Link to download game:

drive.google.com/drive/u/2/folders/1oe0lDrqIAg4Y-Vzp418U4Dq0gXQW1n3b 

Play-Testing

Post-Mortem

During the process of Level Design, the obvious thing that I discovered was there were many new things that i haven't know about design a level for a game. This is my first time that i have learnt and tried designing a 3D level and building a game. Definitely was an interesting experience.

Though there were many challenges i faced during this process, but the ultimate result came off well, as i think. Cause this is my first time tried to do a game level with a completely new software like Unreal Engine 5.  So that i also proud off more or less what i had done for this subject.

What went well? 

Planning & Designing

This stage went through well and can be seen an easiest stage compared to other stages in my opinion. As a person that really keen on drawing, illustrating and creating something new, i enjoyed this stage and thought about how player would play and what do they think about my design. That is so exciting. It was not a big deal with me for designing what i should do for the level because the idea came out straightaway when i started and i illustrated the 2D map by using Adobe Illustration.

Gameplay Design & Level Blocking

In these parts, unlike the first stage, these parts were kindly challenging when i was thinking and designing the game mechanics for my level. It was not an easy one when i had to design and combine reasonably between the gameplay and environment level design and think about how the flow of gameplay would be. I was struggling with the thinking that how to make a gameplay for players which is not too easy but also be not too hard and the important thing is must be attract the player. Fortunately, the final design was exactly what i want. 

After that, create primitive shapes and blocking is the stage that i did it really fast and i would say that it was a bit bored. However, i did not notice about the scale of the level so that when i finish the map, its overall size was quite large compared to the character. I did not have many experiences about playing FPS games so that why when i created the level i did not notice about the size of the shapes and blocking assets. As result, i had to scale everything again to match with the character when playing.

Set Dressing

I quite enjoyed this stage because this is a creative stage as i though. In this stage, i was so excited to replace and design about how the environment as well as the architecture of the map look like although itself took a long time to finish because of many things to set such as replace all the assets, create material or lighting. 

Playtesting 

This is a useful stage and kindly nervous because i was really curious about how my friend would think about my level and i also appreciated feedback from them which helped me a lot to improve my level.

What went wrong? 

Modelling stage

Although i said that i quite enjoyed the set dressing stage, but during the time modelling, i felt so frustrated because there are many functions and tool that are totally new with me in Unreal Engine. To complete it, i had to watch and had references from many sources on the internet and YouTube so that why it took a really long time to finish.

My laptop stopped working during the process

One of the most annoyed challenges that i faced was my laptop stopped working while i was doing the process. Unfortunately, there was my careless because i did not save any backup file of the level and this problem wasted a lot of my time and affected the productivity of the project.

Change the name of the file and all the cubes were disappeared

One of my big mistakes is that when i prepared to submit the final file of assessment 2, i changed the name of the Unreal project and when i opened to check it, i realized that all the cubes i created for the level were disappeared and i had to re-created that. 

My laptop's Hard-drive is not enough space.

The other annoyed problems of my laptop was that there is not enough memory for the Unreal Engine working, I had worked with a few of 3D apps which are hold big wieght and saved many heavy files. I was really headache when i was deciding which files or apps are not too important to delete.