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How to Have the Best Level Design and Game Environment Year

In this blog post I share what has been working for me and what I would recommend you do to have the best year in level design and game environment art.

Why I Failed for Years at Level Design and Game Env.

My personal story of why I failed for years at level design and game environments. Focused on planning and preproduction.

Becoming a Level Designer and Environment Artist Pt. 1

Get started with navigation in the editor, interface overview and various viewport options.

Becoming a Level Designer and Environment Artist Pt. 2

Various tips on how to keep your map to proper scale, proportions and dimensions.

Game World Creation with Inception

Movie Inception is full of references to level design and game environment creation. Inspiring movie to watch for any level designer and game environment arist.

How to Plan Game Environments and Level Designs

Workflow tutorial on how to plan out your game environments and level designs.

Single Player Level Design Workflow by Magnar Jenssen 

Workflow tutorial by Magnar Jenssen.

Level Design Workflow: Making of HL2DM DM_Zest by Thiago Klafke

Workflow tutorial by Thiago Klafke.

Level Design Worklfow Tutorial

Level design workflow of IcyApex.

11 Day Level Design Process Overview

Process overview video shows level design workflow day by day hHow to create a map in 11 Days.

How to Create a Playable Level in 11 Days

Want to create your own map in 11 days? Follow this workflow process.

Level Design Creation Guidelines

Creation guideline that will help you to make sure you know your level design and game environment inside out. Really helpful guide to creating your maps.

How To Add Depth To Your Level Design

Adding depth to your level design and game environments.

How To Plan Your Next Map

Planning your next map. What to do, where to look for inspiration and how to make sure that your next project is successful.

100 Level Design Ideas and Locations

100 ideas for game environments and level designs.

Damnation's Concept Art to Level Design

Damnation may not have been a good game, but the art process applying concept art to level design is a great study to apply to your own work.

Guide to Collecting Level Design Reference

Guide to collecting level design and game environment reference.

How to Use Cover Object Placement for Level Design 

Tutorial covers proper cover placement that encourages map flow, control pacing, provide choices and encourage strategy.

13 Level Design Tips from L4D1/2: The Sacrifice

The following tutorial features a video where you will learn 13 Level Design Tips from "The Sacrifice". Many of these tips can be applied to other game level designs.

Visual Reference Guide to Level Design

Tutorial contains 61 ways you can better design your custom maps. L4D2 is used as an example, but these principles apply to many FPS games.

L4D2 Level Design Tips Part 1

Part 1/2 Left 4 Dead 2 Level Design tips. Principles apply to most FPS games.

L4D2 Level Design Tips Part 2

Part 2/2 Left 4 Dead 2 Level Design tips. Principles apply to most FPS games.

Art of Blocking In Your Map

Tutorial covering how to block in and shell out your map with BSP. Also knows as "white-boxing".

Creating Unique Level Design Overviews: Photoshop Filter

Couple ways of creating top-down layouts using Photoshop Filter.

Level Design Originality and Innovation

Innovation refers to creating something new, better or improving upon another idea in a way that is significantly different then where it originally came from.

Functional Lighting

Article is aimed more towards how lighting affects the gameplay of a level and how big of a role it plays in player guidance and the playability of a level.

Horror/Survival Level Design: Part 1 - Cliches

Survival horror level design tutorial focuses on cliches and their use.

Horror/Survival Level Design: Part 2 - Anticipation and Pacing

Survival horror level design tutorial focuses on creating anticipation and pacing.

Horror/Survival Level Design: Part 3 - Story and Environment

Survival horror level design tutorial focuses on story of the character and environment.

Horror/Survival Level Design: Part 4 - Relationship

Survival horror level design tutorial focuses on character and environment relationships.

Horror/Survival Level Design: Part 5 - Moral Decision

Survival horror level design tutorial focuses on moral decisions of the player.

Far Cry 2 Level Editor Tips, Links and Videos

Far Cry 2 comes with a sandbox to create your own worlds. Article featuring some links to get started and advice to follow.

Quantum of Solace Video Game Level Design

Quantum of Solace video of how the developers created their environments for James Bond game.

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