WHAT'S IT ?
Information :
The idea behind this level design is to design a level using a myth, while conveying various emotions to the player.
The Agartha, is a city, a kingdom, or a mythical underworld. It is generally presented as an ideal world depositary of knowledge or supernatural powers. Agartha would be an underground world where violence does not exist and peace reigns everywhere.
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I'm alone on the project.
14
Hours
Objectives :
My goal was to achieve a variety of emotions for the player, from exploration, amazement, claustrophobia and a desire to learn more about this place…
I also set myself a time constraint, I wanted to make this map in less than a week, and I succeeded in my challenge.
To finish, I wanted to succeed in giving the sensation of discovery step by step, by the departure in the nature, the rock, in the cave. Then the appearance of the place of worship/sacrifice. Then the vestiges of past civilizations, and to finish the great final on the discovery of the city of Agartha.
Here is the moodboard I made to increase my inspiration and take visual references :
LEVEL DESIGN :
Timeline :
Level Design Intentions :
I made various screens with drawings to explain my level design intentions:
Here we are at the beginning of the level, I used Menhirs to guide the player, their inclinations also have the purpose of guiding.
Then the player will see a depression on the right side of the path, the rocks will hide his view until the last moment, to offer him the wow effect of the landscape.
The player will discover a landscape that was previously camouflaged. It would allow him to have a very good point of view on the world around him and to become aware of his height in space.
Then the player discovers the access to a cave, in a triangular shape (a shape that represents the potential danger, here the danger of discovery).
Arriving in the cave, there is no turning back, the player has to advance to the bottom of the cave to discover what it hides.
Then he arrives in front of a passage flooded with water by a waterfall. The player will have to cross it, without knowing what will happen there …
A new point of interest is offered to the gambler. It allows to speculate on what is really in this cave. An altar in front of the orb shows a place of sacrifice.
Then it falls in front of vestiges of ancient civilizations, but who lived here?
These two places are extremely conducive to environmental storytelling, to learn more about this world.
The level ends, by what I tried to make « grandiose », the idea was really to surprise the player and that will raise a lot of questions about this underground city, how to access it? Who are they? What happens next?
SPEED CREATION :
GAMEPLAY VIDEO :
