How do you guys like these commentary videos? I've missed making them, and if you like them, I wanna continue. =)
Also I'm starting more advanced tutorials and advanced topic videos very soon on the channel. Let me know if you have anything specific you wanna see!
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The scenes look pretty nice, but by searching for level design I was kinda looking for tips and infos about things like how to make maps interesting to explore, easy to orientate and not getting lost, what to avoid to not break immersion, how to make terrain changes and textures more natural looking and how to make the world feel more vast and open than it actually is.

I showed my Mom my first level design. I was pretty proud of it. She kindly said son, don't quit your day job!

I just realised I don't want to make games, I just want to build small worlds to walk around

The best video on creating levels. I like how you show your actual process to creating a level from nothing.

Most of these speed levels are not level design really, it's environment design.   And they look great!   As a playable level they wouldn't be much fun at all.

We are the developers of Game Creator, mentioned at the beginning of the video. Feel free to ask any questions. Looking forward for more videos like these @Sykoo!

I'm literally, even after 10 years using unity, just getting the fun part of level designing stuff in it. The reason why now is because I've been mostly giving more focus using unity than ever before. Before I was just trying to see how to make things move around and mostly technical stuff that was 2D or 2.5D but not full 3D. I'm really happy to have stumbled upon your channel since, which has really important information and insight of how to go about having fun making games while learning to get better with your valuable examples. Is very true like you mentioned, is all about practice. Practice makes Proficient. Thank you for providing such awesome content!

7:04 that's the main problem I've been thinking about for all creative works. It's really scary because you can drop something that is really good and never come back to it

My issue with level design is just the quality of light honestly. i cant figure it out for the life of me, even after watching your tutorials i can never get it how i want. You should do a little series where you go into detail about each aspect of level design. Lighting, Foliage, life, Etc. i think it would be very cool <3 love you sam!

what I find the hardest about level design would be high quality and great looking scene lighting that is also optimized

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Thanks man, this info is absolute gold. I couldn't watch the vid coz I thought I'd get get my first seizure but just listening was good too.

I know it's been said multiple times in the chat, but this isn't technically 'Level Design'. It's Environment Art. An easy mistake to use the wrong terminology, but given you have that many viewers, it would be appreciated if you did use the correct terminology as you are introducing many out there to the world of Game Development (as well as other mediums).



Level Design takes many other factors when developing an environment, usually focused around the game you are making. As an example, if you are making a Tank game, you will need to consider how much space the tank needs to move, the min/ max steepness of a surface the tank can traverse, destructible within the environment, line of sights, objectives, AI and their navigational spaces, points of interests, etc. Environment Art is (to put it simply) used to make a space look great & tell a story. There are obviously more layers to it than that, but (and going back to the point), the work you create fits into the criteria of Environment Art and also maybe Concept Art.

Thanks for reading this, and I hope it helps you out.

Thanks :)

Ps, Sweet environments man. A great way to get motivated to creating more personal content!

What you said about adding life (animals, particles etc..) is so true!

sykoo: "I really reccomend doing perspective design and then doing the open level design"

comments: "UHM SIR THIS ISNT LEVEL DESIGN !!!!"

Great video mate!

Level design is what you do to make a level more challenging and logical for example adding a puzzle or objective it dose r have anything to do with visuals or graphics

Omg! incredible!👏🏼

I showed my first level design to my mom.
Mom: What a crap you playing.