Return To Rapture
"Play as Elizabeth as her power to open tears in reality begin to malfunction and alternate timelines begin to bleed into hers."
Role: Level Design
Engine: Unreal Engine 4
Genre: First Person Immersive Shooter
Goals
- Create a unique level that swaps between two different Bioshock realities
- Create affordances for melee and ranged combat
- Reference levels from Bioshock
- Scripted events that create a more immersive level
Elements
- Ranged combat
- Melee combat
- Pistol
- Wrench
- Parts of Bioshock levels
- Exploration
Sequence
1. Return To Rapture
2. Explore Rapture
2
- Level Introduction
- Exploration
- Melee Weapon Introduction
- Enemy Introduction
3. Follow The Speaker Voice
- Ranged Weapon Introduction
3. Find Andrew Ryan
- Larger Combat Section
- Level End
Process and Challenges
In Return to Rapture, I wanted to play around with alternate timelines converging and how I could blend different levels together. Using level streaming, I merged the France and Rapture levels together through a "tear in reality" that the player stumbles upon after finding signs of Rapture bleeding into their world.
Difficulties in creating this level were from finding a good balance between early exploration and guiding the player into Rapture with the heavy combat focus later in the level.
France Level
Paper design
Time lapse
Rapture Level
Time lapse
Paper design
Flow chart
