block, an enemy or such a things.• Reversible and flexible to change• Set the title number to connect.
Theme Concept
• Color, Background and size. • Just type the color name no need to paint.
• Discuses with Graphic designers.• View and Direction to go.• Show some info style. (Jump into it, that is
path)• Control the player by theme (such weather:
wind = auto move)
Tests and Reports
• Play in your mind• Your design process is not finish after
drawing • You must reverse from the QA.• Scaled design is recommended
Repairing Contact
• Write a simple document, how was u do wrong and why u was wrong.• Remind – just simple don’t waste time by
this.
Caution• Don’t waste the time by drawing beauty.• You can draw line although without ruler (but
must look good)• Remember you are Level designer, not
graphic designer.• Theme is yours.• Start is only from the easy beginning.• Return from the customers report will be
next sequence
Ref
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