Created environment with landscape and foliage painting tool.
Designed levels for combat, traversal and exploration.
Designed procedural generation rules to generate organic, non-repatitive open world levels.
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Environment work (Open-alpha stage)
Environment work (Open-alpha stage)
Assets used: Synty asset packs
Creating modular open world levels
Creating modular open world levels
Design goal:
Design goal:
Create modular open world levels that offers various combat, traversal and exploration experience.
Original Approach:
Original Approach:
Square modules were created, and then use the Dungeon Architect tool to procedurally generate the world map.
Problems:
Problems:
The world sometimes can be uncannly due to the fact that all the modules are squares with "doors" on 4 sides.
New Approach:
New Approach:
I created modules with the shape of tetris blocks, and categorized them into different types:
POI: The first module connecting to the spawn room
Room: Combat space
Corridor: Small, narrow space for exploration and traversal
Boss Room: Big, open combat space
2. I changed the procedural rules to increase the flexibility and interconnectivity between modules.
Results (WIP):
Results (WIP):
The world feels more organic.
More variation of module types and shapes, each offers unique gameplay oppotunities.
Next Step:
Next Step:
Create one-way doors to provide a more complex experience when navigating through the world.
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