Spark's Way Home
Level Designer
Project Overview
Sparks Way Home is a beginner-friendly and charming 3D platformer about a curious lightning bolt that fell from the sky. Explore a peaceful, ancient temple, solve puzzles, and reactivate forgotten mechanisms to guide Spark through a beautiful, atmospheric world—and help him find his way home.
Development Workflow
Level Design Approach
For Spark's Way Home, we adopted a 'design-first' approach where level layouts were carefully planned before any art implementation. This involved extensive paper prototyping, 3D blockouts in Unity with ProBuilder, and iterative playtesting to ensure the puzzle mechanics were intuitive for new players while remaining engaging.
Puzzle Implementation
The puzzle mechanics were designed to be accessible to new players while providing depth for experienced gamers. Each puzzle was carefully balanced and tested to ensure the difficulty curve was smooth and engaging.
Responsibilities
Level Design
- Level layout and puzzle design
- building level Blockouts
- working with custom level editor tools
- designing and developing cutscene
Set Dressing
- Set dressing and realizing levels with artists
- setting and baking lights
- reworking and fixing collision
Screenshots
Skills
Hard Skills
- Unity
- Probuilder
- Level Design
Soft Skills
- Conflict resolution
- Negotiation
Learnings
- experience in 3D Level Design
- Adaptability
- importance of Design first or Art first workflow
- How to NOT overscope
- Perforce