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Mastering Game Level Design: Creating Immersive Worlds

Explore the importance of structural, temporal, and spatial features in game worlds, achieving reality and style. Learn how level design influences gameplay, duration, availability, relationships, progression, perspective, scale, and boundaries. Enhance your understanding of space and time dynamics in game development.

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Mastering Game Level Design: Creating Immersive Worlds

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  1. Game Development Essentials: An Introduction Third Edition

  2. Chapter 7Levelscreating the world

  3. ■ What is level design and how is it related to gameplay? ■ What is the importance of the structural features of game worlds—such as duration, availability, relationship, and progression? ■ What is the importance of the temporal features of game worlds—such as authentic, variable, player-adjusted, and altered? ■ What is the importance of the spatial features of game worlds—such as perspective, scale, and boundaries? ■ How are reality and style achieved in a game environment? Key Chapter Questions

  4. StructureObjectives Sony Online Entertainment Free Realms

  5. StructureFlow Sony Computer Entertainment America God of War III

  6. StructureDuration Nintendo Wario Land: Shake It!

  7. StructureAvailability Nintendo Wii Sports Resort

  8. StructureRelationship Global Agenda Mission Selection (above) Desert & Water Missions (right) All images Hi-Rez Studios

  9. StructureProgression Diagram by Per Olin

  10. TimeAuthentic Blizzard World of Warcraft

  11. TimeLimited XxSugarLoveX (Photobucket) FarmVille

  12. TimeVariable Electronic Arts Ultima Online

  13. TimePlayer-Adjusted Electronic Arts Madden NFL 11

  14. TimeAltered Ubisoft Prince of Persia: The Forgotten Sands

  15. SpacePerspective & CameraOmnipresent Reprinted with permission from Microsoft Corporation Halo Wars

  16. SpacePerspective & CameraAerial (Top-Down) Take- Two Interactive Railroad Tycoon 3

  17. SpacePerspective & CameraIsometric Ubisoft Anno 1404

  18. SpacePerspective & CameraSide-Scrolling (or Flat/Side-View) Take- Two Interactive Nintendo Shadow Complex New Super Mario Bros. Wii

  19. SpaceTerrain & Materials Sony Computer Entertainment America Nintendo Killzone 2 The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword

  20. SpaceRadiosity & Effects Rake In Grass Games Jets ’N’ Guns Gold

  21. SpaceScale Muzzy Lane Sony Online Entertainment Making History II: The War of the World EverQuest II

  22. SpaceBoundaries Reprinted with permission from Microsoft Corporation Flight Simulator X: Acceleration

  23. SpaceRealism Take- Two Interactive Major League Baseball 2K11

  24. SpaceStyle Sony Computer Entertainment America Capcom Flower Resident Evil 5

  25. ■ Level Design ■ Structure ■ Time ■ Space ■ Space & Time: Levels, Gameplay & Story Summary

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