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Practical Game Design
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Practical Game Design

by Adam Kramarzewski, Ennio De Nucci
April 2018
Beginner content levelBeginner
476 pages
14h 4m
English
Packt Publishing
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The level design process

As we already know from the opening paragraphs, level design can span a variety of tasks, from defining enemy spawn patterns to creating puzzles, sculpting, and populating an environment or even defining beat-maps in music games. Nevertheless, there are some processes and steps that can be applied to almost any content creation task, be it in part or as a whole. These steps are as follows:

  1. The premise: Setting up a high-level vision
  2. The sketch: Expanding upon the design
  3. Grayboxing: Implementing and iterating on gameplay
  4. Art implementing: Dressing up your creation
  5. Final polish: Bug fixing and final adjustments before release

Let's go through all of them in detail and explore some examples!

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ISBN: 9781787121799Other