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Area 03

Level Design

Blockouts, player flow, navigation, encounters and pacing.

BlockoutPlayer flowNavigationEncounter designEnvironmental guidancePacing

Choose the job

What do you need from Level Design?

01Learn it

Refresh or build your own subject knowledge

02Teach it

Find a better way to get the idea across

03Use it

Take something straight into a session

04Keep current

See what has changed that might matter

Edited library

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10 focused entries currently cover this area.

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ExplainerLevel Design

Greybox before art

Use simple geometry to test scale, route and timing while changes are still cheap.

4 min readLevel 1 · Level 2 · Level 3 · HE
Guided resourceLevel Design

Unreal Level Designer Quick Start

Epic's practical introduction to viewport navigation, levels, actors, basic geometry, lighting and playtesting.

Epic Games · FreeLevel 2 · Level 3
Guided resourceGame Engines

Unity Essentials pathway

Unity's guided beginner pathway through projects, editor navigation, GameObjects, scene building, scripting, audio, cameras and publishing.

Unity Technologies · Free account optionalLevel 1 · Level 2
Guided resourceLevel Design

The Level Design Book

A free, critical and practical online book covering process, layout, blockout, scripting, lighting, level studies and teaching notes.

The Level Design Book · FreeLevel 3 · HE
ActivityLevel Design

Bad Level Challenge

Diagnose a deliberately poor layout, rank the problems and improve the smallest part that would make the biggest difference.

30 min · Pairs or groups of threeLevel 1 · Level 2 · Level 3 · HE
ActivityLevel Design

No-HUD Navigation

Guide a player with layout, composition, landmarks and contrast rather than objective arrows or spoken directions.

45 min · PairsLevel 2 · Level 3 · HE
ActivityProduction / Pre-production

Peer Critique Cards

Structured prompts that keep peer feedback specific, evidenced and useful to the next production decision.

20 min · Pairs, then optional groups of fourGeneral
Free toolLevel Design

Dungeon Scrawl for fast level plans

A quick browser-based map tool for thinking about route, space and encounter layout before opening a full game engine.

Dungeon Scrawl · Free core featuresLevel 1 · Level 2 · Level 3 · HE