8 More Practical Level Design Ideas from "Mirror's Edge"
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8 more practical and handy level design ideas from "Mirror's Edge" you can start implementing right after reading this tutorial.
These ideas include:
use of elevators
facilitating movement forward
breaking up pacing
creating memorable moments
environmental hazards
framing the player's perspective
exploring, rewards
using landmarks
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I'm so happy to see so much of Mirror's Edge being picked apart by you here. It really deserves this kind of attention more, because it's a great, relatively clear example for level design.
I really want to start implementing Intermittent Reinforcement on my exploring. I think I'm using always some kind of reward on my Level Designs.
I think Tip Nr.4 is one of the coolest. It has so many use cases and advantages which can be combined. Will defenetly keep that in mind in future. Already noted down. I also find Tip 5 very good as well. As such memorable moments serve as a novelty and makes the whole game, if one would see it as a composition in itself, more interesting and memorable. As well as Tip 7, which I always find very appealing in games , as I like to explore a lot even in linear actiongames as well. Also thanks for hinting out Intermittent Reinforcement. A very interesting concept that I will keep in mind from now on. The Consistent Guiding Element tip is no less important as all the others I think, if not even on top in the hirarchy of importance. But surely sometimes tricky to get right I guess, depending on what style you are going for, oversaturated red pointers could maybe come across a bit odd in a more realistic and less stylized environment. But there are surely ways. I especially like that "big building or area you consistenlty see somewhere far away during exploration, which seem like you can go there sometime later on". Not only does this guide the player but is also a great compositional device to get the principal of Dominance into a level design. I think lighting is especially powerful in guiding the player. As Value Contrast is always an intensive attention grabber.
Excellent comment!
You’re really making me want to play this again
good vid, I miss mirrors edge, I want to see more of the interior designs, like the kitchens and so forth
I like your videos, I always learn new interesting tricks :) Could you make suggestions for level design ideas for games open world ? :)
Thanks Z.
I don't have anything concrete to share right now. What I would do is begin playing 2 games. GTA5 and Red Dead Redemption 2 exclusively. I would observe and analyze how they created the world, mission structure, story arcs, characters and character interaction, world design and what I could do in it and take massive amounts of notes on what I came up with. In open world games, I don't think it is so much about specifics of level design like it is in non-open world games, but it is more about the mission design, game mechanics and world design.
Such a cool video
Great vídeo amazing ideas
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I totally understand where you coming from. During my 4-years in college I realized I'm on my own to learn most of what I had to learn. In one of my classes I was constantly told if I had questions about how to use Maya, use F1. Other classes I spent asking people in class how to do something rather than asking the professor.I saw a high turn over rate for professors and most of them were great at what they did but couldn't communicate that effectively to teach others. They shouldn't have been teaching to begin with. So most of my time was spent learning on my own. Just like I did before I got to college. This is probably in many ways why I create tutorials. You are right, I'm not 100% happy with colleges using my work as their entire curriculum. In the end I can only focus on creating the best work I can do and try to help people like you. So i get where you coming from. Thanks for the support Dan. That means a lot to me. Take care.
Nice and neat
can you do how to make an uncharted look alike level layout?
or overwatch!