Level Design in a Day
Best Practices from the Best in the
Business
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Who Are You People?
Students?
 Teachers/Professors?
 Testers?
 Programmers?
 Producers?
 Writers?
 Game Designers?
 Level Designers?
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Who Do You Work For?
Big Scary Publishers?
 Big Scary Media Companies?
 Indies?
 Unemployed?
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I Just Can’t Quit You
At least 1 year?
 At least 2 years?
 At least 5 years?
 At least 10 years?
 At least 15 years?
 For reals? Dizzamn
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So, Where You From?
Under 2 hours travel to GDC?
 At least 4 hours travel to GDC?
 At least 6 hours travel to GDC?
 At least 10 hours travel to GDC?
 At least [wtf] hours travel to GDC?
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A Brief History
A Brief History
What would be a 5.0
talk?
8 hour D&D game with Vin Diesel?
 Inspirational lecture from Tim
Langdell on the US Copyright
system?
 Tell-all Infinity Ward Studio Heads
talk?
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Why an 8 Hour LD Talk?
Super important topic
 Fascinating combination of Theory
& Practice
 Under represented
 Knew a good LD or two…
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The Team
Ed
Forrest
Byrne
Dowling
Neil
Matthias
Alphonso
Worch
Joel
Burgess
Jim Brown
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Ed Byrne – Zipper Interactive
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Forrest Dowling – THQ | Kaos Studios
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[email protected]
Jim Brown – Epic Games
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[email protected]
Joel Burgess – Bethesda Game Studios
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[email protected]
Neil Alphonso – Splash Damage
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[email protected]
Matthias Worch – Visceral Games
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[email protected]
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Coray Seifert – THQ | Kaos Studios
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[email protected]
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