God of War inspired Level - Blog post 01
I have been wanting to create a God of War (2018) inspired level for some time so myself and a couple of friends decided to set up a project and get working. I got busy and didn't work on it for a while. Recently, I was on a walk and I started thinking about what I could do with this project so I decided to note down in my notes a small level that would get me started. The keys were to get something simple down, get in the main reads first and not focus too much on anything complicated that would take me away from actually designing a level.
So now to the level, like I said I wanted to keep it super simple to start with, some exploration, some narrative beats, a few combat areas all culminating in a boss fight at the end.
I sketched out roughly how I wanted the first area to look but wanted to get into engine as soon as.
My friend had already started doing a lot of work on the character and the boat etc so I had a good base to start from but I wanted to focus on building a level. I started following my sketch whilst adding different elements that came to me as I went along. The first area is an area for exploration, rewarding the player by exploring around. This was done in the form of narrative beats where I have used blockout text for the time being and I will think of a better solution in the future and chests. I created a simple chest blueprint to help with this.
After the first day I was happy with what I had created, getting back into doing your own personal work is never easy so starting slow and simple was perfect for me. As I continue to work on this project I am wanting to dive a little bit more into blueprints, AI with hopefully getting some combat going and some other elements. Looking forward to continuing with it but here is the first days work on my God of War inspired Witch level!
Below is a video of my first blockout of this level, if you have any feedback please feel free to message me. See you in the next one, Howells out!
