Session Name: | Level Design in a Day: Level Design Histories and Futures |
Speaker(s): | Robert Yang |
Company Name(s): | Parsons / NYU |
Track / Format: | Production |
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Overview: |
How can "level design" meaningfully exist as a unified discipline when the actual work of level design varies so widely between different games and developers? This talk critically assesses level design as a fragmented design practice stretched across a material history of level editors, the evolution of the level designer as an industry role, level design as a continuation of a modernist architecture program, and design as a political process. What would a "sustainable level design" look like? Attendees will gain a deep conceptual understanding of what it means to design levels, current issues in contemporary architecture, as well as methodology for critically assessing what levels mean to us -- and with these tools and language, takeaway a glimpse of several possible futures for level design as a discipline. |