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timdoesleveldesign
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Registrace 10. 09. 2013
I create Level Design videos about LD techniques, principles, tips and tricks used in video game development.
Do you want to learn more about gamedev and Level Design in particular?
You can subscribe to this channel to support me in creating and sharing content that hopefully will help some people out there :)
Do you want to learn more about gamedev and Level Design in particular?
You can subscribe to this channel to support me in creating and sharing content that hopefully will help some people out there :)
Level Design Beginner Course: #3 Improvements & Enemies
Support my free level design course by liking, subscribing and commenting down below 🙂
In this lesson, we’ll review and improve our 3C gym and start getting familiar with the enemies in our game! We’ll also talk a bit about development team structure and roles.
[Enemies & Abilities Overview (MIRO link)]
miro.com/app/board/uXjVKWMubVg=/?share_link_id=231688341890
[Chapters]
0:00 intro & homework review
2:40 gym usage in development teams
3:26 gym improvements, annotations
6:31 creating a combat gym
6:57 enemies & setup
8:41 enemy design document & documentation
9:46 outliner & folders
11:06 player modifier
12:10 homework & outro
[Music]
Lakey Inspired - Blue Boi
Silent Partner - Bright Future
[Other Attributions]
Concept Art Board Image from Eduardo Ortiz (Artstation)
In this lesson, we’ll review and improve our 3C gym and start getting familiar with the enemies in our game! We’ll also talk a bit about development team structure and roles.
[Enemies & Abilities Overview (MIRO link)]
miro.com/app/board/uXjVKWMubVg=/?share_link_id=231688341890
[Chapters]
0:00 intro & homework review
2:40 gym usage in development teams
3:26 gym improvements, annotations
6:31 creating a combat gym
6:57 enemies & setup
8:41 enemy design document & documentation
9:46 outliner & folders
11:06 player modifier
12:10 homework & outro
[Music]
Lakey Inspired - Blue Boi
Silent Partner - Bright Future
[Other Attributions]
Concept Art Board Image from Eduardo Ortiz (Artstation)
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Level Design Beginner Course: #2 Creating a 3C Gym Level
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Support my free level design course by liking, subscribing and commenting down below 🙂 In this lesson, we’ll start setting up our very first little test level and get familiar with the basic interface to create and test some simple layout elements, as well as learn about 3C’s: character, camera and controls! [Chapters] 0:00 intro & homework review 0:41 what is a gym 1:00 content drawer & layout...
Level Design Beginner Course: #1 Project Setup
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Support my free level design course by liking, subscribing and commenting down below 🙂 In this first episode/lesson of my introduction course in level design for beginners, we’ll be setting up Unreal Engine and downloading my ready-made 2D platformer project that we’ll be using to create our levels. [Download the Unreal Project here! (2D platform game)] drive.google.com/file/d/1oS28g7PYwWXTIZ07...
Level Design Beginner Course: #1B Demo Playthrough
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Support my free level design course by liking, subscribing and commenting down below 🙂 This is an addendum to episode 1, where I play through the demo levels. This is for people that can’t run the project at home or get stuck somewhere, and could use the reference to figure out how to proceed. [Chapters] 0:00 introduction 0:30 Level 1 2:06 Level 2 3:39 Level 3 7:58 Level 4 11:58 Outro [Music] L...
Beginner Course Level Design: #0 Introduction
zhlédnutí 12KPřed 14 dny
Would you like to learn how to be a video game level designer? Look no further! In this 100% free youtube course, I’ll teach you the fundamentals of video game level design and we’ll use Unreal Engine 5 to create our very own levels for a 2d platform game prototype I’ve created for this course. Anyone should be able to follow along in these lessons, whether you’re completely new to level design...
Lock and Key Design Pattern in Video Games
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Let's look at what the Lock and Key Design pattern is, and try out some principles, tips and tricks while building a simple platform game level in Unreal Engine 5.
How technical does a Level Designer need to be? (LD Interview)
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00:00 Introduction 00:57 How technical does a level designer need to be? 03:26 What technical knowledge do you not expect from a level designer? 06:34 Difference between Level Design and Technical Level Design 09:39 What is the most technical thing you’ve done? 11:56 Closing words 14:58 Spotlight In this video I interview Steve Lee (Steve Lee Level and Game Design), William Josephy (my lead lev...
