Level Design || Thriller || Dystopian|| Platformer|| Level Designer
Vertical slice university project, made in five months as a solo dev in my second year of study.
Role: Solo Dev, Level Design, Narrative Design, Programmer, Environmental Design
Greyboxing is one of the most important aspects of level design. It gives developers the chance to plot out player flow, where to guide their focus, and how to plan the way they experience the level. In Bloodlust, I planned this all out on paper first, then built out a greybox level for playtesting. Once the playtest was complete, I re-planned the level and its changes, and sketched out an annotated plan for continuing forward.
The main puzzle mechanic in Bloodlust is a word and book puzzle that allows players to search through lab notes, finding circled numbers that -- when put in the order of command -- reveal the pin code for the door that gives them access to the next part of the tutorial. There are also some basic key-collecting puzzles so that the weight of the tutorial is not just on word-based puzzles.
Experience with wrting a playtester feedback form, receiving feedback, and implementing it through an iterative and collaborative process. Any feedback that was not implemented was only put aside because of a shift in concept or mechanic that rendered it no longer applicable.
