Blight
"You awake after a long stay in hyper-sleep and find your crew has gone on without you. Uncover the mystery of what has befallen the space station you're now trapped in."
Role: Level Design
Engine: Unreal Engine 5
Genre: First Person Survival Horror
Playthrough and Download
Blight Download
- Create an intro level for a first person horror survival game
- Create a claustrophobic and immersive environment
- Introduce simple interaction puzzles that help introduce the basic controls
- Add scripted events that help drive the player and add context
- Add tension at different points with horror events
Goals
- Lighting
- Room size
- Flashlight
- Written notes
- Character subtitle triggers
- Audio triggers
Elements
Sequence
1. Get Downstairs
2. Open Airlock Door
- Intro quest items
- Find missing valve
- Intro a horror event
3. Turn On Power
- Gain flashlight
- Navigation puzzle
- Horror event
4. Lift Lockdown
- Environment interaction
- Exit level
Process and Challenges
Taking inspiration from Alien Isolation and Soma, I began laying out a floorplan that included many opportunities to create a sense of unease, keeping in mind pacing.
Balancing the length of time the player is walking between areas is something that caused a lot of re-sizing rooms and hallways.
I've also added additional rooms after the initial floorplan in order to allow more interaction for the player within the level.
Floorplan
Mess Hall Timelapse
Security Timelapse
