Belittled

Stealth, Comedy, Adventure

Game Designer, Level Designer,
UI designer
12 members (2 Game Designers)
Finished
January 2024 - June 2024
Unreal Engine 5
PC

Fix the bases

Gym

I had to make proposals for all the game’s metrics and also test everything. To do this, I created a gym with everything I needed.

I remember that the most annoying part was the grapple because of the targeting and the player character’s reactions.

Gym for stealth

I also had to create a special gym to test the enemy detection mechanics and propose situations that would be used in the level design.

The most annoying issue was the shape of the vision cone. For example, if the player is crouching just in front of the enemy, they can't be detected.

Make the corresponding level

Make the corresponding levels

I make some the half of the level of the game (my game designer duo, the second half).

The challenge was to correctly respond to the demands of the teams such as, diversity, corresponding difficulty to the progression, scale of the level for the artist. Nothing unordinary. But hat was the first time that I was to create such level. And I had to iterate several times on some levels. In total, I’ve created the first level (tutorial), one mid-progression level, and the final one.

The plan for the tutorial level and the mid-game level

Tutoriel

Mid-game Level Part 1

Mid-game Level Part 2

Mid-game Level Part 3

1/1

For the final level, I have created a dedicated document in which I explain my entire process, including my intentions, study references, iterations, and several other points.

Teamwork challenge

This was my first time working on a project of this scale with such a large team, and also collaborating with another Game Designer. It was challenging to work with all the team members and meet the needs of the artists, programmers, and even my partner in game design. Most of the time, I had to revise my work many times to align with everyone’s requirements.

Create features

Here’s a duo of fake screenshots I used at the start of post-production to propose a feature that was ultimately not retained.

Before teleportation on a wall

The player can only teleport on surface of the same colour as him

After teleportation on a wall

This features was to complex and was quickly retired

Create the base of the game

For this, my duo and I created a lot of references, fake screenshots, and, of course, many gameloops and brickloops to feed what would become the GDD.

Explained and detailed features

I was, along with my duo, in charge of creating and explaining the feature to other members of the group. And obviously, the hardest part was explaining it. To help with this, I drew lot of drafts to make the feature easier to understand, even the simplest ones.

Enter/Exit locker

Press button for move locker

Locker after moving it

This features was to complex and was quickly retired

Player finding a locker key

Locker locked

Locker unlocked

Camera Hell

I was in charge of everything related to the camera design and its behaviour. At first, I thought it would be simple. But the level of detail that the programmer and my design partner asked for was far from small.

This was especially true because the character had several states that required the camera behaviour to change.

Take direct inspiration

I directly took inspiration from the camera in Splinter Cell, as it was one of my main references. Along with my draft and parameters, I included screenshots and videos from the game to help my programmer understand what I was aiming for.