At last week’s GDC confernece, Unity Technologies revealed the latest version of their popular Unity game engine. I was pleased to see that not only could I use the personal version for free, but that Unity 5 gives all users full access to the engine and its features. I thought this would be a great […]
I hopped back into Unity to work on this FPS styled level. Rather than standard multiplayer maps, this one was specifically designed for several players fighting waves of enemies, like the Firefight and Horde modes in Halo and Gears of War, respectively. I felt that designing a level around the specific mechanics of those game […]
This level started out as a concept for a 2D platformer, but I changed it into a gray box for a 3rd person adventure game once I figured out exactly where I wanted to go with the idea. I wanted to toy around with the idea of a player having multiple paths to choose from to reach […]
Initially, I was planning to work on these next few levels in UDK. However, I was fortunate enough to get a key for Unreal 4, so I postponed working on this until I was able to get the latest version of Unreal Engine set up and running on my computer. The point of building this […]
Recently, a friend of mine asked me if there was any difference between level design for RPGs and shooters. I immediately replied that programming and art don’t change depending on the type of game you’re developing, so level design wouldn’t either. It was the answer he expected, but couldn’t understand why he was having such […]
Somara Atkinson 