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Level Design project Ubisoft
For this assignment we were tasked with working on a 4-5 minute combat space that would emphasis replayability and that would fit within...

Ben Nichols
Apr 4, 20226 min read


Submission and Final Thoughts (19th August)
I have just submitted my game and am really happy with how it turned out. The main question I pitched with this game was ‘Can you...

Ben Nichols
Aug 20, 20215 min read


Fixes,Testing and changes (18th August)
Over the last couple of days I have simply been fixing any issues that I noticed in the game. As with any game a bunch of nonsense issues...

Ben Nichols
Aug 20, 20213 min read


Final Changes to the environment (14th August)
After getting the narrative elements of the game finished it was time to move onto finishing the detail for my game. As I had already...

Ben Nichols
Aug 20, 20214 min read


Developing Narrative and innovation of game (11th August)
The big issue that I have faced with this project is how to make my game more innovative and unique. The plan with this project was to...

Ben Nichols
Aug 11, 20216 min read


World Building and Mechanics (3rd August)
This week has been critical to the world building of my game. As I have started to add detail to my levels and it’s got me thinking about...

Ben Nichols
Aug 9, 20213 min read


Lighting (1st August)
During the last week my focus has been on lighting. I have been working with one of the art tutors who was really helpful, taking me...

Ben Nichols
Aug 9, 20212 min read


Test Build and Narrative Usability testing (26th July)
Over the course of this week I have managed to get a test build ready, this build was simply to test if players could complete the game...

Ben Nichols
Aug 1, 20213 min read


Bug fixes (26th July)
Over the course of the last two weeks, I have mostly been working on bug fixes to get a test version of the level out for release. From...

Ben Nichols
Jul 26, 20212 min read


Development update AI (8th July)
Since my last entry 2 weeks ago I have done loads of development on my project. In this post I will be talking about the integration of...

Ben Nichols
Jul 8, 20213 min read


Refining question I am seeking to answer + Presentation (23rd June)
Since my last post I have been preparing for my pitch proposal for this assignment, this will have me pitch my idea in front of tutors...

Ben Nichols
Jun 23, 20212 min read


Level Design and Environmental Story Telling (11th June)
Before this week, I assumed that environmental story telling was just telling a story through the environment/level layout, which is true...

Ben Nichols
Jun 11, 20213 min read
Ideas for the project and how to make it innovative (11th June)
This week I have been discussing with lecturers on how I can make my project more innovative, this stems from the issue that I am making...

Ben Nichols
Jun 11, 20212 min read


Third level (5th June)
With the concept of the first two levels done , I now had to think of what the final level was going to be. So in the story you’d track...

Ben Nichols
Jun 5, 20212 min read


Second Level (4th June)
With the concept for my first level in place, I now had to figure out how I was going to progress this onto a second level and how this...

Ben Nichols
Jun 4, 20212 min read


Concept and level idea’s (4th June)
With the concept for my game underway, to create a FPS with linear levels and with the projects focus being on level design I had to now...

Ben Nichols
Jun 4, 20212 min read


Major Project – Thoughts and motivations (4th June)
For the final part of my degree I will be making a final project piece, for my project I wanted to make something that would really help...

Ben Nichols
Jun 4, 20212 min read


Finished project and thoughts (20th May)
Over the final week we have been making a trailer for the game and gameplay footage along with preparing slides to present our final game...

Ben Nichols
May 20, 20212 min read


Finishing level (20th May)
Lighting: In my last post I stated that we were having issues lighting the level, the issue was that we were going past the light limit...

Ben Nichols
May 20, 20211 min read


Finished game and overall thoughts (13th May)
Overall I am really pleased with this game and feel the best way to test the games success is to compare it to the success criteria set...

Ben Nichols
May 13, 20215 min read