MILAS NORMAN

Screenshots of procedural levels using dungeon architect in UE5.

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I did my bachelors internship here, and then was hired as an Unreal Engine 5 Developer, doing procedural Level Design and Narrative Design. The above picture are two procedural instances of a playable level. 

 

The game is being developed by Bitfire Games on September 2023. It is a passion project, started by a team of 2 and currently expanded to a team of 10 people.

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The gameplay is setup so you play a mission of 5-10 min length, and repeat this to upgrade your character class. The missions can be anything from securing and defending a mining rig, killing and extracting biomass from a mutated alien to inserting a reactor core to a space station to blow it up.

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Level Design:

• Procedural Level Design with Dungeon Architect

• Made modular rooms that stitch together using Dungeon Architect flow chart editor

• Environment Design / set dressing

• Mission/Level sequence programming in Blueprint

• Main principles i worked closely with: top-down navigation, lighting, variation vs. fun

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Programming:

• Iterative Mission/Level sequence programming in Blueprint​

• Easily expandable and quick to test new ideas

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Narrative design:

• Wrote a 24 page Dark Swarm Story Bible

• Issues with overall vision needed a Story Bible

• Created coherence and reference for everyone