Gameplay Beats, Pacing and Intensity
zhlédnutí 7KPřed rokem
Pacing is a crucial aspect of level design, as it can greatly impact player engagement and enjoyment of the game. A well-paced game can keep players engaged and motivated, while a poorly-paced game can result in frustration and boredom. In this next video game level design video, we look at how a chapter from A Plague Tale: Requiem can be divided up into gameplay beats and how the intensity is ...
Keeping Your Blockouts Simple
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In this level design #Shorts, let’s look at fast blockout iteration. In game development, level designers often add too much detail to their blockouts too early. This slows down your iteration speed and gives the wrong impression when collecting feedback. Keeping your implementation simple in early stages of design allows you to iterate quickly and focus on pacing, intensity, cover placement, d...
Using Bait-And-Switch In Level Design
zhlédnutí 3,4KPřed rokem
Let’s trick our players, using Level Design! Bait-and switches can be a fun little surprise and break up the expected pacing and structure of your exploration segments. We’ll look at some movie examples and games like Jedi Fallen Order and the Uncharted series to learn how gamedev applies composition and expectation to surprise the player in their video games. Please like & subscribe to support...
Level Design for Stealth Games
zhlédnutí 14KPřed rokem
Let’s take a look at the fundamentals of stealth gameplay and how to apply a set of Level Design guidelines to ensure fun and challenging stealth encounters.
Why You Should Add Easter Eggs To Your Games
zhlédnutí 3,2KPřed 2 lety
A 'Tim Does Level Design' Easter Special! I've been busy settling into my new apartment in France, but made use of my Easter Holidays to put together a special video on Easter Eggs in video game and level design! Easter Eggs can be great, but are often neglected in the official game development progress and are often snuck in by developers. I'd like to take the time and explain what the benefit...
Composition technique: Framing in Video Game Level Design
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In Video Game Level Design, we use various means of composition in guiding the player and emphasising elements in the scene. In this video we’ll take a brief look at framing, what it is, how it’s used in games and other media and set up a quick example scene. If you’d like to see more level design content on ‘tim does level design’, please like, comment and subscribe :)
Pre-Production for Level Design
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A common mistake beginning level designers make is to open up the editor and start building their level right away. Let’s take a step back and take a look at 4 crucial steps you should go through before you get your hands dirty and risk throwing away a lot of work down the line.
Bubble Diagrams - Planning for Level Design
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Bubble Diagrams can be helpful in establishing a sense of spacial relationships and flow of your levels at the early stages of Level Design. In this video I give an introduction to what a Bubble Diagram is and go through a simple example to show how one might be setup. Subscribe to my channel for more leveldesign videos and let me know in the comments if there's anything in particular you'd lik...
What is Video Game Level Design? A very brief introduction
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What is Video Game Level Design? A very brief introduction
Gate your content to improve your Level Design
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Gate your content to improve your Level Design
Explicit, Implicit & Emergent Narrative for Level Design
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Explicit, Implicit & Emergent Narrative for Level Design
Breadcrumbing in Level Design: Guiding your player from A to B
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Breadcrumbing in Level Design: Guiding your player from A to B
Do Leading Lines work? A level design perspective
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Do Leading Lines work? A level design perspective
How to use Affordances and Signifiers in Level Design
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How to use Affordances and Signifiers in Level Design
Stairs - Dimensions and Tips for Level Designers
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Stairs - Dimensions and Tips for Level Designers
Level Design Short: Funnel Before Reveal
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Level Design Short: Funnel Before Reveal
Thank you!!!
Also, make sure to synchronize the movement of enemies properly. If there is a group of 3 enemies and the first one completes a cycle in 11 seconds, the second in 13 seconds, and the third in 17 seconds, it will take more than 40 minutes for them to return to their initial state. This can cause your intended solution to stop working if the player waits too long and causes the patterns to desync.
Love this content!! Great job !!🎉🌟
Thank you everyone for the kind words so far ❤ If you struggle with anything or run into issues, please let me know and I'll do what I can to clarify or fix it!
