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Level Design Lobby Max Pears
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The Level Design Lobby, breaks down game and level design techniques, showing how they are used within games, as well as how we can improve upon them. It also shares reading material to its audience, while providing interviews with industry professionals.
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Twitter: https://twitter.com/Maxpears
Website: http://www.maxpears.com/
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Level Design Lobby - Redesigning Others Levels
An aspect that is not always spoken about is the fact that during development, time is not always on the team's side. This can be because work is not split evenly, deadlines, holidays, or possibly someone leaving the company. Regardless of the reason you may end up taking over another work, which can be great but also challenging, so let us talk about what we can do once handed ownership.
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Let's Design Books
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Ebook - https://bit.ly/39BakJD
Physical Books - https://bit.ly/3mfOsbS
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Twitter: https://twitter.com/MaxPears
Website: https://www.maxpears.com/
Email: leveldesignlobby@gmail.com
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Level Design Lobby - Design through production
As we develop games there are multiple stages of processes we go through:
- Preproduction
- Production
- Polish
As LDs our role & focus will change to best meet those stages of production. I will talk through what it is that makes a good LD in each of these stages.
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Let's Design Books
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Ebook - https://bit.ly/39BakJD
Physical Books - https://bit.ly/3mfOsbS
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Contact Me
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Twitter: https://twitter.com/MaxPears
Website: https://www.maxpears.com/
Email: leveldesignlobby@gmail.com
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Level Design Lobby - Reading Materials #60
April is upon us, so let us celebrate it with an incredible list of great resources to help us all learn and grow from one another.
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Resources
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Industrial Design Trends:
https://youtu.be/Ieg5qv1JYuU?feature=shared
Oki Sato Interview: https://youtu.be/c3TPbj2_Xjg?feature=shared
LD Comparisons: https://www.gamedeveloper.com/design/level-design-compare-fps-vs-tps-games
Immersion In Games: https://open.spotify.com/episode/6ZKEQe1Syp3TjBtRwRfLTy
Architect Compares CP vs Starfiel vs StarCitizen: https://youtu.be/sbOFw1NgUj4?feature=shared
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Twitter: https://twitter.com/MaxPears
Website: https://www.maxpears.com/
Email: leveldesignlobby@gmail.com
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Level Design Lobby - Inspiring Through Design
Design is not a solo journey but one in which to achieve the best designs possible we work with incredible other devs and disciplines. So we must figure out how to inspire, learn, compromise and design with others.
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Let's Design Books
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Ebook - https://bit.ly/39BakJD
Physical Books - https://bit.ly/3mfOsbS
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Contact Me
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Twitter: / maxpears
Website: https://www.maxpears.com/
Email: leveldesignlobby@gmail.com
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Level Design Lobby - Designing Boss Battles
While working on my GoW level I have currently been designing a boss arena. I received some questions on twitter and want to give some advice on how you should and would design.
Questions: https://x.com/MaxPears/status/1745015457600471045?s=20
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Let's Design Books
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Ebook - https://bit.ly/39BakJD
Physical Books - https://bit.ly/3mfOsbS
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Contact Me
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Twitter: / maxpears
Website: https://www.maxpears.com/
Email: leveldesignlobby@gmail.com
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Level Design Lobby - Reading Material #59
Start of the month and here are the recommended resources which I think are very much worth checking out to learn from! ----------------------------------
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Great Game Designer Book - https://www.amazon.co.uk/Role-Great-Game-Designer-Handbook/dp/1777993202
Return to Monkey Island - https://youtu.be/SdWzlDwxBmQ?feature=shared
Graveyard of Features - https://www.gamedeveloper.com/design/the-graveyard-of-features-in-games-when-stuff-that-seemed-promising-just-doesn-t-work
Suda 51 Career - https://www.gamedeveloper.com/design/suda51-on-25-years-of-making-strange-masterpieces-at-grasshopper-manufacture
IGN Unionise - https://www.gamedeveloper.com/business/ign-workers-are-unionizing-under-newsguild-cwa
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Contact Me
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Twitter: maxpears
Website: https://www.maxpears.com/
Email: leveldesignlobby@gmail.com
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Customer Reviews
Great podcast!
I love the insight Max brings into game & level design. As a person who is interested in game design but has no formal background, this podcast is a helpful resource.
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Absolutely Love this podcast
The episodes are not unnecessarily lengthy and are straight to to the point. Great guide and resource for those learning to design levels.