Info

Game: In The Black
Platform: PC

Contribution

Position: Level Designers

• Designed and implemented the initial level design

• Supported the level through bug fixes, testing, and updating art assets.

Design Challenges

• Objective: The objective placement for this map needed to be closely considered, as it dictates the match length and the areas that are fought over.

• Cover: The cover in the map needed to be laid out to prevent sniping from half the map away, while also creating engaging gameplay.

Conquest Game mode

This map mode is a multiplayer conquest game where two teams compete to capture three objectives across the map. Each objective captured grants the team points every few seconds as long as they hold it. The match is over once a team has enough points.

Summary

This level was created to take place in the asteroid belt and was built to be a conquest map. It was a challenge to design this level with sufficient cover for players because asteroids are spread out, not clumped together like portrayed in a lot of science fiction. Additionally, I scattered manmade structures across the battlefield to imply that these few asteroids were clumped up for mining purposes and not a natural arrangement.

Objectives

On this map the two teams have one objective near their respective spawns. The third objective is close to the middle of the map at a different elevation from the other objectives. The two objectives near the respective spawns speed up the game by giving each team an easy capture at the start of the match. This makes the central most objective the most fought over. However that is not to say the objective near the spawns do not get captured by the opposing teams, this mission is in space and player ships can move very fast.