That's incredible. I love it
this channel is a gem
This is great stuff Tim. Very nice to see this coming from someone with actual experience in the industry :)
Thank you very much!!! I love this series.Please continue!!!
Absolutely love this series! Well done. Also your voice is very calming and relaxing and good to listen to as well! Keep the courses coming ❤
and he's handsome.
I request please please continue this series
Awesome content brother !!🎉
Yer a star
my adhd ass almost left at the 15 seconds long title-intro
Continue this episodes
hyped! <3
👏👏👏
Will it be on udemy?
@@decarrioden3445 It was a consideration. But because it's to help people get started in a field that I love and wish I had this kind of information of when I got started, I figured I'd make it all freely available :)
Wooohooo🔥🔥 definitely getting
The first thing I opened was the folder that says DO NOT TOUCH. 🤣 As someone who has really only focused on the technical aspect of game dev, I'm excited to watch along and hone my lvl design skills!
@@seankannemeyer1984 If you know anything about Unreal Engine, or general coding.. I've taken sooo many shortcuts. So please pick them apart and let's have some fun 😁
@@timdoesleveldesign 🎸 lets go!!!!
@@seankannemeyer1984 Sometimes, I've set up really nice parent-child structures, with inherited functionality. Then, when making another blueprint as the course material needed it, realised I didn't set things up properly to facilitate what I needed, and went "oh well", copy pasted the whole thing, and just ran everything off of branches. And there's a lot worse stuff in there 🙃
@@timdoesleveldesign I think for the intent and purpose of the course it doesn't matter much! After play around with it for a couple hours last night, i didnt see anything that is absolutely busted. But if I come across something, I'll be sure to let you know!
long time no see, buddy! You look good, man! I gotta share this video on my blog :P
Thank you so much for this insightful and useful content! It is very much appreciated! 😄✨
Thank you for these free lessons. I came across your channel and I love every video. I am excited to continue this series.
@@JoyberTech Thanks! <3 It takes a lot of time to make these, but I'll do my best to keep a regular schedule!
can't wait to see next videos 😁
Tim DOES level design!
yes he does!
Here we goooo ❤
Dope, can't wait to watch the whole course!
first
Perfect timing! Been reading through so much material to learn level design, so this came at the perfect time.
Am t r u l y i n s p i r e d !
thank you so much for making this series! i'm an environment artist student trying to get a better understanding of the level designer's pov and these videos are really helpful. this'll also be useful for the environments i make in the future! :D
@@yuunarenata9965 I'm very glad to hear that :) I hope your studies go well!
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Very useful specific solutions for stealth games🤔
Can you talk about incorporating A.I into level Design?
That.. would be an interesting topic. In my professional work there's the benefit of working with concept artists directly, which will always beat AI hands down. But in side/hobby projects I've been using AI more and more..
But also, really, procedural generation has been a fairly hot LD topic for the last 10 years or so. Coupled with AI, it could get interesting fairly soon.
@@timdoesleveldesign 🤔🤔
@@timdoesleveldesign Do you think game engines such as Fortnite unreal engine and Roblox can be used for level design projects?
These are great questions, PT2?
I wish this video was wayyyy longer, extremely useful as a level designer
More content🔥🔥🔥
Beautiful video, make moreeee!
Very useful‼️
🔥🔥🔥
The consistency in signifiers allows the player to speak the games’ language 😮
That sounds like something Tommy Norberg would say 😁
@@timdoesleveldesign does he make videos on level design?
@@decarrioden3445 Not that I know of, but he teaches level design and is working on a book. You should check him out on twitter. Posts really cool stuff :)
@@timdoesleveldesign will do!
I will my game design teachers taught this
These videos are great‼️
THANK YOU SO FRICKING MUCH
simple but unavoidable nice presentation
amazing thanks for content
Great explanation
This is so good ! Thank you sir 🙏
Bro you did it very good job❤❤❤
Wow, such a good video. There is a good structure, good examples. And it seems like there is a lot of useful videos on this channel. Hope more people will see this video/channel.
Being consistent leads to build a visual dictionary