{"id":913,"date":"2013-04-28T11:15:01","date_gmt":"2013-04-28T10:15:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shadowcovenant.com\/blog\/2013\/04\/28\/level-design-2\/"},"modified":"2013-04-28T11:15:01","modified_gmt":"2013-04-28T10:15:01","slug":"level-design-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/shadowcovenant.com\/blog\/2013\/04\/28\/level-design-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Level design"},"content":{"rendered":"

Been working on level design this morning, I have the 6 first levels (the tutorial levels) done\u2026<\/p>\n

I\u2019m still getting the grips with the game mechanics, trying to figure out what\u2019s hard and what\u2019s easy to do, what kind of difficulties I expect players to have, etc\u2026<\/p>\n

My wife\u2019s been beta-testing the levels for me, and so far the game looks fun (I lack objectivity on it, since I\u2019ve played too much already)\u2026<\/p>\n

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Going to add a mini-explosion to when we lose a particle\u2026 there\u2019s little feedback at the moment on it\u2026<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve also been thinking about level-done conditions (more than 50% particles saved? More than 75%?), when to trigger it (if I trigger as soon as the condition is reached, there\u2019s no space for \u201cbonus points\u201d, but if not I might risk being stuck if there\u2019s a forgotten particle somewhere), and the retry system (infinite retries? Limited? If infinite, scoring makes little sense, unless I reduce the score based on the amount of retries on a specific level)\u2026<\/p>\n

And there\u2019s also the business with the name of the game\u2026 no idea on what to call it! \"Disappointed<\/p>\n

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Been working on level design this morning, I have the 6 first levels (the tutorial levels) done\u2026 I\u2019m still getting the grips with the game mechanics, trying to figure out what\u2019s hard and what\u2019s easy to do, what kind of difficulties I expect players to have, etc\u2026 My wife\u2019s been beta-testing the levels for me, […]<\/p>\n

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